Uniswap Founder Accuses Citadel of Trying to Weaponize the SEC Against DeFi Developers

By: theblockbeats.news|2025/12/04 12:15:56

BlockBeats News, December 4th, Uniswap founder Hayden Adams posted on social media stating that Citadel Securities CEO Ken Griffin, after intervening in Constitution DAO, is now pushing the U.S. SEC to regulate DeFi protocol developers as centralized intermediaries. Adams mentioned that Citadel has long been lobbying behind the scenes and sarcastically remarked that its accusation that DeFi cannot achieve "fair access" is absurd, reflecting traditional market makers' rejection of open-source, decentralized liquidity mechanisms.

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