Mountain Protocol vs RedStone

Mountain Protocol

Mountain Protocol is the issuer of USDM, a regulated, yield-bearing stablecoin backed by short-term US Treasury bills that automatically passes through Treasury yields to holders on a daily rebasing basis. Unlike traditional stablecoins that capture yield for issuers, USDM distributes approximately 4-5% APY directly to holders simply by holding the token—making it a compelling alternative to USDC and USDT in the HyperEVM ecosystem. As HyperEVM lending protocols and yield vaults integrate USDM as a base asset, Hyperliquid traders can earn real-world Treasury yields on their idle stablecoin balances between trades. Mountain Protocol operates under regulatory oversight and maintains full reserve attestations, providing institutional-grade compliance for DeFi protocols that need to satisfy regulatory requirements when deploying RWA-backed assets on Hyperliquid. USDM's daily rebasing model ensures yield accrues automatically without requiring any user action.

RedStone

RedStone is a modular blockchain oracle network that has become the dominant oracle solution on Hyperliquid, operating under the HyperStone brand for the ecosystem. Oracles are critical infrastructure — they provide smart contracts with real-world price feeds, enabling DeFi lending, derivatives, and synthetic assets to function correctly. RedStone's architecture is uniquely well-suited to Hyperliquid's high-performance environment: rather than pushing price updates to the chain on every tick (a costly approach), RedStone uses a pull-based model where data is fetched on-demand and cryptographically verified on-chain, dramatically reducing costs while maintaining freshness and accuracy. Securing approximately 99.5% of oracle-protected value on Hyperliquid, HyperStone feeds power a wide range of DeFi protocols on HyperEVM — from lending markets to perpetual protocols and yield vaults. RedStone aggregates price data from dozens of sources, applying outlier filtering and cryptographic attestation to ensure data integrity. With support for hundreds of assets and sub-second update latency, HyperStone gives Hyperliquid's DeFi ecosystem enterprise-grade price feeds, enabling complex financial products to be built with confidence in the underlying data infrastructure.

Choose Mountain Protocol if you...

• ✓Want a rwa perps solution on Multi-Layer
• ✓Need: USDM yield-bearing stablecoin passing US Treasury yields to Hyperliquid holders

Choose RedStone if you...

• ✓Want a oracles solution on Multi-Layer
• ✓Prefer a verified and vetted protocol
• ✓Need features like oracle and HyperStone
• ✓Need: Oracle powering ~99.5% of oracle-protected value on HyperEVM