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 Hyperliquid Co-Founder Jeff Yan: Platform Is Closer to Linux Than a Crypto Exchange

TLDR: Jeff Yan said at DAS Asia 2026 that Hyperliquid should not be seen as a rival to any one exchange.  Yan compared Hyperliquid to the internet and linux.

They could all be saying this soon.

" But I WAS ALWAYS WITH YOU! "

NOSTR is NOT dead

The question isn't "how many people are posting notes on Damus or Primal right now?"  — it's "what is being built on top of this protocol?"

And the answer is: a surprising amount.

The protocol is maturing from "decentralized Twitter" into a general-purpose coordination and identity layer. The social media use case (kind 1 notes) is just one application among many now.

The protocol is diversifying vertically into infrastructure. The pattern is:

Identity layer: Your NOSTR keypair is your sovereign identity across all applications — social, commerce, development, AI, etc. No platform owns it.

Event fabric: Signed, relayed events become the transport for everything — not just notes, but marketplace orders, git commits, AI requests, etc.

Payment rails: Lightning and Cashu integration is native, not bolted on. Value transfer is a first-class protocol action.

The critique about small user numbers misses that NOSTR is following a trajectory closer to TCP/IP or SMTP than to Instagram. These protocols weren't judged by "daily active users" — they were judged by what got built on top of them. Email was an application that emerged from a protocol.

The architecture is sovereignty-preserving by design, instead of by policy.

Cypherpunks write code; and it was never so easy as it is right now.