Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev predicts that the market will become an important asset class, highlighting retail investors' demand for hedging against real-world events. Current blockchain infrastructure struggles to balance the need for speed and deep liquidity. Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER) offers a solution by integrating the Solana Virtual Machine on Bitcoin, aiming to leverage Bitcoin's settlement security while achieving sub-second latency. Institutional investors have shown strong interest, with the project's pre-sale raising over $31.2 million, and large whale wallets making significant on-chain acquisitions.