what's uniswap?
Uniswap is a leading decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol in the DeFi ecosystem that has processed over $2.5 trillion in all-time volume on Ethereum mainnet. The protocol operates across multiple versions including V3 and V4, with V4 being highlighted as a significant advancement. Uniswap features concentrated liquidity pools for capital efficiency and supports cross-chain functionality through its own blockchain called Unichain. The platform has a native token ($UNI) and is supported by the Uniswap Foundation, which focuses on advancing ecosystem growth and decentralization. Recent activities include participation in Korea Blockchain Week with community events, continued integration across multiple blockchain networks including Plasma and various Layer 2 solutions, and ongoing development of new features. The protocol maintains strong composability with other major DeFi protocols like Aave and Curve, and continues to be referenced as a benchmark for decentralized trading infrastructure.
Uniswap features ERC-7715 live, SEC exemption, new token launch, and exploit token sales.
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ERC-7715 is now live on Unichain, allowing agents and apps to request wallet permissions to execute transactions on a user's behalf via MetaMask.
Received SEC broker-dealer exemption for Uniswap UI, effective April 13, 2026, for 5 years, provided non-custodial, no trade recommendations, no payment for order flow, and neutral fees.
Attacker sold 1 billion bridged DOT tokens from Hyperbridge exploit on Ethereum via Uniswap V4 and Odos routes into 108.2 ETH (~$237K) on April 13, 2026.
Launched Octra ($OCT) CCA on Uniswap on April 14, 2026, auctioning 10% of supply for ETH bids until April 20, 2026.
Generated less than one-quarter of PumpSwap's fees in the 7-day period ending April 12, 2026, specifically for Uniswap V3.
Achieved $1.314B in DEX trading volume over 24 hours, ranking as the top DEX by volume.
Integrated Tempo's native DEX liquidity for stable swaps, supporting pathUSD/USDC on Ethereum for bridging to Tempo blockchain and enabling LP.
Made ETH, USDC available through Coinbase Base Accounts at launch; uses OP Stack.
Integrated with Privy's APIs to deliver Uniswap functionality (swaps, yield, gas sponsorship), routing across 10M+ assets on 18 chains for enterprise users, requiring no custom integration.
Achieved 30-day revenue growth of +149.6% and a price-to-fee ratio under 5x as of early April 2026.
Achieved TVL of $5.763 billion.
Reached 100,000 pools initialized by the @flaunchgg hook on the Uniswap Protocol, all launched permissionlessly.
24-hour trading volume reached $639.26 million on April 6, 2026.
Ranked 7th in Santiment's top 10 DeFi projects by development activity, down from a higher position last month.
Integrated with Swapper Finance to enable Mastercard cardholders to swap into crypto on Uniswap, following Mastercard's connection of its 3.5 billion cards to DeFi via Chainlink.
Reached over $25M in TVL for cbBTC on Monad across Uniswap, Curve Finance, and Morpho combined.
Sponsors ETHGlobal Cannes 2026 hackathon with $10,000 in prizes for best Uniswap API integration track.
Featured as one of three DEXs/protocols supporting cbBTC markets on Monad network.
Highlighted as an example of a protocol with immutable AMM smart contracts from the very beginning, in a discussion about decentralization practices in DeFi.
Recorded $2.417 billion in 24-hour spot trading volume and $26.463 billion in 7-day spot trading volume as of April 2, 2026.
Reached TVL of $3.124 billion as of April 6, 2026.
Deployed v2, v3, and v4 protocols on Linea network with web app and free API keys for developers, offering lower fees and native staking yield.
Launched hook auto-routing on April 3, 2026, removing allowlist approvals and adding transaction simulation fallback routes.
Integrated with Liquity Protocol's BOLD stablecoin on Uniswap v4, with LQTY voter-approved reward boosting for BOLD liquidity providers.
Featured as a required component for AI agents in XLayer's Build X Season 2 AI hackathon (2026-04-01 to 2026-04-15), building with Uniswap Skills and Onchain OS, deploying on XLayer mainnet for a 60,000 USDT prize pool.
Uniswap Foundation holds $85.8M in assets, including $49.9M cash/stablecoins, 15.1M UNI, and 240 ETH as of December 31, 2025, with runway through January 2027.
