Full-Time
Senior Product Counsel
Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Uniswap
51-200 employees
Decentralized platform for cryptocurrency trading
Compensation Overview
$225k - $250kAnnually
Senior
Remote in USA
This role can be partially or fully remote.
- 6+ years of law firm or in-house attorney experience
- JD degree (or foreign equivalent) with good standing in at least one US state bar
- Strong financial regulatory background or experience counseling crypto clients
- Familiar with financial services regulation and agencies (e.g., FinCEN, SEC, CFTC) and how they apply to financial products in both the U.S. and abroad
- Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills; establishes and maintains strong relationships and credibility with stakeholders
- Highly organized and proactive; capable of managing multiple priorities and meeting deadlines
- Provide risk-principled legal, regulatory, and strategic advice to business and engineering teams across a product lifecycle
- Advise business and marketing teams on how to successfully navigate complex and legal regulatory environments both domestically and internationally
- Develop and implement various legal processes, policies, and playbooks, including compliance policies and procedures
- Track regulatory developments and conduct legal research on current rules and regulations
- Collaborate collegially and supportively with other members of the legal team. Mentor others on the Legal & Policy team.
- Deep understanding of crypto and blockchain technology
- Understanding of how different regulations or proposed rules can apply to crypto products (e.g., broker-dealer, exchange, derivatives)
- Experience at an AM Law 100 corporate law firm and/or at companies in the technology and/or emerging company space
Uniswap is a decentralized finance platform that enables users to trade cryptocurrencies directly from their wallets on the Ethereum blockchain. It eliminates the need for a centralized intermediary, allowing individual traders, developers, and liquidity providers to engage in crypto trading. Users can swap tokens, provide liquidity to earn fees, and create decentralized applications using Uniswap's protocol. The platform generates revenue by charging a small fee on each trade, which is then distributed to liquidity providers, encouraging them to contribute to the liquidity pools necessary for trading. Uniswap also supports developers through its governance program and expands its reach by integrating with other platforms like Robinhood. The goal of Uniswap is to foster an open and permissionless financial system using blockchain technology.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$192.6M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2018
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Uniswap's acquisition of Crypto: The Game expands its reach into on-chain gaming.
- Integration with OKX enhances Uniswap's liquidity and user base without gas fees.
- Collaboration with Across Protocol positions Uniswap as a leader in cross-chain transactions.
What critics are saying
- SEC's Wells notice could lead to legal challenges for Uniswap.
- Sophisticated threat actors pose significant security risks to Uniswap's platform.
- Increased competition from platforms like OKX pressures Uniswap to maintain market position.
What makes Uniswap unique
- Uniswap operates on Ethereum, enabling decentralized trading without intermediaries.
- The platform supports multichain swaps, enhancing its adaptability in the DeFi landscape.
- Uniswap's governance program funds developers, fostering innovation on its protocol.
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Benefits
Unlimited and encouraged time off
100% company-paid medical, dental, & vision for you and your dependents
401(k) participation
Daily lunches at NY HQ
For remote employees: up to $2,000 USD home office setup stipend
Company News
Cryptocurrency marketplace OpenSea could be the target of a regulatory investigation.Devin Finzer, the company’s CEO, posted on social platform X Wednesday (Aug. 28) that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a Wells notice against OpenSea.Wells notices are not formal charges or lawsuits but traditionally one of the final steps before the SEC files charges against a company. They provide a regulatory argument and give the company a chance to respond to the regulator’s allegations.In this case, Finzer wrote, the SEC is alleging that the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) sold on its marketplace count as securities.“We’re shocked the SEC would make such a sweeping move against creators and artists,” Finzer wrote in the post. “But we’re ready to stand up and fight.”OpenSea has received a Wells notice from the SEC threatening to sue us because they believe NFTs on our platform are securities. We’re shocked the SEC would make such a sweeping move against creators and artists. But we’re ready to stand up and fight
Sorella Labs, a San Francisco, CA-based Crypto startup providing tools to identify MEV activities and process Ethereum blocks, raised $7.5M in funding
Uniswap Labs has acquired Crypto: The Game in the company's first major on-chain gaming play.
Fireblocks is proud to introduce new security features to its DeFi suite: dApp Protection and Transaction Simulation. As the DeFi sector experiences unprecedented growth, the need for proactive security measures has never been more critical. With attackers taking advantage of DeFi’s technical and opaque characteristics, Fireblocks’ new security features aim to empower institutional firms with real-time threat detection, clear insights into contract calls, and preventative measures against malicious activities.Navigating the Surge in DeFi: Innovations, Adoptions, and Security ChallengesDecentralized finance (DeFi) is experiencing a renewed wave of retail adoption and institutional capital allocation. From restaking and tokenized real-world assets to meme coins and perpetual futures, the new investment opportunities have pushed DeFi’s total value locked (TVL) to over $100 billion for the first time since May 2022. Concurrently, the institutional DeFi volume on Fireblocks has risen by more than 75% in 2024 alone, nearing $4.5 billion monthly volume.However, this influx of capital to DeFi applications has also drawn the attention of sophisticated threat actors. The early months of 2024 have seen attackers exploit a range of vulnerabilities to drain over $500 million from wallets, including phishing websites, dApp takeovers, and advanced supply chain attacks.The inherent obscurity and complexity of DeFi transactions present significant challenges for traders in identifying potential security risks and for operations teams in understanding the impact of each transaction on their funds.A new proactive security approach for DeFi is required — one where traders and operations teams can automatically monitor malicious activity, identify high-risk threats across common attack vectors, and gain context into the impact of a contract call, all before approving a transaction or connecting with a dApp.That’s why, Fireblocks is excited to announce the launch of new threat-detection features within its DeFi suite: dApp Protection and Transaction Simulation
The future is multichain, according to an update from Uniswap Labs.Over 3M addresses have swapped on multiple chains with Uniswap, the team at Uniswap Labs reveals.As covered, the Uniswap Protocol claims to be the largest decentralized trading and automated market-making protocol on Ethereum (ETH).The Uniswap Labs team says they have been a major contributor to the Uniswap Protocol and now focus on “building a suite of products to support the Uniswap ecosystem.”Their team claims to be one of the most impactful in crypto.They are based in SoHo, New York City, and offer “the option to be partially or fully remote depending on the position.”Recently, it was reported that Uniswap went live on Blast.Blast is an L2 that provides native yield for ETH and the USDB stablecoin.Like other L2s, Blast provides swappers and LPs “with lower gas costs and faster swaps (compared to Ethereum mainnet).”Blast support will soon be live “on the Uniswap mobile app for swapping on-the-go.”In another key update, it was revealed that Uniswap Labs is collaborating with Across Protocol to propose a new ERC standard for cross-chain intents.Today’s intent-based systems “are fragmented, each with their own set of fillers and no unified cross-chain standard.”How this new standard works:Users sign a cross-chain orderUser funds are escrowed in a settlement contractFillers compete to fill the order on the destinationThe winning filler executes the action and funds are releasedIf requests conform to the same standard, fillers can use the same infrastructure “across a variety of protocols, making them more efficient.”With this approach, there are “no more siloed networks or centralized filler risks.”Establishing a standard for intents-based systems improves the UX for apps, fillers, and users:Applications route intents to a wider networkFillers have a lower entry barrierUsers get faster fills with lower gasUniswap will be adopting this standard when they go cross-chain with UniswapX.As covered, Hayden Adams, founder of Uniswap, confirmed on April 10, 2024 that Uniswap Labs received a Wells notice from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).Hayden says he is not surprised but just “annoyed, disappointed, and ready to fight.”