Uniswap (UNI) — Onchain News & Whale Tracking

Uniswap Adds Support for Soneium Network

On June 5th, according to official channels, Uniswap has provided support for Sony's L2 network, Soneum.

Uniswap Labs affiliated wallet will deposit 9 million UNI tokens held for 4.5 years into Coinbase Prime

On April 24th, as per the monitoring of Onchain Lens, a wallet linked to Uniswap Labs deposited 9 million UNI (valued at $53.9 million) that had been held for 4.5 years into Coinbase Prime. The wallet received the UNI on September 17, 2020, when the price of UNI was $3.44.

Solana Labs, Consensys, and Uniswap CEOs Donated to Trump Inaugural Fund in January

On April 22nd - A fresh filing submitted to the U.S. Federal Election Commission indicates that in January 2025, the CEOs of Solana Labs, Consensys, and Uniswap donated $1 million, $100,000, and $245,000 respectively to Trump's presidential inaugural fund. (Cointelegraph)

Uniswap Founder: Ethereum Needs Clear Technology Roadmap, Not Hasty Narrative and Strategic Shift

On April 20th, Hayden Adams, the founder of Uniswap, expressed his viewpoints on Ethereum L1 scalability. He said, "I am completely in favor of L1 scalability improvements. In fact, the roadmap centered around rollups truly requires it. However, what I am opposed to are those self-contradictory views: on one hand, claiming that Ethereum is taking the Rollup-centric approach, while on the other hand, demanding that all key functions remain on L1; both needing L2 for scalability and rejecting support due to reasons such as ecosystem alignment. The industry needs to make a clear choice of technological direction and begin to manage relevant risks. Instead of hastily changing narratives and strategies every month, we should not engage in the compromise of trying to be all things to all people, which is probably worse than not choosing any route at all."

The Uniswap DAO has voted to continue implementing its "Treasury Management Proposal" to increase governance participation.

On April 2nd, according to The Block, the Uniswap DAO has voted to move forward with its "Treasury Delegation" plan. This plan could allocate up to 18 million UNI tokens to specific delegates, with a value of approximately $1.134 billion at the current price. After a preliminary governance vote that ended on Tuesday, the proposal has received initial approval. Specific details will be worked out in the future and will be subject to final on-chain approval through voting. Uniswap's first Treasury Delegation plan, "Delegating UNI to Active but Underrepresented Delegates," was launched in December 2023. The aim of this plan is to support "active but underrepresented delegates" in voting who hold UNI tokens. The Tane Delegate Platform stated in the proposal: "This plan is of great significance for maintaining governance health and retaining active and capable delegates." It referred to data from the previous round of funding support and noted that after the plan's launch, "all delegates

Uniswap's Q4 2024 Trading Volume Reaches $235.9 Billion, Setting a New All-Time High

On March 29th, based on Token Terminal data, Uniswap achieved a new all-time high in quarterly trading volume during Q4 2024, reaching $235.9 billion.

49,000 UNI tokens transferred from the Uniswap time lock have been deposited to Binance in the last 5 hours, indicating a potential sell-off.

On March 28th, based on Rekto's monitoring, 490,000 UNI has flowed into Binance within the past 5 hours. This is from the 27.9 million UNI that was transferred out from the Uniswap timelock contract seven days ago (on 3/21). Among the unlocked UNI, 1.24 million UNI (with a value of $8.22 million) has entered Binance in just a bit over a day. Since entering Binance, the UNI price has demonstrated a -6.5% performance.

In the past 24 hours, PancakeSwap's revenue soared to $3.45 million, while Uniswap only reached $123,000

On March 23rd, based on the data from DefiLlama, in the past 24 hours, the revenue of PancakeSwap reached as high as $3.45 million, ranking third on the crypto revenue leaderboard. Tether and Circle ranked first and second respectively with 24-hour revenues of $18.37 million and $6.25 million. Meanwhile, in the past 24 hours, Uniswap was only $122,928, while the mainnet revenue of Ethereum during the same period was $381,599.

The Uniswap community, through two proposals, will allocate $165.5 million to the foundation to incentivize ecosystem growth

On March 20th, based on information from the Uniswap governance website, the Uniswap community has passed two proposals through on-chain voting. These proposals allocate tokens worth $165.5 million to the Foundation in order to incentivize ecosystem development. One of the proposals involves allocating $95.4 million to the Uniswap Foundation for budgetary investments over the next two years. Of this amount, $25.1 million is designated for operations aimed at improving capital efficiency, activating revenue, and onboarding active contributors, among other things. In another incentive proposal, $45 million is budgeted to support liquidity incentive measures.

PancakeSwap's trading volume in the past 24 hours has exceeded $25 billion, surpassing Uniswap by nearly 2x to rank first.

On March 18th, based on DefiLlama data, the 24-hour trading volume of PancakeSwap reached $25.25 billion, ranking first in the overall trading volume of DEX protocols. In contrast, during the same period, the volume of Uniswap was only $13.1 billion.

A whale address mistakenly swapped 220,000 USDC for 5,273 USDT on Uniswap.

On March 12th, as monitored by Onchain Lens, a whale address mistakenly swapped 220,806 USDC for 5,273 USDT through Uniswap, leading to a loss of $215,533.

Uniswap Partners with Robinhood to Launch Native Fiat Off-Ramp Feature

On February 28th, as reported by The Block, Uniswap Labs announced the initiation of native fiat off-ramp functionality. This enables users to convert their crypto assets into stablecoins like USDC or ETH and withdraw them to their bank accounts via integrated services such as MoonPay, Robinhood, and Transak. This feature has been implemented in the Uniswap wallet and is available in over 180 countries and regions. Users can carry out this operation through the Uniswap wallet, and it will be extended to the Uniswap browser extension and official website in the future.

