Hyperion DeFi to Host Corporate Update Event to Discuss Strategic Evolution from Eyenovia and the Future of On-Chain Finance on July 29, 2025
Hyperion DeFi (NASDAQ: HYPD) announced a corporate update event scheduled for July 29, 2025, at 2:00 PM ET. The event will feature CIO Hyunsu Jung and CEO Michael Rowe discussing the company's strategic transformation from a digital ophthalmic tech company to a DeFi-focused enterprise.
The presentation will highlight the company's accumulation of over 1.4 million HYPE tokens and its partnership with Kinetiq for validator operations on the Hyperliquid blockchain. Management will explain their crypto treasury model strategy, focusing on generating yield through staking, ecosystem engagement, and development of proprietary financial products, while maintaining development of the Optejet device.
Hyperion DeFi (NASDAQ: HYPD) ha annunciato un evento di aggiornamento aziendale previsto per il 29 luglio 2025 alle 14:00 ET. Durante l'evento, il CIO Hyunsu Jung e il CEO Michael Rowe discuteranno la trasformazione strategica dell'azienda, che da impresa tecnologica digitale oftalmica si sta evolvendo in un'impresa focalizzata sulla DeFi.
La presentazione metterà in evidenza l'accumulo da parte dell'azienda di oltre 1,4 milioni di token HYPE e la partnership con Kinetiq per le operazioni di validazione sulla blockchain Hyperliquid. Il management illustrerà la strategia del modello di tesoreria crypto, concentrandosi sulla generazione di rendimenti tramite staking, coinvolgimento nell'ecosistema e sviluppo di prodotti finanziari proprietari, mantenendo al contempo lo sviluppo del dispositivo Optejet.
Hyperion DeFi (NASDAQ: HYPD) anunció un evento de actualización corporativa programado para el 29 de julio de 2025 a las 2:00 PM ET. En el evento, el CIO Hyunsu Jung y el CEO Michael Rowe discutirán la transformación estratégica de la compañía, que pasa de ser una empresa tecnológica oftálmica digital a una empresa enfocada en DeFi.
La presentación destacará la acumulación por parte de la empresa de más de 1.4 millones de tokens HYPE y su asociación con Kinetiq para operaciones de validación en la blockchain Hyperliquid. La dirección explicará su estrategia del modelo de tesorería cripto, enfocándose en generar rendimientos mediante staking, participación en el ecosistema y desarrollo de productos financieros propios, mientras mantienen el desarrollo del dispositivo Optejet.
Hyperion DeFi (NASDAQ: HYPD)는 2025년 7월 29일 오후 2시(동부시간)에 기업 업데이트 이벤트를 개최할 예정이라고 발표했습니다. 이번 행사에서는 CIO Hyunsu Jung과 CEO Michael Rowe가 디지털 안과 기술 회사에서 DeFi 중심 기업으로의 전략적 전환에 대해 논의할 예정입니다.
발표에서는 회사가 140만 개 이상의 HYPE 토큰을 보유하고 있으며, Hyperliquid 블록체인에서 검증자 운영을 위해 Kinetiq와 파트너십을 맺은 사실을 강조할 것입니다. 경영진은 스테이킹, 생태계 참여, 독자적인 금융 상품 개발을 통한 수익 창출에 중점을 둔 암호화폐 재무 모델 전략을 설명하며, Optejet 장치 개발도 계속 유지할 것임을 밝힐 예정입니다.
Hyperion DeFi (NASDAQ : HYPD) a annoncé un événement de mise à jour d'entreprise prévu pour le 29 juillet 2025 à 14h00 ET. Lors de cet événement, le CIO Hyunsu Jung et le CEO Michael Rowe discuteront de la transformation stratégique de l'entreprise, qui passe d'une société technologique ophtalmique numérique à une entreprise axée sur la DeFi.
La présentation mettra en avant l'accumulation par l'entreprise de plus de 1,4 million de tokens HYPE ainsi que son partenariat avec Kinetiq pour les opérations de validateurs sur la blockchain Hyperliquid. La direction expliquera leur stratégie de modèle de trésorerie crypto, en se concentrant sur la génération de rendement via le staking, l'engagement dans l'écosystème et le développement de produits financiers propriétaires, tout en maintenant le développement du dispositif Optejet.
