João Nuno Simões

This is how I got introduced to staking and restaking back a couple of years.

And with Inception, throughout a couple of years, I fundraised with a company from zero to 3.5 million fundraise, build a company from four people to more than 30 employees in about two years.

And later last year, we sold to MEV Capital as a very successful exit.

And this was early 2025.

After that, I worked with a couple companies here and there.

They did some advisory, also did some investments here and there as an angel.

And mid of last year, the founder of Swell actually heard about my exit from Inception and called me up and said like, hey, I heard that you did like a very successful exit and like,

You are super OG in BTC, you work in VC, you know very well the space for staking, restaking.

Like we are starting the first DeFi company on HyperLiquid, which is soon to be HyperWave.

And we really want a strong founder, strong partner to build with us from scratch and really make this as a billion dollar company.

And not only that, but of course, to continue to grow Swell, to continue to grow all our initiatives online.

And for me, that perfectly made sense, you know, and when I, and I saw these founders and these people, this amazing team, and I was like, okay, I was on vacation, but apparently I'm not anymore.

And I signed with these guys and I've been working with them since June.

last year so about seven ish months months now and it's been super super super good and we've been growing hyperwave then continue to maintain and grow swell we have two new projects actually that i can already chill a little bit here ignition on fogo which actually launched yesterday

24 hours ago, we launched the first DeFi company on FOGO named Ignition, which is something that we are super, super proud of.

And we are also building an AI trading tool named Voyager.

So there is four products that right now that we are really building Swell, Hyperwave, Ignition and Voyager.

But we are here today to talk about Hyperwave.

Why Hyperwave?

Because at this