Hyperliquid: Rebuilding Finance from First Principles - TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026

All right, guys. So, I'm Hart Lambur. I'm the founder of Across, cross-chain bridging protocol. We do some work with Hyperliquid and we're part of the Hyperliquid ecosystem. Um I had the pleasure of doing this same talk with Jeff a year ago, um almost exactly a year ago. And I guess I did a good enough job.

Jeff invited me back to do it again. Um >> We can top last year. >> Yeah. Yeah, we got to try to top last year. Um and we'll we'll talk about that. So, I mean, to start it off, um I'm not even introducing Jeff. You guys, you know, uh founder of Hyperliquid. Um

Jeff, I think it has been a pretty exceptional year. Um I got some stats I can share, but maybe before I go into it, what what are like when you think back since we did this a year ago, what's like what are you proud of? What's what do you think really clicked? >> Yeah, I think we'll we'll cover a lot of

the points again, I think kind of you know, running it back, but I but I think the core ideas haven't changed from last year to this year. To me, the thing that stands out is um it's just how how much more tangible it feels, the excitement around um improving the tech stack of the existing

financial system to utilize on-chain technology, right? And Hyperliquid's kind of front and center there, and it's it's it's been a pleasure to build and uh in ways that unlocks opportunities for uh large set of builders, institutions, users. That's the really exciting thing. I think we've been talking about this as the vision since last year, but I think over

the course of this year, it really it feels like it's kind of you know, it's it's it's harder to believe, but it it feels like it's it's coming to life. Yeah. >> Well, I mean, again, when we were here last year, uh HIP 3 was announced, but I think it actually only went live about a