Hyperion DeFi (NASDAQ: HYPD) kündigte ein Unternehmensupdate-Event an, das für den 29. Juli 2025 um 14:00 Uhr ET geplant ist. Bei der Veranstaltung werden CIO Hyunsu Jung und CEO Michael Rowe die strategische Transformation des Unternehmens von einem digitalen ophthalmologischen Technologieunternehmen zu einem DeFi-fokussierten Unternehmen erläutern.
Die Präsentation wird die Ansammlung von über 1,4 Millionen HYPE-Token durch das Unternehmen sowie die Partnerschaft mit Kinetiq für Validator-Operationen auf der Hyperliquid-Blockchain hervorheben. Das Management wird ihre Strategie des Krypto-Treasury-Modells erläutern, die sich auf die Erzielung von Erträgen durch Staking, Ökosystembeteiligung und die Entwicklung proprietärer Finanzprodukte konzentriert, während die Entwicklung des Optejet-Geräts fortgesetzt wird.
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Hyperion's radical pivot from ophthalmology to blockchain represents a high-risk strategic transformation with uncertain implications for existing shareholders.
Hyperion DeFi's announced corporate update signals a dramatic business model transformation from a digital ophthalmic technology company to what appears to be a crypto treasury management operation focused on the Hyperliquid blockchain. This represents an extraordinary strategic pivot that fundamentally alters the company's risk profile and business operations.
The company has already accumulated over 1.4 million HYPE tokens and launched a validator operation with Kinetiq, indicating this transition has been underway for some time before this public announcement. While this positions them as potentially the first publicly-listed U.S. company focused specifically on a DeFi treasury model, it raises significant questions about the company's core competencies and ability to execute in this radically different sector.
The press release indicates they're pursuing a dual strategy - building a crypto treasury while simultaneously "continuing work towards the completion of the development and sale of the Optejet device." This hybrid approach suggests either a gradual transition or hedging against the risks of an abrupt pivot.
From a shareholder perspective, this transformation essentially converts HYPD from a biotech investment to a proxy for the Hyperliquid ecosystem and HYPE token performance. This fundamentally changes the investment thesis, risk profile, and potential return characteristics that existing shareholders originally bought into. The success of this pivot will depend heavily on both management's capability in the DeFi space and the performance of the Hyperliquid blockchain itself - both representing significant unknowns.
This strategic pivot introduces substantial regulatory and compliance considerations that investors should monitor closely. As the first publicly-listed U.S. firm reportedly focusing on building a DeFi treasury, Hyperion is entering relatively uncharted regulatory territory with significant oversight risks.
The SEC has demonstrated increasing scrutiny toward crypto-related public companies, particularly those holding large token positions. Hyperion's 1.4 million HYPE tokens could potentially be classified as securities under evolving regulatory frameworks, creating compliance complexities and potential reporting requirements that differ substantially from their previous biotech operations.
The announcement indicates a dual-focus strategy - maintaining development of their Optejet device while building DeFi operations. This suggests management recognizes the regulatory uncertainties in their new direction. However, questions remain about capital allocation priorities between these distinctly different business segments and whether resources will be diverted from completing the Optejet development.
For institutional investors, this transformation creates unique due diligence challenges around token custody, security protocols, and regulatory compliance frameworks that were not relevant to Hyperion's previous business model. The upcoming corporate update will likely need to address these concerns to maintain institutional shareholder confidence.
This announcement represents a profound identity shift that necessitates investors completely reassessing the company's risk profile, regulatory exposure, and growth trajectory against a backdrop of evolving regulatory frameworks for public companies operating in decentralized finance.
LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., July 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hyperion DeFi, Inc. (NASDAQ: HYPD) (“Hyperion DeFi” or the “Company”), today announced that it will host a special corporate update event on Tuesday, July 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM ET with CIO Hyunsu Jung and CEO Michael Rowe, to discuss the Company's bold transformation from a digital ophthalmic tech company into the first publicly-listed U.S. firm focused on building a strategic treasury around HYPE, the native token of the high-performance Hyperliquid blockchain.
