DeFi web3 financial engineering. Cofounder @AcrossProtocol @UMAprotocol; prev @GoldmanSachs, CS @Columbia, 🇨🇦
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Strong agree with this (I was trading SPCX in modest size around the IPO for fun; it worked great).
The difference is the underlying tech. All the other options (Robinhood, xStock wrappers, etc) are fundamentally based on TradFi rails under the hood.
Hyperliquid and TradeXYZ are based on crypto rails.
It is so incredibly obvious that crypto rails will eat tradfi. They just work better.
Hyperliquid.
Threadguy reveals Hyperliquid was the only venue on earth that didn't break during the SpaceX IPO
"What Hyperliquid pulled off on the SpaceX pre-IPO was absolutely incredible. So much volume, so much OI, the market was so liquid, and it predicted the price almost perfectly. The last quote that came out was 150, and within 10 minutes of the IPO it was at 175. It was wild how accurate it was."
"And here's the crazy part. The moment the IPO went live, Robinhood was down, Coinbase was down, Bybit had to refund everybody that participated, Binance had to refund everybody that participated, and Hyperliquid was the only venue on the planet with absolutely no problems. Very impressive tech performance on the biggest IPO in history."
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To support the USDH sunset process, users may now redeem USDH on HyperEVM 1:1 to USDC on HyperCore with no fees via @AcrossProtocol
Please convert any remaining USDH you may have.
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No polymarket or UMA contracts have been exploited. All user funds are safe, and using Polymarket.com is safe, so business as usual.
We had a 6-year-old private key that was compromised. This was in the internal top-up config, which is why funds were being sent to it. We have rotated this key, revoked all prod permissions and are moving all PKs to KMS keys from now on.
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Just in time for Robinhood Chain… ;)
BREAKING: The SEC is set to release its so-called "innovation exemption" for tokenized stocks which will pave the path for trading digital versions of securities, per Bloomberg.
Details include:
1. In a "surprise move," the SEC is leaning toward allowing the trading of tokenized assets
2. These tokenized assets would be tradeable on decentralized crypto platforms
3. The move could "reshape the landscape of the American stock market"
4. This would also be one of the US' biggest shifts into crypto infrastructure yet
Tokenized assets are rapidly expanding.
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Need to convert USDH to USDC?
Feeless transfers are available from HyperEVM to HyperCore on Across.
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This new site was first conceptualized at our last offsite and it's beautiful crazy fast.
It's also the start of our designers and 'non-technical' team members pushing code to production, thanks to the excellent technical guidance of our eng team our friends Claude/Codex.
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The Across bridge has a new home
Wherever you are going across to, get there with across.to
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We're happy to present our 2026 outlook.
This year is already taking shape, and the opportunity space for founders is even wider than anticipated.
If you're building in any of these areas, we would love to talk to you.
etherealvc.substack.com/p/th…
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This is legitimately cool green tech.
Today we're announcing @_panthalassa’s $140M Series B, led by Peter Thiel, with participation from John Doerr and many other incredible investors. The mission: unlock the ocean as another planetary-scale energy resource for humanity. First stop: compute.
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Proud of @_MinTeo
May 4
The world of crypto investing hasn’t been so hot of late, but Ethereal cofounder @_MinTeo says the company has been able to hold its own thanks to its niche expertise and its founder-friendly focus. bit.ly/3QM2ipE
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and so it begins.
HIP-4 live on mainnet
May 2
We just detected the first HIP-4 transaction on Hyperliquid mainnet at 07:46 UTC.
It begins.
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Transfer up to 2M USDC into USDH on Hyperliquid.
Zero fees.
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Feels like a big deal in the AI wars.
Meta's $2B acquisition of Manus just got blocked.
This has never happened before.
Dec 2025 — Deal announced
Jan 2026 — Security review opened
Mar 2026 — Founder summoned. Execs banned from leaving
Apr 2026 — Officially blocked
Engineers already relocated
Code already merged
Cash already wired
Good luck doing a git revert on that.
#manus
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Frictionless money movement makes the Hyperliquid user experience *better* than centralized alternatives.
Apr 9
This morning we launched our zero-fee on & offramp. Users can now go directly from their bank or brokerage to Hyperliquid.
No need for a centralized exchange.
Try it out at dashboard.usdh.com
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Crosschain deposits into USDC-PERPS now live.
Hyperliquid.
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We saw it from day one.
@predictdotfun joined @easyresidency S2 with one goal: to fix idle capital in prediction markets by turning collateral into yield while positions stay open.
4 months later, the platform reached $1.8B volume, with 4M orders matched.
YZi Labs is excited to announce our strategic follow-on investment in Predict.fun alongside Susquehanna Crypto.
As prediction markets become the internet’s layer for truth and price discovery, Predict.fun is leading that shift on @BNBChain.
Incubation is just the beginning. We build with our graduates for the long run.
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