Kimi's CEO🇨🇳 says every AI lab has the wrong obsession
Zhilin Yang, on why K3 beat the frontier: "Every lab, like Claude, thinks the model matters most. That's wrong. It's how you organize the people building it that wins."
Then Moonshot proved the philosophy. K3 sold out every plan on purpose, cutting their own revenue instead of throttling existing users. When Anthropic hit that wall in April, they cut users' usage 50% at peak.
His one big idea: long context is the AI era's RAM. The 128K-to-gigabytes jump, compressed into 2 years instead of 40.
The real moat: "your biggest advantage, perhaps your only advantage, is your organization."
Model, or the team behind it: which actually wins?
HelloTrade, built by two former BlackRock executives, is an on-chain exchange for equities and RWAs, bringing 24/7 perpetual markets and more to global investors.
Paul Atkins, the chair of SEC, just announced that he expects the entire U.S. financial market to move onto blockchain within the next two years.
With this momentum, we sat down with @hellotradeapp founder @Kevtanggg , the mind behind BlackRock's record-breaking IBIT ETF. He and Wyatt left the world's largest asset manager to build the largest exchange on-chain. Here's what they told us in our in-depth interview:
The opportunity is massive. Less than 1% of people worldwide transact on-chain. Billions still can't easily access global capital markets, facing high fees, clunky platforms, and limited products.
Their solution? A mobile-first platform that feels as smooth as any top trading app, but runs on decentralized rails. No gas fees. No complex wallet setup. Just Web2 simplicity with Web3 advantages — trustless margining, permissionless lending, and on-chain collateral mobility.
The target? Emerging markets. Less experienced crypto users and traditional investors who have trouble accessing global markets.
Their edge? A rare combination. Kevin spent over a decade at BlackRock building complex equity products and commercializing IBIT, ETHA, and BUIDL. Wyatt architected the engineering systems that power these products. They've assembled a team that deeply understands both TradFi compliance and crypto infrastructure.
Why MegaETH? They needed the fastest, most reliable chain to match centralized exchanges. @MegaETH delivers Ethereum security with performance that enables financial products previously impossible on-chain.
Read the full interview to see how they're bringing the next million users on-chain 👇
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