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Building the Complete DeFi Terminal: HypurrFi's Vision for Trading, Earning, and Spending on Hyperliquid HypurrFi is reshaping decentralized finance by creating an integrated ecosystem where traders can access lending, perpetuals trading, yield generation, and real-world spending, all without leaving the Hyperliquid chain. In this episode of GigaBrain Podcast, host Joao Simoes sits down with Andy and Kurt from HypurrFi to explore how the project is building a comprehensive financial terminal for active traders, why community feedback drives product innovation, and how real-world assets like Pokémon trading cards are tokenizing value on-chain.

Building the Terminal That TradFi Traders Actually Want: Inside Lit's vision for Hyperliquid Advanced traders have been waiting for a desktop terminal that combines professional-grade tools with on-chain infrastructure—and Lit is delivering exactly that by obsessively listening to what power users actually need. In this episode of Giga Brain, host Joao Simoes sits down with Osama, Co-founder of Lit Trade, to explore how a purpose-built trading terminal is transforming the Hyperliquid ecosystem. From drag-and-drop limit orders to multi-leg partial take profits, Lit is bringing TradFi sophistication to decentralized perpetuals—without forcing traders to care about blockchain complexity.

Mercury is Building the Mobile Gateway to Decentralized Finance—and It's Reshaping How Retail Traders Access DeFi In this episode of the GigaBrain podcast, host Joao Simoes sits down with Kyle Grange, founder of Mercury, to explore how a purpose-built mobile interface is democratizing access to Hyperliquid's infrastructure and what it means for the future of decentralized trading. Their conversation spans Mercury's product philosophy, the evolution of DeFi UX, market dynamics in a narrative-driven crypto landscape, and the strategic roadmap that positions Mercury as the bridge between retail traders and institutional-grade decentralized finance.

Building the Future of DeFi: How Nest is Creating Amplified Hype Exposure on Hyperliquid In this episode of the GigaBrain Podcast, host Joao Simoes sits down with Telaga, a former UK PhD cancer researcher turned crypto founder, and Esty, a DeFi maxi and growth strategist based in Thailand, to explore how Nest—a decentralized exchange and treasury protocol on Hyperliquid—is reshaping how users accumulate and compound exposure to one of crypto's most defensible assets: HYPE.

Building the Self-Custodial Trading Gateway: Why UX is DeFi's Final Frontier In this episode of GigaBrain, host Joao Simoes sits down with Russell Shen (CEO) and Shahab S. (Head of Marketing) from Dexari, a self-custodial mobile trading app powered by Hyperliquid, to explore why decentralized finance has finally reached a maturity inflection point—and how superior user experience is unlocking genuine mass adoption.