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A deployer funded only to pay EVM gas cannot deploy anything sizeable to
HyperEVM. Anything past the fast block's gas cap has to go in a big block, big
blocks are opted into with an evmUserModify action, and HyperCore accepts that
action only from an address it already knows — one holding a Core asset. A fresh
EVM deployer is not that address, and the usual answer is to bridge something in
from outside.

It does not have to be. HYPE is HyperEVM's native gas token rather than an ERC20,
and value sent to the system contract at
0x2222222222222222222222222222222222222222 is credited on Core to whoever sent
it. The deployer already holds HYPE — that is what it pays gas in — so it credits
itself, and the whole prerequisite collapses into one value transfer with no
third party in it.

  • src/lib/LibHyperCore.sol — the mechanism and every guard.
  • script/CreditHyperCore.sol — the entry point. Reads DEPLOYMENT_KEY and
    HYPERCORE_CREDIT_WEI, and is three lines because everything with behaviour
    is in the library.
  • test/src/lib/LibHyperCore.t.sol — 13 tests, three of them against a live
    HyperEVM fork.
  • A README section, between "Deploying, and then releasing" and "Install".

Nothing automatic can reach it

This is not on Manual sol artifacts, and no workflow is added for it. That
workflow exports DEPLOYMENT_SUITE, DEPLOYMENT_NETWORK and DEPLOYMENT_KEY
and nothing else, so a real-money amount has no honest path through it — an
amount squeezed into one of those names would be travelling under a name that
means something else. It is hand-run, and the README says to dry-run it first:
without --broadcast it forks HyperEVM and executes every guard and the
transfer itself while sending nothing, so anything the real run would refuse is
refused for free.

Nothing was broadcast in producing this. The fork tests read the live chain and
send nothing.

The guards, in the order they run

Where, then what, then who — the first two decide whether the value is
recoverable at all.

  1. UnexpectedChainIdblock.chainid != 999, before anything else is read.
    That address is a system contract on HyperEVM and an ordinary unowned address
    everywhere else, where value sent to it is not refused, just gone. The chain
    id and not an RPC alias, because rainix's rpc-preflight rebinds
    HYPEREVM_RPC_URL at run time: the alias says which endpoint answered, the
    chain id says what it answered as.
  2. SystemContractChanged — the code hash at the system address against a pin.
    A fork of HyperEVM reports HyperEVM's chain id while holding whatever state
    its operator put there, and an address with no code at all reports the zero
    hash, so a chain that simply does not have this contract fails here rather
    than accepting the transfer into a hole.
  3. ZeroCredit, then CreditNotRound — HYPE carries 8 wei decimals on Core
    against 18 on the EVM, so a credit is the EVM amount divided by 10 ** 10
    and the remainder is burned, not returned. An amount below one Core wei
    is burned in full: the transfer succeeds, the HYPE is gone, and the address
    is still not a HyperCore user. Refused rather than rounded, because that
    silent success is the failure the whole script exists to avoid.
  4. InsufficientBalance — strictly greater than, because gas on HyperEVM comes
    out of the same balance, so an account holding exactly amount cannot send
    amount.
  5. After the transfer, UnexpectedSystemBalance — Core reads the log the
    transfer emits, not the call's return status, so a call that succeeded
    without moving value is not a credit.

There is one post-transfer assertion rather than two, and the second commit here
is why: a direct value transfer moves both balances or neither, so the only
input that reaches either one is an account that IS the system contract, and
whichever side is checked first is the side that fires. The other side is
unreachable by construction — a line no mutation of it could ever be killed on.
The system side is the one kept, because it is the side Core reads.

Checked against the chain and the docs, not assumed

  • The system address, and that receive() emits
    Received(address indexed user, uint256 amount): the pinned runtime bytecode
    came from eth_getCode against HyperEVM, and its embedded topic0 literal
    equals cast keccak "Received(address,uint256)".
  • eth_chainId = 0x3e7 = 999.
  • The codehash pin is keccak of that fetched runtime code, and
    testTheLiveSystemContractIsWhatIsPinned re-checks it against the live
    contract on every run.
  • The 8-vs-18 decimals split is weiDecimals: 8 for HYPE from the Hyperliquid
    spotMeta info API, re-read while opening this PR.

QA

  • Discriminating tests: all 13 in LibHyperCoreTest, listed with their killed
    mutants below. This is a new library, so every one of them fails on base by
    not compiling — that is not discriminating evidence and is not offered as
    any. The mutation table is the evidence: each test is shown killing a specific
    break of the specific line it claims to cover.

