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1 · What you farm
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They publish the multiplier table by route: 2x for contributing to the staking pool and 1x for plain MON staking.
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How to take part, step by step
How to get the most out of Kintsu
  1. 1
    Decide which chain you are entering first. Monad holds $1.91M of the $1.96M TVL on 18-Aug-2026; Hyperliquid only $47k.
  2. 2
    Check the contract address on the official addresses page in their docs before approving anything. sMON on Monad is 0xA3227C5969757783154C60bF0bC1944180ed81B9.
  3. 3
    Log in with your wallet on their site, staking section, and deposit MON. You receive sMON at the current redemption ratio. No KYC.
  4. 4
    Hold the sMON. It is the base points route and the one least dependent on unpublished rules.
  5. 5
    To add more, provide liquidity with sMON in Monad DeFi. Their points page lists "providing liquidity" as a route, but publishes no multiplier, so assume it may be worth less than it looks.
  6. 6
    Add referrals if you have anyone. It is the third declared route and costs no extra capital.
  7. 7
    Check your balance by address through their public points API and record the figure with its date. With no published rules, your own history is the only control you have.
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    On Hyperliquid, decide with the facts in hand: the sHYPE contract is unverified on the explorer and TVL is $47k. If you go in, size it as money you can lose.
  9. 9
    To exit, submit the unstake request and wait out the validator cooldown, whose duration is not published. On Hyperliquid also subtract the 0.05% exit fee.
Watch out for
  • The sHYPE contract published in their docs (0xBeF0142A0955a7d5dcCe5C2A13Fb84E332669D2d) shows as unverified on hyperevmscan on 18-Aug-2026: "Are you the contract creator? Verify and Publish your contract source code today!". The sHYPE vault (0xDDC126c12F9F8DF5a6fC273f6D43C1E21b4d2945) is also unverified. The code cannot be read from the explorer.
  • Contrast with Monad: sMON (0xA3227C5969757783154C60bF0bC1944180ed81B9) is verified on monadscan on 18-Aug-2026 as an ERC1967 proxy with "Source Code Verified · Exact Match", and so is its implementation (0x6A4593baBDF617d5D8D6fbC04b53435d08Baf21f, StakedMonadV2). The transparency gap between the two chains is real.
  • sMON is an upgradeable proxy: the implementation can change without the token address changing.
  • Very uneven liquidity. DefiLlama shows $1.96M TVL on 18-Aug-2026: $1.91M on Monad and $47k on Hyperliquid. At that size, exiting sHYPE via secondary market can be expensive or simply impossible.
  • Exit is not instant. The docs describe a validator-enforced cooldown period before redeeming, and do not publish its exact duration. On Hyperliquid there is also a 0.05% exit fee, "unless exempted".
  • The management fee has no number attached. The docs say "The Kintsu protocol charges a small Management Fee for providing liquid staking services", with no percentage.
  • Smart contract and validator slashing risk. The site states audits by Spearbit and Nethermind; an audit reduces risk, it does not remove it.
  • The points program has no published rules: no per-action rate, no seasons, no cutoff and no announced conversion into a token. It can change without notice.
  • The market price of sMON and sHYPE can drift from redemption value while the cooldown lasts.
Our verdict, today

A fixed amount of points goes out every day, credited according to your productive capital, and the route changes the pace: 2x for contributing to the staking pool and 1x for staking. The play: contribute your MON to the pool, today the route that scores most.

How the points are allocated

The program is called Kintsu Points. It is the only one they run and it is live as of 18-A…
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  • The program is called Kintsu Points. It is the only one they run and it is live as of 18-Aug-2026.
  • Earning routes, per their own points page (18-Aug-2026): "Earn Kintsu Points by staking MON, providing liquidity, and referring friends". That is: stake MON, provide liquidity with sMON, and refer.
  • The multiplier table on its points page: «contribute to the pool, which boosts staking APY, 2x · stake MON, base rate on all sMON, 1x». The superMON vault, which gave 5x, no longer appears on it.
  • There is a public leaderboard and it runs by leagues: the table reads "RANK ADDRESS POINTS LEAGUE", and whoever is not playing is marked "SIDELINED". No league threshold is published.
  • Program size on 18-Aug-2026, per their public points API: 7,434 addresses with a points balance. The top address holds 35,964,841 points.
  • The documentation never mentions the words season or airdrop. It does describe KSU as the protocol's governance token, but publishes no award and does not link it to points.
  • Points are queryable by address through their public API, which returns the full paginated leaderboard. You can check your own balance without logging in with a wallet.
  • Staking yield is published: their official APY API shows 10.89% for sMON on 18-Aug-2026, on Monad (chainId 143). It is past data, not a promise.

The multipliers they do publish, with figures: 2x contributing to the pool and 1x plain staking. What they do not publish is the base they multiply: how many points a dollar gives. Read on 13 Oct 2026 on its points page.

  • What do I get? They do not publish how many points a dollar gives on the base route, how often they are credited, whether there are seasons or whether there is a cut-off. The multipliers are there; the base is not. Checked in their site. 18 Aug
  • What day does it expire? points are released every day and updated daily, but they publish no programme end, snapshot or KSU token date. Checked in their site, their blog, their docs and their X account. 5 Nov

What has changed since we started tracking it

5 Nov · hard dates not checked → no end date, snapshot or token date published 14 Oct · we…
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  • 5 Nov · hard dates not checked → no end date, snapshot or token date published
  • 14 Oct · we said nothing about the account → Kintsu now asks you to create an account on its points page to be able to collect; the points you already have carry over.
  • 13 Oct · the best route was the superMON vault, 5x → Kintsu drops the superMON vault (5x) from its table: the route that scores most today is contributing MON to the staking pool, 2x.
  • 18 Aug · sMON APY at 11.84% on 20-Jul-2026 → sMON APY at 10.89% on 18-Aug-2026, after a month of steady decline
  • 18 Aug · Both tokens were assumed to have the same level of transparency → Checked: sMON verified on monadscan; sHYPE and its vault unverified on hyperevmscan
  • 16 Sep · Monad only, with sMON → Adds Hyperliquid with sHYPE and a 1.5x NFT multiplier

Who can join

No program terms or restricted-country list published. There is no declared geographic exc…
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No program terms or restricted-country list published. There is no declared geographic exclusion, and no confirmation that none exists either.

Who they are

$4M seed led by Castle Island Ventures, with Brevan Howard Digital, CMT Digital, Spartan…
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$4M seed led by Castle Island Ventures, with Brevan Howard Digital, CMT Digital, Spartan, Breed VC, CMS and Animoca. Founder Stephen Novenstern.

A real product with measurable yield: 10.89% sMON APY on 18-Aug-2026 and 7,434 addresses holding points. What is missing is the program's rulebook, not the product.

Sources we have checked

Docs: docs.kintsu.xyz X: x.com/Kintsu Discord: discord.gg/kintsu Checked by us in these so…
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Docs: docs.kintsu.xyz

X: x.com/Kintsu

Discord: discord.gg/kintsu

Checked by us in these sources on 2026-11-09

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