Uniswap v4 představuje Permissioned Pools, nový standard hooků pro obchodování regulovaných aktiv s vynucením souladu přímo na chainu. Mezi partnery při spuštění patří Superstate, Securitize a Dowgo.
Today, we’re introducing Permissioned Pools, a new hook standard for Uniswap v4 that enables permissioned asset trading through Automated Market Makers (AMMs) with compliance enforced directly onchain.
Permissioned Pools were built in collaboration with leading teams bringing regulated assets onchain. Launch partners include Superstate, Securitize, and Dowgo: part of a growing set of issuers and platforms seeking compliant access to onchain markets for tokenized funds, securities, equities, and other permissioned assets.
Bringing permissioned assets to AMMs The tokenized asset market is estimated to reach $11 trillion by 2030. As more regulated assets move onchain, issuers need infrastructure that can enforce each asset’s compliance rules. Uniswap Permissioned Pools are the first generalized, open source, institutional-grade standard for trading regulated assets on an AMM. Instead of relying on a frontend gate or an offchain compliance check, the pool itself verifies whether a wallet is approved before a swap or liquidity action goes through. The issuer keeps control of the allowlist, while approved users can access onchain trading and settle through Uniswap v4.
For issuers, this opens a path to AMM liquidity and DeFi composability without giving up required controls. For approved investors, it means direct onchain trading for assets that previously couldn't trade on an AMM at all.
How Permissioned Pools work Permissioned Pools use Uniswap v4 hooks to extend the functionality of a regular pool without breaking the security and interoperability guarantees of the protocol. The particular hook implements logic that checks an issuer-managed allowlist on every swap, verifies allowlist status before a user mints an LP position, and provides support for the administration controls permissioned assets require. These checks happen at the protocol level, not on the frontend.
Behind the scenes, the design uses Uniswap v4 virtual accounting to perform all exchange calculations remotely while permissioned assets remain held in a permissioned contract. You can learn more about this mechanism in the docs.
Uniswap powers tokenized value Permissioned Pools bring a new standard for compliant trading, while the protocol itself stays permissionless. Developers and asset issuers can choose the approach that fits: deploy pools and build on v4 permissionlessly, or deploy a permissioned pool for a specific asset.
Tokenization’s next phase needs standardized market infrastructure that can handle compliance requirements, without compromising permissionless access. Permissioned Pools are the result of deep collaboration between the teams defining the standard, the teams building the compliance layer beneath it, and the issuers and assets putting it to use.
Superstate, an early design partner, helped shape the Permissioned Pool standard for tokenized equities and funds. Uniswap Labs and Securitize collaborated early on to ensure DS Protocol-issued tokens could trade compliantly onchain, laying the groundwork that Permissioned Pools now extends. Dowgo contributed the ERC-3643 integration for Permissioned Pools, and will use the standard once they receive DLT TSS authorization under the EU's DLT Pilot Regime.
With these institutions already building on the hook, Permissioned Pools lay the groundwork for the next generation of value coming onchain.
Beefy Finance spustila na Ethereum mainnetu Cowcentrated Liquidity Manager, který automatizuje správu koncentrované likvidity na Uniswap V3. Cílí na páry jako AAVE-WETH, UNI-WETH a LINK-WETH.
Beefy Finance has deployed its Cowcentrated Liquidity Manager, or CLM, on the Ethereum mainnet. The product automates the notoriously tedious process of managing concentrated liquidity positions on Uniswap V3, targeting blue-chip pairs like AAVE-WETH, UNI-WETH, and LINK-WETH.
How the CLM actually works Concentrated liquidity, for those who haven’t been deep in the DeFi weeds, is the innovation Uniswap V3 introduced that lets liquidity providers focus their capital within specific price ranges rather than spreading it across the entire price curve. In English: instead of deploying $10,000 across every possible price from zero to infinity, you pick a narrower band where trading actually happens. Capital efficiency goes way up, but so does the management burden.
Beefy’s CLM pools user deposits together into aggregated positions. It then automates three critical functions: daily compounding of trading fees back into the position, range resets every six hours, and position rebalancing that avoids selling tokens during the adjustment process.
That last detail matters more than it sounds. Many automated liquidity managers rebalance by selling one token to buy the other, which can trigger taxable events and create MEV extraction opportunities for bots. Beefy’s approach redisposes positions into 50:50 allocations alongside single-sided “alt” positions, keeping liquidity active while reducing impermanent loss exposure relative to traditional automated solutions.
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When users deposit into a CLM vault, they receive cowTokens representing their stake in the pooled position.
Two years of track record, now on Ethereum The protocol has been running these vaults across various blockchains for nearly two years, managing hundreds of millions in total value locked without any recorded failures. The Ethereum mainnet launch is less of an experiment and more of a graduation ceremony.
The blue-chip pairs Beefy is targeting—AAVE-WETH, UNI-WETH, and LINK-WETH, along with WBTC/WETH and stablecoin pairs like USDC and USDT—represent some of the most actively traded combinations on Uniswap V3.
The 9.5% performance fee undercuts the market average for automated liquidity management products, which sits around 10%.
What this means for liquidity providers For retail liquidity providers, the value proposition is straightforward. You deposit into a vault, receive cowTokens, and the protocol handles range management, fee compounding, and rebalancing.
The impermanent loss mitigation aspect deserves particular scrutiny from investors. Beefy’s approach of using single-sided alt positions alongside standard 50:50 allocations is designed to reduce this exposure, though liquidity providers should understand that no mechanism eliminates impermanent loss entirely.
The risk factors include smart contract risk, dependency on Uniswap V3’s continued operation, and the inherent volatility of the underlying assets. A 9.5% performance fee also means Beefy only earns when depositors earn, which aligns incentives in the right direction, but doesn’t eliminate the possibility of periods where yields are thin or impermanent loss exceeds fee income.
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Pons chystá V2 s integrací Uniswap V4, ETH bonding curve a výplatami pro tvůrce v ETH. Přidá také obchodní páry s tokenizovanými aktivy, včetně USDG, NVDA, AAPL a HOOD.
Pons has unveiled its V2 upgrade plan, introducing an ETH-based bonding curve, Uniswap V4 integration, creator payouts in ETH, and support for tokenized real-world asset trading pairs as Robinhood Chain’s competition among token launchpads continues to intensify.
Summary
Pons has announced its V2 upgrade with an ETH based bonding curve, Uniswap V4 integration, and creator payouts in ETH. The update will support custom trading pairs including tokenized assets such as USDG, NVDA, AAPL, and HOOD while removing trading restrictions for regular wallets. The release comes as Robinhood Chain’s launchpad market continues to evolve after Noxa’s exit and growing competition among rival platforms. According to an announcement published by the Pons team, the update is scheduled for next week and will redesign how tokens launch, trade, and transition into decentralized liquidity pools on Robinhood Chain. The team said the contracts are still undergoing audits with two partners, meaning every feature remains subject to change until deployment.
Pons said the latest version was shaped by user feedback gathered during the platform’s first weeks of operation. The team also said it had stabilized the protocol with infrastructure partners after dealing with several attacks following its launch and plans to continue building products for Robinhood Chain traders.
Bonding curve and new trading model One of the biggest changes in Pons V2 is the replacement of its previous launch model with an ETH-denominated bonding curve.
The team said trading restrictions will remain configurable only for developer wallets while all other wallets will be able to trade freely. According to Pons, the change is intended to eliminate failed transactions experienced by third-party trading applications under the earlier version.
Developers will also be able to launch tokens against custom trading pairs instead of ETH alone. The announcement listed assets including USDG, NVDA, AAPL, and HOOD as examples, allowing deployers to create markets tied to tokenized real-world assets or other supported tokens.
The expansion comes as Robinhood Chain continues building infrastructure around tokenized financial products. As crypto.news previously reported, Robinhood has already introduced transferable stock tokens backed one-for-one by underlying shares while positioning the Ethereum Layer 2 network as infrastructure for tokenized securities and decentralized finance.
