Hyperliquid Founder: The biggest challenge faced last year was server latency, and the team was forced to rewrite the system from the ground up.

Odaiy Coin World News Hyperliquid founder Jeff Yan and his team members recently gave a featured special interview to Colossos Magazine. In the interview, Jeff was asked what the biggest challenge they faced in 2025 was. He did not mention JellyJelly’s attack on JLP, and he did not name competitors or bodyguards; instead, he brought up API server issues. Throughout the summer, as Bitcoin broke through $100k, Hyperliquid’s monthly trading volume exceeded $400 billion, and the servers connecting market makers to the blockchain began to experience problems. With more and more institutions connecting, each one sending huge volumes of orders, cancellations, and update requests, the infrastructure responsible for transmitting this data could no longer keep up with the pace. Orders that were supposed to be executed instantly started to be delayed by up to 3 seconds. The blockchain itself never went down, and users’ funds remained safe at all times. But in a market where milliseconds decide the outcome, a 3-second delay is already a serious problem. Jeff said that over those weeks there was almost no normal sleep—he would fall asleep at 1:30 AM and be called awake at 3:00 AM because the system had issues again. In the end, the team rewrote the entire server system from the ground up. The new system endured the test during the later 1011 extreme market conditions. For more details, see “Jeff Yan’s ‘Hyper Life’”.