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 recorded 1.8M Jan website visits, saw idOS token integration, whale buys, and conference presence.
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Mentioned as a major ecosystem supported by Tally's governance infrastructure alongside Arbitrum and ZKsync.
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.
Ranked 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 to offer BOLD/USDC liquidity pools on V4, with liquidity providers earning 10% 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. Sale includes Phase 1 (February 25-27, 2026) and Phase 2 (February 27 - March 5, 2026) with no minimum participation and 100% token unlock and distribution on March 5, 2026.
Awarded ETHDenver prize to Chaintology
generates approximately $498,000 in daily fees, which annualizes to approximately $182 million
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.
Fake ads impersonating Uniswap drained a six-figure wallet in January 2026.
Discussed at InnovateDenver conference as a case study of successful airdrop strategy, highlighted for having real users before token distribution which amplified existing traction rather than manufacturing it.
Offers $5,000 in bounties for developers building with the Uniswap Developer Platform at the BUIDLathon hackathon, funded by a grant from Uniswap Foundation.
Ranks #1 for fee revenue on Base chain.
Opened Developer Platform beta on 2026-02-19, offering API keys, a free REST API, and an agent CLI. Adopted AI agents, releasing 7 new AI Skills: v4-security-foundations, configurator, deployer, viem-integration, swap-integration, liquidity-planner, and swap-planner.
Featured in a podcast episode discussing the BlackRock collaboration alongside other DeFi topics including tokenization and institutional adoption.
Governance considers expanding v3 deployment to eight additional chains.
Governance passed fee activation across v3 Ethereum pools, v2 pools, and 8 chains (Arbitrum, Base, Celo, OP Mainnet, Polygon, Soneium, Worldchain, X Layer, Zora), burning UNI on mainnet; voting ends 2026-02-26; adding $27M in annualized revenue on top of existing $34M.
Uniswap representative Eli Engelman is speaking at EthereumDenver on the Prosperia stage on February 19, 2026 at 11:30 AM in a panel discussion about how major crypto products are built.
Generated $2k in gas fees from trading activity on Unichain over the past 7 days, representing 73% of Unichain's total gas fees during that period.
Experienced a $12M exploit on May 28, 2025, involving a v4 hook vulnerability in Cork Protocol that combined time-based pricing flaws with missing access control list protections.
Generated 569% revenue growth over the past 30 days (measured from approximately January 18 to February 17, 2026).
TVL increased by 0.89% over a 7-day period ending on 2026-02-17, as measured by DeFiLlama.
Deployed on X Layer.
Applications for the next cohort of the Hook Incubator close on 2026-02-15.
Generated approximately $60 million in revenue.
Appointed founder Hayden Adams to US CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee alongside Coinbase, Kraken, Chainlink, Solana, CME, Nasdaq, ICE, Cboe, and DTCC.
Launched first CCA (Community Capital Allocation) with Rainbow token (RNBW) featuring post-launch liquidity management by Arrakis Finance.
Generated $73.6B in spot volume over the last 30 days, representing approximately 20% of tracked spot DEX volume.
Protocol revenue reached $2.15M over the last 30 days, equivalent to $26.29M annualized, representing approximately 2.7% of user fees.
BlackRock integrated BUIDL with Securitize, enabling access to its tokenized money market product, and purchased UNI tokens.
Spot trading volume increased 84% in January 2026 compared to December 2025.
Included among multiple DeFi protocols in YieldNest's yield season incentive campaign alongside Euler, Curve, StakeDAO, Spectra, MaiaDAO, and Pendle.
A single address transferred 3.65 million UNI tokens (valued at $13.43 million) to Coinbase Prime following a price increase.
BlackRock's tokenized ETFs are listed on Uniswap.
Delayed v3 launch to March 2026 due to medium severity issues found in AI audit
Experienced a 6.5% price increase on February 11, 2026, reaching $3.56.
BlackRock listed its $2.4B BUIDL tokenized US Treasury fund on UniswapX with Securitize for institutional trading, providing liquidity infrastructure with Request for Quote (RFQ) execution model.
Integrated with BitGo's WalletConnect Network integration, enabling institutional users to access Uniswap directly from BitGo self-custody wallets across Ethereum, major EVM networks, and Solana.
Won patent infringement lawsuit against Bancor, with claims dismissed as patents were too abstract.
Integrated with Chainlink Scale to provide oracle services, enabling access to assets including Aave, GMX, and Lido wstETH from day one.
Has primary liquidity on Uniswap v3 for the DRB token on Base chain.
Integrated with Ankr's Premium RPC service for Unichain, the DeFi-native L2, providing low-latency, geo-distributed infrastructure for builders.
Trader 0x46bc opened a 10x leveraged long position on 1.21 million UNI tokens valued at $4.81 million with an entry price of $3.7027 and liquidation price of $2.50.
Generated $243 billion in trading volume over the past quarter.
Whale wallet 0x9c98, inactive for 4 years, transferred 4.39M UNI ($14.75M) to 0xf129 as BlackRock plans to buy UNI tokens.
Reached $4 trillion in cumulative trading volume.
BlackRock invested in Uniswap Labs, acquiring UNI tokens, which pumped 20-60% before gains erased.