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The event will provide a first look at how Hyperion DeFi is using blockchain-native assets like HYPE to build scalable, yield-generating products and support the growth of the Hyperliquid ecosystem, blending the benefits of a regulated public company with opportunities only available through decentralized finance.
Featured topics will include:
- The reasoning behind the move from biopharmaceutical research to decentralized finance.
- Why Hyperion DeFi believes Hyperliquid is the future of decentralized finance.
- How Hyperion DeFi accumulated over 1.4 million HYPE tokens and launched a co-branded validator with Kinetiq to generate yield and help secure the Hyperliquid network.
- The investment thesis behind using a crypto treasury model to drive long-term shareholder value, providing retail and institutional investors secure, custodied exposure to various on-chain strategies.
- How the strategy creates compounding value through staking revenues, ecosystem engagement, and development of proprietary financial products while continuing work towards the completion of the development and sale of the Optejet device.
A live question and answer session will follow the formal presentations.
About the Hyperliquid Platform and the HYPE Token
Hyperliquid is a layer one blockchain (L1) optimized from the ground up for high frequency, transparent trading. The blockchain includes fully onchain perpetual futures and spot order books, with every order, cancel, trade, and liquidation occurring within 70 millisecond block times. It also hosts the HyperEVM, a general-purpose smart contract platform that, like Ethereum, supports permissionless decentralized financial applications.
HYPE is the native token of Hyperliquid. Staked HYPE in particular provides utility for users via reduced trading fees and increased referral bonuses. Circulating HYPE is autonomously purchased and sequestered by the blockchain itself with the trading fees generated on the network’s order books. As of June 2025, more than 25 million HYPE has been sequestered by this mechanism, and the token has become the 12th-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.
About Hyperion DeFi, Inc.
Hyperion DeFi, Inc. is the first U.S. publicly listed company building a long-term strategic treasury of Hyperliquid’s native token, HYPE. The Company is focused on providing its shareholders with simplified access to the Hyperliquid ecosystem, one of the fastest growing, highest revenue-generating blockchains in the world. Shareholders benefit from a gradually compounding exposure to HYPE, both from its native staking yield and additional revenues generated from its unique on-chain utility.
Hyperion DeFi is also developing its proprietary Optejet User Filled Device (UFD) that is designed to work with a variety of topical ophthalmic liquids, including artificial tears and lens rewetting products. The Optejet is especially useful in chronic front-of-the-eye diseases due to its ease of use, enhanced safety and tolerability, and potential for superior compliance versus standard eye drops. Together, these benefits may result in higher treatment compliance and better outcomes for patients and providers.
For more information, please visit Hyperiondefi.com.
Forward Looking Statements
Except for historical information, all the statements, expectations and assumptions contained in this press release are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements that express our intentions, beliefs, expectations, strategies, predictions or any other statements, our future activities or other future events or conditions, including the estimated market opportunities for our platform technology, the viability of, and risks associated with, our cryptocurrency treasury strategy, the clinical trials that may be necessary in connection with the clearance of the Optejet UFD, and the timing for sales growth of our approved products. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about our business based, in part, on assumptions made by management. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may, and in some cases are likely to, differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in the forward-looking statements due to numerous factors discussed from time to time in documents which we file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
In addition, such statements could be affected by risks and uncertainties related to, among other things: risks of our clinical trials, including, but not limited to, the potential advantages of our products, and platform technology; the rate and degree of market acceptance and clinical utility of our products; our estimates regarding the potential market opportunity for our products; reliance on third parties to develop and commercialize our products; the ability of us and our partners to timely develop, implement and maintain manufacturing, commercialization and marketing capabilities and strategies for our products; intellectual property risks; changes in legal, regulatory, legislative and geopolitical environments in the markets in which we operate and the impact of these changes on our ability to obtain regulatory approval for our products and product candidates; our competitive position; our ability to raise additional funds to maintain our business operations and to make payments on our debt obligations as and when necessary; and the risks of our cryptocurrency strategy as detailed in our Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 27, 2025.
Any forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and except as may be required under applicable securities laws, Hyperion DeFi does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
Hyperion DeFi, Inc. Investor Contact:
Eric Ribner
LifeSci Advisors, LLC
eric@lifesciadvisors.com
(646) 751-4363
