Mary-Catherine Lader, president and chief operating officer of UnisWap Labs, reportedly resigned from the company four years later.
According to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday, Lader will remain in the advisory role before moving on to the next venture. A Uniswap spokesman said the company “continue to build on her contributions,” according to the report.
Lader was one of the early celebrities who left traditional funding to work in the Crypto space. According to Bloomberg, she joined UNISWAP from BlackRock in 2021.
The Uniswap Protocol, Ethereum’s largest decentralized trading platform, has not been appointed as the next president. Founded in 2018 by Hayden Adams, Uniswap is one of the most important players in the Crypto Ecosystem.
Unlike centralized exchanges such as Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, Uniswap allows users to exchange tokens directly. Uniswap’s trading volume has exceeded $73 billion over the past 30 days, according to Defillama data.
Personal News: After 4 incredible years as president and COO of @uniswap, I’m starting something new.
This is a new chapter in cryptography. It has come a long way since I started my digital assets with BlackRock in 2015. Building with @Haydenzadams was a great adventure.
I…
– Mary Catherine Leader (@mclader) July 15, 2025
Uniswap’s Mary-Catherine Lader Legacy
As COO and president of UNISWAP, Lader oversaw the building from internal infrastructure across finance, legal, HR, marketing, policy and customer support, moving UNISWAP from a developer-centric startup to a structured organization.
In October 2022, UNISWAP raised $165 million and was valued at approximately $1.666 billion.
In February, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stopped investigating the results of the Wells Notice issued in April 2024. The incident was closed in February after the regulatory body failed to enforce it.
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