Earlier this week, a FalconX research primer found that Robinhood Chain had accumulated approximately $431 million in total value locked, nearly $400 million in stablecoin market capitalization, and close to $9 billion in cumulative decentralized exchange volume within three weeks of launch. The report also found that more than 80% of decentralized exchange activity still comes from memecoin trading despite the network’s long-term focus on tokenized assets.
New fee structure and automatic graduation Pons also plans to redesign how creators and the protocol collect fees.
According to the announcement, V2 will use Uniswap V4 pools and Hooks so creators receive payouts in ETH by default instead of accumulating fees in the launched token. The protocol said fee conversion will occur within the liquidity pool, allowing creators to avoid receiving small balances of memecoins that might otherwise be sold on the open market.
Deployers seeking exposure to their own tokens will need to purchase them through the market like other participants rather than receiving them automatically through protocol mechanics.
Liquidity migration has also been redesigned. Instead of launching directly into Uniswap V3 pools, new tokens will remain on the bonding curve until reaching 4.2 ETH, the same graduation threshold used previously.
Once that level is reached, the protocol said an automated two-step process will transfer liquidity into a permanently locked full-range Uniswap V4 position. If a token is paired with an asset other than ETH, the accumulated ETH will first be swapped into the selected quote asset before the liquidity pool is created.
According to the team, permanently locking the resulting liquidity position is intended to prevent liquidity from being withdrawn after graduation.
Creator payouts and governance features Alongside ETH payouts, Pons said creators will have the option at deployment to receive protocol fees in another supported asset, including stablecoins or tokenized real-world assets such as USDG.
The team said the feature allows deployers to receive more predictable payouts or gain exposure to different assets instead of relying entirely on their token’s market performance.
Governance tools are also being updated. Pons said V2 will introduce a CTO feature protected by a three-day timelock after an oversight in the V1 contracts prevented protocol administrators from changing the fee recipient. According to the announcement, the delay is intended to give communities advance notice and time to react if a malicious attempt is made to take control of a project.
Another planned addition is an optional transaction tax applied to token purchases and sales. The protocol said integration partners could use the collected fees for yield generation or other holder incentives through reflection-style token models.
Competition grows after Noxa’s exit The update arrives as Robinhood Chain’s launchpad market continues to evolve following the departure of its earliest market leader.
As crypto.news previously reported, Noxa halted new token launches on July 11 after generating more than $12 million in protocol fees and supporting over 60,000 token launches, accounting for roughly 75% of all deployments on Robinhood Chain. The platform later became unavailable before announcing that future trading fees would be redirected entirely to token creators.
Noxa’s shutdown was followed by declines in several of the chain’s most actively traded memecoins, including CASHCAT, while rival launchpads such as flap.sh, trensh.today, bankr, and Pons began competing for displaced activity.
Although Robinhood Chain has continued attracting users and liquidity, FalconX said speculative memecoin trading remains the network’s largest source of decentralized exchange volume. The addition of custom RWA trading pairs alongside updated memecoin launch mechanics positions Pons to participate in both areas of the ecosystem as Robinhood Chain expands its on-chain financial products.
The Pons team said the V2 contracts are expected to be deployed next week after ongoing audits are completed, with token launches initially taking place through the platform’s ponsfamily.com domain.
UNI zaznamenal největší odliv z burz v roce 2026: během 24 hodin opustilo obchodní platformy přibližně 8,4 milionu UNI. Současně peněženka stará čtyři roky nakoupila 82,891 tisíce UNI za zhruba 305 000 USD.
Uniswap [UNI] continues drawing renewed attention. This comes after exchange balances recorded their largest decline of 2026. Around 8.4 million UNI left trading platforms within 24 hours, ending weeks of relatively stable exchange flows.
Normally, large outflows from exchanges are indicative of investors moving assets to self-custody or DeFi applications. Therefore, this removes the tokens from the potential for immediate supply.
In UNI’s case, the timing also coincides with renewed focus on its fee and burn narrative, Robinhood Chain launch, tokenized asset support, and Spark’s $150 million v4 liquidity migration. This could encourage longer holding periods.
Source: Santiment However, exchange outflows alone do not necessarily guarantee sustained accumulation. This is because later on, tokens can return to exchanges if market sentiment weakens.
Nevertheless, when combined with increasing network activity, continued decreases in exchange outflows would likely validate increased conviction among holders.
Alternatively, a reversal in exchange flow trends would indicate that the recent optimism was short-lived rather than the start of a larger trend towards accumulation.
UNI attracts fresh whale accumulation Following the drop in the exchange supply of UNI, there was also a new increase in the accumulation by a HODLer. A four-year-old wallet built a new 82.891K UNI position worth roughly $305,000, completing the purchase in three transactions at an average price of $3.68.
Source: Arkham The timing of the accumulation was notable. This is because UNI had already gained 3.33% over the past week and 23.59% over the last month. Thus, it appears that UNI’s price movement was improving even before the accumulation began.
Source: Arkham Moreover, the accumulation indicates that the wallet was responding to strengthening market conditions rather than attempting to catch a falling asset. Nevertheless, one transaction cannot determine a larger trend since even shorter-term increases in price can reverse.
If additional long-term wallets continue accumulating while UNI extends its recent gains, the improving price structure would carry stronger conviction across the market.
That aside, on-chain activity presents a mixed picture for Uniswap’s accumulation narrative.
However, both new wallet creation and unique trader growth have generally slowed down. Meanwhile, protocol fees support over 107 million UNI burned, strengthening token economics.
All this together, lasting trading activity, rather than parked capital, will determine whether tighter supply translates into sustained demand and broader price strength across upcoming market cycles instead of temporary momentum alone.
Final Summary Uniswap saw record exchange outflows, but sustained demand will determine whether accumulation continues. UNI attracted fresh whale buying, while stronger network activity could confirm a lasting recovery.
Uniswap zveřejnil open source DualPool hook pro v4 po dokončeném auditu. Má umožnit, aby nevyužitá likvidita zároveň vydělávala na poplatcích i výnosech z vaultů.
Uniswap just shipped one of the more quietly significant upgrades in DeFi this year. The DualPool hook, built for Uniswap v4, has completed its audit and is now open source, meaning any team can deploy it to start earning on both active trading liquidity and the capital that’s just sitting there doing nothing.
Here’s the thing: in traditional AMM design, a huge chunk of liquidity provider capital sits idle at any given moment. It’s committed to the pool but not actively facilitating trades. The DualPool hook turns that dead weight into a yield-generating asset by routing idle funds into vaults, including ERC-4626 yield vaults, while keeping them available when a trade needs them.
How the DualPool hook actually works Think of it like a savings account that doubles as a checking account. Your money earns interest when it’s not being spent, but it’s instantly accessible the moment you need to write a check. In DeFi terms, liquidity sits in a yield vault until a trade hits the relevant price range, at which point it gets pulled back into the pool to facilitate the swap.
In English: LPs no longer have to choose between earning trading fees and earning vault yields. They get both.
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The hook supports customization across several dimensions. Teams can set tailored tick ranges, which determine the price boundaries where their liquidity is active. They can also choose between single deposits or pooled deposit options, making the system flexible enough for both correlated pairs like stablecoin-to-stablecoin swaps and more volatile asset combinations.
Uniswap has also rolled out developer resources alongside the launch, including official documentation and livestreams aimed at walking teams through implementation.
Spark’s $150 million vote of confidence The DualPool hook isn’t launching into a vacuum. Spark, the lending and liquidity protocol associated with MakerDAO’s ecosystem, migrated $150 million in stablecoin liquidity to Uniswap v4 in June 2026. That migration was specifically designed to leverage the DualPool architecture for Spark’s FX layer, which handles conversions between different stablecoins.
Spark’s use case also illustrates why the DualPool hook is particularly compelling for stablecoins. Foreign exchange layers for stablecoins require deep liquidity to minimize slippage, but because stablecoin pairs have narrow price ranges, the vast majority of that liquidity is idle at any given time. Routing it into yield vaults while it waits is, frankly, obvious in hindsight.
