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- Fighting for DeFi
Uniswap Labs said it received a Wells notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission saying the SEC plans to recommend legal action against it, and that it will keep its products available and keep shipping. The company argues the move is a political effort to target builders of blockchain technology and that the law does not support SEC jurisdiction over the Uniswap Protocol. It cites the SEC v. Ripple ruling on secondary market transactions and the Risley v. Uniswap Labs decision, which said securities law concerns are better addressed to Congress. It also states that the Uniswap Protocol has processed $2 trillion in transactions without a hack and uses 25% of Ethereum's blockspace.
- Introducing uni.eth – Your Unique Web3 Username
Uniswap has launched uni.eth, a free web3 username that turns a 0x address into a readable name for use across web3. Users can claim a uni.eth username in the Uniswap mobile app, and existing users will be prompted to claim one with the latest app update. The usernames are built on ENS infrastructure using ENS subdomains, so they are supported by the thousands of apps that support ENS names, even outside Uniswap products. In the mobile app, claimants can also customize a public profile with an avatar, bio, and social links, though customization is optional.
- Discover, Research, Swap: Uniswap’s All New Explore Tab
Uniswap's web app now has a new Explore tab with updated Token Detail Pages and new Pool Detail Pages, letting users research tokens and pools and swap without leaving the page. The pages provide price charts, transaction logs, liquidity data and other analytics for tokens and pools on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Polygon, Optimism, Base, Avalanche and Binance Smart Chain. Token pages include real-time price and TVL plots, line and candlestick charts, and project information, while pool pages show volume, fees generated and pool age. Users can swap, buy, send or place a limit order directly from these pages. The Explore tab is rolling out on the Uniswap web app starting today.
- A short history of Uniswap
Hayden Adams, who built Uniswap, recounts the project's origins from 2017 to mid-2018 as a personal history of its first version. He describes learning Ethereum after being laid off in July 2017, then building a proof-of-concept automated market maker in late 2017 at friend Karl Floersch's suggestion. Pascal Van Hecke funded a month of research, and by March 2018 a team including Callil Capuozzo and Uciel Vilchis had built a full demo. After Vitalik Buterin suggested a Vyper rewrite, Adams spent two weeks porting the contracts, and the post credits Dan Robinson with a 30% gas efficiency gain on a flight home from Edcon 2018.
- Permissionless bridging is now live
Uniswap users can now bridge assets across nine networks directly from the Uniswap Interface and Uniswap Wallet, a feature the company describes as one of its most requested. Bridging is powered by Across Protocol, which the article describes as a permissionless bridge running on a decentralized network of liquidity pools and relayers that settles in seconds, not minutes. At launch, supported networks include Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, OP Mainnet, Zora, Blast, World Chain, and ZKsync, and only native assets and stablecoins can be bridged.
- New Research on Drivers of Crypto Asset Prices
A new paper by researchers at Uniswap Labs, Circle Internet Financial, and Copenhagen Business School examines how traditional financial factors, such as U.S. monetary policy, affect crypto prices and concludes that digital assets behave similarly to traditional asset classes in global financial markets. The paper decomposes asset prices since early 2019 into monetary policy, broad market risk premium, and crypto-specific demand. It finds that contractionary monetary policy accounted for more than two-thirds of Bitcoin's sharp decline in 2022. The research also examines event studies including the FTX bankruptcy, Bitcoin ETF announcements, and COVID-19 financial turmoil.
- The fight for DeFi continues
Uniswap Labs has responded to a Wells notice it received from the SEC last month, arguing that the SEC should embrace open source technology rather than litigate it out of existence. The company says the Uniswap Protocol is secure, low-cost, transparent infrastructure that has supported $2 trillion in trading volume without a single hack. It contends the SEC's legal theories are weak, asserting that a token is a file format, like a PDF, and that the Protocol is a general purpose program, like TCP/IP. Uniswap Labs says its lawyers are 2-0 in high-profile SEC cases and that it is prepared to fight.
- Our Vision for Uniswap v4
Hayden Adams introduced the vision for Uniswap v4 and released its draft code for public building and feedback, which he expects to take months. The central idea is "hooks," contracts that run at points in a pool's lifecycle, letting pool creators choose tradeoffs that v3 fixed or add features such as dynamic fees, onchain limit orders and time-weighted average market making. Uniswap v4 also places all pools in one singleton contract and uses flash accounting, with early estimates showing a 99% reduction in pool creation gas costs. The code will be released under a Business Source License 1.1 that converts to GPL after four years.
- Mine the best salt for Uniswap v4 and become an onchain legend
Uniswap announced the Uniswap v4 Address Mining Challenge, which runs from November 10 to December 1, 2024, and invites the community to submit candidate contract addresses for the v4 core contract. The official deployment address will be chosen by scoring each address on leading zeros and the prominence of the number 4 in its structure. Participants generate salts with tools such as create2crunch and submit them to the challenge contract on Ethereum mainnet, where addresses are scored and ranked on a real-time leaderboard. The highest-scoring address wins, and ties go to the earliest submission.
- Unichain – an Ethereum L2 designed for DeFi
Uniswap Labs announced Unichain, a fast, decentralized Superchain L2 built to serve as a home for DeFi and liquidity across chains. The company says Unichain will lower transaction costs by about 95% compared with Ethereum L1 in the short term, and launches with one-second block times, with 250ms "sub-blocks" planned. A block builder developed with Flashbots uses a trusted execution environment, and Unichain is partnering with OP Labs on native interoperability within the Optimism Superchain. The testnet goes live now, with mainnet due later this year, and the code is open source under the MIT license.
