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The infrastructure behind crypto market making is changing. How it develops determines whether onchain markets can operate at institutional scale. Tomorrow on Validated: Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 sits down with Rahul Jain, Rahul Jain, Head of Trading at Ellipsis Labs, to dig into the evolution of market making in... show more

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