Foresight News reports that Hyperliquid stated on X that in response to recent community misunderstandings regarding the validator mechanism, the project team made the following clarifications:
All validators are qualified based on their performance on the testnet; the claim of 'buying a seat' is not true, and the related accusations are unfair to the validators who are seriously committed. As the network develops, the pool of validators will gradually expand; the previously announced foundation delegation program will support high-performing validators, further achieving decentralization of the network; anyone can run an API server pointing to any node; although the example client code sends requests to a specific API server, this is not a fundamental requirement of the network; black market trading behavior on the testnet HYPE is unacceptable, and the project team will continue to optimize the user experience on the testnet; the current node code is in a closed-source state and will be open-sourced after development stabilizes and secures; currently, there is only one binary file, and even for mature networks like Solana, most validators run a single client.
Hyperliquid stated that the project will iterate faster and on a larger scale, and will continue to listen to community feedback and improve the ecosystem in the future.
