Avantgarde is a crypto native asset management, advisory and research firm, specialising in asset liability management, R&D, special situations, risk monitoring and on-chain diversification strategies. Avantgarde has conducted work for leading protocols including Uniswap, The Graph, Arbitrum, Nexus Mutual, Paraswap, Enzyme and others. DAOs leverage Avantgarde’s combined expertise in protocol development and asset management for developing strategies to improve treasury sustainability.

Why Avantgarde?

Avantgarde has been active in the Uniswap ecosystem for several years, participating in initiatives such as the Uniswap Bridge Assessment Committee and contributing with R&D to various proposals in line with our expertise.

The core team behind Avantgarde brings a wealth of experience from reputable TradFi firms such as Goldman Sachs and BlackRock; and have been involved in DeFi since as early as 2016, most notably building the on-chain asset management protocol Enzyme, which went live on mainnet in 2019 and boasts a very robust track record without a single major protocol incident since.

With this experience and expertise, we at Avantgarde aim to help steer the Uniswap DAO to financial sustainability and community-driven growth, cementing the Uniswap protocol as the leading DEX across DeFi.

Past contributions to Uniswap ecosystem and/or demonstrated protocol knowledge:

• Active delegate over the last 3 years
• Selected as part of the Uniswap cross-chain bridge committee providing research & advice to delegates: results
• Attended and participated in major governance meetings in NYC and Brussels
• Integrated Uniswap into other DeFi protocols and active Uniswap pool manager, see e.g. Enzyme

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest:

Avantgarde is actively contributing to a number of chains across the wider Ethereum ecosystem, though none can be said to be a direct competitor to Uniswap.