July 17, 2025
Willkie recently advised Ink Foundation in its agreement with Vertex Protocol, a leading decentralized exchange platform known for its high-performance trading architecture and active community, in which Vertex will bring its core infrastructure and team to the Ink ecosystem. The move marks a major milestone for the Ink Layer 2's growing DeFi stack.
The Ink Foundation is an independent entity focused on building and supporting the Ink Layer-2 and its ecosystem, supporting protocol development, ecosystem growth, and token governance to support the vision of open, onchain capital markets.
Launched in 2023, Vertex is a decentralized trading platform combining low-latency orderbooks with unified liquidity for spot, perpetuals, and money markets.
The Willkie team is led by partner A. Kristina Littman and senior counsel Christopher Giancarlo.