Generated $3.11M in fees over the 30-day period ending March 2026.
European Central Bank paper identifies over 80% of governance tokens held by top 100 addresses, many by protocols or exchanges. Notes one-third of key voters unidentified; voting power dominated by delegates and repeat participants, including Andreessen Horowitz, raising decentralization and regulation concerns.
Generated $8.353 billion in 7-day trading volume as of April 6, 2026.
A whale (address 0x44C) withdrew 462,000 UNI tokens valued at approximately $1.72 million from Binance in the past 24 hours.
Lists on Uniswap on Arbitrum on 2026-03-26 at 1 pm ET with contract address 0x0290a3256c939F3Acb6CA5465154d94133DC5e02.
Generated $4.2B in AMM trading fees in 2025.
A whale (0x04d8) withdrew 595,886 UNI tokens worth approximately $2.13M from Binance on 2026-03-23.
Securitize and BlackRock BUIDL tokenized treasury products trade on UniswapX.
Served as an exit venue for $23-25M in unbacked USR tokens dumped during the Resolv Labs exploit on March 22, 2026, through USR/USDC pools.
Reached $1 trillion cumulative trading volume on L2s, with OP Stack chains accounting for 46%.
Mclader departed from the team to start a new stablecoin business focused on Hyperliquid.
Chainlink Data Feeds integrated on Unichain.
Integrated with Snapshot for native support of OpenZeppelin Governor and Governor Bravo, including gasless voting, delegates dashboard, execution builder, transaction simulation, and custom domain features, live on 2026-03-19.
WBTC/LBTC liquidity pool at 1 basis point fee tier has approximately 250,000 USD in TVL, offering 7-10% APY for liquidity providers who maintain positions within 1-2 tick range.
Generated $38M in DEX sector revenue over the past 30 days as the leading DEX on Ethereum.
Captured $21M in monthly tokenized equity trading volume in January 2026, growing from zero six months prior.
Passed a tier-based v3 fee model governance proposal, projected to generate $27M additional annual revenue.
Activated fee switch to route protocol fees toward supply reduction or distribution; burned $5.5M UNI tokens.
TVL collapsed from a peak of $900M to $49M on Unichain.
Burned $21M in incentives on Unichain.
Crossed $300 billion in all-time protocol volume on Base chain.
Extended support for Uniswap V4 in 0x API during February 2026
Ranked 6th in Santiment's top 10 DeFi projects by development activity for March 2026, maintaining the same position as the previous month.
Routed a $50.4M USDT swap on March 12, 2026, through V3 pools as a multi-hop trade involving SushiSwap, with 99% slippage due to thin liquidity in the aEthUSDT/aEthAAVE pair.
Expanded fee switch revenues to 8 additional chains, with a dashboard tracking token net value flows live by 2026-03-22.
Gamma V2 Vaults launched on Uniswap V4, enabling permissionless user-controlled liquidity vaults with custom strategies.
Network growth (new wallets created) on Polygon increased by 120% in the past month compared to the prior month.
Postponed token launch due to Uniswap hooks and product development needs. Adds cryptographically verified SQL queries to v4 hooks via Space and Time, enabling historical onchain data in AMM logic.
Holds $158.9M in value across 27 Smart Money wallets as tracked by Nansen.
MetaMask integrated Uniswap API into its meta-aggregator in March 2026, enabling native v2, v3, v4, UniswapX, and crosschain swaps, now capturing 40% of its swaps.
Featured in Bankless article discussing DeFi primitives for metaverse economies (alongside Morpho, Sablier) and cross-chain composability in the Ethereum Economic Zone, citing a Unichain/Aave single-transaction example.
Experienced a 64% decline in spot trading volume in February 2026 compared to January 2026.
Deployed 7 native agent skills for swaps and liquidity provision via Abstract Global Wallets through Abstract MCP server, launching March 10, 2026.
Representatives will present on "Continuous Clearing Auctions" at EthCC on March 30, 2026.
Temporarily became the #2 DEX on Ethereum by volume on some days, dethroning Uniswap during DEX V1 operation.
USDC/USDT pools on V3 and V4 combined hold $37M in total liquidity as of March 2026.
USDC/USDT pools on V3 and V4 combined are processing approximately $43M in trading volume.
