About Hyperion DeFi
Hyperion DeFi, Inc. is the first U.S. publicly listed company building a long-term strategic treasury of Hyperliquid’s native token, HYPE. The Company is focused on providing its shareholders with simplified access to the Hyperliquid ecosystem, one of the fastest-growing, highest revenue-generating blockchains in the world. Shareholders benefit from a gradually compounding exposure to HYPE, both from its native staking yield and additional revenues generated from its unique on-chain utility.
Understanding the Hyperliquid Ecosystem In Relation to Hyperion DeFi
What is Hyperliquid?
Hyperliquid is a blockchain designed to upgrade the existing financial system. Just as electronic trading dramatically improved markets in the 2000s, Hyperliquid offers an opportunity for a massive technical upgrade of the existing financial system through a transparent, open, and performant blockchain.
Hyperliquid is best known for perpetual futures1 and spot trading, which drives billions in daily volume. >$1B in annualized fees go toward programmatically buying back the HYPE token. HYPE is used to secure the network, pay for network costs, provide trading fee discounts, and more.
In the same way that AWS provides the cloud infrastructure for developers to build on the internet, Hyperliquid provides the liquidity infrastructure for developers to build financial applications. Independent teams using Hyperliquid’s liquidity infrastructure (e.g., mobile apps, trading terminals, self-custodial wallets) have generated >$45M in revenue through builder codes, which monetize user activity2. The ecosystem extends beyond trading, supporting borrowing, lending, minting compliant stablecoins, and launching perpetual contracts on any asset.
Hyperliquid modernizes market structure through:
- Transparency: All transactions are recorded on a public ledger, meaning anyone can view and verify them in real-time.
- Open access: Anyone can use and build applications without centralized gatekeepers.
- Resilience: A permissionless set of independent validators secure the network.
- Performance: Up to 200,000 transactions per second can be processed.
Core development is led by Hyperliquid Labs, with multiple teams contributing to the blockchain and ecosystem. Development has been fully self-funded, with no VCs or external capital. Hyperliquid’s vision is to be the credibly neutral infrastructure for finance; building from a clean slate is a prerequisite for that neutrality.
When Hyperion Meets Hyperliquid
Hyperion DeFi engages with the Hyperliquid ecosystem as a participant rather than as an operator or controlling entity. The company’s strategy centers on aligning a portion of its balance sheet and activities with decentralized finance infrastructure by maintaining digital asset exposure related to the Hyperliquid network. This approach allows Hyperion DeFi to participate in the growth and usage of blockchain-based trading infrastructure without building or managing a proprietary protocol.
Through this structure, Hyperion DeFi provides public-market access to decentralized finance participation via a NASDAQ-listed equity. Investors gain indirect exposure to ecosystem activity without the need for direct token custody, on-chain transactions, or wallet management. Hyperion DeFi’s role is best described as strategic ecosystem participation, operating within traditional public-company reporting and regulatory frameworks while engaging with decentralized infrastructure.
Meet the Hyperion DeFi Management Team
Hyunsu Jung: Chief Executive Officer
Hyunsu Jung, age 29, has served as the Company’s Chief Investment Officer and as a Director since June 2025. Prior to that, from June 2021 to June 2025, he was a Portfolio Manager at DARMA Capital, an $1B+ asset manager registered with the CFTC and NFA. Previously, he was a Consultant at EY-Parthenon from October 2018 to June 2021, where he drove Finance and Digital Transformation for major enterprise M&A deals. Mr. Jung earned his B.A. from Vassar College in 2018.
David Knox | Chief Financial Officer
David Knox brings with him extensive expertise in scaling capital markets strategies and financial services businesses. He joins Hyperion DeFi from PayPal, where he served as Head of Capital Markets and Head of Finance for Global Credit and Financial Services. In his dual role at PayPal, he led the profitable expansion of the company’s lending segments under a “balance sheet light” strategic imperative and managed core FP&A responsibilities with rigorous governance and reporting across the PayPal and Venmo global financial services platforms.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Knox was Director at Cantor Fitzgerald, where he provided capital markets structuring and advisory services across mortgage-backed and asset-backed finance transactions. He also held prior roles in lending and capital markets at SoFi, Hudson Advisors, and the Royal Bank of Scotland. Mr. Knox holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Connecticut and is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School.
Enrico Brambilla: VP, Device R&D and Engineering
Enrico Brambilla joined Eyenovia in April 2023 as VP of Product Research and Development. Over the past four years, Enrico served as VP of R&D and Manufacturing at Equinox Ophthalmic. Prior to that, Enrico was Lead Engineer at Breathe Technologies for eight years. Enrico started his engineering career at Electrolux Home Products in Europe prior to moving to ResMed Australia in 2006. He has led product development activities for numerous medical devices, ranging from concept creation, through FDA clearance/approval, and market launch. In addition, he is the holder of numerous international patents
NORBERT LOWE: SVP, COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS
Mr. Lowe was appointed the Company’s Vice President of Commercial Operations in June of 2021. He brings more than 25 years of executive sales and marketing leadership in pharmaceutical, device and capital equipment sales, clinical applications, and business development at Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Carl Zeiss Meditec, AcuFocus, Boston Scientific, and INSPIRE Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Most recently he was the Director of U.S. Sales, followed by Director of Marketing, and executed corporate strategic initiatives as well as strategic planning for the company’s worldwide glaucoma and ocular hypertension franchise.
Mr. Lowe has led multiple commercial launches with novel technologies for the treatment of presbyopia, glaucoma, dry eye, bacterial conjunctivitis, and myopia. He has a proven track record of success in strategic franchise growth, specializing in securing products in the marketplace, and building high performing sales teams in start-up environments.
Mr. Lowe holds a B.Sc. degree in Psychology and Economics from the University of California, Irvine.
Sources
- https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HYPD/
- https://hyperiondefi.com/
- https://hyperliquid.gitbook.io/hyperliquid-docs/
- https://ir.hyperiondefi.com/news-releases/news-release-details/hyperion-defi-announces-receipt-kinetiq-airdrop-partnership/
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