AI is supercharging Hyperliquid - ft. Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik

Watch on YouTube ↗  |  July 28, 2026 at 12:31  |  50:56  |  The Block
Speakers
Alex Svanevik — Co-Founder & CEO, Nansen
Tim Copeland — Co-Host & Head of Growth, The Block

Summary

Alex Svanevik, CEO of Nansen, discusses the platform's evolution from on-chain analytics to trading, its integration with Hyperliquid, and the development of autonomous trading agents. He argues centralized exchanges like Coinbase and Robinhood will struggle with agentic trading and expresses strong bullishness on real-world asset tokenization on-chain. The conversation also covers Nansen's staking growth, on-chain transparency, and the shift from memecoins to perps.

  • Nansen has expanded from an on-chain analytics tool to a trading platform, adding Hyperliquid and Robinhood trading.
  • Autonomous, inference-based trading agents are in development, aiming to give users an edge without screen time.
  • Alex Svanevik believes centralized exchanges will face structural challenges adapting to agentic trading.
  • He is highly bullish on tokenized real-world assets, noting non-crypto perps already dominate top volume on Nansen.
  • Nansen's staking business 40xed assets under management in nine months by leveraging its user base.
  • On-chain analytics have been used to detect anomalies at FTX, Bitkub, and other platforms, underscoring the value of transparency.
  • Memecoin activity has been partially revived by Ansom, but a bigger shift toward trading traditional assets via perps is expected.
Ideas
Alex Svanevik Co-Founder & CEO, Nansen 18:00
CEXs will struggle with agentic trading.
Centralized exchanges like Coinbase and Robinhood will struggle to adapt to agentic trading because they have licensed businesses and lucrative legacy models that agentic trading disrupts; agentic trading allows more decentralized and data-driven strategies, putting CEXs at a disadvantage.
Alex Svanevik Co-Founder & CEO, Nansen 48:40
On-chain asset tokenization will explode.
Every asset is going on chain soon, with tokenized real-world assets (RWA) reaching a tipping point; non-crypto perps already dominate top traded on Nansen, indicating massive adoption ahead; this will make on-chain asset trading 1000x bigger.
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