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Is-a-fork-of

stHYPE (Valantis Labs)'s assessment for RD-F-126 — scored not_applicable on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

Original implementation — no upstream fork. stHYPE is the first HyperEVM-native LST, developed from scratch by Thunderhead and acquired by Valantis Labs in August 2025. No documented fork of any prior EVM protocol codebase.

Sources #

  • Internal
    Protocol profile §5 — Fork lineage: original.research/protocols/staked-hype/00-profile.md §5 — 'Not forked / original'retrieved 2026-05-17
  • URL
    Valantis acquires stHYPE — Thunderhead built from scratchchainwire.org/2025/08/19/valantis-acquires-liquid-staking-protocol-sthype-adding-200m-in-tvl/retrieved 2026-05-17

Methodology #

Identify the upstream protocol this is a fork of (if any) via bytecode similarity, function-selector set overlap, or team declaration.

See the full factor methodology and distribution across all protocols →

rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol staked-hype factor RD-F-126 score not_applicable collected_at 2026-05-17 13:02:38