Everyone knows Hypurr.
Hyperliquid is one of the biggest stories in crypto. Billions in volume, the airdrop everyone talks about, a cat on every banner.
Almost nobody knows what's underneath. Keep going.
They sold on top.
Valantis acquires stHYPE, the liquid staking token Thunderhead built for HYPE. Over $200M was staked in it.
Thunderhead's own sign-off: 4.5 years, a young team, zero outside capital, over $10M in revenue. No token. Ever.
HYPE launches.
The biggest airdrop crypto has seen. Hyperliquid goes from a trader's secret to a household name overnight.
The signature comes off.
A single commit titled "Remove footer (#36)" takes Thunderhead's credit off Hyperliquid's stats page. One line deleted.
app/page.tsx <Header /> <Main /> - <Footer />commit 0ac3e3c on GitHub
stHYPE.
Thunderhead announces liquid staking for HYPE, with Nansen, Figment and Chorus One running stake behind it. It becomes the OG LST on Hyperliquid.
Built By Thunderhead.
The stats frontend gets its first commit. In the box: a footer crediting Thunderhead, a license in their name and their logo saved as an image file.
LICENSE MIT License Copyright (c) 2023 Thunderhead components/common/footer/index.tsx <Flex as='a' href='https://thunderhead.world'> Built By <Image alt='Thunderhead' src='/img/logo.png' /> </Flex>footer/index.tsx on GitHub
First line of code.
Thunderhead starts the backend that powers Hyperliquid's stats: volume, users, open interest, liquidations, HLP. A year and a half before the airdrop, when almost nobody was watching.
$ git log --reverse --format="%ad %s" --date=short
2023-05-21 Implemented dataprocessing script
hyperliquid-stats on GitHub
Still there.
Committed June 26, 2023. Never deleted. This exact file is the $THUNDER logo.
Hyperliquid kept the logo. Thunderhead never made a token. So the community dug it up. No team allocation, no roadmap, just the signature that was there first.