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Elysium to deploy its Hyperliquid node to TheHUB in Tokyo

Elysium is deploying its Hyperliquid node to TheHUB in Tokyo, bringing dedicated bare-metal infrastructure to its native HyperCore read edge.

Elysium's Hyperliquid node is deploying onto dedicated bare-metal servers at TheHUB, the colocation facility for digital markets inside the Equinix data center in Tokyo. It is the infrastructure behind Elysium's native HyperCore read edge.

Elysium is built for applications where milliseconds matter.

That makes where its infrastructure runs as important as how it is designed.

Today, Elysium is deploying its Hyperliquid node to TheHUB, the purpose-built colocation facility for digital markets from Global Kiwi Labs, located inside the Equinix data center in Tokyo.

The node carries Hyperliquid's state into Elysium. With the phase-two network upgrade, it will also power the read edge: smart contracts on Elysium reading live HyperCore order books, prices, balances and positions directly from the execution layer.

Key takeaways

  • Elysium's Hyperliquid node will run on dedicated bare-metal servers at TheHUB in Tokyo.
  • The node supplies the HyperCore data that Elysium contracts will read natively after the phase-two upgrade, planned for about four weeks after mainnet.
  • The read edge targets roughly 100 ms core-block granularity and 150 to 350 ms in-EVM freshness, compared with 1-second granularity and best bid/offer only on HyperEVM's L1Read precompiles.
  • Trading teams building on Elysium can host their off-chain systems at TheHUB, on their own servers or on rented bare metal.
  • Elysium mainnet is scheduled for November 9.

Why Elysium runs its own Hyperliquid node

Most onchain applications get market data through oracles.

Someone pushes a price update, pays gas for it, and every contract downstream reads a value that is already aging.

That model does not work for the applications Elysium is built for. Prop AMMs, market-making strategies and high-frequency trading systems need to price against a live order book, not a periodic snapshot.

Elysium takes a different approach. It runs its own co-located Hyperliquid node and serves HyperCore state from inside the execution layer through a chain-native precompile.

Once the phase-two upgrade is live, any contract on Elysium will be able to read, for ordinary call gas:

  • Order books up to full depth
  • Oracle, mark and spot prices
  • Balances and positions
  • Computed aggregates, such as depth within a defined basis-point range, flow imbalance and expected slippage

No oracle contracts. No relay hops. No per-update push costs.

Each response is stamped with the HyperCore block height and timestamp it was derived from, so reads are deterministic under replay and auditable against public HyperCore data. If the data path falls behind, it fails visibly stale rather than silently wrong.

But the quality of that data depends on the node behind it.

That is where TheHUB comes in.

Why TheHUB, and why Tokyo

TheHUB is a shared physical environment for digital markets. Exchanges, trading firms, bare-metal providers and node operators deploy their infrastructure there, connected through one network.

Trading venues that run their matching engines inside TheHUB connect to colocated firms through latency-equalized network paths, designed to be the same fiber length to the matching engine. Venues compete on market design. Traders compete on strategy and execution.

Its first location is inside the Equinix data center in Tokyo, one of the most important centers of gravity for crypto trading infrastructure.

Elysium's Hyperliquid node will run there on dedicated bare-metal servers, supplying the HyperCore data that smart contracts on Elysium will use.

“Prop AMMs and high-frequency strategies are only as good as the data they price against. Running our Hyperliquid node at TheHUB puts Elysium’s view of HyperCore right beside the market itself, so contracts on Elysium read order books, prices and positions at the freshness professional market makers expect. Builders get speed and deep HyperCore liquidity without leaving the Hyperliquid ecosystem.”

— Justin Greenberg, CTO of Kinetiq and Elysium

“TheHUB exists so the infrastructure behind digital markets, from trading systems to the nodes that feed them, can run on dedicated hardware in one place built for it. Elysium’s Hyperliquid node is exactly that kind of infrastructure, and we’re glad Kinetiq is bringing it to TheHUB.”

— Thiago Rüdiger, CSO of Global Kiwi Labs

What this means for builders

The node at TheHUB is one half of Elysium's phase-two HyperCore integration.

The read edge brings HyperCore into Elysium. The write edge sends trading intents back out.

Contracts on Elysium will be able to submit intents that execute on the user's own HyperCore account through a trade-only API agent, targeting roughly 100 to 200 ms from intent to resting order. HyperCore itself enforces that these agents can place and cancel orders but can never withdraw or transfer funds, and users can revoke them at any time.

Put together, that creates a new application surface:

  • Programmable execution on Elysium, with 100 ms blocks and a 300 Mgas/s throughput target
  • Live HyperCore market data available to every contract
  • Direct access to HyperCore's order books for execution

There is also a practical benefit for trading teams.

Many of the applications Elysium is built for, from high-frequency trading to prop AMMs, depend on systems their teams run off-chain: quoting engines, risk management and signal infrastructure. Those teams can host their systems at TheHUB, on their own servers or on rented bare metal.

Teams interested in colocating at TheHUB can contact Global Kiwi Labs at info@global-kiwi.xyz.

What's next

Elysium mainnet is scheduled for November 9.

The HyperCore read precompile and the ElysiumCoreWriter predeploy will follow together as a scheduled ArbOS network upgrade, planned for about four weeks after mainnet.

Builders are already working on the Elysium testnet, and developer guides are available at elysium.kinetiq.xyz.

The bottom line

Elysium is designed to give developers speed without taking them outside the Hyperliquid ecosystem.

100 ms blocks and 300 Mgas/s of throughput handle execution.

The node at TheHUB handles the data, placing Elysium's view of HyperCore inside purpose-built infrastructure for digital markets.

And the read and write edge connects the two, so contracts on Elysium can see HyperCore's markets and trade on them.

That is what a trading-native L2 for Hyperliquid needs.

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