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Tech

Uniswap Labs Officially Launches Layer-2 ‘Unichain’

Powered by Optimism's OP stack, Unichain—like other layer-2s on Ethereum—offers faster and cheaper transactions compared to Ethereum's mainnet.

Uniswap Labs CEO Hayden Adams (Uniswap Labs)

Tech

Uniswap Vote Delay Shows DeFi Stakeholders Aren't All in It Together

The Uniswap Foundation keeps punting on a "fee switch" proposal that would give UNI governance token holders a cut of liquidity providers' revenue.

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Markets

Uniswap Foundation Shares Balance Sheet as Fee Vote Nears

The Uniswap Foundation's balance sheet shows $41.41 million in fiat and stablecoins and 730,000 UNI tokens.

Floatie in the form of a unicorn, the emblematic mythical creature featured in Uniswap's logo and marketing materials. (Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Uniswap's UNI Gains 20% as Token Reward Proposal Inches Closer to Approval

Uniswap's reward sharing mechanism, if approved, could inspire other DeFi protocols to follow suit.

UNI price more than doubled since the plan for the revenue sharing mechanism became public on Feb. 23 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Uniswap's UNI Jumps 60% on Proposal to Reward Token Holders in Major Governance Overhaul

The upgrade would reward UNI token holders who staked and delegated their tokens, according to the proposal.

Uniswap's UNI token price (CoinDesk)

Videos

Uniswap Approves Axelar for Cross-Chain Interoperability

The Uniswap Foundation released its Bridge Assessment Report recently, a major community undertaking that saw the decentralized exchange (DEX) formally examine some of the core infrastructure powering the Uniswap DAO's governance process. Wormhole and Axelar took the top honors after a months-long assessment. Axelar CEO and co-founder Sergey Gorbunov discusses the analysis and the potential vulnerabilities of cross-chain bridges.

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Web3

Uniswap DAO Community Members Vote in Favor of New Governance Process

After a week-long vote that ended Wednesday, nearly 100% were in favor of making changes to the voting process in an effort to reduce friction associated with community governance.

(Dall-E/CoinDesk)

Finance

Uniswap Foundation Proposes Changes to Crypto DEX's Governance, Voting Processes

The proposal, which will be brought to a vote next week, aims to reduce friction in governance by reframing the steps that bring proposals to votes.

Uniswap unicorn balloon (Getty Images)

Videos

Uniswap Community Creates Foundation to Support Open-Source Development

Community members of decentralized exchange Uniswap have voted to create the Uniswap Foundation, an organization aiming to support open-source development and community governance within the protocol. “The Hash” panel discusses the implications for the Uniswap ecosystem, Ethereum, and the state of DeFi.

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