What this means for investors and the broader DeFi landscape The core thesis here is capital efficiency. DualPool takes a different approach by accepting that some liquidity will always be idle and making that idle capital productive rather than trying to eliminate it.
The risk, of course, is smart contract complexity. Every additional layer of composability, vaults on top of hooks on top of pools, adds potential attack surface. The completed audit is reassuring, but DeFi history is littered with audited contracts that still got exploited. Teams deploying DualPool should be treating their vault integrations with the same paranoia they’d apply to any financial infrastructure handling meaningful capital.
For traders and investors watching from the sidelines, the key metric to track will be total value locked in DualPool-enabled pools over the coming months. If the $150 million from Spark is just the beginning and other protocols follow suit, Uniswap v4 could see a meaningful influx of sticky liquidity that makes its pools consistently deeper than the competition’s.
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Uniswap vygeneroval na Robinhood Chain 18 milionů USD na poplatcích za poskytování likvidity od spuštění mainnetu. Síť zároveň překročila 1 miliardu USD kumulovaného objemu obchodů za devět dní.
Uniswap’s liquidity providers have racked up $18 million in fees on the Robinhood Chain since the Layer 2 network launched its public mainnet on July 1. Uniswap crossed $1 billion in cumulative trading volume on Robinhood Chain by July 10, just nine days after launch. Daily trading volume peaked at nearly $500 million, fueled in large part by tokenized stock trading and Robinhood’s existing user base discovering DeFi for the first time.
How Robinhood Chain became a DeFi magnet overnight Robinhood Chain launched with Uniswap already deployed as the primary automated market maker. Uniswap deployed v2, v3, v4, and UniswapX simultaneously on day one, meaning the chain had functioning liquidity infrastructure from the moment it went live.
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Over $70 million in ETH was bridged to the platform during its first week of operation alone. Uniswap’s total value locked on Robinhood Chain surpassed $106 million shortly after launch.
Governance moves signal long-term commitment By mid-July, proposals emerged to extend the protocol fee structure to cover activity on Robinhood Chain. One particularly notable discussion centered on routing fees from Uniswap v4 through a mechanism called TokenJar, which would be used for burning UNI tokens on the Ethereum mainnet. The governance discussions also touched on fee activation for v2 and v3 deployments.
Beyond governance, Uniswap has introduced on-chain auctions on the platform and pursued partnerships designed to expand the Robinhood Chain ecosystem.
What this means for investors For UNI holders specifically, the governance proposals around fee activation and token burning deserve close attention. If the protocol fee switch gets turned on for Robinhood Chain, it would add a significant new revenue stream to the Uniswap protocol. The $500 million daily volume peaks represent substantial fee-generating potential.
Robinhood brought roughly 23 million funded accounts to the table when it entered crypto. The $106 million in TVL and billion-dollar volume milestone suggest that when you reduce friction and pair decentralized infrastructure with a familiar brand, retail traders are willing to make the jump.
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Uniswap zpracoval za jediný týden objem přes 15 miliard USD, čímž výrazně předčil všechny ostatní DEX. Růst táhnou nové integrace a snaha governance aktivovat poplatky pro burn UNI.
Uniswap just moved more than $15 billion in trading volume in a single week. To put that in perspective, that’s roughly the annual GDP of Iceland, except it happened on a protocol that nobody technically owns and that runs 24/7 without a lunch break.
The figure places Uniswap well ahead of every other decentralized exchange by volume. But what’s making this milestone particularly interesting isn’t just the raw number. It’s the convergence of new chain integrations, institutional partnerships, and governance moves that suggest the protocol is entering a fundamentally different phase.
What’s driving the volume surge Uniswap v4 has been steadily onboarding new networks, and one of the more notable additions is Robinhood Chain, which recorded $6 billion in trading volume as of July 19. That’s a single chain contributing nearly 40% of the protocol’s weekly haul.
In late June, Spark migrated $150 million in liquidity to Uniswap v4. Moves like that don’t just add depth to order books. They signal confidence from major DeFi players that v4’s architecture, with its hook-based customization and improved capital efficiency, is worth building on.
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Governance gets aggressive on UNI burns Between July 19 and July 26, Uniswap’s governance process advanced votes focused on activating protocol fees across multiple chains, with the explicit goal of using those fees to support UNI token burns.
Protocol fees get collected from trading activity across chains, then channeled into buying and burning UNI. With $15 billion flowing through the protocol weekly, even a small fee percentage translates into substantial burn pressure.
Uniswap Labs also allocated a $20 million annual growth budget for UNI at the start of 2026, giving the team resources to fund ecosystem development, incentive programs, and strategic partnerships without constantly going back to governance for spending approvals.
The institutional bridge keeps widening The involvement of entities like BlackRock in Uniswap’s ecosystem represents a quiet but significant evolution. Traditional finance isn’t just buying Bitcoin and parking it in cold storage anymore. It’s engaging with DeFi infrastructure directly, using decentralized liquidity pools for tokenized asset trading.
The Robinhood Chain integration is particularly telling. Robinhood has spent years building a retail brokerage audience, and now that audience has a direct pipeline into Uniswap’s liquidity.
What this means for investors Protocol fees tied to volume create a direct link between Uniswap’s usage and UNI’s scarcity. If weekly volume stays anywhere near $15 billion and fees are activated even at modest rates, the annualized burn could become a significant percentage of UNI’s circulating supply.
The risk side of the equation centers on regulatory uncertainty and smart contract exposure. Uniswap has already faced scrutiny from the SEC in prior years. The protocol’s decentralized nature provides some insulation, but the Labs entity behind it remains a potential target. Meanwhile, v4’s hook system introduces new smart contract surface area that hasn’t been battle-tested at this scale for very long.
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Uniswap spouští hlasování o aktivaci protokolových poplatků pro vybrané v4 pooly na 11 blockchainových sítích. V předběžném hlasování návrh podpořilo 93 % voličů.
Uniswap is about to flip the fee switch on its newest protocol version, and the community seems pretty enthusiastic about it. On-chain voting for two proposals that would activate protocol fees on select v4 pools across 11 chains is set to begin around July 19, 2026, following a temperature check where 93% of voters backed the move.
That temperature check, which ran from July 7-12, saw 13.9 million UNI vote in favor versus just 1 million against.
What the fee activation actually looks like The proposal targets three specific categories of v4 pools: static fee pools without hooks, continuous clearing auction pools, and aggregator hook pools. If you’re wondering what hooks are, think of them as customizable plug-ins that let developers tweak how liquidity pools behave. Uniswap v4, which launched on January 31, 2025, introduced this modular architecture as its signature feature.
The fee structures aren’t uniform across all pools. On Base, stablecoin pools would carry a 10 basis point fee. Certain aggregator hooks would get a 25x multiplier applied. The collected fees won’t just sit around on whatever chain they’re generated on. They’ll funnel into what Uniswap calls TokenJars on their respective chains before being bridged back to Ethereum.
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Once those fees land on Ethereum, they get directed to the 0xdead address for permanent burning, reducing total supply.
This isn’t Uniswap’s first rodeo with fee-driven burns. The December 2025 UNIfication vote initiated protocol fees for v2 and v3 pools, and the results have been tangible. Uniswap recently recorded a single-day burn of 186,000 UNI from v2/v3 fees alone. Now the protocol wants to extend that same economic engine to its latest version.
From governance token to deflationary asset UNI spent years as a token whose primary utility was voting on proposals. The UNIfication package that passed in late 2025 fundamentally changed that equation by creating a direct link between protocol revenue and token supply reduction.
Extending this to v4 pools across 11 chains, including Ethereum and Base, significantly broadens the fee collection surface area. The protocol isn’t just adding fees to a few pools on mainnet. It’s building a multi-chain revenue pipeline that ultimately compresses back to a single deflationary action on Ethereum.
The liquidity provider concern Not everyone’s celebrating. Some community members have raised concerns about what protocol fees mean for liquidity providers. When the protocol takes a cut, that fee comes from somewhere, and that somewhere is often the returns that LPs would otherwise pocket.
