Crypto is quietly the most profitable business on Earth.
By Maxime Laurent · 2026-01-29 08:34
Crypto is quietly the most profitable business on Earth.
Three of the top ten revenue-efficient companies globally now come straight from crypto.
Let that sink in for a second. Among the world’s most efficient companies by revenue, three are crypto-native.
At number one: Hyperliquid.
Over $800M generated last year… with fewer than 15 employees. That’s not leverage — that’s a different species of business.
Second place goes to Tether. No surprises here. Stablecoins are basically the toll roads of crypto, and Tether owns the highway.
Fifth? Pump.fun. Yes, memes. Chaos. Degens. Still printing money at a scale most traditional startups can’t even imagine.
This is what people outside crypto still don’t grasp. Crypto companies don’t scale like normal companies. No massive HR departments. No skyscrapers. No middle management layers. Just code, liquidity, and global demand running 24/7.
Is it fragile? Sometimes. Cyclical? Absolutely.
But profitable? Brutally so.
When a 15-person team can out-earn corporate empires, you’re not looking at a bubble — you’re looking at a structural shift. And TradFi is still trying to understand the spreadsheet.
Ça pique un peu.
#crypto #Hyperliquid #Tether #PumpFun #business #efficiency #DeFi #CryptoFriture
Three of the top ten revenue-efficient companies globally now come straight from crypto.
Let that sink in for a second. Among the world’s most efficient companies by revenue, three are crypto-native.
At number one: Hyperliquid.
Over $800M generated last year… with fewer than 15 employees. That’s not leverage — that’s a different species of business.
Second place goes to Tether. No surprises here. Stablecoins are basically the toll roads of crypto, and Tether owns the highway.
Fifth? Pump.fun. Yes, memes. Chaos. Degens. Still printing money at a scale most traditional startups can’t even imagine.
This is what people outside crypto still don’t grasp. Crypto companies don’t scale like normal companies. No massive HR departments. No skyscrapers. No middle management layers. Just code, liquidity, and global demand running 24/7.
Is it fragile? Sometimes. Cyclical? Absolutely.
But profitable? Brutally so.
When a 15-person team can out-earn corporate empires, you’re not looking at a bubble — you’re looking at a structural shift. And TradFi is still trying to understand the spreadsheet.
Ça pique un peu.
#crypto #Hyperliquid #Tether #PumpFun #business #efficiency #DeFi #CryptoFriture
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