Tagged: uniswap

September 4, 2024 @ 1:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC has ordered Uniswap to pay a $175,000 civil monetary penalty in regard to allowing “illegal digital asset derivatives trading.” The CFTC said the enforcement action was part of a broader strategy of targeting DeFi or decentralized finance firms. The… Read More

May 13, 2024 @ 5:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Research from Uniswap Labs proposes a new methodology for measuring price improvements across Order Flow Auctions (OFAs). Uniswap has been an enabler of automated market makers (AMMs) – which have gained significant traction over the past few years. The Uniswap Protocol alone has “processed over… Read More

May 1, 2024 @ 6:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Users of the Uniswap mobile app can now buy crypto with a debit card, via bank transfer, or directly from their Robinhood balance using Robinhood Connect (available only for users in the United States). To mark this launch, Robinhood is reportedly “giving $10 of USDC… Read More

April 23, 2024 @ 9:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The future is multichain, according to an update from Uniswap Labs. Over 3M addresses have swapped on multiple chains with Uniswap, the team at Uniswap Labs reveals. As covered, the Uniswap Protocol claims to be the largest decentralized trading and automated market-making protocol on Ethereum… Read More

April 11, 2024 @ 9:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hayden Adams, founder of Uniswap, confirmed on April 10, 2024 that Uniswap Labs received a Wells notice from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Hayden says he is not surprised but just “annoyed, disappointed, and ready to fight.” Today @Uniswap Labs received a Wells… Read More

October 6, 2023 @ 3:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

GFX Labs, the creators of Oku, the DeFi trading terminal powered by Uniswap v3, are pleased to announce their integration with zkSync Era, a Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum. This collaboration brings efficient DEX trading “to zkSync, along with the charts and analytics that… Read More

July 6, 2023 @ 4:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CFTC Commissioner Caroline D. Pham, sponsor of the Global Markets Advisory Committee (GMAC), announced new members and leadership of the GMAC and its Subcommittees on Global Market Structure, Technical Issues, and Digital Asset Markets. CFTC announces their new Digital Asset Markets Subcommittee – Members from… Read More

June 12, 2023 @ 4:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DeFi has been suffering from a silent problem for years: a liquidity management gap. The lack of these services has caused a range of issues. It leads to increased price volatility, making executing trades at fair prices challenging and resulting in potential losses for traders…. Read More

December 26, 2022 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In yet another step towards democratizing access to the world of cryptocurrencies in Latin America, Nubank (NYSE: NU) announced two more digital currencies as part of the Nubank Cripto experience, currently “available to more than 67 million of customers in Brazil.” Launched in May “with… Read More

July 2, 2022 @ 11:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BEQUANT, the digital asset prime brokerage and exchange, is pleased to announce DeFi access for institutional clients, “realized through its recent integration with Fireblocks.” Clients will be able “to cross-margin between centralized and decentralized exchanges, making arbitrage trading more efficient.” DeFi marketplaces will be “fully… Read More

March 22, 2022 @ 11:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

iZUMi Finance, a DeFi protocol bringing programmable liquidity mining to Uniswap V3, is teaming up with the HOURAI NFT project to “imbue its upcoming NFTs with value from iZUMi’s DeFi derivatives.” Each holder of HOURAI NFTs, if whitelisted (mint price at 0.1 ETH), will be… Read More

December 29, 2021 @ 7:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Coin Metric State of the Network Report #135 notes that decentralized finance (DeFi) has experienced tremendous growth during the past few years. At present, the most widely-used metric to measure DeFi adoption is called “Total Value Locked”, or TVL. According to Coin Metrics researchers,… Read More

December 21, 2021 @ 3:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Futuur, which provides a wide selection of prediction markets available at one URL, has officially launched its real-money markets to forecasters around the world.  Real-money markets have been added alongside Futuur’s already existing play-money markets, with trading available in seven cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH),… Read More

November 26, 2021 @ 3:07 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Flurry Finance, which offers cross-chain yield farming, will deploy its utility token RHO and its governance token FLURRY on the Polygon network Dec. 1. A trio of RHO tokens – rhoUSDT, rhoUSDC and rhoBUSD will also be available on the same day…. Read More

November 9, 2021 @ 9:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

izumi Finance, a protocol that’s focused on providing liquidity as a service through Uniswap Ver 3.0, has raised $2.1M in funding from established decentralized finance (DeFi) industry investors. Izumi’s round has was led by Mirana Ventures and includes participation from Everest Ventures Group, Youbi Capital,… Read More

October 18, 2021 @ 7:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hashbon, a project that aims to transform the decentralized cryptocurrency payment industry for individual users and businesses, reveals that they have expanded to the Hashbon FiRe (Finance Reinvented) ecosystem and also introduced a cross-chain DEX (CDEX), called Hashbon Rocket. The team says that they plan… Read More

September 30, 2021 @ 4:07 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

While China’s ban on cryptocurrency transactions has had a measurable effect on the markets, it’s not a death knell by any means, one industry watcher said. Earlier this month the People’s Bank of China said all virtual currency-related business activities were illegal, claiming it would… Read More

September 19, 2021 @ 11:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset platform CoinList says that its mission is to promote the advancement and adoption of crypto-assets. CoinList writes in a blog post that they have been working with some of the leading initiatives to help with powering their digital token sales, while also connecting… Read More

September 3, 2021 @ 10:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Uniswap is under investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), according to a report by Reuters. Uniswap is a DeFi leader and is said to be the largest decentralized digital asset exchange in operation. The Uniswap protocol facilitates crypto trading by utilizing smart… Read More

August 12, 2021 @ 4:50 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Zoracles project developers have entered a private beta to create the first marketplace dedicated to the price discovery and sale of Uniswap V3 NFTs. The platform will launch under the UniBond brand and is scheduled for a mainnet in the coming weeks. UniBond will become… Read More