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Culture: A distributed team of DeFi builders that values ownership, experimentation, and long‑term thinking. Emphasis on building sustainable, transparent infrastructure.
Work environment: Remote‑first with a headquarters in Zug, Switzerland. Open roles (Quant Engineering, Junior BD, Senior Quant Engineer) are listed for Zurich, suggesting a hybrid/office option for those locations.
Perks: Opportunity to shape the next generation of onchain liquidity; direct impact on protocols managing billions in TVL; access to cutting‑edge DeFi research and engineering challenges.
Engineering culture: Deep technical stack (Solidity, TypeScript, Python, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, blockchain infrastructure); focus on smart contract development, automated strategies, and data‑driven decision making.

One-liner: Arrakis Finance is an onchain market maker that provides automated liquidity management solutions for token issuers across multiple decentralized exchanges.
Entity Type: Private (Seed stage)
Headquarters: Zug, Switzerland
Founded: 2022
Founders: Not publicly disclosed

Primary industry: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) – onchain market making and liquidity infrastructure.
Target customers: B2B – token issuers, protocols, liquidity providers (LPs), and real‑world asset (RWA) curators.
Mission: “To make DeFi sustainable, transparent, and capital efficient.” arrakis.finance/careers

Arrakis Protocol: Onchain market‑making infrastructure that powers automated liquidity vaults across Uniswap V4, Aerodrome, PancakeSwap, Velodrome, and Hyperliquid. Enables self‑custodial, actively managed liquidity for project tokens, RWAs, equities, and commodities.
Arrakis Pro: A product layer on top of the protocol that lets token issuers launch deep, actively managed onchain markets while keeping liquidity self‑custodial. Offers hands‑off operation with capital efficiency that outperforms self‑managed pools.

Valuation: Not disclosed
Key Metric: Annual Revenue of USD $1.0 million (LinkedIn estimate). Total Funding of USD $4.0 million (Seed round, September 2022, 4 investors).
Notable Investors/Partners: 4 undisclosed investors. Integrated with Uniswap V4, Aerodrome, PancakeSwap, Velodrome, Hyperliquid, Centrifuge, Maple.
Growth Signals: Monthly website traffic of ~6,678 visits (+48.4% year‑over‑year). Employee count of 11 (-5.1% YoY). Active in 6 countries (Switzerland, UK, Slovakia, India, US, Ukraine).

Self‑custodial liquidity: Token issuers retain full control of their funds while benefiting from automated market making.
Capital efficiency: Dynamically managed positions that outperform static self‑managed pools.
Multi‑chain, multi‑DEX coverage: Supports major venues including Uniswap V4, Aerodrome, PancakeSwap, Velodrome, and Hyperliquid (orderbook perpetuals).
Original research: Publishes proprietary research on onchain liquidity design, market dynamics, and token launch strategies (e.g., “DEX Liquidity Design 101”, oil markets on Hyperliquid).

Expanding into RWAs, commodities & equities: Building deep onchain markets for yield‑bearing assets and traditional financial instruments with automatic NAV alignment.
Hyperliquid perpetuals: Bootstrapping 24/7 liquid markets for spot and perpetual futures on Hyperliquid.
Research‑driven development: Continued publication of frameworks and tools (e.g., HIPs, liquidity auctions) to improve capital efficiency and market depth.

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