The problem
Elysium uses HYPE as its gas token. That creates three frictions that chains with a neutral gas token don’t have to the same degree:
- Every transaction burns an asset you want to hold. HYPE is the trade of the ecosystem, not a utility token. Paying thousands of launchpad transactions in HYPE is selling HYPE slowly.
- The first-step wall. A wallet that arrives on Elysium with tokens but zero HYPE cannot do anything. Every app loses users at the “go get gas” step.
- HYPE on Elysium is dead capital. It sits in wallets earning nothing, while the same HYPE staked with Kinetiq earns yield.
Ichor turns the three frictions into one action.