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Building DeFi-first liquidity infrastructure.

Dark Forest Research is a proprietary crypto trading firm specialising in crypto trading & market making. Coming from tradfi HFT & Market Making backgrounds, Dark Forest Research started life in 2021 as a MEV team focusing on onchain trading only, with a specific focus on low latency trading on FCFS chains & Layer 2's, we have evolved over time to trade CEX/DEX arbitrage, spot & perp market making and onchain active liquidity provision.

Our development team is based out of Australia, we are a small and nimble team of quant finance, HFT & Market Making professionals. We <3 python & rust, in that order.

If your team needs liquidity solutions, onchain, in centralised orderbooks or in a novel protocol, please get in touch.