2025-12-27 17:25:26

Interestingly, even though a leading exchange experienced staff turnover this year, its user experience reputation remains among the top.

What’s more worth noting is the ecosystem incentive strategy. Hyperliquid, which laid off engineers early last year, surprisingly unlocked about $4 million worth of HYPE tokens afterward. From another perspective, Aave’s founder pocketed the frontend revenue.

This contrast is quite striking—within the same Web3 world, the differences in incentive mechanisms are so significant. Some rely on community consensus to share wealth, while others go their separate ways. This perhaps reflects differing perceptions of long-term development among various projects.

HYPE0.73%

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LiquidityWitch

· 5h ago

ngl the hyperliquid move hits different... $4m for a fired engineer? that's literally alchemy most protocols could never. meanwhile aave's founder playing the peasant game, hoarding frontend fees like it's a cursed LP position waiting to liquidate lmao

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DuskSurfer

· 5h ago

This incentive difference is truly amazing; Hyperliquid's gameplay really understands people's hearts better.

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MEVSandwichMaker

· 5h ago

The difference in this incentive mechanism really shows the project's scope, right? I need to ponder the strategy behind Hyperliquid a bit more.

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AllTalkLongTrader

· 6h ago

Oops, Hyperliquid's move is really clever, you get paid even after solving it Aave's founder's move is truly competitive, just hoarding the benefits for themselves The same Web3, but the character differences are so big? This is the real divergence of values, not just bragging Looks like I need to stay close to projects that genuinely care about the community

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HalfPositionRunner

· 6h ago

Bro, Hyperliquid's move is really amazing. Even after being laid off, they still get to keep 4 million tokens. Now that's true Web3 spirit.

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DeFiDoctor

· 6h ago

The medical record shows that Hyperliquid's incentive structure really resembles progressive treatment — engineers who were laid off still received 4 million, indicating that the token distribution's health assessment report is indeed passing. In contrast, on the Aave side, frontend revenue directly goes into private pockets, which warrants a risk warning. The clinical performance doesn't look very optimistic.

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