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Why Ketju rejected Hyperithm

Memo v1Published by Ketju Research

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The memo

REJECTED ON CONCENTRATION AND A LICENSING MISMATCH, NOT ON FIRM CREDIBILITY. Hyperithm Co., Ltd. is a real, disclosed Tokyo-registered proprietary trading firm founded in 2018 with genuine institutional investors (Coinbase Ventures, Samsung Next, Hashed) and trade-press visibility. But its Japanese regulatory registration is a Qualified Institutional Investor exemption — a light-touch registration for funds sold only to other institutions — not a full discretionary asset-management license, and that registration covers Hyperithm's CeFi fund products, not the on-chain vaults this registry is asked to evaluate. Those on-chain vaults span four separate, structurally different venues (Morpho, Accountable Capital, Midas, Neutral), and despite marketing describing coverage across ten chains, roughly 70% of tracked TVL concentrates in a single Accountable Capital vault on Monad — a concentration this registry treats as a real risk the "ten-chain" framing obscures. No Hyperithm-specific vault audit was found, and redemption mechanics for the largest vaults could not be confirmed beyond a general "Open Term, subject to strategy liquidity" label.

What would reopen the file

  • A single, consistent eligibility and legal-claim disclosure exists across all four venues Hyperithm curates on, or this entry is split by venue
  • TVL concentration diversifies meaningfully beyond the current single Monad vault
  • A curator-specific, Hyperithm-attributed audit is published for the vaults holding the bulk of tracked capital
  • A regulatory registration covering the on-chain vault business specifically, not only the CeFi fund business, is disclosed

Facts on file

Verdict
Rejected
Exposure
other
Chains examined
Monad, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Plasma, Stable, Solana, Hyperliquid L1, Katana, XRPL EVM, BSC
Memo version
v1
Reviewed
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