K三 凯|2月 06, 2026 09:58
Jeff, who fired a shot in 2018, finally heard the response
The winter of 2018 is as cold as this year's.
At that time, Bitcoin had just fallen from the altar of 20000 dollars, and the cryptocurrency faith was shattered.
In the dormitory of Harvard University, a young man named Jeff frantically typed code and started a market forecasting project called Deaux, which quickly died. The cause of death is simple: no one played.
Jeff certainly didn't expect that the trigger he pulled that night wasn't actually a dud. That bullet only flew in the air for a full eight years and only heard a sound today.
The time comes to February 2026.
The Jeff from back then, now the king of Hyperliquid, looked at the soaring Polymarket and suddenly remembered the unfinished project from back then.
So, the HIP-4 proposal was launched.
Why would Hyperliquid use Polymarket's cheese? This is inevitable. In the business world, there is never a well water that does not violate the river water.
Polymarket is strong and won the 2024 election narrative. But in the face of Hyperliquid, it has a fatal weakness: it is just an application, while Hyperliquid is the infrastructure.
Jeff's HIP-4, which stripped away those technologies, actually did one thing: adding a safety belt to gamblers.
In the past, when it came to predicting the market, the threshold was actually quite high. You have to go to Polymarket, endure the unsmooth interactions, and study those complex odds. For gamblers who are used to opening leverage on exchanges, this is too slow and not sexy.
Jeff's current strategy involves full collateral and no liquidation.
And Jeff is a chicken thief. Do you want to open a market in his territory? Pledge 1 million HYPE first.
The familiar feeling is here again, staking is staking again, an eternal encrypted staking.
We always look forward to a hundred flowers blooming, hoping that small yet beautiful innovations can overturn giants. But reality is often cold: the giant with the deepest order book and fastest speed can block the path of challengers with just a few fingers.
This is the Matthew Effect. Give to him what he has, that he may have surplus; No, even what he has to take away.
Jeff took eight years to start challenging the prediction market again, but he is no longer the young man he was eight years ago. @chameleon_jeff @iliensinc
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