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Uniswap

Uniswap is a popular decentralized trading protocol, known for its role in facilitating automated trading of decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens.
Uniswap creates more efficiency by solving liquidity issues with automated solutions, avoiding the problems which plagued the first decentralized exchanges. In September 2020, Uniswap went a step further by creating and awarding its own governance token, UNI, to past users of the protocol. This added both profitability potential and the ability for users to shape its future — an attractive aspect of decentralized entities.

Uniswap was launched in November 2018 as a proof of concept for automated market makers (AMMs). Hayden Adams is the inventor of the Uniswap Protocol and CEO at Uniswap Labs. 

Uniswap is a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on Ethereum that uses an automated market-making infrastructure to let traders, developers, and liquidity providers participate in a secure marketplace. 

AMMs allow for automatic and permissionless trading that removes the need for the traditional broker-dealer model that matches individual buy and sell orders. This system enables users to pool together assets that participants trade against. 

AMMs aim to solve the challenge of illiquidity previously faced by decentralized exchanges by creating liquidity pools and incentivizing liquidity providers to supply their assets into the system. 

Uniswap's maximum supply is 1 billion UNI. More than 627 million UNI are in circulation as of December 2021.

Uniswap is the leading DEX by volume, with a nearly 80% market share of weekly DEX volume as of Nov. 29. 2021, according to Dune Analytics. The nearest rival is Sushiswap with its 11% share. 

Despite the gap in trading volume, there is a long list of competitors in the DeFi space. Notable rivals to watch include Curve, Sushiswap, Pancakeswap, and more. 

Uniswap Labs CEO Hayden Adams claims Uniswap V4 will be cheaper, more efficient and "open up a world of possibilities."

Uniswap Labs releases draft code for ‘entirely new' version of Uniswap

The biggest decentralized crypto exchange is opening its development process to the public for the first time as the SEC cracks down on its centralized competitors.

Uniswap Labs Releases Its Plan for Uniswap v4, Invites Community Feedback

Optimism

Uniswap fee switch vote failed to pass, but not because it was unpopular, as Celestia launches a modular DA interface for the OP Stack — find out more in our weekly DeFi roundup.

Week in DeFi: Uniswap Fee Switch Vote Fails, Celestia Collaborates with Optimism

The initial snapshot poll was voted against by the community in a surprising move.

Uniswap Community Votes Down Protocol Fees for Liquidity Providers

The Uniswap (UNI) decentralized exchange (DEX) has decided not to charge protocol fees to its liquidity providers (LPs), who are the ones who supply crypto assets for trading.

Uniswap Decides Not to Charge Fees to Liquidity Providers

Community members of decentralized exchange Uniswap voted down a proposal that would have introduced a protocol fee for liquidity providers on the platform.

Uniswap community votes against proposal for protocol fee on trades

The contributors to Uniswap, the largest decentralized exchange, have begun deliberations on the possibility of launching the on Base network.

Uniswap contributors propose deploying DEX on Coinbase's Layer 2 Base

Uniswap found that many respondents are put off by the complexity and cost of on-chain trading.

DeFi Must Get Easier to Use to Win Over Retail Customers, Uniswap Survey Finds

Polkadot

Uniswap V3 is coming to Polkadot on the Moonbeam parachain after a near-unanimous governance vote conducted by Blockchain at Michigan.

DeFi Exchange Uniswap to Launch on Polkadot via Moonbeam Parachain

Aave

Avalanche

Intercontinental Exchange-owned Bakkt discontinued its consumer-facing app in February as it shifts away from retail

Bakkt Mass Delists Tokens Including Aave, Avalanche, Compound, Filecoin, MakerDAO and Uniswap

Uniswap, the decentralized exchange, outpaced centralized exchange Coinbase in April.

Decentralized Exchange Uniswap Trading Volume Outpaces Coinbase for 4th Consecutive Month

Crypto hedge fund Polychain motioned to sell up to $6 million of $ROOK tokens via Uniswap, upending the calculus behind a savvy DeFi trade.

Polychain Snubs Lucrative Crypto Arbitrage, Prepares to Trade $6M of ROOK Token on Uniswap

Bitcoin

Pepe

Shiba Inu

Tokens issued on Bitcoin ran to a cumulative market capitalization of as much as $1.5 billion earlier this week before sharply correcting.

Developers Deploy Uniswap Contracts on Bitcoin as BRC20-Based SHIB, PEPE Gain Popularity

The plan to implement fees on all of Uniswap's version two liquidity pools, and some of its version three pools, would funnel money to the protocol's treasury and token holders.

Uniswap Weighs Proposal to Enrich Token Holders, Switch on Liquidity Pool Fees

Uniswap still looks to be slightly ahead of Coinbase, with $1.2 billion volume compared to the San Francisco-based exchange's $948 million.

Uniswap Volume Leapfrogs Coinbase Thanks to Pepe and Meme Coins

The new token based on “pepe the frog” meme remains one of the most researched tokens for users of blockchain analytics firm Nansen and price tracker CoinGecko.

PEPE Memecoin Liquidity Pool Becomes Most Active on Uniswap

Sushi Swap

Changes to the protocol's “Chef” contracts are intended to make it more decentralized and secure.

SushiSwap to Propose Tokenomics Changes to Promote Uniswap v3 Adoption

Transactions on the decentralized exchange have spiked by more than 66% from the previous all-time high, according to a Uniswap researcher.

Uniswap Trades Soar as Pepe Mania Grips Meme Coin Market

Polygon

Uniswap DAO approved a governance proposal to deploy Uniswap v3 on Polygon zkEVM, a Layer 2 network compatible with Ethereum.

Uniswap DAO approves proposal to deploy v3 on Polygon zkEVM

Uniswap's new mobile wallet app had been held up by Apple, but finally went live today.

Apple lets Uniswap's wallet app out of ‘jail'

Uniswap's open-source mobile wallet app allows users to trade on Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism.

Uniswap Wallet Goes Live on iOS After App Store Challenges

The mobile wallet will allow users to buy crypto at a 2.55% fee and swap funds between various DeFi platforms.

DeFi Exchange Uniswap Launches Uniswap Mobile Wallet

The DEX, however, has been unable to maintain elevated periods of trading volumes in the past, CCData noted.

Uniswap Topped Coinbase's Trading Volume in March During USDC Depeg, U.S. Crackdown

Decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap has been forked by developers after its Business Source License (BSL) expired on April 1.

Developers Fork Uniswap V3, Protocol Attracts $123M in Total Value Locked

Uniswap's spot volume jumped above $70 billion in March — its highest point since January 2022.

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