1inch, a decentralized finance (DeFi) aggregator, has appointed Holly Atkinson as Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO), the company announced on July 7. The move comes as 1inch prepare
1inch, a decentralized finance (DeFi) aggregator, has appointed Holly Atkinson as Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO), the company announced on July 7.
The move comes as 1inch prepares to roll out several major products, including its shared liquidity protocol, Aqua.
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Atkinson will focus on shaping 1inch's product strategy, with responsibility for the company's core routing infrastructure and the public launch of Aqua, which is designed to address liquidity fragmentation across DeFi.
She joins 1inch after roles as a blockchain architect at The Sandbox and in metaverse technology at Boson Protocol, having started her Web3 career as a full-stack engineer at Tracr.
Co-founder Sergej Kunz said Atkinson brings a combination of engineering expertise, product vision and leadership experience to the company.
Atkinson currently leads product and technology direction across 1inch's full portfolio, overseeing strategy and execution from engineering to commercial growth.
1inch also named George Evans as Head of Product Design.
Evans brings more than 15 years of experience building and leading design teams at companies including Careem, Noon and Majid Al Futtaim.
At 1inch, he will oversee the product design function, with a focus on user experience across the platform's tools and ensuring design has a central role in product development.
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The leadership additions arrive as 1inch builds on recent momentum, including its integration as a launch partner on Robinhood Markets' (NASDAQ: HOOD) new blockchain, Robinhood Chain, which lets users trade tokenized stocks and other real-world assets.
That partnership applies 1inch's cross-chain routing intelligence to pull liquidity from Robinhood Chain and combine it with every other chain the platform already supports.
Aqua is expected to be one of 1inch's most significant releases yet, aiming to consolidate liquidity across the DeFi ecosystem. 1inch serves 27 million users and processes over $100 million in daily trades, offering tools that include a self-custodial wallet, portfolio tracker, business portal and a crypto debit card.
With Atkinson overseeing Aqua's rollout and Evans reshaping the platform's design, 1inch is positioning its leadership bench for what the company describes as its next phase of product innovation.
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