Doug Colkitt
Doug Colkitt is the founder of Crocodile Labs, the team behind Ambient Finance (formerly CrocSwap), a decentralized exchange protocol that runs every pool inside a single smart contract, and a co-founder of Fogo, an SVM-based layer 1 chain designed for high-frequency trading latency. Before building in DeFi he spent years as a quantitative researcher in high-frequency trading at Citadel Securities, focused on Japanese equities and market microstructure, an obsession with market design that runs through both his DEX and his L1 work. He is a frequent podcast guest on market structure topics, from AMM versus order book design to exchange crashes and liquidation cascades.
7 talks by Doug Colkitt
- Landmark Regulation, ICOs, Downtober & Privacy: 2025 Crypto Year in Review (Part 2)
- 2025 Crypto Year in Review, Part 1: Shit Talking Edition
- Over $19B Rekt: Perps Break, ADL Triggers, Pegs Snap - The Chopping Block
- LIVE | Market Crash: What Happened and What’s Next
- Hyperliquid Saved Itself a $15 Million Loss, but Sparked Criticism
- AMMs vs DEXs: DeFi's First Debate Revisited | Season 6 Episode 3
- Ambient: Building The On-Chain Venue for Price Discovery | Doug Colkitt