---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-088248"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HYPD"
cik: "0001682639"
company_name: "HYPERION DEFI, INC."
filed_at: "2025-09-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T07:37:37.496858+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hyperion DeFi CEO Michael Rowe resigns; Hyunsu Jung named interim CEO; board appoints Happy Walters

## Summary
- Michael Rowe resigned as CEO effective immediately; Hyunsu Jung (CIO & director) named interim CEO, CFO, Treasurer, and Secretary.
- Nasdaq Staff notified company regained compliance with $2.5M minimum equity requirement (Listing Rule 5550(b)(1)).
- Board expanded from five to six; Happy Walters appointed as director, effective Sept 8, 2025; granted 50,000 RSUs vesting through Nov 2026.
- Walters serves on Nominating & Governance Committee; experience in blockchain and crypto sectors.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-088248
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HYPD
- cik: 0001682639
- company_name: HYPERION DEFI, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-09-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.01, 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1682639/000110465925088248/0001104659-25-088248-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1682639/000110465925088248/tm2525486d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Listing & Compliance Notices
  HYPERION DEFI, INC. received a nasdaq compliance regained notice regarding stockholders equity (rules 5550(b)(1)).
  - Exchange: nasdaq
  - Notice: compliance regained
  - Deficiency: stockholders equity
  - Rules: 5550(b)(1)
  source text: September 2, 2025, the Company received a notice from the Staff indicating that the Company has regained compliance with the Minimum Equity Requirement.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1682639/000110465925088248/0001104659-25-088248-index.htm

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