Excellent post from SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on keeping America as the land of opportunity.

'In this century, however, the Commission’s regulatory approach has turned increasingly prescriptive as we expand the rulebook at a record-breaking clip...

Too often these days, we

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Uniswap Extension Beta access has started going out for people on the waitlist 👀

Make sure you have push notifications turned on 🔴

Last week I was skiing on a glacier with no electricity or internet. I came back to:
1. Crypto prices down ~30%
2. Iran attack
3. SEC attacking Uniswap Labs 🦄
4. Across partnering with Uniswap on x-chain intents (I knew about this one ;)
5. Zach Rynes | CLG dox'ing himself

Ofc

Go Uniswap Labs 🦄!

Win it for all of us! 🫡

My favorite part of crypto is we react to adversity, chaos, and bear markets:

We build.

Today, @atriumacademy onboarded 100 experienced DeFi devs to the inaugural cohort of the Uniswap Hook Incubator.

The chat was flooded with gms from 20+ countries from Croatia and India to

Hayden and Uniswap Labs 🦄 are among the most thoughtful builders in this space, not just in how they approach product and community, but in how they have approached legal and regulatory issues related to securities laws head-on and in good faith. Gensler & SEC’s message here is clear:

Uniswap has been fighting for the core principles of crypto since they launched. To me, they stand for the idea that immutable peer-to-peer financial technology is not only possible, but inevitable. That it can win.

It’s unfortunate that the SEC is forcing them to take that

Some thoughts on the SEC's Wells Notice to our portfolio company Uniswap Labs today

Sometimes you have to laugh or else you'll cry. Question: how can you square the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's claim that Uniswap Labs 🦄 acts as a broker with the Court's ruling against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission just a handful of days ago? Answer: you can't.

Uniswap is an upgrade to the financial system, whether the SEC recognizes it or not.

I bought my first bitcoin in 2011, started BlackRock’s crypto efforts in 2015 and left TradFi in 2021 to go all in on DeFi as COO of Uniswap Labs. I did that because I believe onchain markets

Congratulations BlackRock and Securitize on the launch of the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund!

This is another great milestone for the tokenization of assets!

sec.gov/Archives/edgar…

30B. GPUs are melting.

🦄👀

Compensation isn’t how you motivate someone to do great work, it’s how you reward and retain someone who can’t help but do great work.

Uniswap is ~40% women and it shows in our products, culture, prioritization. I’ve been in companies that are predominantly male and I can definitively say, diversity matters. Happy international woman’s day 💕🦄

it is more fun to storm the fort than to protect it

So excited to have this piece out! So many people have asked me what’s the design space of v4 and this perfectly encapsulates it

Programability and composability is the super power of crypto, and Uniswap v4 is a great show case of it

UniswapX limits orders are built using signed intents that are broadcast publicly

As soon as real price dips below the limit, there is an incentive for a filler to pay the gas and execute the order

Anyone can fill - documentation is here:

docs.uniswap.org/contracts/unis…

Personal opinion - I'm bullish on this CeFi + DeFi collab. I don't really think CeFi and Defi is either or.

Word on the street is