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How a Harvard grad helped make Hyperliquid the biggest new player in crypto—with just 11 people and no venture funding

  • Ben Weiss, Leo Schwartz--Fortune
  • published date: 2026-01-12 12:49:37 UTC

Following the collapse of FTX, Hyperliquid founder Jeff Yan has cut a figure as the anti-SBF.

The alarm jolted Jeff Yan awake at around 5:00 a.m. It was a ringtone designed toamong other scenariosblare out when something abnormal occurs on Hyperliquid, the decentralized crypto exchange he had… [+10985 chars]