Raphael leads Growth and Partnerships at Arrakis.finance a decentralized and permissionless market maker on Ethereum. Arrakis manages more than 140M USD in TVL in liquidity on UniswapV3 and executes algorithmic market making strategies for its clients.

Coming from the consulting industry, Raphael provided technical and strategic advice in the field of blockchain technology and DeFi to clients from the banking and investment industry for several years. Along side this, he has in depth experience in traditional market making and studied the field of on-chain market making for order book and AMM based trade settlement, comparing differences and advantages of multiple ecosystems.