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I got laid off from Siemens. Learned to code. Built the largest decentralized exchange in the world. Unemployment was the best thing that happened to me.

adversitydefi— Twitter/X, 2020
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x times y equals k. That one formula replaced the entire order book model. Math doesn't need a middleman.

ammdefi— Conference talk, 2021
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Uniswap has no CEO, no board, no headquarters. Just code running on Ethereum. That's the whole point.

codedecentralization— ETH Denver talk, 2022
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Anyone can trade. Anyone can provide liquidity. Anyone can build on top of it. No permission needed. That's financial freedom.

defifreedom— Blog post, 2020
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I taught myself Solidity from online tutorials while unemployed. You don't need a CS degree to change finance.

codingentrepreneurship— Interview, 2021