Kinetiq wallet

What is Kinetiq (KNTQ)?

Two tokens come out of the Kinetiq protocol, and only one of them is KNTQ. Kinetiq is a liquid staking protocol on Hyperliquid: a holder deposits HYPE, the native coin of the chain, and receives kHYPE, a liquid token that stands in for the staked position while the underlying HYPE is delegated across Hyperliquid validators chosen by the protocol's own scoring system, StakeHub. kHYPE is the receipt for staked HYPE. KNTQ is something else: the protocol token of Kinetiq itself, the asset that represents a say in how the protocol is run rather than a claim on any staked HYPE. If you are looking for the token that tracks your staked HYPE, that is kHYPE, not KNTQ; the two sit as separate lines in a wallet and are not interchangeable.

KNTQ lives on HyperEVM, the EVM-compatible side of Hyperliquid. In practice it behaves like an ERC-20: the address looks like any Ethereum address, and every transfer is paid in HYPE, so a wallet holding KNTQ needs a little HYPE on the same HyperEVM line to move it. Hyperliquid also has a second execution layer, HyperCore, where the order book and spot listings live, and KNTQ can be moved between the two; the KNTQ balance held in Tangem is the HyperEVM version.

A governance token is the kind of asset that mostly sits still. Voting, delegating or simply holding through a long protocol cycle rarely needs the key, and the longer it sits the more the question becomes where the key itself lives. In Tangem the key that signs for KNTQ is born in the card's secure element and has no export path; a second card from the same set restores access if the first is lost, and writing down a seed phrase is a choice, not a requirement. For a position that may go untouched for months, a key that cannot be copied off its device is the whole point.

Supported networks in Tangem (2): Base, HyperEVM.