Forward Guidance's Felix Jauvin interviews former Barclays CEO Bob Diamond’s big bet on Hyperliquid’s explosive growth.

Forward Guidance host Felix Jauvin features former Barclays CEO Bob Diamond and Atlas Merchant Capital co‑founder David Schamis to discuss their major investment in Hyperliquid, a rapidly growing on‑chain derivatives exchange, and why they view it as a transformative bet in digital asset market structure. The interview explores how Diamond, a prominent figure from traditional finance who led Barclays during its expansion into a global investment bank, is now allocating capital and strategic focus to crypto market infrastructure through Hyperliquid Strategies, a vehicle set up to invest in and build around the Hyperliquid ecosystem. In the conversation, Diamond and Schamis outline what they see as Hyperliquid’s key advantages: fully on‑chain perpetual futures, very low fees, high throughput, and a matching engine designed to compete with centralized exchanges, all built on Arbitrum and positioned as a venue for both retail and institutional traders. They also discuss the role of the HYPE token within the ecosystem, their view that Hyperliquid is significantly undervalued relative to its trading volumes and growth, and how their experience in banking and market structure informs their thesis on where decentralized exchanges and real‑world asset (RWA) trading are headed. For market observers, the episode is notable because it illustrates how legacy finance executives are increasingly making concentrated, high‑conviction bets on specific DeFi protocols rather than broad crypto exposure, signaling a maturing interface between traditional capital and emergent on‑chain trading venues.

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