  • Mutations applied: 13, one at a time to src/lib/LibHyperCore.sol, restored
    between. 12 killed, 1 survived and is disclosed rather than papered over:

    # Mutation to LibHyperCore.sol Result
    M1 if (block.chainid != HYPEREVM_CHAIN_ID)if (false) killed by testCreditRefusesEveryChainButHyperEvm
    M2 HYPEREVM_CHAIN_ID 999998 killed by testTheLiveSystemContractIsWhatIsPinned, testCreditOnAHyperEvmFork, testCreditOnHyperEvmForksTheAliasBeforeItsGuards
    M3 if (…codehash != HYPE_SYSTEM_CODEHASH)if (false) killed by testCreditRefusesASystemContractThatIsNotTheOne
    M4 HYPE_SYSTEM_CODEHASH last nibble 23 killed by testHypeSystemBytecodeHashesToThePinnedCodehash and 9 others
    M5 if (amount == 0)if (false) killed by testCreditRefusesZero
    M6 if (amount % HYPE_EVM_WEI_PER_CORE_WEI != 0)if (false) killed by testCreditRefusesAnAmountThatIsNotAWholeCoreWei, testCreditRefusesAnAmountBelowOneCoreWei
    M7 HYPE_CORE_DECIMALS 89 killed by testOneCoreWeiIsTheDecimalGap
    M8 if (account.balance <= amount)< killed by testCreditRefusesAnAccountThatCannotAlsoPayGas
    M9 drop vm.broadcast(account) killed by testCreditSendsTheAmountAndCreditsTheSendingAccount, testCreditThatMovesNothingIsRefused, testCreditOnAHyperEvmFork
    M10 if (!success)if (false) SURVIVED — see below
    M11 drop the post-transfer UnexpectedSystemBalance check killed by testCreditThatMovesNothingIsRefused
    M12 creditCoreOnHyperEvm: drop the vm.createSelectFork killed by testCreditOnHyperEvmForksTheAliasBeforeItsGuards
    M13 HYPE_SYSTEM_ADDRESS last nibble 23 killed by testTheLiveSystemContractIsWhatIsPinned, testCreditOnAHyperEvmFork, testCreditOnHyperEvmForksTheAliasBeforeItsGuards

    Method: one mutation at a time, whole LibHyperCoreTest suite run against it,
    file restored between. M2, M12 and M13 are killed only by fork tests, so each
    was re-run paired with a 13/13 green baseline taken immediately before it —
    the public rpc.hyperliquid.xyz endpoint rate-limits, and a fork test red for
    that reason would otherwise be recorded as a kill it did not make.

    M10 SURVIVES and is not fixable by a test. HYPE_SYSTEM_BYTECODE reverts only
    on a call carrying calldata, this call carries none, and InsufficientBalance
    has already established the call is funded — so no input gets a false out of
    it while the pins hold. The check stays: an unchecked low-level call is a
    defect on its own terms, loosening either pin would make it reachable, and
    without it a failed transfer would be misreported as
    UnexpectedSystemBalance. Its NatSpec says exactly this. The alternative to
    disclosing it was deleting the guard to make the number 13/13, which is a
    worse library.

  • Oracle: the Hyperliquid docs and the live chain, never recomputed by the
    implementation. The system address and its receive() log signature come from
    eth_getCode plus cast keccak "Received(address,uint256)"; the chain id from
    eth_chainId; the codehash from cast keccak over the fetched runtime code;
    the 8-decimal Core figure from the spotMeta info API, re-read against
    api.hyperliquid.xyz while writing this. The fork tests assert against the
    contract actually deployed at the system address rather than a mock that
    agrees with the library.

  • Category check: no issue is open for this — it was briefed directly rather
    than filed, so there is no issue text to check coverage against. What the
    change sets out to do is let the deployer credit its own HyperCore account out
    of the HyperEVM HYPE it already holds, so it can opt into big blocks.
    Covered: the mechanism, an amount taken as input rather than defaulted, the
    chain-999 guard, the repo's conventions (src/ library plus script/ entry,
    test/src/** mirroring src/**, unnamed returns, REUSE headers), and
    pre-transfer and post-transfer assertions. Deliberately NOT covered, each with
    its reason in the source: no CI workflow (no honest path for the amount
    through Manual sol artifacts), no test driving run() (it would need to
    write the process-global DEPLOYMENT_KEY, racing RainDeployBroadcastTest;
    instead run() is typed so a transposed key and amount will not compile), and
    no fuzzing of the fork tests (a fresh fork per run rate-limits the public
    endpoint).

