Building a perps product is really, really hard... and Polymarket doesn't really have the technical team to pull it off
Polymarket should focus on the prediction market first
i don't have strong view on whether $HYPE can become worth $500B some day, but through simple process-of-elimination in terms of founder potential, jeff is maybe one of two/three that could actually pull it off
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Noah Goldberg from Theia Research on why Hyperliquid is probably overvalued at $15-20B
"Everybody in crypto has plowed their capital into it. It's a very crowded trade"
"There isn't anybody that's really properly assessing the probabilities of failure versus everybody anchoring towards what is the success case"
"This company is clearly over-earning if history is going to hold true for the future. The multiple you should be willing to pay for this business can't be that high because its margins are going to be hard to defend in one form or another"
"People can anchor themselves to a price to earnings ratio, but in reality it's a price to sales ratio and that has very different implications"
Hyperliquid is not competing with Nasdaq, it is competing with every single global web2 exchange infra provider, and the total market cap of these companies is $800 billion
now add all the brokers and banks in there too because HL has a stick front-end
trillions
people who think no kyc is the only moat for onchain perps are missing the forest for the trees
onchain perps are more efficient, open, faster, composable, and global