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title: "Introducing the Alchemy Elysium credit program"
description: "Elysium mainnet is live, and Alchemy is its primary RPC provider. Apply for up to $10,000 in credits to run your Elysium trading app on Alchemy."
datePublished: "2026-11-09"
dateModified: "2026-11-09T09:00:00-05:00"
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# Introducing the Alchemy Elysium credit program

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Elysium mainnet is live, and today we're launching our credit program for teams building on it. As Elysium's primary RPC provider, we're offering up to $10,000 in Alchemy credits per team.

[Elysium](/elysium) is a DeFi Layer 2 (L2) from Kinetiq, built for the Hyperliquid ecosystem. An L2 runs its own transactions and settles them to a base chain. Elysium settles to HyperEVM, Hyperliquid's smart contract chain, and runs alongside HyperCore, the engine behind Hyperliquid's order books. That means contracts on Elysium read Hyperliquid market data directly, without an extra hop. Gas is paid in HYPE, Hyperliquid's native token.

Elysium is built for latency-sensitive trading: high-frequency strategies, market-making AMMs (automated market makers, smart contracts that hold liquidity and quote prices to traders automatically), and the apps built on top of them. For those apps, a slow or dropped connection means stale prices and missed trades.

The program is simple. Apply for credits, run your Elysium traffic on Alchemy, and decide if it fits your stack. No lock-in, no proprietary APIs.

[Apply now](/credits-program/elysium) for up to $10,000 in credits on Elysium.

## What's live on Elysium today

Alchemy supports two products on Elysium:

- **[Node RPC](/rpc-api)** gives you production JSON-RPC endpoints, the URLs your app calls to read chain data and send transactions. Elysium is built on Arbitrum Orbit and is EVM-compatible, so the methods, client libraries, and tooling you already use work unchanged.
- **[WebSockets](/smart-websockets)** push new blocks and contract events to your app over one open connection, so it reacts the moment state changes instead of polling for it.

Both run on the infrastructure behind the largest onchain apps, with 99.99% uptime and the lowest average response time of any provider in our [live benchmarks](/benchmarks).

## What's available

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One promotional code per team. Full terms and conditions are [here](/terms-conditions/elysium-credit-program-terms-and-conditions).

## Who it's for

If you're building on Elysium, this program is for you, whether you're extending a HyperEVM workflow, launching a trading app, or comparing infrastructure providers before you scale.

## Get started

We're excited to build alongside the teams bringing fast trading to Hyperliquid. Here's how to get going:

1. **Apply for credits.** Tell us about your project on the [Elysium credits page](/credits-program/elysium). We'll get back to you within 5 business days.
2. **Set up your app.** Once you're approved, the credits land in your Alchemy account. Create an app in the [Alchemy dashboard](https://dashboard.alchemy.com/) and choose Elysium as the network.
3. **Make your first request.** Follow the [Elysium quickstart](https://www.alchemy.com/docs/reference/elysium-api-quickstart) to send your first Node RPC call.