The 93% approval rate suggests most governance participants believe the tradeoff is worth it, but governance voters and liquidity providers aren’t always the same people. Large UNI holders who benefit from burns might vote differently than someone running a concentrated liquidity position on a stablecoin pair.
For investors tracking the UNI token specifically, the expansion of fee collection to v4 pools across 11 chains materially increases the burn rate potential. The 186,000 UNI single-day burn from v2/v3 alone demonstrated real economic impact. The on-chain vote starting around July 19 will determine whether that thesis gets tested in production.
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Uniswap podal tři návrhy na aktivaci protokolového poplatku napříč sítěmi a verzemi DEX, což má podle Haydena Adamse výrazně zvýšit burn UNI. Projekt už spálil 107,49 mil. UNI.
Uniswap has officially submitted three governance proposals for protocol fee activation across several chains and different versions of the DEX.
The first fee proposal will be for versions 2 (V2) and 3 (V3) on the Robinhood chain. The new Ethereum L2 debuted this month, attracting several DEXes, including Uniswap. About 10 days after launch, Uniswap crossed $1B in trading volume – ultimately showing its growing traction.
Similarly, the project seeks to activate fees on V4 across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Robinhood, BNB Chain, Polygon and Optimism. Hayden Adams, Uniswap’s CEO, added that a third fee proposal for remaining V4 chains will also be submitted soon.
Adams said,
Both direct all new protocol fees into the existing UNI burn mechanism. Based on current volumes, especially Robinhood, we expect the impact on UNI burn to be substantial.
Mixed reactions to Uniswap’s fee proposal For clarity, fees are what users pay for each swap on the DEX, and they mostly go to liquidity providers (LPs). Protocol revenue (which is partly directed for UNI burn) is a percentage of the swap fees that goes to the project after a governance vote.
In other words, such proposals would directly reduce fees collected by LPs. As such, it was not surprising that some LP providers like Gamma Strategies opposed V4 fee proposals because they would affect their lifeline.
Still, Gamma Strategies made a sound argument for their opposition, noting that Uniswap V4 was still not competitive enough and the fees would make it lose to rivals.
It (V4) still lags Uniswap V3 in terms of volumes, and there’s evermore increasing competition from AMMs, propAMMs, RFQ’s, and spot limit order book DEX’s such as Lighter/Hyperliquid.
Source: Uniswap governance That said, Uniswap has only activated fees across a few chains and versions. However, most of the fees collected go to LPs.
In fact, LPs have made a whopping +$5B in cumulative fees since 2018. Yet, the protocol has made only $25M in cumulative revenue.
Source: DeFiLlama If the proposal goes through and is balanced with competition, more protocol revenue would translate to more UNI burn rates, as Adams projected.
That said, the project has now burned a total of 107.49M UNI tokens. UNI burn rate surged 3x from $51K to over $160K in the past week.
Can UNI extend its July rally? The Robinhood traction was front-run by traders as the Uniswap [UNI] price surged. In July, UNI price surged 41% from $2.7 to $3.8.
But the bullish strength has eased as the price stalled below the 200-day Moving Average (blue line). As such, price could remain sideways above $3.5 or slip to $3 if Robinhood momentum stabilizes.
Source: UNI/USDT, TradingView But the next move higher could be triggered by renewed Robinhood momentum and if the fee proposals drive more UNI burn.
Final Summary Uniswap pushes three fee protocol fee proposals to accelerate UNI burn. Currently, Uniswap LPs have accrued over $5B while the protocol makes relatively little revenue
@RobinhoodCrypto's Ethereum Layer 2 network is only 16 days old, and it is already moving serious money. Robinhood Chain recorded $5.254 billion in weekly DEX volume, a 490% jump week over week, according to DefiLlama data. For a chain that only opened its public mainnet on July 1, 2026, the numbers are difficult to ignore.
Uniswap Is Doing Almost All of the Work The volume story is largely a single-protocol story. @Uniswap accounted for $588.93 million of the $594.74 million traded on the chain in the most recent 24-hour window, making every other protocol on Robinhood Chain a rounding error by comparison. That concentration reflects Uniswap's position as the designated public liquidity layer on the network, a role it was given at launch alongside infrastructure partners including Chainlink, BitGo, and Morpho.
Robinhood Chain was built on Arbitrum's Orbit technology and settles to Ethereum as an optimistic rollup. The chain was unveiled at Robinhood's "The World Is Flat" event in London and was positioned from the outset as infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets, offering stock tokens available in more than 120 countries alongside a DeFi lending product called Robinhood Earn, which routes user deposits into a Morpho-powered USDG vault at an estimated 7% annual yield.
Strong Flows, But TVL Lags the Volume The gap between trading activity and capital locked on the chain is wide. DeFi TVL stands at $220 million against $5.25 billion in weekly volume, with $816 million bridged into the network. The chain itself booked $175,178 in revenue in a single day, a meaningful figure for a network still in its first weeks.
The chain's stated focus on tokenized real-world assets remains a small part of the actual activity. Early volume has been driven heavily by speculation, including a surge in meme coin trading, rather than the tokenized stock use case Robinhood originally advertised. Still, the raw throughput has been enough to push Robinhood Chain into the top tier of DEX networks globally. On July 12, the chain ranked second in 24-hour DEX volume across all networks, trailing only Solana, according to DefiLlama data.
The chain launched with a built-in distribution advantage that most new L2 networks do not have. Robinhood operates a brokerage serving nearly 28 million customers, giving the network a ready-made audience from day one. Whether that early volume converts into sustained DeFi activity and genuine RWA adoption will be the question to watch in the weeks ahead.
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Robinhood Chain on DefiLlama: TVL, Volume and Revenue
CoinDesk: Robinhood Rolls Out Public Blockchain
Bitcoin.com: Robinhood Chain Surges Past $3 Billion in DEX Volume
Robinhood Chain has been live for barely a week, and USDG liquidity on Uniswap has already doubled. The Paxos-issued stablecoin’s total value locked on the protocol climbed past $8.5 million, up from roughly half that just seven days ago.
Robinhood Chain’s first week, by the numbers Robinhood Chain, an Arbitrum-based Layer 2 network, officially launched its public mainnet on July 1, 2026. Uniswap deployed as the primary automated market maker from day one, essentially serving as the chain’s liquidity backbone.
The entire chain’s TVL crossed $100 million within days of going live, and Uniswap alone has captured over $30 million of that liquidity.
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Trading volume on Uniswap reportedly reached as high as $500 million during the first week.
USDG now represents around 65% of the total stablecoin supply on Robinhood Chain.
Why USDG is growing so fast Ethena made a $50 million deposit into a USDG vault curated by Steakhouse Financial.
Robinhood Earn, a yield product built around USDG, offers an estimated 7% APY through structured vaults managed by Steakhouse Financial.
What this means for investors When a single stablecoin accounts for 65% of a chain’s stablecoin supply, the ecosystem’s health becomes tightly coupled to that one asset. If USDG faces a de-peg event, regulatory challenge, or liquidity crisis, the ripple effects across Robinhood Chain would be disproportionately severe.
Uniswap’s position as the flagship AMM on Robinhood Chain gives it a first-mover advantage, with over $30 million in liquidity already captured and $500 million in first-week trading volume.
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Komunita Uniswap hlasuje ze 74 % pro návrh na trvalý burn UNI, který by navázal hodnotu tokenu na využití protokolu. Robinhood Chain už překročil 1 miliardu USD v kumulativním objemu swapů.
Uniswap [UNI] has opened community voting on a proposal that could introduce the protocol’s first sustained UNI burn mechanism. The initiative spans three governance votes.
They include protocol fee activation on Robinhood Chain, v4 deployment, and bridge infrastructure across all other chains.
If Uniswap members approve the proposals, the protocol will begin depositing fees into TokenJar accounts. At press time, the voting stood at 74% in support of the proposal.