- Layer 2 Be or Layer Not 2 Be
Uniswap's research paper finds that users trading and providing liquidity on Layer 2 chains have seen significant advantages over Ethereum mainnet, even before the Dencun hardfork. It reports that 97.5% of swappers, those with trades under $125,000, did better on other chains when looking at USDC/ETH pools. It also says L2s have at least 75% more liquidity concentration than Ethereum because of lower gas costs, and that full-range LPs on L2s earned an average of 20% more from arbitrage than on mainnet. The article notes that gas costs on Optimism fell from $1.50 to half a cent after EIP-4844 took effect, though it expects costs to fluctuate.
- Continuous Clearing Auctions: Bootstrapping Liquidity on Uniswap v4
Uniswap has announced Continuous Clearing Auctions (CCA), a permissionless protocol that helps teams bootstrap liquidity on Uniswap v4 and find the market price for new and low-liquidity tokens. Built in collaboration with Aztec, the first project to launch with CCA, the protocol includes an optional ZK Passport module for private, verifiable participation. Each block's supply is sold at a single market-clearing price, the highest price at which that block's tokens can all be sold, and when the auction ends, proceeds automatically create a Uniswap v4 pool at the discovered price. The Continuous Clearing Auction contract is now live for anyone to use.
- Uniswap v4 is Here – A New Era of DeFi
Uniswap v4 is now live on ten chains, including Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Base and BNB Chain, after code contributions from hundreds of community members, nine audits and a $15.5 million bug bounty. The release is positioned as the most customizable and lowest-cost version of the Uniswap Protocol, built on hooks, which are modular plugins that let developers customize pools, swaps, fees and LP positions. Over 150 hooks have already been developed, and creating new pools is up to 99.99% cheaper than in previous versions. The article states that no critical bugs were found in the $2.35 million security competition or the bug bounty.
- World Chain is Now Live on Uniswap
- Uniswap Labs is Acquiring Crypto: The Game
Uniswap Labs has acquired Crypto: The Game (CTG), the interactive onchain survival game, and the CTG team will join Uniswap Labs to continue work on Season 3. The announcement says the team will also experiment with onchain activations for the Uniswap community. In the first two seasons, contestants bought in with 0.1 ETH, joined tribes, took part in daily challenges and voted each other out over ten-day seasons until one person won the entire pot. The announcement says the game will continue and that Season 3 will bring new themes, twists and onchain features.
- ZKsync is Now Live on Uniswap
ZKsync is now available on the Uniswap interface, letting users swap and provide liquidity on the zero-knowledge rollup at app.uniswap.org. The announcement says ZKsync, an L2 that uses zero-knowledge proofs to scale onchain throughput, offers lower gas costs and faster swaps than Ethereum mainnet. To mark the launch, Uniswap is partnering with Layer3 on a Quest in which swappers and LPs can earn CUBEs and XP while using the Uniswap interface on ZKsync.
- Blast is now live on Uniswap
Uniswap users can now swap and provide liquidity on Blast, an L2 network, through the Uniswap interface and mobile app. The launch is the first time Uniswap users can earn native yield on LP positions, due to Blast's rebasing functionality. Native yield applies only to Uniswap v2 pools with USDB or WETH, while v3 pools on Blast do not earn it. The article warns that v3 is not designed to handle negative rebasing tokens, and suggests liquidity providers in rebasing tokens consider v2 instead.
- 80% of wallets make their way to Uniswap on day one
Austin Adams argues that Uniswap is where many new users first experience DeFi, and that Uniswap's data supports this. He reports that about 55% of new wallet transactions on the Uniswap interface are users' first-ever swap, and another 25% made their first swap on Uniswap within a day of their first Ethereum transaction. He also cites around 35,000 new wallets per day swapping on the interface, noting that this does not necessarily mean 35,000 new users each day, though a large subset are net new. The data is sourced from Dune.
- All New Uniswap Extension and More Tools for Users to Swap Smarter
Uniswap has announced three new releases to help users swap smarter: the Uniswap Extension, Limit Orders, and updated Token Detail and Pool Detail Pages with integrated data. The Uniswap Extension is described as the first wallet extension to live in a browser's sidebar, persisting across web pages so users can swap, sign transactions, and send or receive crypto without losing their place, and it is available through a waitlist. Limit Orders, now live on the Uniswap web app, let users set a price and duration of up to a year on Ethereum, executing automatically if the market reaches that price and expiring otherwise, and they are powered by UniswapX so they cost zero gas. The article also says the Uniswap Protocol has powered almost $2 trillion in swap volume.
- Uniswap v2 Now Live Across More Major Chains
Uniswap v2 is now live on Arbitrum, Polygon, Optimism, Base, Binance Smart Chain, and Avalanche, and users can swap and provide liquidity on it directly through the Uniswap interface. The announcement says v2 is cheaper for swaps, averaging under a dollar on L2s like Optimism and Arbitrum compared with a $35 average on Ethereum. It also states that v2 pools cover the full price range by default, which reduces the need for active management by liquidity providers. The text adds that over $55 million was lost in v2 fork exploits, bugs, and rugs across Binance Smart Chain, Base, and Arbitrum in the past year, and presents official Uniswap v2 contracts as a more secure option.
- Electronification, Trading, and Crypto
Brendan Malone, Austin Adams, and Maher Latif argue that technology is inevitable and that public blockchains can help reengineer finance to be more open, fair, and efficient, with market change arriving in compounding steps often catalyzed by crises. They support this with the late-1960s Paperwork Crisis, which prompted the 1973 founding of the Depository Trust Company, and the post-9/11 adoption of Check 21, which allowed clearing of check images. They also propose a four-layer trading stack (network, custody and settlement, coordination and process, and price discovery) for analyzing how technology shapes market structure.