Hyperliquid HYPE Staking Fee Discount Tiers
How much staked HYPE reduces Hyperliquid trading fees, from 5% at Wood to 40% at Diamond, and the risks of linking staking accounts.
Direct answer
Staked HYPE discounts Hyperliquid trading fees in six tiers: Wood above 10 HYPE for 5%, Bronze above 100 for 10%, Silver above 1,000 for 15%, Gold above 10,000 for 20%, Platinum above 100,000 for 30%, and Diamond above 500,000 for 40%. The thresholds are strict, so holding exactly the minimum does not qualify.
In short
- 1Discounts run from 5% to 40% depending on staked HYPE.
- 2Thresholds are strict: you must hold more than the listed amount.
- 3Staking carries market and lock risk that a fee saving can easily outweigh.
What are the staking discount tiers?
The reviewed discount ladder is:
- Wood: more than 10 HYPE, 5% off.
- Bronze: more than 100 HYPE, 10% off.
- Silver: more than 1,000 HYPE, 15% off.
- Gold: more than 10,000 HYPE, 20% off.
- Platinum: more than 100,000 HYPE, 30% off.
- Diamond: more than 500,000 HYPE, 40% off.
What is a discount worth in dollars?
A Gold account paying the base 0.045% perp taker rate gets 20% off, or 0.036%. On $100,000 of taker notional that is $36 instead of $45, a $9 saving. The percentage is small in absolute terms unless volume is large.
That is the right question to ask before staking for fees: how much notional will you actually trade, and what is the saving against the capital you must hold?
What are the risks of staking for a discount?
Staked HYPE is exposed to price movement, and the staking docs describe a one-day delegation lock and a seven-day queue when moving staked HYPE back to spot. A tier threshold is a fee benefit, not a reason to hold a large position in one asset.
The fee docs also flag risks around linking staking accounts to trading accounts. Read the current wording before linking anything.
Example: is staking worth it for fees?
Say you trade $500,000 a month as a taker at the base perp rate, which is $225 in fees. A Silver tier (more than 1,000 HYPE) takes 15% off, saving about $33.75 a month. At a HYPE price of $40, 1,000 HYPE is $40,000 of capital to save roughly $405 a year.
That is about 1% a year on the capital, with full price risk on top. The model is an estimate with an assumed price, but it shows why the discount alone rarely justifies a large stake.
Common mistakes
Compare the saving with the capital and the exit delay, and recheck the thresholds in the official fee docs.
- Holding exactly the threshold when the rule needs more than the listed amount.
- Linking staking and trading accounts without reading the current warnings.
- Forgetting the seven-day queue when you want the HYPE back.
Practical next steps
Before staking for a discount, write down three numbers: your expected monthly taker notional, the dollar saving the next tier would give, and the capital that tier requires. Divide the saving by the capital to see the effective yield, then compare it with simply holding the capital elsewhere. If the saving is small, the discount is a side benefit of a position you wanted anyway, not a reason to stake. Use the staking fee discount calculator on this site to run the arithmetic with your own volume.
Next useful check
Apply this before you trade
Sources
2 references · ExpandCollapse
- Hyperliquid Docs: FeesAccessed 2026-08-26Supports: Rolling 14-day volume tiers, perps and spot fee schedules, HIP-3 deployer fee scale and growth mode, strict HYPE staking-tier thresholds and discounts, referral fee formula and limits, staking-account linking risks, fee-model caveats, fee distribution to HLP, the assistance fund, and deployers, the assistance fund system address, and burn recognition of assistance-fund HYPE.
- Hyperliquid Docs: StakingAccessed 2026-08-25Supports: The approximate 2.37% yearly reward rate at 400M HYPE staked, inverse-square-root rate relationship, rewards from the future-emissions reserve, daily distribution and compounding, validator commission, one-day delegation lock, seven-day staking-to-spot queue, and jailing behavior.