Once there, users can acquire an amount of UNI sufficient to burn it completely and in turn collect their UNI from the TokenJar account.
Source: X The proposal will link the supply of UNI with the actual use of the protocol rather than just providing incentives through governance.
Protocol revenue strengthens UNI value capture That potential shift becomes more meaningful when viewed alongside Uniswap’s growing protocol revenue. Every increase in trading activity would generate additional fees, creating more opportunities to remove UNI from circulation through the proposed burn mechanism.
Currently, according to DefiLlama data, Uniswap generates approximately $5 million per day in fees. Moreover, its annual protocol revenue stands near $50 million.
As v4 deployments and Robinhood Chain attract more trading volume, fee generation could continue expanding.
Despite that, the projected burn rate remains modest relative to UNI’s total supply. Still, the mechanism introduces a lasting connection between protocol usage and token scarcity.
If network activity continues growing, UNI’s long-term value could increasingly reflect organic protocol demand rather than governance incentives alone.
Robinhood Chain tests Uniswap’s growth strategy Whether the burn mechanism delivers meaningful results now depends on user adoption rather than governance alone. Robinhood Chain has quickly become an early test of that thesis after surpassing $1 billion in cumulative swap volume within days of launch.
That momentum suggests Uniswap’s ecosystem is reaching users beyond its traditional base. Rising wallet interactions and swap activity further indicate participation extends beyond speculative interest.
However, sustained success will depend on retaining those users over time. If daily transactions and liquidity continue expanding, Robinhood Chain could become an increasingly important contributor to Uniswap’s long-term protocol growth.
Final Summary Uniswap could link long-term token value to protocol usage through its proposed fee-funded burn mechanism. Uniswap adoption on Robinhood Chain will determine whether sustained burns meaningfully strengthen token scarcity.
Uniswap spustil aukce CCA a nástroj Uniswap Auctions na Robinhood Chain. Uživatelé mohou v Uniswap Web App aukce spouštět, prohlížet, přihazovat i uplatnit na jednom místě.
Robinhood Chain auction listings will now surface directly in the Uniswap Web App, where users can launch, browse, bid and claim tokens in one place.
Uniswap said its Continuous Clearing Auctions, known as CCA, and Uniswap Auctions tool are now live on Robinhood Chain, letting teams run fully onchain token sales on the network.
The official Uniswap account said the launch lets teams "run fully onchain token auctions," "discover a credible market price" and "bootstrap liquidity on Uniswap v4," the protocol's latest exchange version.
As part of the rollout, Robinhood Chain auctions will now be listed inside the Uniswap Web App rather than a separate interface. Uniswap said users will be able to "launch, browse, bid, and claim all in one place" once a project sets up an auction on the chain.
A companion post from Uniswap's blog said teams can configure and launch an auction directly from the web app, with CCA functioning as the protocol's liquidity bootstrapping mechanism, running price discovery over multiple blocks before tokens move to a Uniswap v4 pool.
The integration extends Uniswap's no-code auction tool launched last month to Robinhood's own network, which went live with its mainnet in early July and has since seen surging activity tied to memecoin trading.
TLDR: Uniswap daily fees reached about $5.2 million in 24 hours, placing the decentralized exchange near the top of current crypto fee rankings. Robinhood Chain supplied roughly $4.38 million of the total, far exceeding Ethereum and Base during the same measured period. Only about $73,454 counted as 24-hour protocol earnings, as most swap fees still flowed to liquidity providers rather than UNI holders. Governance proposals could extend protocol fees and the UNI token burn system to v4 pools and Robinhood Chain after community approval. Uniswap daily fees reached about $5.2 million in 24 hours, placing the DEX near the top of crypto fee rankings. Founder Hayden Adams highlighted the figure on X, saying only USDC and USDT generated more fees. DefiLlama recorded $5.16 million during the same period, supporting his estimate.
Robinhood Chain supplied most of that total after launching on July 1. The sharp increase shows how quickly new networks can redirect trading activity. UNI traded near $3.62, up about 35% from its early-July low near $2.70. Yet the token still sits roughly 92% below its 2021 peak.
Uniswap Daily Fees Surge as Robinhood Chain Takes Lead Robinhood Chain contributed about $4.38 million of the reported Uniswap daily fees. Ethereum produced roughly $296,000, while Base added about $288,000. That distribution marks a sudden shift from Uniswap’s traditional Ethereum-led activity.
The Arbitrum Orbit network launched with Uniswap v2, v3, v4, and UniswapX available from day one. Cumulative swap volume crossed $1 billion by July 10, according to a Uniswap governance post. The chain also recorded a 24-hour Uniswap volume peak near $500 million during its first week.
Across seven days, Robinhood Chain generated $10.98 million of Uniswap’s $20.1 million in total fees. That share made the new network Uniswap’s largest short-term fee source. It also placed Robinhood Chain above Ethereum and Base during the measured period. The fee spike shows how concentrated short-term trading activity can become.
Uniswap daily fees reflect charges paid through swaps, but they do not equal protocol income. DefiLlama listed only $73,454 in 24-hour earnings for Uniswap. Most trading fees still flow to liquidity providers instead of the treasury or UNI holders.
The distinction matters when comparing Uniswap with stablecoin issuers or centralized exchanges. Annualizing one strong day would imply almost $1.9 billion in fees. Still, that calculation does not show how much value the protocol retains.
UNI Burn Vote Tests the Value of Rising Protocol Activity Uniswap governance is now considering a wider protocol fee rollout. One proposal would activate fees across v4 pools on several supported networks. Another would extend fee collection and UNI burns to Robinhood Chain.
The Robinhood Chain temperature check runs from July 10 through July 15. It covers v2, v3, and v4 deployments on the network. On-chain votes would follow if the Snapshot proposals pass.
Under the UNIfication system, collected protocol fees move into TokenJar contracts. Searchers can claim those assets after supplying UNI of equivalent value for burning. The process permanently removes the submitted UNI from circulation.
Higher Uniswap daily fees could expand the amount available for this mechanism. Yet liquidity providers may receive slightly lower returns when protocol fees activate. That trade-off could influence where they place capital across competing pools.
Uniswap v4 adds programmable hooks that let developers customize pool logic. These tools support dynamic fees, specialized liquidity rules, and other trading features. Wider v4 adoption could increase activity across more chains.
Uniswap na Robinhood Chain překročil kumulativní objem obchodů 1 miliardu USD za devět dní a denní počet aktivních obchodníků přesáhl 220 000. UNI během růstu objemu vzrostl až o 14 %.
Uniswap just crossed $1 billion in cumulative trading volume on Robinhood Chain. It took nine days.
To put that in perspective, the chain’s public mainnet launched around July 1, and by July 10 the leading decentralized exchange had already processed a billion dollars in trades. Daily active traders surpassed 220,000 during the same stretch.
The numbers behind the surge The trajectory was steep from the start. Uniswap racked up roughly $250 million in trading volume during its first week on Robinhood Chain, then saw a single-day explosion to approximately $500 million on July 8. That one-day spike ranked the chain’s Uniswap activity second only to Ethereum mainnet.
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Uniswap’s total value locked on Robinhood Chain topped $30 million by July 10. The broader chain’s TVL cleared $106 million during the same window.
All four of Uniswap’s protocol versions, v2, v3, v4, and UniswapX, were live from day one as the primary public automated market maker.
The trading activity wasn’t driven by a single catalyst. Two categories dominated: tokenized stocks and memecoins.
Why Robinhood Chain matters for DeFi Robinhood Chain is built on Arbitrum’s Layer 2 technology, giving it 100-millisecond block times.
The UNI governance token responded accordingly, climbing as much as 14% during the volume surge.
What this means for investors The tokenized stocks angle deserves particular attention. If traders on Robinhood Chain can seamlessly swap between memecoins and tokenized equities using the same DEX interface, that blurs the line between traditional brokerage services and DeFi in ways regulators will almost certainly want to examine.
The $106 million in total chain TVL is still modest compared to established L2s like Arbitrum One or Base, which hold billions.
