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title: 'Business Development Lead at Renegade'
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# Business Development Lead at Renegade

- **Company:** Renegade
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-01-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/renegade/c286527a-fa39-4891-8da4-a8a0aacc5be0

## Job description

## About Renegade

We're building the first dark pool built natively for onchain markets.

Renegade is an onchain dark pool, a private exchange for institutional crypto trading, fully onchain with no trusted intermediaries. In TradFi, dark pools account for roughly 40% of US equities volume. That entire layer of market structure barely exists in crypto.

Renegade brings that infrastructure to DeFi. We match orders at the midpoint of the Binance bid-ask spread, without moving the market, without leaking information, and without leaving the chain. Funds, solvers, and market makers that integrate with Renegade get better price execution, with savings on spreads, market impact, and fees.

Since launch on Arbitrum and Base, Renegade has processed $336M in all-time trading volume with $100M in daily order flow.

We've been live since late 2024, are well-funded by leading investors. We are a lean high-caliber team that works in person in San Francisco.

You can see the work directly here: Docs https://docs.renegade.fi/ Code https://github.com/renegade-fi/renegade

## About The Role

We're hiring one DeFi-native BD to own the relationships between our customers.  In this role you'll shape how a genuinely novel piece of market structure gets adopted. Drive go-to-market Lead Renegade's go-to-market strategy, driving growth and integrations across onchain markets. Translate market to product

Translate between customers and engineering, share customer signal back to the dev team to inform new product features and respond to the evolving demands of onchain markets

Source and grow pipeline

Own the top of the funnel: map who's moving size onchain, build relationships with the funds, desks, and market makers

Create the materials that win trading-native customers: TCA dashboards, execution-quality breakdowns, and "how to evaluate us" one-pagers that prove our edge in the language traders actually use.

## About You

DeFi-native and trading-fluent.

You understand onchain market structure, execution, and how funds and market makers actually think. You’ve worked at (or close to) market-neutral/quant/execution teams, or built trading systems yourself.

You can translate DeFi mechanics into execution-native language (and you know what quants will scrutinize), and you’re technical enough to go into data/code when needed

A real network in the space.

You're already in the flow, active in the right Telegram groups, DMs, and on CT, and you bring credibility, and can get a warm intro or a reply without starting cold.

Hands-on and self-directed. You are organized and push things forward. You're comfortable being persistent, and have a bias for action. At a team this size, that instinct is the difference between a pipeline that moves and one that executes.

If this fits, we look forward to chatting!

## About Renegade

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Renegade is building the first onchain dark pool — a decentralized, privacy-preserving exchange that matches institutional crypto orders at the Binance midpoint price using multi-party computation and zero-knowledge proofs.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised $3.4M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Chris Bender

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure / crypto trading venue
- **Target customers**: B2B — institutional crypto traders including basis traders, solvers, market makers, vault managers, and DEX aggregators
- **Mission**: To bring TradFi-grade dark pool liquidity and execution quality to onchain markets — matching orders at the middle of the Binance bid-ask spread without leaking information, moving the market, or leaving the chain.

## Products & Services
- **Renegade Dark Pool (Core Protocol)**: A decentralized crossing network for spot liquidity. Orders are matched privately at Binance midpoint pricing, with settlement occurring fully onchain. The protocol uses MPC (multi-party computation) for anonymous order matching and optional zero-knowledge proofs for opt-in privacy. Deployed on Base and Arbitrum, with Ethereum L1 support coming soon. ([docs.renegade.fi](https://docs.renegade.fi/))
- **Solvers / RFQ Integration**: Allows solvers to add Renegade as an RFQ venue for midpoint liquidity. Over 50% of CowSwap solvers by volume already integrate Renegade. ([docs.renegade.fi](https://docs.renegade.fi/))
- **Counterparty Tiering**: Enables funds to slice counterparties by toxicity, matching only with counterparties that have good markouts. ([docs.renegade.fi](https://docs.renegade.fi/))

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: $3.4M total funding; **$336M** all-time trading volume and **>$100M/day** order flow on Base and Arbitrum deployments as of early 2026. ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/renegade/a88f9d0e-036f-4e0c-84f2-b72ef2c94752))
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Dragonfly (lead), Naval Ravikant, plus 4 additional angel investors — 6 total investors in the Feb 2023 seed round. ([tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/renegade/__KulV8HNrS8k7wphFoehPMAnyksTDXtTd2uUO7g8atFk))
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Live since late 2024; reached $336M all-time volume and $100M+ daily order flow in roughly a year.
  - >50% of CowSwap solvers by volume integrated as customers.
  - Expanding from Base/Arbitrum to Ethereum L1.
  - Employee count grew to 7 as of Jun 30, 2026 (from 5 earlier in the year), with monthly headcount growth of +16.7%. ([tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/renegade/__KulV8HNrS8k7wphFoehPMAnyksTDXtTd2uUO7g8atFk), [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/renegade-fi))

## Competitive Advantages
- **Binance midpoint peg**: Swaps are priced at the middle of the Binance spread — almost always better than any other venue when a counterparty exists. ([docs.renegade.fi](https://docs.renegade.fi/))
- **Non-toxic liquidity flow**: $100M+/day of retail counterflow largely sourced from leading DEX aggregators, making it an attractive venue for institutional flow.
- **Fully onchain**: No offchain entity holds custody; swaps settle directly against smart contracts, preserving onchain verifiability.
- **Privacy via ZK/MPC**: Optional zero-knowledge proof wrapping prevents counterparties from identifying trader strategy — infrastructure that barely exists in crypto but accounts for ~40% of US equities volume in TradFi.
- **Minimal fees**: 1–2 basis points for most integrators.

## Strategic Focus
- **Own the full market-structure gap in DeFi**: In TradFi, dark pools represent ~40% of US equities volume; Renegade aims to build that missing layer natively onchain. Near-term priorities include scaling the ZK prover stack, optimizing the hedging engine for delta neutrality on altcoins, shipping Ethereum L1 deployment, and growing solver/aggregator integrations. ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/renegade/a88f9d0e-036f-4e0c-84f2-b72ef2c94752))

## Why Work Here
- **High ownership, small team**: A "lean high-caliber team" of ~5–7 people where engineers have strong ownership of core systems and a wide surface area for impact. ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/renegade/a88f9d0e-036f-4e0c-84f2-b72ef2c94752))
- **Hard systems problems**: Work spans trading infrastructure, ZK provers, distributed systems (Raft/consensus edge cases), and performance-sensitive Rust — with real responsibility over 7-figure onchain funds.
- **In-person culture**: Fully on-site in San Francisco, emphasizing close collaboration.
- **Shape your own role**: Engineers can lean customer-facing or go heads-down on performance/reliability optimization.
- **Well-funded with backing from top investors**: Backed by Dragonfly and Naval Ravikant, with institutional-grade counterparties (basis traders, funds, solvers) already on the platform.
- **Team pedigree**: Prior experience includes Tesla, ENS Labs, Argus Labs, Verkada, and Patra Corporation. ([linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/renegade-fi))

## Sources
1. [Renegade — Documentation](https://docs.renegade.fi/)
2. [Renegade — Software Engineer Job Posting (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/renegade/a88f9d0e-036f-4e0c-84f2-b72ef2c94752)
3. [Renegade — Careers Page (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/renegade/)
4. [Renegade — LinkedIn Company Profile](https://linkedin.com/company/renegade-fi)
5. [Renegade — Tracxn Company Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/renegade/__KulV8HNrS8k7wphFoehPMAnyksTDXtTd2uUO7g8atFk)

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