Hyperliquid Infringement Dispute: A Case of Legitimate Rights Protection or Opportunistic Marketing? | Bee Network
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However, amidst its business expansion, Hyperliquid has encountered allegations of technical infringement from a peer. On February 2nd, Sky Guo, founder of the RWA public chain project Cypherium, publicly accused Hyperliquid on social media of infringing on its patented technology. Sky Guo believes that Hyperliquid’s underlying consensus engine, HyperCore, uses a patented, PoS-version optimized HotStuff algorithm and demanded that Hyperliquid cease the infringement.Image Source: Sky Guo Tweet
Core Dispute: The Technical Boundaries of Patent US 11,411,721 B2 The core of this dispute points to a formal patent issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on August 9, 2022, with the number US 11,411,721 B2. The assignee of this patent is Cypherium Blockchain Inc., and its title is “Systems and methods for selecting and utilizing a committee of validator nodes in a distributed system.” The patent details a mechanism for dynamically selecting and reconfiguring a validator committee, supporting node election via PoW, PoS, or PoA, and emphasizes the use of Aggregate Signatures to improve consensus efficiency and fault tolerance. The patent also proposes specific implementation paths such as Two-phase Reconfiguration and Tree-structured Hierarchy. Cypherium argues that these technologies are key to implementing HotStuff in large-scale, high-performance networks (like Hyperliquid’s 200,000 TPS), and this constitutes the core barrier of the patent rights.First Page of Cypherium Patent US 11,411,721 B2 | Image Source: Google Patents
The technical controversy lies in both parties’ improvements and applications of the consensus algorithm HotStuff, but HotStuff itself is an open-source consensus protocol publicly available in academia from 2018 to 2019. Cypherium’s CypherBFT combines PoW with HotStuff to achieve permissionless operation, while Hyperliquid’s HyperBFT is a custom variant optimized for low-latency transactions. However, Cypherium claims its patent covers specific enhancement logic for HotStuff in a PoS environment. Hyperliquid has not yet responded regarding whether HyperBFT uses the unique claims covered by the patent. Escalation of Accusations: From Questioning Transparency to Alleging Infringement Prior to this infringement accusation, Sky Guo’s criticism of Hyperliquid primarily focused on code transparency.Image Source: Sky Guo Tweet
This opacity, on one hand, protects Hyperliquid’s commercial advantage in high-concurrency processing; on the other hand, it makes it difficult for the project to prove its innocence through public audits when facing external technical scrutiny. Sky Guo believes that it is precisely HyperCore’s adoption of the dynamic committee selection logic from its patent that enables its sub-second finality. Sky Guo claims to have sent a legal letter to the Hyperliquid team and relevant responsible parties, accusing them of using the patented technology without permission. He stated that the Hyperliquid side is currently avoiding the issue and has not responded to the legal correspondence. Solid Evidence or Vaporware 市場ing? From a superficial legal and technical logic perspective, the US patent US 11,411,721 B2 held by Cypherium is indeed a formally issued legal document, and its scope of protection does cover key aspects of consensus mechanisms such as dynamic committee selection, signature aggregation, and two-phase reconfiguration. According to Hyperliquid’s publicly available technical documentation, the underlying HyperCore engine indeed runs on a custom variant of the HotStuff algorithm called HyperBFT, and HotStuff is precisely the technology targeted for improvement in the patent’s claims.Image Source: ハイパーリキッド・ドックス