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Uniswap Labs navrhla aktivovat protokolové poplatky pro vybrané pooly v Uniswap v4; návrh už míří do pětidenního hlasování na Snapshotu. Kritici varují, že fee switch u v4 může poškodit likviditu.
Temp check would extend the fee switch to Uniswap's newest architecture, drawing an early warning that the move "risks killing the protocol."
Uniswap Labs on July 7 proposed activating protocol fees on a subset of Uniswap v4 pools, extending the fee rollout that DAO voters approved under the UNIfication package to the exchange's newest and most flexible pool architecture.
The temperature check went to a five-day Snapshot vote running July 7-12, with an onchain vote scheduled to begin the week of July 13. Because Uniswap's GovernorBravo contract caps proposals at 10 actions, Uniswap Labs said two onchain votes will be posted in parallel to cover all the chains involved.
UNI is up 6.8% to $3.57 in the past 24 hrs, giving Uniswap a market capitalization of $2.2 billion, according to CoinGecko, while ETH is up almost 3%. The token remains down more than 90% from its May 2021 record of about $44.92, though it had climbed more than 40% over the past month amid the UNIfication burns and Uniswap's expansion onto new venues.
UNIfication RolloutThe proposal follows the UNIfication overhaul, which DAO members passed in December with near-unanimous support and which turned on protocol fees and directed them toward burning UNI. It builds on four earlier fee proposals, numbered #93 through #96, and uses the same expedited governance track those proposals established.
Protocol fees are now live across all v2 and v3 pools on 11 chains: Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Celo, OP Mainnet, Soneium, X Layer, Worldchain, Zora, BNB Chain and Polygon. Uniswap Labs said the protocol set a record last month, citing the UNIBurnBot account's report that 186,000 UNI were burned in a single day.
A New Fee System for v4v4's design forced a different approach. Where v2 pools carry a single static fee tier and v3 pools carry several, v4's hooks allow potentially unlimited fee tiers, and a pool's fee can change from one block to the next. Setting a fee on each pool individually is not workable at that scale.
To handle it, the proposal introduces a V4 Fee Controller split across two contracts. A V4FeePolicy contract computes the fee for any pool from rules that governance defines, and can be swapped out if the logic needs to change. A V4FeeAdapter contract enforces any per-pool overrides governance has set, otherwise applies the policy's fee, pushes it to the pool and routes the proceeds to a TokenJar contract on each chain. The policy sorts each pool into a "family" based on its characteristics, then resolves the fee from the most specific applicable rule down to a global default. The contracts are published in Uniswap's protocol-fees repository.
The temp check would switch on fees for three families: static fee pools without hooks, pools launched through Continuous Clearing Auctions, and aggregator hook pools that route external liquidity into v4. Static and CCA pools follow a curve pegged to a proportion of each pool's LP fee. Aggregator hooks carry a flat fee with a 25x multiplier that lifts the cap to 250 basis points, set at a 10 bps family default and 3 bps for select stable pairs on most chains, and 3 bps and 1 bps respectively on Base. Uniswap Labs stressed the proposal does not enable fees on any v4 pools outside those families. As with v2 and v3, collected fees fund UNI burns, with tokens accumulated on L2s and alternative L1s bridged back to Ethereum and sent to the 0xdead address.
LP PushbackThe proposal drew immediate opposition from Guillaume Lambert, founder of the options protocol Panoptic, who disclosed he had voted "Abstain" on UNIfication and argued the fee switch should never touch v4.
"Turning on the v4 fee switch risks killing the protocol," Lambert wrote, contending that liquidity providers are "structurally short convexity" and, by his analysis, already earn less than the volatility they take on. Taxing v4 pools without compensating LPs, he said, would leave them "nowhere to go except to other AMMs/UniV3-forks." He said he could only support the move if LPs were directly compensated with sustained UNI incentives running "practically forever until organic activity returns."
Not all early feedback was critical. Forum participant Abel189 backed the proposal, calling a deterministic, on-chain fee policy "a more scalable approach than configuring individual pools one by one" and praising the gradual rollout across specific families.
Spark, the DeFi liquidity division of Sky, just processed $1.5 billion in stablecoin volume through Uniswap v4 over the past 30 days. Of that, $370 million came in the last two days alone, suggesting the pace is accelerating rather than plateauing.
How Spark built the machine The volume surge traces back to June 25, when Spark launched what it calls a “Stablecoin FX Layer” in collaboration with Uniswap Labs. The centerpiece of that launch was a migration of roughly $150 million in USDS liquidity into Uniswap v4 pools, specifically USDS/USDT and USDS/PYUSD pairs.
That migration ranks as one of the largest AMM stablecoin liquidity deployments in DeFi history.
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The underlying system relies on what Spark describes as signed intents and ALM-controlled execution. Instead of passively sitting in a liquidity pool waiting for trades to happen, the system actively manages where capital sits, when it moves, and how trades get filled. Each trade executes atomically within Uniswap v4’s environment, meaning there’s no partial fill risk or settlement delay. The system handles cross-chain rebalancing programmatically, which allows liquidity to flow between different networks and products without manual intervention.
The next phase involves something called a DualPool v4 hook, a planned addition designed to generate yield on dormant liquidity—capital that’s parked in pools but not actively being used for swaps.
Why stablecoin plumbing matters more than you think The partnership structure is worth noting. Spark, Uniswap Labs, and Sky are all involved, creating a multi-party infrastructure layer that multiple stablecoin issuers can plug into. That’s a meaningful departure from the siloed approach where each stablecoin issuer manages its own liquidity in isolation.
Uniswap v4 itself saw tens of billions in transaction volume around the same period, making Spark’s $1.5 billion contribution a significant but not dominant share of the platform’s stablecoin activity.
What this means for investors The risk profile is worth considering. Programmatic systems that manage billions in liquidity introduce a different kind of risk than passive pools. Smart contract bugs, oracle failures, or unexpected cross-chain settlement issues could create problems at scale that wouldn’t surface in smaller deployments. The $150 million migration went smoothly, but the system is still young.
It’s also worth noting that independent validation from third-party sources regarding the reported $1.5 billion in stablecoin activity remains unconfirmed among recognized crypto news outlets.
If the DualPool v4 hook delivers on its promise of generating yield on idle stablecoin liquidity, it could reshape how liquidity providers think about capital allocation, fundamentally changing the economics of providing stablecoin liquidity in AMMs.
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Robinhood Chain na Uniswapu za 24 hodin dosáhl objemu obchodů 500 milionů USD, což je nejvyšší objem mezi nasazenými sítěmi mimo Ethereum mainnet. Síť se spustila teprve před několika dny.
Robinhood (@RobinhoodCrypto) Chain has rapidly established itself as a major force in decentralized finance, recording $500 million in 24-hour trading volume on Uniswap (@Uniswap) on July 8. The milestone makes it Uniswap's highest-volume deployment outside of Ethereum mainnet, just days after going live.
A Fast Start for a New Chain Robinhood Chain launched its public mainnet on July 1, 2026, built on the Arbitrum (@arbitrum) technology stack with 100-millisecond block times. The chain is designed for tokenized real-world assets and 24/7 financial services, with Stock Tokens tracking listed equities such as NVIDIA, Alphabet, and Apple available through Robinhood Wallet in more than 120 countries. The volume figure on July 8 was roughly 10 times higher than what the chain recorded the previous day, pointing to a sharp acceleration in user activity.
Trading was driven by a mix of wrapped Ethereum (WETH), memecoins, and tokenized stocks. Uniswap deployed all of its major protocol versions from day one, including v2, v3, v4, and UniswapX, establishing itself as the chain's primary automated market maker from the outset. According to the official Uniswap blog, Uniswap serves as the primary public AMM on Robinhood Chain with support across the Uniswap web app, wallet, and API from launch day.
Broader Context The launch is part of a wider push by Robinhood into on-chain financial infrastructure. Alongside Uniswap, day-one ecosystem partners include Chainlink for oracle infrastructure, as well as Alchemy and BitGo for additional DeFi services. The chain also introduced Robinhood Earn, a lending product targeting an estimated 7% APY on dollar-backed USDG, built on the Morpho protocol.
