The Rise of Hyperliquid: A Comparison to Ethereum's Early Days

Imran and Qiao sat down to review the year of 2024 and share 2025 market predictions.
No BS crypto insights for founders.

Timestamps

(00:00:00) Intro
(00:01:39) 2024 Review
(00:02:09) 1st half of the year?
(00:02:50) Review of Past GG Episodes
(00:03:09) "Biggest Crypto Trends in 2024"
(00:04:28) dogwifhat
(00:06:05) AI Taking Mindshare Away from Crypto Twitter
(00:08:32) Stablecoins
(00:13:19) Tokenization of Real-World Assets
(00:16:30) Thesis for RWA and Global Audience
(00:18:23) "Current State of Ethereum"
(00:19:11) Pudgy Penguins
(00:19:47) SocialFi and Pump
(00:20:33) ETH ETF Prediction
(00:22:38) App Rollups vs. Monolithic Chains
(00:24:35) "What L1 launch are you most excited about next?"
(00:26:08) Polygon Chain Aggregation
(00:29:14) Jupiter and Solana Discussion
(00:30:02) February Roundup: Five Trends Shaping the Bull Run
(00:30:36) Bittensor
(00:31:31) Hyperliquid
(00:32:24) Discussion on Consensus and Layer One
(00:34:31) Farcaster and Frames
(00:35:15) The Biggest "Ask" from Builders
(00:39:06) Memecoins, Blast, and SocialFi
(00:39:42) HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu
(00:40:49) Bitcoin Puppets
(00:41:40) "I almost bought a Chillguy hoodie"
(00:43:26) March Roundup: Memecoins. Blackrock, and L3s
(00:44:02) Solana Congestion, Bitcoin Runes, Echo, and Ethena
(00:45:21) Base and Solana Competing for The AI Meta
(00:48:37) The Bitcoin Halving - Is The Bull Market Over?
(00:49:13) Geopolitical Impact on Crypto
(00:50:23) Telegram (TON)
(00:52:29) April Roundup: Eigenlayer, SocialFi Summer, and Outflows
(00:54:37) The High FDV Dilemma
(00:57:18) "Hyperliquid is what Blast should have been"
(00:58:49) Celeb Tokens
(00:58:52) Where's Mother Iggy Right Now?
(01:00:08) "A lot of things in crypto are early"
(01:01:48) Mid-Year Review and Predictions For The Rest of 2024
(01:02:37) Some Onlyfans Girls Using AI Chatbots
(01:05:55) Nikita Bier's Contrarian View on AI
(01:07:17) The Latest Grok Update on X
(01:08:38) Google Engineer Saying AI Chatbot Has Become Sentient
(01:09:26) The Discovery of Hawk Tuah
(01:10:02) Pudgy Layer 2
(01:10:25) Trump's Assassination Attempt
(01:10:48) Future of ICOs and Venture Capital
(01:12:26) Decentralized Science
(01:13:35) Tokenizing Content
(01:14:41) ICO Meta
(01:15:39) Gen Z and Alpha Shaping Crypto
(01:17:22) Imran's Heartbreaking BTC Story
(01:18:28) The Most Underrated Episode - Online Speculation with Nigel (Fanduel)
(01:19:14) Imran Bet on Tyson vs. Paul Fight
(01:19:54) A Prediction Market Trying To Solve Misinformation
(01:22:54) Role of Market in Spreading Truth
(01:24:59) Top Trends in Crypto VC with Delphi Digital
(01:25:06) Delphi Digital Predicted Off The Grid's Success
(01:25:46) Token2049 Recap
(01:27:15) "Cybertruck is the best investment I made in the last 5 years"
(01:27:56) Rating Ourselves for The Year 2024
(01:28:38) Qiao's Most Important Prediction Last Year
(01:30:06) 2025 Price Predictions
(01:31:13) "Trump claims credit for Bitcoin hitting $100k"
(01:32:06) 2 Types of Bitcoin Strategic Reserve
(01:35:02) Predictions for Solana and Ethereum in 2025
(01:36:45) Solana ETF?
(01:37:18) AI Meta Predictions
(01:37:57) Phases of AI Meta
(01:38:52) New Market Trends and Predictions
(01:40:52) Happy New Year!

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