Integrity has always been one of Hyperliquid's core values.
The house of all finance must be credibly neutral. This means no private investors, no market maker deals, and no protocol fees to any company.
The initial state of any blockchain is a crucial part of its story that can never be erased. The original ethos of Bitcoin was a permissionless network accessible to all. Hyperliquid's genesis distribution followed this spirit, going entirely to early users with core contributors excluded. The full distribution is verifiable onchain without obfuscation.
This principle of fairness frustrates a few users and builders who are used to special treatment. It means that Labs has zero tolerance for team members with integrity yellow flags. It means we do things the hard way as a community. But the world deserves a financial system owned by the people, where fairness to all users is in the DNA. Nothing else is worth building.
17 things we're excited about for crypto in 2026...
1. Better, more clever onramps/ offramps for stablecoins
2. Thinking about tokenization of real world assets, and stablecoins, in a more crypto-native way
3. Stablecoins unlock the bank ledger upgrade cycle — and new payment scenarios
4. The internet becomes the bank
5. Wealth management for all
6. From know your customer (KYC) to ‘know your agent’ (KYA)
7. We’ll use AI for substantive research tasks
8. The invisible tax on the open web
9. Privacy will be the most important moat in crypto
10. The (near) future of messaging isn’t just quantum-resistant. It’s decentralized
11. ‘Secrets-as-a-service’
12. From ‘code is law’ to ‘spec is law’
13. Prediction markets go bigger, broader, and smarter
14. The rise of staked media
15. Crypto offers a new primitive for use beyond blockchains
16. Trading as a way station, not the last stop, for crypto businesses
17. Unleashing the full potential of blockchains… when legal architecture finally matches technical architecture
Gossip tweet. Saw a couple of posts on this topic:
If you didn't know, Jeff (HL) was part of the YZiLabs (Binance Labs back then) incubation season 1 cohort in 2018. 🤣
Unfortunately, that project failed. YZiLabs did not recoup any of its investment. It happens.
I did not interact with Jeff much back then. I forgot about it. I only learned this from Ella early this year.
I was suppose to have a call with Jeff a few months back, but I missed it due to a schedule error on my part.🙏 And we never had a chance to reschedule it.
YZiLabs, to the best of my knowledge, was not given and does not own any investments (equity or token) in HL.
Regardless, we support all builders! 🤝