Uniswap


Finance

DeFi Must Get Easier to Use to Win Over Retail Customers, Uniswap Survey Finds

Many respondents said they are put off by the complexity and cost of on-chain trading.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bakkt Mass Delists Tokens Including Aave, Avalanche, Compound, Filecoin, MakerDAO and Uniswap

Intercontinental Exchange-owned Bakkt discontinued its consumer-facing app in February as it shifts away from retail

Bakkt Holdings, Inc. leadership outside the New York Stock Exchange following a successful merger with VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings to take the firm public. (NYSE)

Markets

Decentralized Exchange Uniswap Trading Volume Outpaces Coinbase for 4th Consecutive Month

Uniswap, the decentralized exchange, outpaced centralized exchange Coinbase in April.

(Sage D. Young/CoinDesk/CCData)

Finance

Polychain Snubs Lucrative Crypto Arbitrage, Prepares to Trade $6M of ROOK Token on Uniswap

After activist investors successfully lobbied for a major overhaul of ROOK, a potentially very lucrative trading opportunity opened up for token holders.

Polychain CEO Olaf Carlson-Wee (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Uniswap Weighs Proposal to Enrich Token Holders, Switch on Liquidity Pool Fees

The plan to turn on fees for some of Uniswap’s liquidity pools would funnel money to the protocol’s treasury and token holders.

(Sanja Baljkas/Getty Images)

Finance

CeFi Exchanges Helped Mass Crypto Adoption; DeFi Will Further It

Centralized exchanges will continue to serve as a first step into crypto but decentralized exchanges will further the future of financial systems, panelists say at Consensus.

Sidney Powell, Salman Banaei and Nathan Cha at Consensus 2023 (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Tech

SushiSwap to Propose Tokenomics Changes to Promote Adoption of DEX Upgrade

Changes to the protocol’s “Chef” contracts are intended to make the protocol more decentralized and secure. 

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Videos

'Pepe the Frog' Meme Coins Surge as Crypto Twitter Moves Over Dogecoin Obsession

Some Crypto Twitter traders seem to be moving over Shiba Inu-fashioned tokens to those branded after the internet meme Pepe the Frog. A pepe (PEPE) token launched Sunday ran over 21,000% in the past three days, raking in $30 million in trading volumes on Uniswap and reaching a market capitalization of as high as $33 million on Tuesday morning. "The Hash" panel discusses the latest fad in the meme economy.

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Finance

DeFi Exchange Uniswap Launches Mobile Wallet

The wallet will allow users to buy crypto and swap funds among various DeFi platforms.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Markets

Uniswap Topped Coinbase’s Trading Volume in March During USDC Depeg, U.S. Crackdown

The DEX, however, has been unable to maintain elevated periods of trading volumes in the past, CCData noted.

(CoinDesk/CCData)