The program splits funding into two distinct tracks :
Migration Grants — for teams that have integrated USDH and are migrating their markets, deployments, or protocol components to USDC . These cover the costs of moving HIP-1 spot markets, HIP-3 perpetual contract deployments, HyperEVM protocols, USDH:USDC bridges, and Native Markets operations to USDC .
Gradual Shutdown Grants — for teams that are winding down USDH-denominated operations in an orderly fashion rather than migrating . These cover wind-down costs for the same categories of recipients but are generally lower than equivalent Migration Grants .
Grants are distributed across five groups :
Grant sizes are calculated differently per category: for HIP-1 and HIP-3 recipients, amounts are based on auction deployment costs; for HyperEVM protocols, amounts are determined by the value of USDH locked in the protocol .
All migration and shutdown activities must be completed by the end of July 2026 to qualify . The grant application window closes at the same time .
End users — not just developers — have three fee-free paths to convert USDH to USDC :
All USDH-priced markets on HyperCore completed settlement around June 20, 2026 . Users are strongly advised to convert before the end-of-July deadline.
In September 2025, Hyperliquid held a validator auction to select a partner to issue USDH, the chain's first native stablecoin. After a competitive week-long bidding process involving Paxos, Ethena, BitGo, and others, Native Markets won with ~69% validator support on September 14, 2025 . USDH launched shortly after as the ecosystem's native quote asset.
By May 2026, Hyperliquid pivoted to a new framework called AQAv2, making USDC the canonical quote asset to consolidate liquidity and bring reserve yield revenue on-chain . Coinbase won the USDC treasury deployer seat under this framework, and Hyperliquid granted Coinbase rights to purchase USDH brand assets . This set the stage for the coordinated USDH sunset completed in June–July 2026.
The program splits funding into two distinct tracks :
Migration Grants — for teams that have integrated USDH and are migrating their markets, deployments, or protocol components to USDC . These cover the costs of moving HIP-1 spot markets, HIP-3 perpetual contract deployments, HyperEVM protocols, USDH:USDC bridges, and Native Markets operations to USDC .
Gradual Shutdown Grants — for teams that are winding down USDH-denominated operations in an orderly fashion rather than migrating . These cover wind-down costs for the same categories of recipients but are generally lower than equivalent Migration Grants .
Grants are distributed across five groups :
Grant sizes are calculated differently per category: for HIP-1 and HIP-3 recipients, amounts are based on auction deployment costs; for HyperEVM protocols, amounts are determined by the value of USDH locked in the protocol .
All migration and shutdown activities must be completed by the end of July 2026 to qualify . The grant application window closes at the same time .
End users — not just developers — have three fee-free paths to convert USDH to USDC :
All USDH-priced markets on HyperCore completed settlement around June 20, 2026 . Users are strongly advised to convert before the end-of-July deadline.
In September 2025, Hyperliquid held a validator auction to select a partner to issue USDH, the chain's first native stablecoin. After a competitive week-long bidding process involving Paxos, Ethena, BitGo, and others, Native Markets won with ~69% validator support on September 14, 2025 . USDH launched shortly after as the ecosystem's native quote asset.
By May 2026, Hyperliquid pivoted to a new framework called AQAv2, making USDC the canonical quote asset to consolidate liquidity and bring reserve yield revenue on-chain . Coinbase won the USDC treasury deployer seat under this framework, and Hyperliquid granted Coinbase rights to purchase USDH brand assets . This set the stage for the coordinated USDH sunset completed in June–July 2026.