Why HYPE? How a Dying Ophthalmology Firm Became the Most Valuable Crypto Story in DeFi

I sat alone at 2 a.m., staring at my laptop — not because I was chasing alpha, but because I needed to understand what happened.

The Last Night of Eyenovia

Eyenovia wasn’t built to become a crypto giant. It was dying. In 2024, revenue fell to \(56k. Net loss: \)50M. Its flagship product? Optejet — for children with nearsightedness. A company meant to heal eyes… and instead chose to bet its future on bytes.

Why HYPE?

When others bought BTC or ETH like commodities, I saw something different in HYPE: scarcity baked into every transaction. Not ‘burning’, not ‘minting’ — but reclaiming. Hyperliquid’s fee mechanism回购并销毁 HYPE continuously — turning fees into lifeblood.

The Quiet Rebellion

Hyunsu Jung told me: ‘HYPE is a productive asset.’ Not speculation. Not storage. When you stake it, you earn fees directly from network activity — no middleman, no diluted value.

I remember when he said: ‘It has no narrative space left.’ Bitcoin is digital gold; Ethereum is digital oil; HYPE… is digital breath.

The First Holder of Meaning

1 million HYPE tokens acquired from secondary markets — not OTC whales, not pump-and-dumps. We partnered with Anchorage for custody because we believed transparency matters more than returns. We didn’t build an app. We built a covenant — between code and conscience.

Is This Sustainable?

The question haunts me still: Is this salvation… or just liquidity for early whales? Hyunsu smiled and said: ‘If you participate without pretending to build, you still grow the ecosystem.’ We’re not hoarders. We’re gardeners.

The Visual Metaphor

Imagine a stethoscope tracing veins… but the blood is USD-stablecoin flowing through nodes that mint new value by burning fees—not extracting it, buying it back into the system until nothing remains but trust.’