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Billions of dollars get spent every year on cables and microwave towers just to shave microseconds off a trade. Jeff just called that absurd and built the fix. In TradFi, speed is the whole game. Whoever lays the fastest cable or builds the tallest microwave tower between exchanges captures the edge. All of that profit goes to whoever can afford to build the fastest pipe not whoever has the best strategy. Jeff's words: "The people laying the cables or building microwaves ultimately collect all the HFT profits, which is kind of absurd if you think about it." Hyperliquid's answer: priority fees. Instead of an infrastructure arms race only the richest firms can win, anyone can pay directly for execution priority , in the open, on-chain, with the fee burned instead of pocketed by whoever owns the fiber line. Since launch, priority fees have already generated over $5M, adding yet another layer to the deflationary engine behind HYPE. This is the difference between a system built around physical gatekeeping and one built around equal access. Jeff didn't just build a faster exchange. He removed the advantage that used to belong exclusively to whoever could afford the infrastructure.

You sold your 100x for a 2x. Never again. Jeff said it back in 2024, before any of this was obvious: "When you see a 100x, you drop everything to make that a reality. Factors of less than 2 are insignificant. Big things take time to build, but nothing else is worth building." Most people don't lose because they picked the wrong asset. They lose because they picked the right one and sold it too early , because a 2x felt safe, felt real, felt like a win you could actually bank. Nobody gets excited clicking "sell" at 40% gains. But that small, safe decision is exactly what keeps most people permanently priced out of the moves that actually change a life. Jeff didn't build Hyperliquid chasing small wins. He turned down a $100M term sheet because it was a factor of less than 2 compared to what he was actually building. He funded an eleven-person team off his own trading profits instead of taking the easy, diluted path everyone else takes. Every decision he's made since has filtered through the same question: is this a 2x decision, or a 100x one? Most people will read this, nod, and go back to taking profit at the first green candle tomorrow. A few will actually internalize it. The difference between those two groups is the entire difference between watching the 100x happen to someone else and being the one it happens to. Drop everything for the 100x. Stop celebrating the 2x.

Zero mentions of Hyperliquid in the entire speech. And somehow it was the only thing he was talking about. "Entrepreneurs building on the new frontier of finance faced uncertainty about whether there was a place for them." That's Hyperliquid geo blocked from its own country for two years while doing more on-chain perp volume than anywhere on earth. "Today, we are giving them an answer." That's Hyperliquid , the platform the Chairman has personally name-checked to Congress, the one Trump said he's "working very hard" to bring home. "Build here." Three words. I didn't hear a general invitation to the industry. I heard an answer to the exact question Hyperliquid has been asking since the day it launched. You can listen to the same speech and hear policy language. I listened and heard Hyperliquid's name in every line he didn't say it.

Building on Hyperliquid has been an incredible journey, not gonna lie. It all started during the Hyperliquid Community Hackathon last year. My team here in Nigeria was fired up to build, and together we shipped around 12 products during the hackathon. Only one came out on top @echonodehl. That win showed us what was possible. Huge shoutout to the amazing team that made it happen: @young_GMI 🤝 @Sanya_Ololade But we didn’t stop there. We’re back with something even bigger. Introducing @korban_hq a new take on social trading. Trade on Hyperliquid, build your own community, share your positions instantly, and let your followers copy the exact trade in just a few clicks. Social trading, made different. We’re just getting started.