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Mantle’s Integration with HyperBridge

🔸 Mantle users can now bridge assets to trade on HyperCore or use them in apps on HyperEVM, opening up new opportunities.
@HyperliquidX is a top decentralized perps exchange on its own Layer 1, super fast with low fees.

🔸 Hyperbridge uses Layerzero's OFT standard; seamless asset movement without the wrapped token headaches.
By employing a burn-and-mint mechanism, the OFT standard ensures a unified supply of the token across all connected chains(e.g., @Mantle_Official ), simplifying the process for both users and developers.

🔸 Hyperbridge provided support for a specific set of assets, allowing users to immediately begin bridging.
It supports an initial set of tokens, including cmETH and COOK from Mantle.
Hyperbridge looks like a solid piece of infrastructure to funnel liquidity into a growing DEX.

🔸 Deposit now to trade, more assets coming soon.

- No first mover advantage
- Sector seemed dominated by established projects
- No VCs
- No paid KOLs
- Has few well-funded cex competitors that would like to see it go down
- TGE 6 months ago.

Now dominating the perp dex completely.

How did that happen?

what is happening?
stay safu everybody and do not click on links.

What is trending on CT lately?

Two things mainly:

(1) Hyperliquid
(2) Mindshare, Attention, Social, Marketing and corresponding projects.

Already a lot of fatigue around (2), which is doing more harm to the space than anything else.

But @_dexuai is aiming to change that with fresh, innovative approaches and give it a new direction.

Coming in Q3.

What is the crypto industry standard for what an "experiment" is?

genuinely curious.

The Hyperliquid maxis.

Which of these accounts do you think have the biggest contribution to HL?

The success of HL is having such a strong community while spending $0 on marketing.

Established accounts like @ThinkingUSD @Lamboland_ and @blknoiz06 writing a lot about it non stop, each from a different angle.

The Hyperliquid maxis.

Which of these accounts do you think have the biggest contribution to HL?

The success of HL is having such a strong community while spending $0 on marketing.

Established accounts like @ThinkingUSD @Lamboland_ and @blknoiz06 a lot writing about it non stop, each from a different angle.

Here is a hot take:
Mindshare is a vanity metric.

If you are a protocol, what you ultimately want is your north star metric going up. That's often more revenue.

For a dex, it translates to trading volume.
For lending/yield, it's TVL.

the main question nobody is paying attention to is if increased mindshare leads to increased adoption.

The meta is relatively new so protocols are fomoing into it but there is currently little evidence of this being effective for projects.

The main actors currently benefitting from the meta are the mindshare marketplaces and their snappers/yappers.

Yes the mindshare is pumping for projects but the problem is a conflict of interest:
the yappers are not power DeFi users. They just want to make some money by tweeting, without taking any risks. They might not even interact on-chain with the protocols they are writing about, and worst, they might not even have the right audience, which translates into no conversion.
But the increased mindshare narrative being pushed is hiding the real story. And we are already seeing divergences among mindshare marketplaces based on which projects they collaborate with ( btw another big conflict of interest)

So there is currently a gap between information (off-chain) and action (on-chain).

This gap provides an opportunity for better mechanisms and that's what we are working on at @_dexuai .

. @BungeeExchange v2, the Open Liquidity Marketplace powered by @SOCKETProtocol, is live

Here is why you should pay attention:

🔸 It's an easy way to swap any token on any chain, no gas fees, no MEV, just one click.

Bungee v1 was the very first bridge aggregator in crypto, handling $20B in volume, 12M+ swaps, and 3M+ users with integrations in MetaMask and Coinbase. But with everything getting tokenized and new chains popping up, they realized aggregation couldn't scale.
Enter Bungee v2’s OLM.

🔸 The OLM lets agents compete to get you the best swap rates from DEXs, bridges, or CEXs.
You pick what matters: speed, cost, or trust, and Bungee handles execution.
No gas fees, no MEV attacks like front-running, and no failed transactions.
Swap any token in your wallet to any token on any chain with one click and no need for native gas tokens. Trade from $10 to $10M with tiny fees.
You get full transparency and control, knowing exactly what’s happening with your assets.

How did Aave out-competed Compound by so much?

Aave TVL has gone parabolic since 2023 but Compound has the same TVL as 3 years ago.

The biggest issue I see with the new incentivized attention economy is you no longer know if people are sharing a genuine comment or just yapping to earn.

Before the incentivized actions were happening on-chain and CT was just organic thoughts which btw included both bullish and bearish posts.

This has made CT a much less interesting place for the top tier accounts.

We are working on some cool ideas to adresse these issues.

Stay tuned!

As a founder, you have to stay on top of trends and narratives in the market. All while building and dealing with internal company stuff.

We ourselves use @_dexuai TLDR feature on articles to have a quick summary of all CT articles.

Every single CT article in few bullet points that take max 30 seconds to read.

We even have a dedicated Slack channel that notifies us every time there is a new article making the job much easier for our research team.

Customized Slack/webhook alerts will btw be a feature for our users with Premium subs. coming in June.

Why is $SEND Suilend bouncing?

I've been focusing on narratives in the last years and one thing that is crystal clear to me is that Info-fi is going nowhere. It's not a short-term hype. Crypto needs it because the space has so much noise.

Dexu is quietly building a platform that will be at the center of the attention economy.
The vision is big and building it requires going beyond the hype the sector is currently getting.

Before, everybody was asking for token utility.

Today:
- announce a points program (working product optional. no revenue needed)
- do tge and airdrop
- price tanks. say "this is allowing believers to accumulate at lower price levels."

now you have a useless token, then announce:

- monthly burns
- stacking. veToken.
- buybacks
- dox some public wallets to show team is locked

- work with a good market maker that makes the chart look good.

all of a sudden, nobody will ask about token utility anymore.

genius.

Price <> Narrative <> Mindshare

The cause and effect is not always clear but every project needs at least one of them to pump.

Native tokens of different ecosystems.
HL eco up, Sui down (hack).

Only on @_dexuai , you could find trends that easily.

YTD performance of alts against BTC.

Only a handful of memecoins (toshi neiro fartcoin) and projects (syrup deep eul hype) have outperformed btc.

Do you think crypto funds are outperforming BTC in 2025?

Some of the rare alts outperforming BTC in the last 7d that fewer ppl are paying attention to:

- $MNDE
- $FRAX
- $SYRUP
- $GRASS
- $AAVE
- $KMNO
- $ANIME
- $EUL
- $PENDLE

Let the Social-Fi wars begin.

You are not ready for what is coming anon.