Jeff Yan
Founder of Hyperliquid
Founder of Hyperliquid, a decentralized exchange for perpetual futures that grew to hundreds of thousands of users with no venture funding and a small core team. Former competitive physics medalist, Harvard mathematics and computer science graduate, and high-frequency trader at Hudson River Trading before founding crypto trading firm Chameleon Trading. Speaks rarely in public.
Key arguments & positions
- Describes Hyperliquid not as an exchange but as shared financial infrastructure — 'the infrastructure that carries all of finance' — and has compared its ambitions to becoming the AWS of the financial sector.
- Has warned that crypto is losing talented builders to AI, and argues on-chain finance should replace inefficient financial plumbing rather than financial institutions themselves.
Accomplishments
- Founder of Hyperliquid, a decentralized exchange for perpetual futures that CoinDesk reported processing around $10 billion in trades per day in 2025, with more than 570,000 users and no venture funding.
- Won gold at the 2013 International Physics Olympiad; studied mathematics and computer science at Harvard, then traded at Hudson River Trading before founding crypto trading firm Chameleon Trading.
- Runs Hyperliquid with a small core team — 11 contributors, per CoinDesk — and avoids public appearances and social media.
Papers & key writings
Gives few interviews; his views are known mostly through a small number of conversations, such as a July 2026 interview with VALR's CEO.
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