had a few striking conversations at dinner last night
seems every archetype (market makers, operators, lawyers etc) is finally coming to consensus on how ridiculous the past few years of nebulous infrastructure projects was
talent transition from directionless infrastructure projects to products people use, have seen two infrastructure projects attempt to pivot into launchpads
nice reminder to myself that my intuition was correct, i started realizing the industry was a figment of excess zirp funding early last year
industry friends that can leave crypto are choosing to leave
research crypto finally realizes predatory tokenomics make for a bad product and there is no infinite buy pressure as their venture portfolio trends to zero
it’s difficult to choose which ecosystem to invest resources into (we’ve seen altcoins break new lows each week) but hyperliquid has proven itself to have a strong core team, product, and community that continues to evangelize
what’s been fascinating to me is that for the first time in years, my normal friends are asking me about hyperliquid, it seems that ‘hyperliquid is the next ethereum’ is a narrative that has actually taken hold outside of crypto twitter
likely a slow summer but animal spirits will re ignite in late q3 and q4
simply a matter of physics that there is more buy pressure than sell pressure in hyperliquid alone of all alts
hyperliquid trading like it has actual users, the team consistently executes well, a strong community is organically building on the network, and there is no ridiculous tokenomics scheme that rewards insiders asymmetrically more than token holders