
The man behind $HYPE: - Immigrant. Raised by a single mother after his parents divorced - Learned physics by himself at 16 - Won a gold medal in the International Physics Olympiad - Started crypto trading in 2019 with only $10K from a living room in Puerto Rico - Built Chameleon - became one of the biggest crypto trading firms - Saw FTX collapse and decided to shut Chameleon down himself - Realized crypto was moving away from its original vision - Started Hyperliquid with just 11 people - No VCs. No outside investors. No market makers - Said no to a $100M offer at a $1B valuation - Hyperliquid processed $4 trillion in trading volume - Made $900M profit in one year - Trading fees are burned automatically on-chain - No middlemen. No politics - Now one of the most profitable projects in DeFi Most founders only talk about decentralization. Jeff Yan actually built it.
