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After being laid off with no finance background, Adams built Uniswap's automated market maker protocol from scratch — processing over $2 trillion in cumulative trading volume and becoming the blueprint DeFi copied ever since.
Hayden Adams is Founder of Uniswap, the decentralized cryptocurrency exchange he launched in 2018 after being laid off from an engineering job.
He developed the first automated market maker protocol, which became foundational to decentralized finance. Uniswap has processed over $2 trillion in cumulative trading volume. Uniswap Labs has raised significant venture capital from top crypto investors.
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