João Nuno Simões

moment you see that hyperliquid is something that is growing and growing and growing and there is more and more people interested and more and more people that care about hyperliquid because is really something that moves the community moves the ogs moves the founders moves the type of community that at least from my experience i only saw in like early eth or early btc days you know and

Because of that, we thought that it is really important to have a place where people that are involved on HyperLiquid can use their hype token and other tokens on HyperLiquid that can then use it on DeFi and earn yields.

This was the first kind of base that why we started building HyperWave.

Yeah, so that is actually a very, very good question.

And I was actually talking about this in the podcast that I recorded previously, literally like a minute ago.

I was on another podcast talking about growth strategies, marketing and how build things in 2025, 2026 and onwards.

So the answer for that, at least from my perspective, what I see is community first, you know, it's community, it is people.

Like if you look at crypto in these last few years, there's been like a lot of focus on VCs, a lot of focus on people behind the computer, people behind the screen that you never know, never meet.

And then every, for example, at Inception, which we were doing like purely staking and restaking, we worked a lot with liquid funds.

And if you look at the risk-taking space like EtherFi, you know, even Swell, Kelp, YieldNest, all these guys, they were very much dependent on liquid funds, very much dependent on professional funds deploying on you for liquidity.

On Hyperliquid, it's completely different.

It's all about community.

When I started actually doing all our fundraisers and like searching people to deposit on our vaults, one thing that I realized is I knocked on the door of all the liquid funds I know and asked them like, hey, do you have hype?

Are you doing anything on hyperliquid?

And the answer is one of two things.

One, what is hyperliquid?

I don't even know.

Second is, yes, I know hyperliquid, but no, we don't do that or it's too early or we are still researching.

A lot of people say we are still researching.

We don't know.