Taiki Maeda
Founder, HFA Research
Taiki Maeda is a crypto researcher and content creator who publishes as "The Humble Farmer." He founded HFA Research, which runs on three surfaces: a free Substack newsletter with over 5,000 subscribers promising "actionable market insights and airdrop/yield farming strategies"; a DeFi-focused YouTube channel; and a paid membership group, the Humble Farmer Army, sold through Whop and advertised as daily updates plus three premium videos a week. The free side is a stated principle — the newsletters are "100% free to democratize information without having to worry about whether the author is being paid by the team," and his X bio promises "no ads/sponsors" — alongside a disclosure that HFA analysts may or may not hold the tokens discussed. His published work runs to hands-on DeFi guides: yield farming on Polygon, farming the Polymarket airdrop, running $1m of stablecoins. He is one of three hosts of the Steady Lads crypto podcast, alongside Jordi Alexander, and he hosted the interview show Crypto Market Wizards, which asked traders about bet sizing and surviving cycles; that show has not released an episode since August 2025, and the free Substack has not published since November 2025, though he remains active on X, where he has about 119,000 followers and has posted since 2018. He graduated from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business in 2019, where he was named the top marketing student in a class of 359 — the Delbert J. Duncan Award, cited for his work as CMO of the student venture COBA Coffee Bar — and was lead instructor of a 20-person student-run course called "How to Crush Live Poker"; he has also taught a course for Blockgeeks on DeFi and yield farming. He is bilingual in English and Japanese and gives Berkeley, California as his base. Several profiles call him a former professional poker player, but no primary source supports it; what is documented is the poker course he taught at Berkeley.
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Open in leaderboard →| Horizon | 7D | 30D | 90D | 180D | 360D | AVG |
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| Rank | #1042 | #931 | #692 | #511 | — | #581 |
| Calls | 14 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 5/10 | 14 |
| Avg return | -4.6% | -5.6% | -5.7% | -8.7% | — | -6.4% |
| vs S&P 500 | -4.8 pp | -6.3 pp | -9.1 pp | -13.9 pp | — | -9.2 pp |
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Taiki Maeda has 13 trade ideas tracked on Buzzberg across 12 tickers since January 2025. Ranked #931 on Buzzberg's 30-day Authors leaderboard. Most covered: ZEC, BTC, HYPE.
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