Furthermore, because Hyperliquid’s core codebase is currently closed-source, this black-box nature makes it difficult for outsiders to determine through public code audits whether its specific implementation path circumvents the relevant patent. However, in reality, HotStuff and its variants are hardly new in the high-performance Layer 1 space. From Meta’s (formerly Facebook) defunct Libra/Diem, to the currently prominent Aptos (AptosBFT), Monad (MonadBFT), and even Sui’s early research iterations on core consensus, all have been deeply influenced by HotStuff’s linear communication complexity and responsive design. Additionally, the timing and context of this accusation are thought-provoking. The time Sky Guo issued the infringement accusation (12:00 PM, February 3rd) coincided with strong market performance of the HYPE token and the increased attention on prediction markets driven by the HIP-4 proposal. On social platforms, some KOLs expressed support for this legal action, but the comment sections of related posts contained content suspected to be promotional for “G-交換.” “G-Exchange” is a new project about to launch within the Cypherium ecosystem. The coincidence in timing between this technical accusation and the new project’s pre-launch hype makes this series of legal actions appear suspiciously like vaporware marketing to generate buzz for the new business.Image Source: Sky Guo and other X account tweets
Whether the accusation is a “real hammer” or “vaporware marketing,” Hyperliquid seems to have reached a crossroads. As its business expands, community calls for increased transparency are growing. Faced with infringement doubts, will Hyperliquid stick to its black-box advantage, or will it prove its innocence through partial open-sourcing or third-party audits? This concerns the trust foundation of its decentralization narrative. Note: 9.92 million HYPE tokens, accounting for 2.79% of the circulating supply and valued at approximately $357 million (based on a $36 price), are scheduled to be unlocked on February 6th. この記事はインターネットから得たものです。 Hyperliquid Infringement Dispute: A Case of Legitimate Rights Protection or Opportunistic Marketing? Related: Interactive Tutorial | Perle Labs, with $17.5M in Funding, Launches Season 1 Points Campaign Author | Asher (@Asher_ 0210) On January 19th, Perle Labs, an AI training data platform driven by human experts, announced on X that its beta phase concluded on January 6th. The first season event is now officially live. Users can earn points by completing various tasks. Below, Odaily provides a quick overview of Perle Labs and a step-by-step guide to participating in the first season event to earn points and potentially qualify for a future token airdrop. Perle Labs: An AI Training Data Platform Driven by Human Experts Project Introduction Perle Labs is an AI training data platform driven by human experts, focusing on providing high-quality datasets to support decentralized AI development. According to ROOTDATA, Perle Labs has raised a total of $17.5 million in funding to date. On the… #分析#ビットコイン#暗号# デフィ# 交換# マーケット#トークン© 版权声明配列 上一篇 The biggest airdrop in the crypto world is given by Yuanbao 下一篇 24H Hot Cryptocurrencies and Key News|Market News: U.S. House Approves Funding Bill to End Government Shutdown; Fed Governor Mester: The Fed Needs to Cut Rates by About One Percentage Point This Year (February 4th) 相关文章 After reverse hacking North Korean hackers, I saw how they workRecommended Articles 6086cf14eb90bc67ca4fc62b 25,964 3 暗号AIの栄枯盛衰:バブルが去った後に残る火種とは? オススメ記事 6086cf14eb90bc67ca4fc62b 24,884 3 The four-year cycle ends, and the new order of encryption has arrived 6086cf14eb90bc67ca4fc62b 20,901 1 Pantera: How to value BitMine after sweeping up 1 million ETH?Recommended Articles 6086cf14eb90bc67ca4fc62b 22,976 3 Why has RWA been gaining popularity recently and yet showing a trend of being overwhelming? 管理者 149,120 163 October Binance Alpha data backtesting: How to optimize strategies under the new normal of “too many monks and too little porridge”? 6086cf14eb90bc67ca4fc62b 16,537 1 コメントはありません コメントを残すにはログインが必要です! すぐにログイン コメントはありません... Bee.com 世界最大の Web3 ポータル パートナー コインカープ バイナンス コインマーケットキャップ CoinGecko コインライブ 鎧 Bee Network APP をダウンロードして、Web3 の旅を始めましょう 白書 役割 よくある質問 © 2021-2026.無断複写・転載を禁じます。. プライバシーポリシー | 利用規約 Bee Networkアプリをダウンロード そしてWeb3の旅を始めましょう 世界最大のWeb3ポータル パートナー CoinCarp Binance CoinMarketCap CoinGecko Coinlive Armors 白書 役割 よくある質問 © 2021-2026.無断複写・転載を禁じます。. プライバシーポリシー | 利用規約 検索 検索インサイトオンチェーン社交ニュース 热门推荐: エアドロップハンター データ分析 クリプトセレブリティ トラップディテクタ 日本語 English 繁體中文 简体中文 Tiếng Việt العربية 한국어 Bahasa Indonesia हिन्दी اردو Русский 日本語智能索引记录
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