by Christoph Rosenmayr and Gleb Dudka – March 27, 2025

We are excited to announce our participation in Warlock Lab’s $8M seed funding round, led by Polychain Capital and joined by Reciprocal Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Ambush Capital, TRGC, and notable angel investors such as Sreeram Kannan, Corey Hoffstein, and others. Warlock is a crypto-native trading firm focusing on market making and MEV strategies across chains, as well as orderflow monetization, helping DeFi protocols improve their efficiency and sustainability by re-capturing value otherwise lost due to malicious MEV.

Warlocks’s co-founders, the pseudonymous MEV searchers Grug and Alcibiades, previously ran successful crypto trading operations, where they leveraged their backgrounds in quantitative finance and machine learning.

Together, they have successfully assembled a world-class team that bridges the gap between top-tier engineering talent from prestigious traditional finance institutions such as Citadel, Tower Research, and Brookhaven National Laboratory, alongside profound expertise in the crypto ecosystem and market structure. Both are essential for excelling in the MEV and market making domains.

By focusing on developing performant low-level infrastructure and efficient algorithms, Warlock maximizes MEV opportunities and improves market efficiency. Its modular infrastructure setup allows for increased scale and allows the team to act across multiple crypto ecosystems.

The partnerships established with DeFi protocols enhance their users’ transaction execution to efficiently monetize order flow, which is instrumental in boosting the bottom line for respective protocols and ensuring sustainable growth.

Warlock also contributes to the open-source community. Earlier this year, they released  Sylow as a public good, a Rust library enhancing performance and security of elliptic curve cryptography (BN254) for which they have secured a grant from Arbitrum.

Get in touch

If you are building a crypto protocol whose users are losing money to MEV due to inefficient transaction execution or a large ecosystem participant facilitating DeFi volume, get in touch with Warlock here.