๐ช Guillotine: a from-scratch BPE tokenizer in Rust.
1.7x faster than tiktoken on single-thread encode (59 vs 34 MB/s), byte-for-byte identical.
The trick: pre-tokenization on a DFA regex.
https://t.co/lQByh05hXo
This is the story of Hyperliquid, the most profitable startup per employee on earth, told from a guarded office in Singapore.
Last year, its team of 11 generated $900 million in profit. It's 3 years old, has never taken a dollar of venture capital, and is beginning to change how century-old markets work.
Its founder, Jeffrey Yan (@chameleon_jeff), had never taken a physics class when he picked up a textbook at 16. Two years later, he won gold at the International Physics Olympiad. In 2019, he started trading with $10,000 from a living room in Puerto Ricoโworking off a television because he didn't own a monitor.
Within 3 years, he was running one of the largest anonymous crypto trading firms.
Then he shut it down. Yan was rich and free, but he had spent years inside crypto, watching it betray itself. Bitcoin's central premise was decentralization. Yet the biggest exchanges were centralized. Crypto kept reintroducing the dependence on trust it was built to eliminate. He set out to create what should have existed.
Hyperliquid is a blockchain with a trading exchange on top, and anyone can build on it. Yan's vision is to house all of finance. In 3 years, it has done over $4 trillion in volume. And in the past few months, it has begun to outgrow crypto.
Markets for oil, silver, and the S&P 500 now trade on Hyperliquid around the clock, weekends included, and are growing roughly 40% week on week. When the US and Israel bombed Iran on a Saturday in February, Hyperliquid was the venue traders turned to.
Hyperliquid's success has cost Yan his freedom. He works out of a secret office in Singapore and cannot travel without two bodyguards. Even the team's housekeeper doesn't know what they do.
In January, @domcooke spent a week at their office. Read his profile on Yan and @HyperliquidX below.
Applications are now open for the 2026 Paradigm Fellowship: a 4-day retreat for young people who are obsessively good at something technical.
For our fourth year, we're expanding to welcome builders across every frontier โ AI, robotics, energy, bio, prediction markets, or something we haven't thought of.
Last year's cohort came from 10 countries. Some were undergrads, some were dropouts, some were founders, some came from OpenAI, SpaceX, Citadel, and Kalshi.
The format is simple: firesides, whiteboarding sessions, and time to hack. What makes it special is what happens in between, and after. Fellows have met cofounders, started companies, and gone on to raise from Paradigm and others.
I was a fellow before joining Paradigm, the retreat was a transformative trip for me, and I met some of my closest friends through the program.
Apply by June 8th. Retreat runs August 12โ15th.
The Tangent protocol has undergone extensive testing and auditing, including 100% unit test coverage, fuzzing, and a total of five audits.
Many thanks to @EgisSec, @sherlockdefi, @PashovAuditGrp, and @ZeroCool_AI for their work, which helped us secure $USG.
Links below ๐
Here's how Zero Cool has performed in competitions:
1st place @Rain__Protocol (672 submissions)
1st place @DexlynLabs (72 submissions)
2nd place @MentoLabs (726 submissions)
6th place @0xsequence (664 submissions)
6th place @OpenEden_X (43 participants)
25th place @monad (952 submissions)
$20K bounty (Immunefi)
100+ confirmed findings across 40+ contests.
25th all-time @HackenProof, 7 critical, 29 high severity.
We're just getting started.
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Vegetables ruined your childhood.
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launch is around the corner.
check the first comment for a surprise.
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