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# Restaking

Restake stHYPE into one shared pool to earn committed engagement rewards alongside base staking yield, with a 14-day withdrawal cooldown.

Restaking lets stHYPE scale to power multiple high-revenue activities on Hyperliquid-- across Fee Discounts, HIP-3, and HIP-4. Restaking intends to become the largest multipurpose basket of HYPE that creates liquidity to Deployer deals, and market maker allocations. Using pooled resources, and stHYPE's liquidity design, restaking becomes the a one-of-a-kind instrument to earn extra yield on HYPE.

**Why Restaking was built**

Restaking takes a portion of stHYPE TVL out of liquid circulation: not allocated to user prime discounts, not borrowed against on lending markets, not exposed to DeFi. This increases the capacity stHYPE Protocol has to allocate to high-value use cases without risking it's DeFi integrations by protecting the liquidity of liquid stHYPE. Restakers accept a withdrawal cooldown in exchange for committed rewards. This design does not eliminate withdrawal delays or the underlying risks of stHYPE; it concentrates liquidity risk to restakers and out of DeFi.

**How to restake**

Deposit stHYPE into the shared restaking pool. Your base staking yield continues, and your active position earns its share of rewards committed to the pool. A withdrawal request starts the current 14-day cooldown. stHYPE is returned at the end of that cooldown, converting to HYPE requires an additional swap or normal unstake process. Importantly, a withdrawal from restaking continues to earn base Staking Rewards while it is in the queue, and is cancellable at any time.

Before restaking, understand stHYPE’s commitments and the circumstances that can cause [slashing](https://docs.valantis.xyz/stakedhype/transparency-and-risks#key-risk-areas) or extend withdrawal times. Review the liquidity waterfall, deployer commitments, and estimated time to cash on the [live restaking dashboardsvg](https://app.valantis.xyz/restaking). Risks and liquidity are reviewed and audited quarterly in the [stHYPE Health Reports](https://docs.valantis.xyz/stakedhype/transparency-and-risks#sthype-health-reports).

Read the audit here: [stHYPE Restaking Audit](https://github.com/ValantisLabs/audits/blob/main/stakedhypeescrow-security-review-2026-10-18.pdf).

Deployer rewards are publicly disclosed at Stake Accounts: they can be HYPE premiums, token incentives, points, or revenue share. Restaking escrow contract follows a trackable yield distribution where rewards are pre-committed for the week, so restakers can see what has been committed when deciding to restake.