{"id":51298,"date":"2021-10-15T20:06:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T17:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=51298"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:55:08","slug":"uniswap-labs-hires-former-obama-press-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/uniswap-labs-hires-former-obama-press-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniswap Labs hires former Obama press secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public relations specialist Hari Sevugan has joined the Uniswap Labs team, the operator of the largest decentralised platform Uniswap.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;m excited to join the brilliant team at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Uniswap?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Uniswap<\/a> because they&#8217;re committed to making sure we build in a way that reaches crypto&#8217;s potential of giving more people ownership of their own financial futures and the value they create.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hari Sevugan (@HariSevugan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HariSevugan\/status\/1448692191170375683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to Sevugan, there is no longer any doubt that blockchain and cryptocurrencies will be part of the future.<\/p>\n<p>In the new role, Sevugan will be tasked with establishing Uniswap Labs&#8217; communications with the public, including &#8216;helping the company tell its story to existing and new users, as well as managing engagement with the media&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Sevugan served as senior press secretary to Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign. The Washington Post at the time described some of the future American leader&#8217;s lines as &#8216;sharp and memorable&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in September, media reported <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/media-reports-sec-investigation-into-uniswap-labs\">that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating Uniswap Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public relations specialist Hari Sevugan has joined the Uniswap Labs team, which runs the largest decentralised platform Uniswap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1391],"class_list":["post-51298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-uniswap-uni"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"12","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51300,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51298\/revisions\/51300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}