Staking guide

Before you start

You need:

• An EVM browser wallet, such as Rabby or MetaMask.
• HYPE on Elysium. HYPE is Elysium's native gas token. If your HYPE is on HyperEVM, bring it to Elysium through the canonical bridge described in Elysium's bridging documentation.
• A little extra HYPE for gas. Every transaction on Elysium costs a small amount of HYPE.

Connect and add Elysium

1. Open the Stake page and select Connect wallet.
2. Choose your wallet and approve the connection.
3. If your wallet is on another network, select Switch to Elysium. Your wallet asks to add the network if it does not know it yet.

Network	Chain ID	Gas token
Elysium	99901	HYPE
Elysium Testnet	99801	HYPE

Depositing

1. On the Stake page, keep the Deposit tab selected.
2. Enter the amount of HYPE, or select MAX. MAX keeps 0.01 HYPE back for gas.
3. Check the summary: you receive the same amount of OCEAN.
4. Select Deposit and confirm in your wallet.

The Vault mints OCEAN to your address in the same transaction. You can see it under Your position as soon as the transaction confirms, and it starts accruing the current week's distribution immediately.

If the deposit button reads Deposits are paused by the Guardian, deposits are temporarily stopped; withdrawals and claims still work. If it reads Amount exceeds the deposit cap, the pool has reached the cap set by governance; the remaining capacity is shown in the summary.

Your position

The Your position panel shows:

• OCEAN balance, redeemable one for one for HYPE.
• Accrued distribution, the HYPE you have earned and not yet claimed.
• oCEAN voting power, the votes your OCEAN carries once activated.
• Withdrawal requests, each with its amount, time and status.

Claiming the distribution

Your share of each week's distribution accrues continuously while you hold OCEAN. To collect it:

1. Under Accrued distribution, select Claim HYPE.
2. Confirm in your wallet. The HYPE arrives in the same transaction.

Unclaimed HYPE does not expire, so there is no need to claim often. Claiming costs gas, so many holders claim occasionally rather than every day.

Withdrawing

A withdrawal has two steps: request, then claim.

1. Select the Withdraw tab and enter the amount of OCEAN to redeem.
2. Select Request and confirm. The Vault burns that OCEAN immediately and opens a withdrawal request for the same amount of HYPE.
3. When the request shows Ready, select Claim to receive your HYPE.

Burned OCEAN stops accruing the distribution from the moment you request, so claim any accrued distribution you want first, or at any time later; it stays claimable.

How long a withdrawal takes

Requests are filled first-in, first-out.

Situation	Timing
The Vault buffer covers your request and every request ahead of it	Ready immediately
HYPE must come back from Hyperliquid	Hyperliquid's unstaking: up to one day of delegation lockup on recent delegations, then a seven-day queue, then the bridge transfer to Elysium

The summary on the Withdraw tab tells you which applies before you confirm.

Selling instead

OCEAN is a standard ERC-20, so you can also sell it on an Elysium market for an immediate exit at the market price. That price can be above or below one HYPE.

Activating oCEAN

Your OCEAN carries voting power, but it is inactive until you delegate it. Under oCEAN voting power, select Activate oCEAN to delegate to yourself. You do this once; afterwards your votes follow your OCEAN balance automatically. To delegate your votes to someone else, see the governance guide.

Using OCEAN elsewhere

You can move OCEAN to other wallets or use it in other Elysium applications. Whoever holds OCEAN accrues the distribution. If you deposit OCEAN into a contract, such as a liquidity pool, the distribution accrues to that contract's address, and whether you receive it depends on that contract.

Costs

Ocean Reserve charges no fee to deposit, withdraw or claim. You pay only Elysium gas, in HYPE.