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Points Seasons Schedule & Milestones

A chronological breakdown of Hyperliquid’s telemetry seasons: the core technical objectives, emission allocations, ecosystem milestones, and community participation tiers across each epoch.

📅 Epoch Roadmap 🏆 3 Core Seasons 📈 Historical Archive

1. Overview of Points Seasons

The Points Program evolved across three structured operational seasons, each aligning with a major engineering phase of the Hyperliquid Layer-1 network. As the protocol transitioned from closed-beta perpetual order matching to native spot market integration and general-purpose HyperEVM execution, the scoring focus shifted to match network needs.

Season Phase Objective Key Milestones Status
Season 1 (Genesis Phase) Core CLOB & HLP Bootstrapping Launch of first 50+ perps pairs; validation of sub-second matching engine; initial HLP pool growth. Completed
Season 2 (Spot & Builder Phase) Native L1 Spot & Builder Codes Introduction of HIP-1/HIP-2 spot tokens; deployment of PURR; rollout of on-chain builder codes and fee rebates. Completed
Season 3 (HyperEVM & Genesis) Smart Contract Composability HyperEVM testnet integration; cross-asset collateral expansions; transition toward HYPE Genesis distribution. Concluded

2. Deep Dive: Season-by-Season Progression

Season 1: Foundation & Perpetual Infrastructure

Launched in November 2023, Season 1 focused on validating the raw speed and stability of the HyperBFT consensus engine (consensus architecture ↗). Over a 6-month period, weekly snapshots distributed 1,000,000 points per week to users providing liquidity and generating organic trading volume across foundational BTC, ETH, and altcoin perpetual pairs.

Season 2: Native Spot Markets & HIP-1 Architecture

Launched in May 2024, Season 2 expanded beyond derivatives to test the native L1 Spot Order Book (spot trading interface ↗). The network successfully launched PURR (the first native HIP-1 standard token), demonstrating that spot tokens could trade with microsecond execution directly on-chain without automated market maker fragmentation.

Season 3: Ecosystem Maturation & Genesis Transition

Season 3 integrated developer ecosystem tools, programmatic API integrations, and developer grant benchmarks, leading up to the governance proposal and community snapshot for the native HYPE Genesis Event (HYPE market overview ↗).

3. Community Participation Tiers (Statistical Distribution)

Community participation across the seasons followed a standard power-law distribution characteristic of high-throughput financial networks:

Top 1% Tier (Institutional)
Continuous high-frequency market makers and long-term 7-figure HLP depositors maintaining active two-sided liquidity across multiple quarters.
Top 10% Tier (Active DeFi)
Active perpetual traders, spot market participants, and vault managers executing regular weekly on-chain operations.
Ecosystem Contributors
Casual users, referral creators, and community members participating in early protocol stress tests and spot listings.

4. How Snapshots Were Verified

Snapshot outputs were committed to cryptographic Merkle roots and cross-referenced with on-chain L1 transaction histories. Users could verify their account telemetry directly through the protocol's public REST endpoints ↗ and explorer interfaces ↗.

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🔗 Official External References & Primary Sources

To verify the facts, technical formulas, and architectural parameters presented in this article, consult the following primary sources and official documentation: