Elysium Launch Day: Hyperliquid’s First Layer 2 Is Live, Here Is What Actually Shipped

Elysium launch day is here. Kinetiq’s Layer 2 for Hyperliquid went live on mainnet at 13:00 UTC on November 9, 2026, with HYPE as the gas token, about 30 apps on day one, and OKX Wallet as the first wallet to support it. The official bridge is open, which means the unofficial routes I wrote about last week are no longer needed. We have been building up to this for a week. First came what Elysium is , then the three ways to bridge .