Uniswap
Uniswap Proposal Stirs Up Controversy in DeFi on DAO Fund Management
A Uniswap governance proposal riled up the DeFi community this week. The proposal, which has since been canceled, would have used yield generated from $25M in Uniswap treasury assets to pay employees at blockchain analytics platform Flipside Crypto. The payment would have been for Flipside to oversee a bounty program for pulling more users into…
Crypto Laws, Lobbying & Activism: The Time Has Come For DeFi to Get Serious About D.C.
Earlier this month when the infrastructure bill came with a provision to broadly expand the definition of brokers to include blockchain ecosystem participants such as miners, developers, and others, the crypto industry sprung into action. Builders, investors, enthusiasts, lawyers, and everyone in between embarked on an all-out effort to add to the Lummis-Tooly-Wyden amendment and…
Decentralized or Not? The Uniswap Protocol and Interface Are Different Beasts
Uniswap is one of the few DeFi protocols that runs fully permissionlessly, without interruptions or possible human intervention. It’s considered to be the gold standard for the space, which is why it was so jarring when management behind the decentralized exchange decided to remove 100 tokens from its interface. Uniswap Labs is the software development…
Looking Back at Uniswap’s Growth as it's Deployed on L2
On-Chain Markets Update by Lucas Outumuro, IntoTheBlock The anticipated launch of Uniswap on layer 2 has finally arrived, at least to some extent. Uniswap’s alpha on Optimism has been released, supporting only six crypto-assets so far, but at a fraction of the cost incurred on Ethereum’s mainnet. As Uniswap’s V3 is on track to fully…
Uniswap’s V3 Launches on Layer 2 Solution Optimism
It’s a good time for Layer 2 enthusiasts as Uniswap V3 has soft-launched on Optimism, a leading optimistic rollup solution for scaling Ethereum. Users can now tap Optimism to deposit, trade and provide liquidity on the decentralized exchange (DEX), which captures roughly half of all DEX volume, according to a Dune Analytic’s query. Optimism “currently…
UNI Sale Raises Concerns Regarding Newly Formed DeFi Education Fund
A series of unexpected trades in the last two days roiled the DeFi Education Fund set up by Uniswap token holders, leading to finger pointing and accusatory tweets as the newly formed lobbying organization struggled to fend off more controversy. It started yesterday when Igor Igamberdiev, a research analyst at The Block, said on Twitter…
Crypto Scams are Out of Control, Again… Here's How to Stop Them Forever
You may have seen this statistic floating around blogs and influencer feeds recently: an estimated 80% of ICO’s in 2017 were scams. This may have been four years ago but there is good reason to be concerned. That’s an alarming number, and it underscores a sober reality in the crypto community — grifters remain a…
"V3 is Winding Back a Bit of the Uniswap Revolution; It's Going to be Very Influential:" Dan Robinson
In this week’s episode we speak with Dan Robinson, a research partner at Paradigm, one of the most active VC funds in DeFi and crypto. One of the fund’s investments is Unsiwap, where Dan also had a central role in the design of v3, the latest version of DeFi’s most popular decentralized exchange. Dan talks about why…
Holaswap Enters Murky Waters After Challenging Uniswap License
DeFi’s most well-known proprietary license is getting put to the test. A new project, Holaswap, has forked Uniswap’s V3, despite a license theoretically protecting decentralized exchange’s code from use in production settings. It’s the first major test of Uniswap’s license. The team deployed it to protect their code and encourage the Uniswap community “to be…
How to Become a Liquidity Provider on Uniswap V3
In this tutorial we run through how to set up a simple LP position using the new concentrated liquidity functionality in Uniswap V3.
