# Why Ketju rejected Hyperithm

- URL: https://riadefi.com/rejections/hyperithm/
- Exposure: other
- Memo version: v1
- Reviewed: 2026-08-19
- Next review: 2026-11-19

## 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

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