Uniswap Founder Says Citadel CEO Lobbying SEC to Regulate DeFi Developers as Intermediaries

Hayden Adams, founder of Uniswap, said on Dec. 4 that Citadel Securities CEO Ken Griffin is pushing the U.S. SEC to regulate DeFi protocol developers as centralized intermediaries. Adams said Citadel has been lobbying behind the scenes and criticized the firm's claims that DeFi lacks "fair access" as contradictory. The comments highlight tensions between traditional market makers and open-source decentralized liquidity mechanisms.