ME News message, December 17 (UTC+8), the Hyper Foundation stated on social media that it proposed a validator vote to officially acknowledge that the aid fund HYPE has been destroyed, and that these tokens will be permanently removed from circulation and total supply. As background information, the aid fund automatically converted transaction fees into HYPE during the L1 execution process. Similar to the zero address, the system address of the aid fund has never had a private key to control its funds. Unless a hard fork occurs, the funds are mathematically unrecoverable. A 'yes' vote indicates that validators agree to destroy the aid fund HYPE tokens. Since these tokens exist in a system address without a private key, no on-chain operation is necessary. This vote constitutes a binding social consensus, meaning no protocol upgrade will ever be authorized to access this address. (Source: ME)