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Willkie Advises Ink Foundation on Addition of Vertex Protocol Team
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Willkie Advises Ink Foundation on Addition of Vertex Protocol Team
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July 17, 2025
Willkie recently advised Ink Foundation in its agreement with Vertex Protocol, a leading decentralized exchange platform known for its high-performance trading architecture and active community, in which Vertex will bring its core infrastructure and team to the Ink ecosystem. The move marks a major milestone for the Ink Layer 2's growing DeFi stack.
The Ink Foundation is an independent entity focused on building and supporting the Ink Layer-2 and its ecosystem, supporting protocol development, ecosystem growth, and token governance to support the vision of open, onchain capital markets.
Launched in 2023, Vertex is a decentralized trading platform combining low-latency orderbooks with unified liquidity for spot, perpetuals, and money markets.
The Willkie team is led by partner A. Kristina Littman and senior counsel Christopher Giancarlo.
A. Kristina Littman Partner Litigation Washington aklittman@willkie.com +1 202 303 1209
J. Christopher Giancarlo Senior Counsel Corporate & Financial Services New York jcgiancarlo@willkie.com +1 212 728 3816
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