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The Infrastructure Layer
Autonomous Finance Needs

We are building the risk-control primitives that allow AI agents to move capital safely, transparently, and at scale — without the guardrails breaking the workflow.

Mission

Our Mission

AI agents are rapidly acquiring the ability to make autonomous financial decisions — placing trades, triggering payments, and negotiating contracts. Without institutional-grade controls, this is a systemic risk vector.

Hypen's mission is simple: make every autonomous financial action provably safe. We intercept, score, and gate every transaction so that operators retain full authority over agent spend — without sacrificing agent autonomy where risk is low.

Principles

Design Principles

  • Zero-trust by default. No agent credential, claim, or context is trusted without independent verification.
  • Auditability over convenience. Every decision is logged. There is no silent pass-through mode.
  • Fail-safe, not fail-open. When the proxy cannot compute a risk score, the transaction is held — not passed.
  • Operator sovereignty. Humans set the rules. Agents operate within them. Hypen enforces the boundary.
  • No vendor lock-in. Hypen works alongside any agent runtime, LLM provider, or payment rail.
Team

Who We Are

We are a team of infrastructure engineers, quantitative risk practitioners, and distributed-systems specialists. Our backgrounds include leading risk infrastructure at tier-1 financial institutions, building real-time payment networks, and designing zero-trust security architectures for regulated industries.

We are a remote-first, focused team. We are not trying to build the next super-app — we are building the plumbing that every AI-native financial application will eventually depend on.

We are currently hiring senior engineers and risk quants. Reach out at hello@hypen.network.
Contact

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