Why Hyperliquid Is the "Gold Standard" with Blocmates' Grant | REKT Vision

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
It's heating up here in NYC, which means summer is almost upon us. It also means it's nearly time for my summer vacation. And this year, I don't have to stress about my finances because I know they are better organized and I can enjoy myself without worry. Monarch is the personal finance app that tracks everything. It counts, investments, saving goals, and spending. Get your first year of Monarch Core for just half off, just $50 with promo code REALVISION. Indeed, without Monarch, I don't think my upcoming vacation would be stress-free. Because now I know and I can see my finances all in one place. Not only that, with their unique features, I know my portfolio is outpacing the S&P 500 But my favorite thing about the Monarch app is their AI insights, which help me understand, am I spending more or is it just inflation? Use code REALVISION at monarch.com to get your first year of Monarch Core half off at just $50.
That's 50% off your first year at monarch.com with code REALVISION. It's heating up here in NYC, which means summer is almost upon us. It also means it's nearly time for my summer vacation. And this year, I don't have to stress about my finances because I know they are better organized and I can enjoy myself without worry. Monarch is the personal finance app that tracks everything. Accounts, investments, saving goals, and spending. Get your first year of Monarch Core for just half off, just $50 with promo code REALVISION. Indeed, without Monarch, I don't think my upcoming vacation would be stress-free, because now I know and I can see my finances all in one place. Not only that, with their unique features, I know my portfolio is outpacing the S&P 500 But my favorite thing about the Monarch app is their AI Insights, which help me understand, am I spending more or is it just inflation? Use code realvision at monarch.com to get your first year of Monarch Core half off at just $50.
That's 50% off your first year at monarch.com with code realvision.

**Bijan Maleki** (2:12)
Happy Friday, everyone, and welcome to REKT Vision. I'm Bijan Maleki, filling in for Mando. And today, we have a great conversation for you. We're joined by Grant from Blockmates to talk about just a bunch of things. Hyperliquid, we're gonna talk privacy coins, AI agents, human longevity, and just so much more. Grant, thanks for joining us. How you doing today?

**Grant** (2:37)
All good, all good. This is a great way to wrap up the Friday here in Europe. Yeah, thanks for having us on.

**Bijan Maleki** (2:43)
Yeah, well, thanks for joining us. I guess before we get into it, let's talk a little bit about Blockmates, because you guys are doing some pretty cool things. You've been on REKT Vision before, so why don't we just, where are you guys at these days? Any new cool updates? I think you were at Cannes Film Festival, if I'm not mistaken.
Tell us a little bit about what's going on with you guys.

**Grant** (3:06)
Yeah.
Well, first of all, I apologize to anyone who's looking at the site because the new site should go live in a few weeks. But primarily, we're just kicking on, doing the same old stuff. We're covering what's happening at the forefront of this industry, what's happening in the AI, and just trying to present the most interesting teams and opportunities for people. It's quite in the weeds, but it's all positioned to be understandable to the average person on the street, you know? But it would like to present as early opportunities as physically possible to people, and then hopefully, as I was mentioning before we went on air, we don't have to buy a drink every time we go to a bar or a conference.

**Bijan Maleki** (3:42)
Yeah, no, absolutely. So like one thing I wanted to just ask you about, because you guys are so your tagline basically on Blocmates is you're the basically new frontier for digital media, right? And what is like because you are you're just an operator in this space. You're someone who's been here early, you know, making just great, giving great insights and just valuable information. So how do you think about like media in this like crazy Web 3 and social media landscape?

**Grant** (4:09)
I think like so being completely candid, I really started to panic when I started to see the early iterations of AI come around. And then we had a few freelancers that were quite obviously using it. And those articles never made it like they like to do.
And then things started like progressing and I started getting less and less worried about the kind of media landscape because I feel like anyone who's got a little bit of charisma, a little bit of personality, I think a little bit of taste, a little bit of opinion I think matters more now than ever. I think whilst everyone else is over there just trying to commoditize all content, it just becomes a race to the bottom. This AI slop fest just becomes so repulsive to the average person. You can kind of spot it and have a sixth sense that you're reading something that's slop. Someone said, slop is when it would take less time to create the thing than it does to actually consume it. And I really, really prescribed to that. And I think the way that media is actually going is, you've seen a lot of media fall off a cliff at the minute, a lot of media pivot, but I really, really think now media couldn't be in a better position, particularly in this dawn of AI. Like you're looking at DBPN being acquired by OpenAI, they know distribution, they know credibility, they know reputation can't just be immediately created by any AI model and they need to be able to purchase that and need to be able to buy into that. So I was concerned. I'm increasingly bullish on media as a business vertical now, but things are changing every single day. But yeah, just looking at the landscape, I'm very, very optimistic about where we're going.