V3 USDC/USDT pool liquidity providers are earning approximately 0.6% base yield.
V4 USDC/USDT pool liquidity providers are earning approximately 0.95% base yield.
Approved hooks for Spark; contributes AI agent judge to Synthesis hackathon (March 13-23, 2026, $100,000+ prizes) focused on building agentic workflows on Ethereum. Received over 100 track submissions.
Uniswap Foundation allocated $106.2M for grants and incentives, including quadratic funding with Ethereum Foundation and Yearn Finance, and $26.3M for operating expenses and employee token incentives.
Ranked first among DEXs with 1,053,670 monthly token listings, totaling 13.6 million tokens between January 2025 and January 2026.
Obol Collective deployed 2,006,309 OBOL tokens as Protocol Owned Liquidity into Arrakis Pro vaults on Uniswap.
BlackRock deployed capital into UNI token.
Redirects 600,000 GMX from treasury-controlled Uniswap and Trader Joe pools to GMX V2.
Generated $261.32M in revenue during Q4 2025
Ranks 10th among crypto exchanges by trading volume, holding 6.1% spot market share (as of March 2026), scaling like a global exchange and handling billions in permissionless trading.
Integrated Goldfish protocol's GGBR tokenized gold product for Uniswap V3 liquidity, earning 5 points per GGBR per day for providing liquidity.
Ranks 8th by transaction count across the entire Ethereum ecosystem, alongside Tether, Circle, and Uniswap.
Won full dismissal of state-level claims that sought to hold the protocol liable for scam tokens trading on it.
XAUT/PAXG liquidity pool on Uniswap at the 0.01% fee tier yields 7-15% APR.
Integrated with Theo Network on Ethereum and Arbitrum for thBILL (tokenized T-bills) liquidity, which has over $135M in total value.
Featured in a curated list of autonomous agent economy projects by getmoni_io, highlighted for integrations with agent infrastructure and onchain market experiments.
Won dismissal with prejudice of Risley v. Uniswap Labs class action lawsuit in SDNY court on March 2, 2026, ruling DEX operators not liable as securities intermediaries for third-party scam tokens or smart contract misuse. Received SEC classification as Digital Commodities/Tools via Release 33-11412 on March 17, 2026, removing AMM trading, staking, liquidity provision, and governance voting from federal securities law registration requirements.
integrated with Jupiter's trading engine
Reached 15.2 million monthly visits in February 2026, the highest among all DEXs tracked.
Tally, governance platform for Uniswap, Arbitrum, and 500+ DAOs, will wind down by end of March 2026.
A whale wallet transferred 325,000 UNI (approximately $1.24M) to Wintermute on 2026-02-26.
Takes 25% of swap fees on bnkr deployed tokens.
UNI is among the top gainers in the crypto market on February 26, 2026.
Uses ERC-721 NFTs as the technical implementation for V3 and V4 liquidity positions.
Surged 21.9% to $4.07 in 24 hours as part of a broader crypto market recovery.
Integrated with Flow protocol for two-minute and nine-minute Cross-Chain Auction (CCA) token auctions that deploy liquidity to Uniswap v4.
Ranks as the top DEX by 7-day trading volume according to DefiLlama data.
Powers idOS network's Community Crowdfunding Agreement (CCA) round, deployed on Base.
Integrated with Liquity Protocol for BOLD/USDC liquidity on V4, supporting Liquity V2's wstETH carry trade strategy for 10.11% APR paid in BOLD plus swap fees.
Hosts idOS public sale via Community Contribution Auction (CCA) on Arbitrum One from February 25th to March 5th, 2026, with automatic Uniswap V4 pool creation using 20% of contributed funds. Tokens unlock and distribute 100% on March 5, 2026.
Awarded ETHDenver prize to Chaintology
Generates $498,000 daily fees ($182M annualized); generated $49.23M in fees over 30 days ending March 11, 2026.
Fixed three live bugs in V4 (two in CCA and one in Core) that were identified and confirmed.
Passed Unichain co-incentives growth management proposal
Unichain reached a peak of 891,000 active addresses in 2025 and currently has 5,100 active addresses.
Founder warns of fake advertisements draining user wallets.
Bankr v4 hook reached $100M protocol volume within 2 weeks.