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nest CL

Rejected
Max sleeve
Reviewed
2026-08-14 · v1
Next review
2026-11-15
Chains
Hyperliquid / HyperEVM · freezable

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nest is a Hyperliquid liquidity layer offering constant-product, concentrated-liquidity and automated concentrated-liquidity pools. Its current design pays LPs NEST emissions rather than trading fees, but the reward routing does not change their pooled inventory exposure. The DefiLlama protocol API read on 2026-08-15 reported about $19.8M of TVL on Hyperliquid L1. The shared v1 AMM-LP rejection controls regardless of size, emissions or protocol quality.

The research file

Mechanism applicability

nest documents three LP forms: Classic full-range constant-product pools, CLAMM custom-range positions and automated CLAMM vaults. Depositors supply tokens that enable swaps and receive NEST emissions allocated by pool vote weight. Trading fees instead accrue to veNEST holders, but that distribution choice does not change the LP’s paired or managed AMM inventory.

Current observation

The DefiLlama protocol API read on 2026-08-15 reported approximately $19.8M of nest CL TVL, only on Hyperliquid L1. Current official documentation describes nest as the Hyperliquid spot liquidity and yield layer and continues to expose all three pool types. The adapter amount is a survey observation, not independent reconciliation of pool reserves or exit depth.

Control and exit applicability

Classic holders withdraw the two tokens remaining in the pool; CLAMM holders can withdraw mostly one asset after price moves; automated-vault holders must first exit the vault and accept its resulting underlying output. Range choice, automated management, governance-directed emissions and NEST price affect outcomes. The current audit page also identifies inherited code and component audits rather than asserting one immutable risk perimeter.

Why the class rule decides

The shared v1 AMM-LP dossier controls because every current nest liquidity form owns pooled inventory whose composition changes with trades and relative price. Reopen only for an economically separate nest product without pooled multi-asset inventory or relative-price rebalancing. Any such product requires a new review of contracts, management and governance controls, audits and incidents, emissions, liquidity and stressed exits.

Sources

The claims above trace to these. Where a number could not be independently verified, the thesis says so.

Inherited controls

The verdict above grades the protocol layer. Every position also inherits the asset it holds and the chain it settles on. The least safe layer sets the position’s grade, and the position table names which one that is.

ChainVerdictGradeControl constraint
Hyperliquid / HyperEVMRejected freezable a 21-validator permissioned set operates both the chain and its bridge — one compromise reaches both.
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