最新报道：According to Bijie.com, Valantis, a modular decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol, has announced the acquisition of StakedHYPE, the second-largest liquidity staking platform on Hyperliquid's HyperEVM, for an undisclosed amount. Following the acquisition, Valantis Labs will take over the operations and development of StakedHYPE, and Addison Spiegel, founder of its parent company, Thunderhead, will join Valantis as an advisor. According to DeFiLlama data, StakedHYPE currently boasts over $200 million in TVL, making it the second-largest LSD protocol in the Hyperliquid ecosystem, second only to Kinetiq. Valantis previously launched LST-specific DEXs for stHYPE and kHYPE, which have a combined TVL of nearly $70 million and cumulative trading volume exceeding $500 million. Valantis co-founder and CTO Ed Carvalho stated that the acquisition aims to achieve vertical integration, integrating the LSD protocol with the DEX protocol to create deeper liquidity and a more efficient market structure. In the future, Valantis plans to expand StakedHYPE's use cases through HIP-3 (front-end checks for builder-deployed perpetual contracts) and market maker fee discounts. Furthermore, the company aims to further decentralize the stHYPE token and deeply integrate it with Valantis DEX and HyperCore (Hyperliquid's perpetual contract exchange), ultimately evolving it into a liquidity network encompassing the entire Hyperliquid ecosystem. Valantis previously raised $7.5 million in funding last year at a valuation of $40 million from investors including Kraken Ventures, Figment Capital, and Robot Ventures. Thunderhead, a six-person team that has never raised external funding and has remained profitable since its inception, will not be fully integrated into Valantis.