Trading: The World’s Biggest Video Game
Our core belief is that trading is the world’s biggest video game. Millions of people log in to Hyperliquid, Robinhood, Coinbase, and other terminals every single day. We’re at an inflection point where any type of asset is becoming tradable. Ten years ago, the only instrument of leverage most people had access to was an option. Now, we have perps on almost anything — mindshare, memecoins, prediction markets, and much more coming online. Combine this with AI-driven displacement of traditional jobs, and you get a generation actively seeking alternative income streams. This is the underlying force pulling people into crypto. It creates a barbell in our generation and the next one.The Hypergambling Barbell
Recent data supports this barbell effect: Gen Z men with college degrees now have the same unemployment rate as non-graduates.
On the left, you have trades that are hard to automate — plumbers, electricians, manual labor. In the middle, a growing segment of displaced workers. White-collar jobs are being automated even faster than blue-collar. On the right, people building alternative income streams — trading, creating content, selling courses.
This dynamic has fueled explosive growth in platforms like Axiom, Hyperliquid, and pump.fun.