The U.S. Appeals Court mostly affirmed the 2023 ruling, dismissing the class action lawsuit against Uniswap

On February 27th, as per the report by CoinDesk, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling on Wednesday that largely upheld the dismissal of a class-action lawsuit against the decentralized exchange Uniswap by a lower court in 2023. In 2022, a group of investors sued Uniswap Labs and some of its venture capital backers, claiming that the company had harmed investors by allowing fraudulent tokens to be issued on its protocol. In 2023, Judge Katherine Polk Failla of the Southern District of New York sided with Uniswap and dismissed the case. The plaintiffs appealed Failla's ruling in September 2023. However, the ruling by the Second Circuit Court on Wednesday largely rejected the appeal. The court supported Failla's dismissal of the plaintiffs' claims under the Securities Act and Exchange Act, stating that "holding smart contract creators liable for third-party platform abuse is 'illogical'." The only part that was remanded for reconsideration was the state law claims, w

Uniswap Founder: SEC Probe Consumed Significant Resources for Over 3 Years, All Charges Now Dropped

On February 26th, Hayden Adams, the founder of Uniswap, announced that the "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC, under the leadership of the previous administration) had made attempts to accuse Uniswap Labs of operating an unregistered broker-dealer, exchange, and clearing agency, and issuing unregistered securities. Now, these accusations have been withdrawn. Uniswap Labs is not a broker-dealer. The Uniswap protocol is not an unregistered exchange or clearing agency, and it is not operated by Labs. UNI is not a security. The SEC investigated us without a clear legal basis, as a form of selective enforcement strategy, trying to forcefully fit DeFi into an inapplicable regulatory framework while refusing to provide clear rules or compliance pathways. This investigation lasted for more than 3 years, forcing us to waste a significant amount of time and millions of dollars. It also had personal impacts - the federal investigation is highly intrusive and stressful. In the legal w

Cryptocurrency companies like Uniswap, Kraken, are recruiting Washington insiders to engage with the new administration

On February 9th, as per Bloomberg, a growing number of cryptocurrency companies are actively seeking lobbyists with good connections or policy experts in order to enhance their influence in Washington and remain engaged with the newly digital asset-friendly government. Sources privy to the matter disclosed that cryptocurrency companies that have recently shown interest in hiring lobbyists or policy experts include Uniswap, IOHK, Kraken, Jump Trading, and the Solana Foundation. Many cryptocurrency firms are seeking candidates who can utilize their relationships with both the Trump administration and lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The leading Bitcoin mining firm Riot Blockchain Inc. is recruiting a Director of Public Policy and a Manager who will operate under the leadership of the company's current Washington Director of Public Policy, Brian Morgenstern. The cryptocurrency startup Ondo Finance is in the process of recruiting for its first policy position. The Chief Policy Officer role at

Uniswap Founder: V4 Version Will Provide Users with Lower Gas Costs for Swaps, More LP Profits

On February 1st, Hayden Adams, the founder of Uniswap, posted on social media, saying, "Approximately 12 hours after the launch of Uniswap V4, we are testing a $1000 ETH to USDT exchange. Our on-chain routing indicates that to complete the token swap from ETH to USDT through two V4 pools, the total TVL for the best price is $400,000. Although the TVL of the ETH/USDT single liquidity pool in the V3 version is approximately $150 million, the advantages of pure gas efficiency are beginning to emerge (lower cost of native ETH tokens + multi-hop routes). In my opinion, this will be one of the major catalysts for the growth of V4, with lower gas costs, better exchange rates, and more LP profits."

Uniswap v4 Officially Launched

On January 31st, as per an official announcement by Uniswap, Uniswap v4 has become live and is the latest version of the Uniswap protocol. After the contributions of hundreds of community members in terms of code and through nine separate audits, along with the largest-ever security bug bounty of $15.5 million, Uniswap v4 is now deployed on multiple chains such as Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, and others. This update turns the protocol into a highly customizable developer platform where developers can define custom logic for features like pools, trading, fees, etc. by using "hooks" plugins.

Uniswap v4 contract may have been deployed, with TVL currently standing at around $1 million.

On January 31st, the Uniswap v4 Contract might have been launched. According to DefiLlama's data, the current Total Value Locked (TVL) of the Uniswap v4 contract is approximately $1 million.

Uniswap Foundation Announces First Batch of Audit Grants Recipients

On January 23rd, the Uniswap Foundation made an announcement regarding the first batch of recipients of the audit grant. These recipients included 9 projects such as Bunni, Collar Protocol, Cork Protocol, Gamma, LIKWID, Lumis, Tenor Labs, Paladin, and Unicord. This grant originated from the $1.2 million Uniswap Foundation Security Fund (UFSF) that was pledged to Areta in October 2024. The purpose of this fund is to provide security audit support for the Uniswap v4 Hooks development teams. The selected projects cover various tracks including re-collateralization, credit default swaps, limit orders, margin trading, and more. The UFSF will offer a full subsidy for the audit fees to the eligible teams.

Uniswap Wallet Integrates Flashbots Protection Feature to Mitigate MEV Attacks

On January 23rd, Uniswap Labs made an announcement that its mobile wallet has incorporated the Flashbots protection feature. This provides users with automatic protection for all their transactions on the Ethereum network, thereby effectively preventing MEV attacks like Front-running and Sandwich Attacks.

Uniswap Labs has announced that the v4 version is expected to be deployed next week

On January 22nd, Uniswap Labs officially announced that "The deployment of version 4 will commence its rollout this week, allowing developers to test on-chain hooks and integrations. We anticipate that all contracts will be deployed by next week and go live officially. The DeFi revival is in progress, and the contract address will be shared shortly."