chinese culture is starting to gain significant ground in global mindshare. from EVs to TikTok reels to streamers; financial markets are next - feels like betting on innovative robotics/AI/EV chinese companies are the play in the next 12-24 months
Reminder: the Hyperliquid dev team does not profit from increased activity as it does not collect trading fees. On the contrary, it is entirely self-funded with exponentially increasing burn. There is not a single private investor.
>$25M of revenue has gone back to the community through HLP. Another project could have easily pocketed some or all of these profits.
Whatโs the point of all this? To build something that really matters. When finance moves onchain, it will bring trillions of dollars of value to billions of users. It wonโt move for a half-baked system, but the Hyperliquid L1 has a shot.
Some users think that Hyperliquid is already a complete platform. This is flattering, and the Hyperliquid community is indeed one-of-a-kind!
But as someone spending most waking moments pushing Hyperliquid to its full potential, Iโm confident that there is a long way to go. In particular, the following are all complex, multi-phase undertakings:
1) deploying the native EVM
2) seamlessly integrating the EVM with existing native components (e.g., order books)
3) fully decentralizing the networkย
On top of that, the following are continuously being improved:
1) high TPS and low latency L1 with HyperBFT consensus
2) performant financial primitives including fully onchain spot and perp order books, vaults, oracles, automated liquidity and account abstractions
3) state-of-the-art and community-owned order book liquidity via HLP
When you see a 100x, you drop everything to make that a reality. Factors of <2 are insignificant. Big things take time to build, but nothing else is worth building.