For Uniswap, the deployment adds another revenue-generating venue to its growing multi-chain footprint. The $UNI token rose between 11% and 14% around the time of the chain's launch as traders priced in higher protocol usage.
The key question going forward is whether the chain can sustain meaningful volumes beyond its launch week. The $500 million single-day figure is notable, but longer-term activity levels and total value locked will be more telling indicators of whether Robinhood Chain becomes a durable fixture in DeFi.
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Uniswap Blog: Uniswap is Live on Robinhood Chain
Robinhood Newsroom: Robinhood Chain Mainnet Launch
Crypto Briefing: Robinhood Chain Hits $500M in 24-Hour Uniswap Volume
Uniswap přímo integroval LitePSM od Sky Ecosystem do svého routingu, takže swapy mezi USDS, DAI a USDC mohou probíhat bez skluzu. Spark zároveň přesunul zhruba 150 milionů USD likvidity USDS do poolů Uniswap v4.
Uniswap just plugged Sky Ecosystem’s LitePSM directly into its routing engine, which means traders swapping between stablecoins like USDS, DAI, and USDC can now do so with zero slippage.
The integration is the latest piece of the “Stablecoin FX Layer” initiative, a collaboration between Spark, Uniswap, and Sky Ecosystem that launched in June 2026 with a clear goal: make stablecoin trading on-chain work more like traditional FX markets, where large swaps between pegged assets don’t move the price.
How LitePSM actually works Think of LitePSM as a vending machine for stablecoins. Instead of matching buyers and sellers in a liquidity pool, it maintains pre-minted pools of tokens that can be swapped at fixed rates. You put in USDS, you get USDC. No curve, no slippage, no drama.
In more technical terms, LitePSM is a gas-optimized evolution of MakerDAO’s original Peg Stability Module. The key innovation is that it bypasses direct interactions with the Vat, MakerDAO’s core accounting engine, which makes transactions cheaper and faster. Governance-set parameters like buf, tin, and tout control the module’s operations, regulating buffer sizes and fee structures.
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The module had already proven itself through integrations with other DeFi aggregators. CoW Swap, Paraswap, and Kyber were all routing trades through LitePSM before Uniswap came on board.
As part of the rollout, Spark migrated approximately $150 million in USDS liquidity to Uniswap v4 pools on June 25, 2026. This effectively establishes USDS as a central quoting asset for multi-issuer stablecoin trades, including pairs with USDT and PYUSD.
The numbers behind the expansion USDS circulation currently sits at approximately $10.3 billion. Sky’s governance has proposed doubling the USDC buffer for LitePSM from $400 million to $800 million.
That buffer is the war chest of USDC that LitePSM holds to facilitate instant swaps. When someone wants to convert USDS to USDC, the module draws from this buffer. Doubling it signals that demand for these swaps is outpacing the current infrastructure’s capacity.
The $150 million liquidity migration to Uniswap v4 positions USDS not just as another stablecoin competing for market share, but as a routing hub. When Uniswap’s algorithm looks for the best path to execute a trade between, say, USDT and PYUSD, it can now route through USDS via LitePSM, potentially offering better execution than traditional AMM pools.
What this means for traders and the broader market For regular users, the benefit is straightforward. Swapping between major stablecoins on Uniswap just got cheaper and more predictable. The routing engine will automatically detect when LitePSM offers a better rate than traditional pools and send the trade accordingly.
For larger players, institutional desks, DAOs managing treasuries, protocols rebalancing reserves, zero-slippage execution on stablecoin pairs at scale removes one of the persistent friction points that has kept some institutional volume on centralized exchanges.
The proposed buffer increase from $400 million to $800 million represents a significant capital commitment. At $10.3 billion in current circulation, the buffer would represent roughly 7.8% of outstanding USDS.
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Uniswap Labs podala odpověď na Wells Notice od SEC a tvrdí, že automatizované protokoly nelze posuzovat jako tradiční makléře nebo burzy. Jde o součást širšího odporu velkých kryptofirem proti vymáhání ze strany SEC.
Uniswap is not just defending itself. It is defending a version of what DeFi is supposed to be. That is the real significance of its Wells Notice response, which takes aim at the SEC’s attempt to fit decentralized protocols into old regulatory boxes.
For markets, legal documents like this can look dry. For the industry, they often carry much bigger implications than a flashy token announcement.
For more details, visit the official Uniswap platform.
TL;DR Uniswap Labs published its response to the SEC Wells Notice.The company argues automated protocols do not fit the regulator’s broker or exchange theories.The filing is part of a broader pushback from major crypto firms against SEC enforcement logic. The Core Of Uniswap’s Argument Uniswap’s central position is that automated software should not be treated as though it were a traditional exchange intermediary. That is not merely a technical claim. It goes to the heart of how DeFi wants to distinguish itself from centralized platforms.
If regulators succeed in treating protocol development as equivalent to running a conventional venue, the consequences would reach far beyond Uniswap itself.
Why It Matters For The Sector The Wells response lands in a broader period of legal pushback from crypto firms that increasingly seem willing to challenge the SEC directly rather than settle the narrative by default.
That does not guarantee victory, but it does show the next regulatory phase may be more contested, more nuanced, and less one-sided than it looked at times last year.
This report is based on information from Uniswap Labs.
This article was written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.
Uniswap Labs spustila hlasování o rozšíření programu pálení UNI o protokolové poplatky ve v4 poolech. Pokud návrh projde, UNI v hodnotě vybraných poplatků bude spáleno.
Uniswap Labs has called on UNI token holders to approve the next phase of its “UNIfication” burn initiative by voting on incorporating protocol fees across a segment of Uniswap v4 liquidity pools. The voting process began on July 7 and is set to run until July 12. Currently active on 11 blockchains, the program seeks to broaden its scope with these planned updates.
Voting process and program expansionThe process begins with a five-day Snapshot vote, after which an on-chain binding vote is expected to occur during the week of July 13. The proposal seeks to integrate the existing fee and burn mechanism with v4 pools on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Celo, OP Mainnet, Soneium, X Layer, Worldchain, Zora, BNB Chain, and Polygon.
Mini glossary: A Snapshot is an off-chain voting system used by decentralized communities. Although results are not written directly to the blockchain, they serve as an important reference for subsequent binding governance votes.
Uniswap is recognized as one of the world’s largest decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, providing critical infrastructure for decentralized exchanges. If the proposal passes, UNI tokens equivalent in value to the protocol fee collected from transactions will be burned. These tokens will be moved to an irretrievable address on the Ethereum network, permanently removing them from circulation.
Uniswap Labs launched Snapshot voting on July 7 to include v4 pools in the current fee and burn program, with an on-chain vote expected during the week of July 13.
What sets v4 apart?Unlike the more fixed fee structures of Uniswap v2 and v3 pools, fees in v4 pools can vary from block to block due to its unique “hook” system. This added complexity means v4 integration requires a more advanced architecture. The proposal outlines a dual-contract system to address this challenge.
The first contract establishes the pool’s applicable fee rate, while a secondary contract ensures the enforcement of these policies and transfers the collected fees to the designated address. This modular approach allows governance to adapt policies in the future simply by updating the policy contract, without having to overhaul the entire system.
Three types of v4 pools are covered in the proposal: pools without hooks, pools created through auctions, and pools that leverage aggregator hooks to import external liquidity. For the Base network, the fee is set at 3 basis points, while it’s planned at 10 basis points on other networks. Aggregator hook pools may set fees above the standard cap.
Network or pool typePlanned feeBase3 basis pointsOther networks10 basis pointsAggregator hook poolsAbove standard capImplications for liquidity providersWith protocol fees in place, a share of user transaction fees would be allocated to Uniswap itself, effectively reducing the returns for liquidity providers. This potential shift has ignited debate over balancing the interests of UNI holders and liquidity providers, who supply capital to the pools.
