This is the story of Hyperliquid, the startup considered the most profitable per employee in the world, operating from a secret guarded office in Singapore.

Last year, a team of only 11 people generated $900 million in profit.
A company just 3 years old, with zero venture capital funding, now starting to reshape how global markets operate.

Its founder, Jeffrey Yan, had never studied physics when he picked up his first physics book at age 16.
Just two years later, he won gold at the International Physics Olympiad.

In 2019, he began trading with only $10,000 from his living room in Puerto Rico, using a TV as a monitor because he couldn’t afford a real screen.

Within three years, he was running one of the largest anonymous crypto trading firms in the market.

Then… he shut it down.

Although wealthy and financially free, Yan had spent years watching crypto betray its original purpose.
The idea behind Bitcoin was decentralization…
Yet the biggest exchanges remained centralized.
Crypto kept recreating the same trust-based systems it was meant to replace.

So he decided to build what should have existed from the start.

Hyperliquid is a blockchain with a trading exchange built on top, where anyone can build applications.
Yan’s vision is to bring all of finance onto one network.

In just 3 years, the platform has processed over $4 trillion in trading volume.
And recently, it has expanded far beyond crypto.

Markets like:

Oil
Silver
S&P 500

are now trading on Hyperliquid 24/7, including weekends,
with growth nearing 40% week-over-week.

When United States and Israel bombed Iran on a Saturday in February, traders rushed to Hyperliquid.

But that success came at a cost.

Yan now works from a secret office in Singapore,
and cannot travel without two bodyguards.
Even the team’s housekeeper has no idea what they actually do.
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