> be Jeff Yan (Hyperliquid) > Hail from Palo Alto. > Really good at physics and math. > Wins gold medal in world competition. > Goes to Harvard. Studies math and computer science. > Works at a big company. Uses computers to buy and sell thousands of stocks per second. > 2019: Moves to Puerto Rico with $10,000. > Starts his own crypto trading business (Chameleon Trading). > Makes huge money. Like thousands of percent growth every year. > By age 27, he's rich enough to never work again. > 2022: FTX (big crypto company) explodes. Loses everyone's money. > He realizes the problem: all blockchains are too slow for real trading. > Decides to build his own from scratch. > Shuts down his business. Starts building. > Feb 2023: Launches Hyperliquid. > His own blockchain. Super fast. Trades happen in less than one second. > Only 11 people on his team. > They write all the code themselves. > The numbers: > $10 billion dollars traded every day > 11 people make $900 million a year > That's $82 million per person > More volume than Coinbase > Never took money from investors > Said no to $1 billion+ offers > Creates HLP (a new way to invest): > You give him money to invest. > He uses trading strategies. Makes profit. > You get all the profit. Zero fees. > Rich people on Wall Street have always done this. Now normal people can too. > Nov 2024: Big airdrop. > Gives away $16 billion in free tokens to all users. > People wake up with hundreds of thousands of dollars. > Some get millions. > His team gets nothing that day. > The token is $HYPE: > Trading at $49.79 right now [CoinMarketCap](coinmarketcap.com/currencies/hyp…) > Market cap is $11.6 billion > Top 12 cryptocurrency > Bitwise launched a HYPE ETF and called it "Gen 2" crypto [Coinbase](coinbase.com/price/hyperliq…) > Hit all-time high of $59.30 [CoinGecko](coingecko.com/en/coins/hyper…) > All the tokens from the airdrop. No VCs own any. > May 2026: Stock market fund is created. > Institutions start buying. > Becomes easier to trade. > His philosophy: > "If someone else can build it, they should." > No special deals. No insider advantages. > Everyone pays the same price. > Wants to be the foundation other projects build on. > Competitors try to copy: > - Lighter launches (has VC money) > - Aster launches (Binance's version) > - Can't catch up. > October 2025: Big stress test. > Market crashes hard. $19 billion in trades disappear. > Alarm wakes him at 5am. > He checks everything. Takes one hour. > System is perfect. Everyone's money is safe. > That's the proof. > Team moves to Singapore in 2024. > Slowly hiring more people (now 14 instead of 11). > Rarley shows up on the Internet > The product does the talking.
