By Isaac • July 20, 2026 7:25 pm •
Hyperliquid wants anyone to be able to launch a prediction market.
That sentence needs an asterisk the size of the deposit.
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The planned permissionless version of HIP-4 requires each deployer to stake 500,000 HYPE. At roughly $60 per token, that is about $30 million locked behind the right to create markets.
The stake can be slashed.
A market that is poorly defined, settled incorrectly or left unresolved for more than a week can cost the deployer part or all of that capital if validators vote to take it.
Hyperliquid is opening the door. It is also making sure almost nobody walks through it casually.
Hyperliquid’s announcement says permissionless deployment will arrive in a future network upgrade,
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