Elysium’s mainnet won’t launch until 11/9, but @Enter_Elysium has already been announcing applications that will go live on day one for several days in a row. On 10/28, it was the trading app fomo; on the evening of 10/29, options protocol @DeriveXYZ V3; followed by tokenized U.S. stocks from @xStocksFi. Elysium’s official account also noted that this offering is not available to U.S. residents. For builders who are still on the fence, work done on the testnet now won’t go to waste: the official documentation says the testnet uses the same system and contracts as the mainnet, with only the connection endpoints and deployment addresses differing.
At 21:05 tonight, I queried the official public RPC directly, and the chain ID returned was 99801. The block height at the time was around 19.13 million; when I checked last night at 22:57, it was still at 18.49 million. I looked back at the blocks over a 75-minute period and found an average of nearly 8 blocks per second. The base fee is 0.1 gwei. The testnet has been open since 9/22, and Foundry and Hardhat require no configuration changes. The documentation on the official website lists the entry points for the faucet, test bridge, and Blockscout contract verification.
There are two things traders should think through first. Bridging HYPE in from HyperEVM at a one-to-one rate is straightforward, but withdrawals from Elysium use optimistic withdrawals, so you have to wait for the challenge period to end before receiving your funds. You can’t withdraw your funds at any time. The documentation also warns that counterfeit WHYPE and USDC tokens have appeared, so always check against the official address list before interacting with any contract.
So, during these 10 days before mainnet, builders can deploy the code they’ve written on the testnet on mainnet launch day simply by changing the RPC and contract addresses. Traders, meanwhile, should factor the challenge-period wait for withdrawals to HyperEVM into their fund planning.
$HYPE
At 21:05 tonight, I queried the official public RPC directly, and the chain ID returned was 99801. The block height at the time was around 19.13 million; when I checked last night at 22:57, it was still at 18.49 million. I looked back at the blocks over a 75-minute period and found an average of nearly 8 blocks per second. The base fee is 0.1 gwei. The testnet has been open since 9/22, and Foundry and Hardhat require no configuration changes. The documentation on the official website lists the entry points for the faucet, test bridge, and Blockscout contract verification.
There are two things traders should think through first. Bridging HYPE in from HyperEVM at a one-to-one rate is straightforward, but withdrawals from Elysium use optimistic withdrawals, so you have to wait for the challenge period to end before receiving your funds. You can’t withdraw your funds at any time. The documentation also warns that counterfeit WHYPE and USDC tokens have appeared, so always check against the official address list before interacting with any contract.
So, during these 10 days before mainnet, builders can deploy the code they’ve written on the testnet on mainnet launch day simply by changing the RPC and contract addresses. Traders, meanwhile, should factor the challenge-period wait for withdrawals to HyperEVM into their fund planning.
$HYPE
