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About Uniswap

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The Uniswap price is $6.33, a change of 6.07% over the past 24 hours as of 8:40 a.m. The recent price action in Uniswap left the tokens market capitalization at $6,330,340,000.00. So far this year, Uniswap has a change of 22.53%. Uniswap is classified as a DeFi under CoinDesks Digital Asset Classification Standard (DACS).


Uniswap (UNI) is the native token of the Uniswap decentralized exchange, a liquidity provider for the trading of tokens on the wider Ethereum network, also known as ERC-20 tokens. The Uniswap protocol is designed to be fully decentralized, using a trading model known as an automated liquidity protocol. That method gives users incentives to provide liquidity, which guarantees a liquidity pool, ensuring trades can be executed instantly at a known price.

Uniswap price

Uniswap minted a total of 1 billion UNI at its launch, which it expected to distribute over the course of four years. Sixty percent of all UNI will be distributed to community members, while the remaining 40% will be for investors, advisers and Uniswap team members. Once the total of 1 billion UNI is distributed, UNI will be an inflationary token with a perpetual inflation rate of 2%.

Uniswap’s protocol token went live in September 2020. and in the subsequent months, it captured the bull run of the wider crypto market. The uniswap price climbed to an all-time high of $45.01 on May 4 before pulling back along the broader crypto market that month. The price of uniswap spent the summer of 2021 fluctuating in the $15-$30 range.

How does Uniswap work?

Uniswap runs on two smart contracts – “Exchange” and “Factory” – automated computer programs that perform certain functions when certain preset conditions are met. The factory smart contract adds new tokens to the platform, while the exchange one facilitates trades of tokens.

The protocol offers “time-weighted average price” (TWAP) oracles, a pricing methodology that calculates the average price of an asset during a set period of time. Oracles are a tool that brings data from an outside source into a blockchain.

Uniswap’s consensus mechanism is quite similar to a proof-of-stake model in which users receive rewards in return for locking up their tokens.

UNI token holders can participate in on-chain governance for future upgrades to the Uniswap protocol. Further, UNI holders also obtain partial ownership of the Uniswap domain and set the token list for the Uniswap exchange.

Beyond governance, UNI holders are entitled to around one-sixth of the trading fees paid on the Uniswap Protocol. However, governance controls require that holders vote to agree on when they receive funds. The community is also encouraged to consult legal and regulatory professionals before implementing proposals.

The Uniswap team doesn’t participate directly in the development or the governance of the protocol. However, it reserves the right to delegate votes, without seeking to influence voting decisions.

Key events and management

In 2016, the concept for an on-chain AMM was theorized by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin in a post on Reddit. The concept was different from decentralized exchanges in that it doesn’t use a traditional order book. Hayden Adams began working on the concept after he was laid off from his job as a mechanical engineer and was encouraged to learn how to code by Ethereum Foundation member Karl Floersch. Eventually, Adams received multiple grants to continue his work from the Ethereum Foundation and others to build it into a functional exchange, and on Nov. 2, 2018, Hayden publicly announced Uniswap and launched it on the Ethereum blockchain.

Uniswap v2 launched in May 2020. It facilitated over $135 billion in trades and gave Uniswap the title of the largest decentralized spot exchange in the world. A year later, Uniswap v3 launched on the Ethereum blockchain with the aim of making transactions on Uniswap cheaper and faster.

Well before its upgrade to V3, the protocol raised $11 million in August 2020 in a Series A funding round that was led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.


$6.33B

$84.94M


Uniswap Price

24H Open
$5.97
24H Change
$0.36234000
52 Week Low
$3.34
52 Week High
$11.12
All Time High
$28.46
Returns (YTD)
22.53%

Uniswap Market Stats

Total Supply
1.00B
Max Supply
1.00B
24H Value Transacted
N/A
30D Volatility
0.74826700
24H Transaction Count
876
24H Average Transaction Fee
N/A

About Uniswap

Sector

DeFi


Industry Group

Exchanges


Industry

Asset Management



The Uniswap price is $6.33, a change of 6.07% over the past 24 hours as of 8:40 a.m. The recent price action in Uniswap left the tokens market capitalization at $6,330,340,000.00. So far this year, Uniswap has a change of 22.53%. Uniswap is classified as a DeFi under CoinDesks Digital Asset Classification Standard (DACS).


Uniswap (UNI) is the native token of the Uniswap decentralized exchange, a liquidity provider for the trading of tokens on the wider Ethereum network, also known as ERC-20 tokens. The Uniswap protocol is designed to be fully decentralized, using a trading model known as an automated liquidity protocol. That method gives users incentives to provide liquidity, which guarantees a liquidity pool, ensuring trades can be executed instantly at a known price.

Uniswap price

Uniswap minted a total of 1 billion UNI at its launch, which it expected to distribute over the course of four years. Sixty percent of all UNI will be distributed to community members, while the remaining 40% will be for investors, advisers and Uniswap team members. Once the total of 1 billion UNI is distributed, UNI will be an inflationary token with a perpetual inflation rate of 2%.

Uniswap’s protocol token went live in September 2020. and in the subsequent months, it captured the bull run of the wider crypto market. The uniswap price climbed to an all-time high of $45.01 on May 4 before pulling back along the broader crypto market that month. The price of uniswap spent the summer of 2021 fluctuating in the $15-$30 range.

How does Uniswap work?

Uniswap runs on two smart contracts – “Exchange” and “Factory” – automated computer programs that perform certain functions when certain preset conditions are met. The factory smart contract adds new tokens to the platform, while the exchange one facilitates trades of tokens.

The protocol offers “time-weighted average price” (TWAP) oracles, a pricing methodology that calculates the average price of an asset during a set period of time. Oracles are a tool that brings data from an outside source into a blockchain.

Uniswap’s consensus mechanism is quite similar to a proof-of-stake model in which users receive rewards in return for locking up their tokens.

UNI token holders can participate in on-chain governance for future upgrades to the Uniswap protocol. Further, UNI holders also obtain partial ownership of the Uniswap domain and set the token list for the Uniswap exchange.

Beyond governance, UNI holders are entitled to around one-sixth of the trading fees paid on the Uniswap Protocol. However, governance controls require that holders vote to agree on when they receive funds. The community is also encouraged to consult legal and regulatory professionals before implementing proposals.

The Uniswap team doesn’t participate directly in the development or the governance of the protocol. However, it reserves the right to delegate votes, without seeking to influence voting decisions.

Key events and management

In 2016, the concept for an on-chain AMM was theorized by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin in a post on Reddit. The concept was different from decentralized exchanges in that it doesn’t use a traditional order book. Hayden Adams began working on the concept after he was laid off from his job as a mechanical engineer and was encouraged to learn how to code by Ethereum Foundation member Karl Floersch. Eventually, Adams received multiple grants to continue his work from the Ethereum Foundation and others to build it into a functional exchange, and on Nov. 2, 2018, Hayden publicly announced Uniswap and launched it on the Ethereum blockchain.

Uniswap v2 launched in May 2020. It facilitated over $135 billion in trades and gave Uniswap the title of the largest decentralized spot exchange in the world. A year later, Uniswap v3 launched on the Ethereum blockchain with the aim of making transactions on Uniswap cheaper and faster.

Well before its upgrade to V3, the protocol raised $11 million in August 2020 in a Series A funding round that was led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.


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