Integrates BlackRock's $2.2B tokenized Treasury fund BUIDL with Securitize on UniswapX for institutional trading.
BlackRock purchased UNI tokens on 2026-02-11.
Adopted the DUNA (Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Association) framework from Wyoming.
SDK v0.3 includes Uniswap v3 adapters, enabling local trading strategies.
Incentivized CELO-USDT pool with Self Protocol verification and Merkl incentives offers up to 111% APY, announced by StabilaFnd.
Achieves 12% APR for BOLD/USDC liquidity providers from weekly BOLD token rewards and swap fees.
Deployed v2, v3, and v4 on MegaETH network.
Deployed on Solana blockchain.
Accelerated buyback activity during market volatility while token price declined 20.5%.
Listed as one of several fundraising platforms being considered for token launches alongside ChainGPT Pad, Legion, BuidlPad, Jupiter, Kaito, and Echo, specifically referencing liquidity launch functionality.
Featured in a demonstration of an onchain AI trading arena on Base where autonomous agents compete by trading ETH/USDC on Uniswap v3, with 5+ agents executing real trades every 15 minutes.
recorded 1.8 million website visits in January 2026
Seeded 20% of idOS token sale proceeds into a Uniswap v4 liquidity pool on Arbitrum via Continuous Clearing Auction (CCA) on February 25, 2026, accepting ETH contributions. Hosts CCA token sale on Tally, requiring participant KYC verification, using a customizable protocol for bootstrapping liquidity and launching tokens.
Whale 0x9671 bought 682,087 UNI tokens worth $2.58M after selling XAUT and ETH positions.
Uniswap Labs has a speaker participating in the EthCC[9] conference lineup in Cannes.
Web traffic reached a multiyear low, down 60% year-over-year.
Generated $79.39M gross fees over 30 days, $968.53M annualized, ranking third among DEXs with 11 employees.
Operates Unichain with OP Labs support for onchain trading on the OP Stack. Unichain pays the greater of 15% of net profit or 2.5% of L2 revenue to the Optimism Superchain under its OP Stack revenue-sharing agreement.
Expanded to primary markets in addition to secondary markets.
Generates $56 per year in revenue per $10,000 invested according to third-party research, resulting in a 179x price-to-revenue multiplier, which is characterized as inefficient compared to fee-sharing protocols.
Generated over 1,000 ETH in chain fees on Unichain since its launch, with 89.43% coming from finance activity and 68% from automated trading specifically.
Uniswap Foundation supported World Build 2, a program in Buenos Aires bringing 25 builders from 9 countries to develop Mini Apps for World Chain.
Reached $300 billion in cumulative protocol volume on v4 within approximately one year since launch.
Activates V4 pool migration and trading for AZTEC on February 11, 2026. Created V4 liquidity pool with 4,234.6 ETH ($12.91 million) and 273 million AZTEC tokens using CCA mechanism, becoming the 3rd largest Uniswap v4 pool.
Achieved $11.35B in DEX trading volume on Base since January 1st, 2026, representing over 70% of total Base DEX volume.
Facilitated a swap of approximately 79,961 LINK (about $990,000) from USDC to LINK as part of Chainlink Reserve's 25th inflow on January 22, 2026.
Hosts token sale for capmoney via Creator Custody Accounts (CCA) on February 9th, 2026.
Accounts for over 25% of Metamask's 7702 delegations through its batched transactions feature.
Upgraded portfolio view feature on Web App to enable monitoring of any wallet's onchain activity including swaps, pool positions, and NFTs.
Generated less chain fees than Polymarket across tracked chains within the Ethereum ecosystem over the 30-day period ending approximately January 20, 2026.
Integrated into EURCV and USDCV lending and trading by Société Générale FORGE on Ethereum mainnet.
Achieved $1tn+ in cumulative trading volume over 8 years of operation.
Deployed on X Layer, enabling swaps and liquidity provision on this L2 built by OKX.
became the deepest spot market for VSN by August 2025, with over 55% greater depth than the primary CEX at 1-2% depth levels
partnered with Allium Labs to publish research on institutional DeFi trading trends and liquidity depth dynamics
Listed PIKZ token on January 13, 2026, providing a new trading pair for the AI-powered sports analytics platform.
CCA (Concentrated Capital Allocation) powers HuddlePad's native token launches on Arbitrum, enabling fair token launches directly on the network.
Has approximately $3–5 billion in TVL across Ethereum and its Layer 2 partners.
Listed as a spot trading asset on Lighter exchange.
Commentary suggests that any Optimism token buyback program should execute on Uniswap rather than OTC, stating that if Optimism cannot buy its own token on its own chain, it has failed as a DeFi-first chain.
Received mention in a top 10 projects list for 2025, with commentary that Aerodrome's success has prompted increased competitive awareness from Uniswap.
Launched V1 in 2019, marking growth of decentralized exchanges.
Has $78 million worth of UNI tokens remaining unclaimed in the original airdrop token distributor contract.
Galaxy Digital withdrew 292,000 UNI tokens (approximately $1.83M) from Binance and transferred 492,500 UNI tokens (approximately $3M) to Coinshares on 2026-01-06