Founders & Builders
Jeff Yan quotes
Co-founder of Hyperliquid
Former Hudson River Trading quant who built Hyperliquid, an on-chain perpetuals exchange with no venture funding.
2 epic quotes by Jeff Yan
“No VCs, no private allocations. The community owns it.”
— Jeff Yan
“A fully on-chain order book was supposed to be impossible. We built it.”
— Jeff Yan
Why Jeff Yan is quoted so often
Jeff Yan is one of the most cited voices in the digital asset industry. As co-founder of hyperliquid, every public statement is read by traders, founders and regulators looking for signal, which is why these lines keep resurfacing years after they were first said.
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