Local gates

forge fmt --check, forge build and forge test --match-contract LibHyperCoreTest (13/13) all pass here. The full local suite is 340/345, and
all 5 failures are vm.createSelectFork against the public
rpc.hyperliquid.xyz endpoint, which rate-limits this box — they are in
RainDeployVerifyChain*, untouched by this branch, and main is green on CI.
CI is the arbiter for the rest; reuse lint and slither are on it.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added a workflow for funding a deployer’s HyperCore account before HyperEVM deployment.
    • Added validation for supported networks, system-contract integrity, funding amounts, and account balance.
    • Added a script supporting dry runs and broadcast execution through configurable environment variables and flags.
  • Documentation

    • Documented setup requirements, HYPE denomination conversion, minimum funding rules, and deployment workflow considerations.

Claude and others added 2 commits August 22, 2026 07:37
A deployer funded only for EVM gas cannot opt into HyperEVM's big blocks:
`evmUserModify` is accepted only from an address HyperCore already knows,
and an address becomes one by holding a Core asset. HYPE is HyperEVM's
native gas token and value sent to the system contract at
0x2222222222222222222222222222222222222222 is credited on Core to the
sender, so the deployer credits itself out of the balance it already has,
with no external bridge in it.

`LibHyperCore` carries the mechanism and every guard; `CreditHyperCore`
is the entry point, run by hand with an amount in `HYPERCORE_CREDIT_WEI`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A direct value transfer moves the sender's balance and the recipient's
together or moves neither, so of the two post-transfer checks only one
can ever fire: the only input that gets past every guard and still moves
nothing is one where the two balances are the same balance, which is
`account` being the system contract itself. Whichever check is written
first is the one that fires there, and the second is unreachable by
construction — a line no mutation of it can be killed on.

So `UnexpectedAccountBalance` and the sender-side check go, and the
system side stays, because that is the side Core reads the credit from.
`testCreditThatMovesNothingIsRefused` sends from the system contract to
the system contract, which is the one input that reaches the remaining
assertion, and is worth refusing on its own terms: a run that credited
the system contract's own Core account and reported success is the
silent success this library is arranged against.

The `CreditFailed` and `UnexpectedSystemBalance` NatSpec now say why
each is there, including that `CreditFailed` is unreachable through the
pins and is kept anyway.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The PR adds a Forge script and LibHyperCore library for crediting a deployer’s HyperCore account from HyperEVM. It validates chain, contract code, amount, and balance, then documents and tests the manual workflow.

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HyperCore crediting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Credit contract and validation
src/lib/LibHyperCore.sol
Defines the HYPE system-contract address, pinned bytecode and code hash, denomination constants, custom errors, and a Foundry helper for installing the system contract in tests.
Validated HYPE transfer
src/lib/LibHyperCore.sol
Validates the HyperEVM chain, system-contract code, credit amount, and sender balance. It transfers native HYPE and verifies the exact system-contract balance increase.
Script entry point and verification
script/CreditHyperCore.sol, test/src/lib/LibHyperCore.t.sol, README.md
The script reads DEPLOYMENT_KEY and HYPERCORE_CREDIT_WEI, selects the HyperEVM fork, and credits the deployer account. Documentation describes execution requirements, and tests cover local and live fork behavior.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f5a6a

The README command can expose the deployer private key through shell history when copied as written. The PR is otherwise mergeable, but the documentation should provide safer key-entry instructions or clearly warn owners before use.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant CreditHyperCore
  participant LibHyperCore
  participant HypeSystemContract
  Operator->>CreditHyperCore: Provide environment variables
  CreditHyperCore->>LibHyperCore: creditCoreOnHyperEvm(deployer, amount)
  LibHyperCore->>LibHyperCore: Select fork and validate credit
  LibHyperCore->>HypeSystemContract: Transfer native HYPE
  HypeSystemContract-->>LibHyperCore: Increase system balance
  LibHyperCore-->>Operator: Complete or revert
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Acted on the merge-risk note about the key in shell history — it was right, and this was the only place in the repo documenting a key on a command line at all (the deploy reaches its key through a workflow secret), so it was also the only place that could teach the habit.

16fe091 replaces the DEPLOYMENT_KEY=0x... prefix with read -rs DEPLOYMENT_KEY && export DEPLOYMENT_KEY in both the README and the CreditHyperCore NatSpec, which keeps the value out of the history file and off the terminal. Same variable, same script, nothing about the mechanism changed.

No test moves with it: it is a docs-and-comments change, and LibHyperCoreTest is 13/13 on the new head with forge fmt --check clean.

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