This Tuesday, we brought Scaling DeFi to New York, with @Securitize, @Anchorage, @upshift_fi, @StellarOrg, @eulerfinance and @Liquid_Col.
A curated room of founders, CTOs and institutional desks actually building onchain finance.
📸 Sharing a few moments from the night:
"You can't be pleased about this if you're a DeFi bull."
Andy walks through Omer Goldberg's thread documenting how millions in bad debt were created across Gauntlet's Morpho vaults after the Resolv USR exploit.
Asset managers trading perps on @Lighter_xyz: Active on-chain trading requires secure self-custody with institutional controls and seamless DeFi connectivity.
🔦 Porto dApp Spotlight: @debridge
deBridge is the institutional execution layer for MEV-protected onchain trading.
Trade cross-chain across 25+ networks without managing execution risk.
NEW! Browser extension for Porto users, now live.
Execute DeFi transactions from self-custody in seconds and switch between wallets and networks directly from the browser, without sacrificing institutional-grade security or control.
Hyperliquid today looks very different from Hyperliquid a year ago. This time last year, the HyperEVM hadn’t even launched, and there were only a handful of early believers building exclusively on Hyperliquid. Now, there are hundreds of teams building, dozens of regional communities with local events, and trillions more in volume traded.
This was achieved without any external funding and giving all protocol fees to the community. Hyperliquid was built with a strong belief in returning to the core ethos of crypto - changing entrenched and predatory practices to be fair and permissionless.
This art piece is meant to celebrate Hyperliquid’s growing ecosystem and commemorate how far we’ve come as a community in building the house of all finance. You’ll find many of your favorite apps and teams interwoven in the piece if you zoom in. A special thank you to @Degen_Alfie for bringing the community to life. Many great teams didn’t make it due to limited space and time, but your contributions have not gone unnoticed!
Notable product and tech releases in 2025 included:
+ HyperEVM launch with HyperCore composability via precompiles and CoreWriter
+ Spot assets bridged by Unit
+ Fully permissionless validator set
+ Native utility to staking, with fee discounts for traders and permissionless HyperCore deployment capabilities for builders
+ Permissionless spot quote assets
+ Hypurr NFTs
+ USDH governance vote and launch by Native Markets
+ HIP-3 permissionless perp deployment
+ Native USDC integration
+ Portfolio margin pre-alpha launch
+ Assistance Fund HYPE officially burned
Compared to 2024, ATHs in 2025 reached:
+ $32B in 24h volume from $15B in 2024
+ $16B in open interest from $4B
+ $6B in TVL from $2B
+ $20M in 24h protocol revenue from $3.5M
+ 1.4M users from 300k
Excited to see what the ecosystem looks like another year from now. Thank you to all the builders, users, and supporters who have come together to push forward Hyperliquid’s vision.
We are excited to announce that @Anchorage is now one of the custodians supporting the backing assets of USDe.
Anchorage Digital Bank is America's first federally chartered crypto-native bank and operates with strict regulatory requirements.
I was in a restaurant recently, lots of Chinese.
They was so happy while talking LOUD, laughing LOUD, demanding waiters LOUDLY.
I don't usually end up in such places. I don't get happy the way others do. I wouldn't change it.
I do not go out for fun. My level of fun is going to a private cigar lounge in peace and quiet where surrounding individuals are are looking for peace and quiet while conducting business or just having time away while being treated with respect.
Going out for 'fun' is something I do not enjoy. I like living in a constant state of battle, fear, anxiety, conquer.
Fun to me would be going to the gym, taking an ice bath, doing a bog standard 8-12 hour fast with coffee while I work and answer emails, take phone calls, online meetings, trades and think of how I can be more prepared or ways to improve my life in. each. and. every. detail. possible.
I know I'm different to most of you.
Anyone relate?
- Wynn