The team building the Rook Protocol is Rook Labs
Rook Labs is led by co-founder & CTO Joey Zacherl -- founder of the first market making bot on Ethereum, Volleyfire -- and comprised of top minds from DeFi, technology, research, and finance with backgrounds from Google, NASA, UBS, Citadel, Gemini, Apple, Shopify, Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, and Imperial College London.
Rook’s advisors and research partners are some of DeFi’s earliest pioneers and innovators in MEV, including Nathan Worsley, Imagine, SiegeRhino, and AZ, along with strategic advisors Tiantian Kullander of Amber Group and Taiyang Zhang of Ren.
