The year is 20XX. Everyone trades Hyperliquid perps at API levels of perfection. Because of this, the winner of a trade depends solely on RPC ping. The server colocation metagame has evolved to ridiculous levels due to it being the only remaining factor to decide fills. DeFi has reached its pinnacle. The manual UI clickers are living in poverty. It seems nothing can stop the great leader of 20XX, Jeff, and his army, the Quant monks who live in great server farms where they levitate while optimizing Rust with one hand, and farming points with the other. The orderbook metagame has gotten to this point where every arbitrage is played out to theoretical perfection, so market makers play Rock Paper Scissors for validator proximity, and that’s the market.
