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Airdrop starts 2025-11-13
Airdrop Link: Trade perps
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✅ Airdrop confirmed
Platform: hyperliquid

What is Kinetiq?

Kinetiq is a liquid staking protocol built on the Hyperliquid blockchain (HyperEVM), a Layer 1 blockchain designed for high-performance decentralized finance applications. The protocol allows users to stake their HYPE tokens to receive kHYPE, a liquid staking token that can be used across various DeFi applications while earning staking rewards. This enables users to maintain liquidity and participate in DeFi ecosystems without locking up their assets.

Kinetiq has raised $1.75M solely from investors deeply present in the Hyperliquid ecosystem like Maven 11 and Pier Two.

Since its launch on July 15, 2025, Kinetiq has demonstrated remarkable adoption within the Hyperliquid ecosystem. The protocol achieved over $470 million in HYPE staked, representing over 3.3% of circulating HYPE. Kinetiq’s kHYPE has been integrated into major Hyperliquid money markets, with over $180 million in collateral deposited across platforms like Felix Protocol, highlighting its immediate impact on DeFi activity.

Kinetiq Airdrop Details

The Kinetiq points-based system called kPoints is ongoing and the second season started on November 13th, 2025. Users currently earn kPoints by staking HYPE tokens through the Kinetiq protocol to receive kHYPE liquid staking tokens, swapping into vkHYPE and/or by trading perps on Kinetiq’s HIP-3 exchange Markets. A total of 800,000 kPoints are distributed weekly every Thursday, with snapshots taken every Tuesday.

Kinetiq already distributed 25% of the total supply directly to the Hyperliquid accounts, with 24% going to kPoints holders and 1% to Hypurr holders. A further 30% of the KNTQ supply is allocated to ‘protocol growth and rewards’, which is likely to be distributed to active users of Markets, sKNTQ holders and kPoints holders.

Latest Update: Kinetiq Launches Markets Trading Platform

Kinetiq has launched Markets, an alternative Hyperliquid frontend enabling 24/7 trading of traditional assets and crypto with up to 25x leverage, starting with US500 that tracks US large cap equities. Follow these steps to start trading:

Acquire USDC from Binance
Visit Markets and connect your wallet
Click “Deposit”, select “Transfer Crypto”, choose USDC and your preferred network
Copy the Markets deposit address and use it when withdrawing USDC from Binance

Users earn kPoints through platform usage including trading activity, liquidity provision, and consistent engagement. Focus on trading instruments unique to Markets:

US500: US large-cap equities with up to 25x leverage
USTECH: the large-cap US technology sector with up to 25x leverage
SMALL2000: the US small-cap equity market with up to 20x leverage
BABA: the first place to trade Alibaba entirely onchain with up to 10x leverage

Create a referral code under “Profile” to earn up to 15% of friends’ fees, with rewards scaling from 1% (0 staked KNTQ) to 15% (>2,500,000 staked KNTQ). Purchase KNTQ on Lit or Based by depositing USDC (obtain from Binance via Arbitrum network), swapping to USDH, then buying KNTQ. Then stake KNTQ on the KNTQ page.

Also, join Kinetiq’s Discord for notifications about upcoming trading competitions.

Kinetiq kPoints Program Now Live

Kinetiq has launched its kPoints rewards program, with 2.4 million kPoints already distributed to users who have been contributing to the ecosystem. The program is designed to reward active participants across both Kinetiq and Markets platforms through regular weekly distributions.

Program Schedule

Program Start: November 13th, 2025
Snapshots: Taken every Tuesday
Distributions: Occurs every Thursday
Weekly Allocation: 800,000 kPoints

How to Participate

Visit the kPoints dashboard to check your current balance and track distributions
Stake HYPE or other eligible tokens through the staking portal to earn rewards while maintaining liquidity
- To get HYPE tokens, go to Hyperliquid and deposit USDC via Arbitrum
- Transfer USDC from your Perps account to your Spot account
- Buy HYPE and then click on ‘Transfer to EVM’
- Visit the staking portal and stake HYPE for kHYPE
- Navigate to the “Earn” section and deposit your kHYPE tokens to receive vkHYPE (optional)
- Holding ckHYPE farms multiple airdrops including Felix, HyperLend, and Veda
Trade perps and refer friends using Markets
Stake KNTQ for benefits such as increased referral shares, trading discounts, and kmHYPE minting rights
Continue contributing to the Kinetiq and Markets ecosystems to accumulate more kPoints before each Tuesday snapshot

Kinetiq Announces KNTQ Token and Genesis Distribution (Ended)

KNTQ is now live, eligible users have been airdropped tokens to their Hyperliquid accounts

Users reviewed and accepted the Kinetiq Foundation Terms of Use before November 21st, 2025, at 20:00 UTC were eligible.

Token Details

Maximum Supply: 1,000,000,000 KNTQ
Token Type: Governance token

Genesis Distribution (25% of Total Supply)

The genesis allocation will be distributed as follows:

24% – kPoints holders
1% – Hypurr holders

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