Felix@felixprotocol
Today, April 8, marks one year of Felix going live with our first product in production: lending. As this first year comes to an end, the final points distribution will take place this Friday, April 10.
In the last year, we have built a start for Felix: we built the largest stablecoin lending market for HYPE holders and went 0 -> 1 on a series of RWA trading products (RWA perps, spot equities).
Through the experiences of the last year, it has become clear that we are only scratching the surface of DeFi’s potential. Ultimately, DeFi can proliferate the dollar and dollar-based financial services into every under-served market in the world. To name three of the many examples of mass-market value creation enabled through DeFi: 1) the ability to escape one’s local hyperinflationary currency; 2) the ability to have a self-custodial financial account instead of forced reliance on traditional intermediaries; 3) the ability to access an unfettered brokerage account for the previously "un-brokered."
In just the last year, much progress has been made in Hyperliquid on the path to solve of these needs (e.g the rapid growth of RWA perps bringing access to TradFi asset exposure to anyone with a crypto wallet) as well as beyond Hyperliquid (e.g the continued growth in stablecoin market cap during a down year for BTC and crypto prices at large) - but much work remains. Whether that’s improving the rails between fiat <> stablecoins (from USD, but even more so for other currencies where FX rates are exorbitantly expensive), building out a wider selection of trading product support across asset classes and instrument types, building the elegant application layer that rivals the likes of what Robinhood and Revolut have accomplished for US brokerages and EU brokerages respectively, or accomplishing the geographically widespread go-to-market coverage that IBKR has dominated (finding a way to gain mass market share from LATAM to East Asia and beyond), many high-impact areas remain unsolved for DeFi.
Our focus at Felix is solving these problems in order to enable the full potential of DeFi. As always, our team is excited to hear your feedback as we pursue these high-impact, unsolved problems in DeFi today.
