1inch strengthens leadership team with new Chief Product & Technology Officer to drive Aqua launch and accelerate product innovation

1inch, a decentralized concern (DeFi) aggregator, has appointed Holly Atkinson arsenic Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO), the institution announced connected July 7. 

The determination comes arsenic 1inch prepares to rotation retired respective large products, including its shared liquidity protocol, Aqua.

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Atkinson to steer Aqua's marketplace motorboat

Atkinson volition absorption connected shaping 1inch's merchandise strategy, with work for the company's halfway routing infrastructure and the nationalist motorboat of Aqua, which is designed to code liquidity fragmentation crossed DeFi. 

She joins 1inch aft roles arsenic a blockchain designer astatine The Sandbox and successful metaverse exertion astatine Boson Protocol, having started her Web3 vocation arsenic a full-stack technologist astatine Tracr. 

Co-founder Sergej Kunz said Atkinson brings a operation of engineering expertise, merchandise imaginativeness and enactment acquisition to the company. 

Atkinson presently leads merchandise and exertion absorption crossed 1inch's afloat portfolio, overseeing strategy and execution from engineering to commercialized growth.

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George Evans joins to pb merchandise plan

1inch besides named George Evans arsenic Head of Product Design. 

Evans brings much than 15 years of acquisition gathering and starring plan teams astatine companies including Careem, Noon and Majid Al Futtaim. 

At 1inch, helium volition oversee the merchandise plan function, with a absorption connected idiosyncratic acquisition crossed the platform's tools and ensuring plan has a cardinal relation successful merchandise development.

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Aqua motorboat follows Robinhood integration

The enactment additions get arsenic 1inch builds connected caller momentum, including its integration arsenic a motorboat spouse connected Robinhood Markets' (NASDAQ: HOOD) caller blockchain, Robinhood Chain, which lets users commercialized tokenized stocks and different real-world assets. 

That concern applies 1inch's cross-chain routing quality to propulsion liquidity from Robinhood Chain and harvester it with each different concatenation the level already supports. 

Aqua is expected to beryllium 1 of 1inch's astir important releases yet, aiming to consolidate liquidity crossed the DeFi ecosystem. 1inch serves 27 cardinal users and processes implicit $100 cardinal successful regular trades, offering tools that see a self-custodial wallet, portfolio tracker, concern portal and a crypto debit card.