Guillaume Lambert, head of Panoptic, argued that a tax-like protocol fee structure in v4 could drive away liquidity providers, potentially harming the platform by repeating similar reductions seen in v2 and v3.
Burn metrics and recent ecosystem growthLast month, Uniswap posted a new daily record by burning 186,000 UNI tokens in a single day, surpassing the previous high of 134,000. As of July 7, UNI trades at $3.23 with a market capitalization of around $2 billion, far below its peak of $44.97 reached in May 2021.
Despite this price gap, Uniswap’s ecosystem continues to expand. At the start of July, the protocol debuted on Robinhood Chain, activating v2, v3, v4, and UniswapX products from day one. In less than a week, Uniswap processed over $250 million in trading volume on the new network.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this article does not constitute investment advice. Investors should be aware that cryptocurrencies carry high volatility and therefore risk, and should conduct their own research.
Robinhood Chain has been live for less than a week, and Uniswap has already processed more than $250 million in trading volume on it.
The chain went live on July 1-2, built on Arbitrum technology as a permissionless Ethereum Layer-2 blockchain. Versions v2, v3, v4, and UniswapX were all deployed from launch day, making it the chain’s primary automated market maker right out of the gate.
What Robinhood Chain actually does Robinhood Chain is specifically designed to facilitate trading of tokenized real-world assets, including stock tokens and ETFs, with 100ms block times.
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UNI token holders noticed. The token surged 11-14% following the chain’s launch.
The partnership ecosystem tells a bigger story The chain launched with an ecosystem of DeFi and blockchain infrastructure partners including Morpho, 1inch, Arbitrum, Chainlink, and others.
The focus on European users is particularly strategic. Robinhood has been expanding its European footprint, and tokenized stocks and ETFs represent a product category that European regulators have been more receptive to than their US counterparts.
What this means for investors For UNI holders, the math is straightforward. More chains deploying Uniswap means more volume, which means more fees flowing through the protocol. The 11-14% price jump reflects this logic.
Coinbase has Base. Robinhood now has Robinhood Chain. Uniswap’s strategy of deploying across every viable chain positions the protocol to benefit regardless of which chain wins.
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Uživatel HyperSwapu přišel po kliknutí na falešný airdrop na X o zhruba 12 300 USD. Útočník po jednom schválení během méně než dvou minut vybral prostředky a přesunul je na Ethereum.
A HyperSwap user lost about $12,300 after clicking a fake airdrop link on X, approving one wallet request, and unknowingly giving a scammer control of his funds.
BeInCrypto reconstructed the attack with the victim using public blockchain records. The records show a fast phishing operation inside the Hyperliquid ecosystem.
The scammer took the victim’s position on HyperSwap, withdrew the funds behind it, converted them into HYPE, and moved the money to Ethereum in less than two minutes.
Note: HyperSwap is an exchange that runs on the Hyperliquid blockchain. HyperSwap has its own team, and Hyperliquid does not manage it — just as the creators of Ethereum do not manage applications like Uniswap running on it.
The Trap Started With a Fake X Account The victim used HyperSwap. Like other decentralized exchanges, it lets users trade directly from their wallets without a company holding their funds.
The victim had supplied money to a HyperSwap liquidity pool. In simple terms, he had deposited crypto, so other users could trade against it. In return, he could earn fees.
On HyperSwap V3, that position was represented by NFT #178549. This was not a picture or collectible. It was more like a digital receipt. Whoever controlled that NFT controlled the funds linked to the position.
The victim told BeInCrypto he saw a post on X promoting an airdrop. An airdrop is a token giveaway, often used by crypto projects to reward users.
The Scammer’s Post Using a Fake X Account with a Very Similar Username to the Official HyperSwap Account The post appeared to come from HyperSwap. It did not. It came from an impostor account with a handle that closely resembled the real HyperSwap account, HyperSwapX, which is linked from the project’s official website.
The victim followed the link and connected his wallet. He believed he was checking whether he qualified for the airdrop. Instead, he approved a transaction that gave the scammer permission to move his HyperSwap position.
That approval was the key moment.
One Approval Gave the Scammer Control Crypto wallets often ask users to approve transactions. Some approvals are harmless. Others give another address permission to move valuable assets.
To most users, the warning can look routine. A fake site can make a dangerous approval look like a normal step in claiming tokens.
That appears to be what happened here.
At 20:21:51 UTC on June 29, the scammer used the earlier approval to transfer NFT #178549 out of the victim’s wallet. The victim did not sign anything at that moment. The scammer had already secured permission.
The scammer’s address was 0x880C95246D7525b84902E6c040818a7C72d3Aa77. HyperEVM explorer records flagged it as Fake_Phishing3746335, with a “Phish / Hack” tag reported by HashDit.
The NFT moved to another scammer-controlled wallet. Once that happened, the attacker controlled the liquidity position.
Twenty-five seconds later, the scammer withdrew the funds behind the NFT. The position contained about 3,935 USDC and 116.6 WHYPE. Together, they were worth roughly $12,300 at the time.
Theft transaction in hyperevmscan: On June 29, 2026, the address marked as Fake_Phishing3746335 transferred the victim’s NFT (0x39f2…0f9E) to his wallet The Money Was Moved Fast After withdrawing the funds, the scammer prepared to move them away from HyperEVM.
First, the wallet gave permission to LI.FI, a legitimate cross-chain bridge and swap service. A bridge lets users move crypto from one blockchain to another.
There is no evidence that LI.FI took part in the theft. The scammer used it after stealing the funds.
The scammer then converted the stolen USDC and WHYPE into about 175.9 HYPE. Seconds later, the HYPE was bridged from HyperEVM to Ethereum.
The destination was 0xFa47eef42fB2C63DCEA0cAC2295a58036052932D. On Ethereum, that wallet received the funds and almost immediately moved 7.035 ETH onward in one transaction.
The wallet had been created shortly before. It was used once and left almost empty. That pattern is common in laundering chains, where stolen funds pass through temporary wallets to make tracing harder.
From the NFT transfer to the bridge transaction, the active theft took about 84 seconds.
A Wider Phishing Pattern The scammer’s wallet appeared to be part of a broader operation.
Explorer records reviewed by BeInCrypto showed the address had been active for about 33 days. It was also linked to roughly 25 other addresses. That suggests the attacker may have targeted more than one user.
The link to the fraudulent resource has been hanging in messages since June 26 For victims, the problem is practical. Blockchain records can show what happened. They rarely stop it from happening in real time.
Once a user signs a bad approval, the scammer can act quickly. Once funds move across chains, recovery becomes even harder.
The victim later tried to report the suspicious link and get it removed. He said he felt ignored and began to suspect the HyperSwap team had failed to act.
The on-chain evidence reviewed by BeInCrypto points to a phishing attack from an impostor account. The fake X account was separate from HyperSwap’s official account. The official HyperSwap account and official contract were not shown to have carried out the theft.
However, the victim’s experience highlights a serious weakness in the ecosystem. Users can be attacked through fake social media accounts, drained through confusing wallet approvals, and left with few clear options after the money is gone.
During a conversation with BeInCrypto journalists, the victim stated that they tried various ways to warn the Hyperliquid team about the scam, but received no response.
According to the victim, the only active communication channel with HyperSwap was Discord. At the time of writing, the link to it is invalid. So he tried to get the problem across to the ecosystem team where the project works, but that attempt was unsuccessful.
The screenshot shows our interlocutor trying to reach Hyperliquid support via Discord. In this case, the Hyperliquid command ignores the user’s request to send a message about the found vulnerability and prompts him to contact HyperSwap himself. Overall, the scammer’s method was simple. A fake account promoted a fake airdrop. A fake site secured wallet approval. A flagged phishing wallet took the victim’s HyperSwap position, emptied it, and moved the funds to Ethereum.
The loss was about $12,300. The theft took less than two minutes.
The victim suggested that HyperSwap employees may be involved in the theft or are deliberately hiding it. However, BeInCrypto could not find any exact information to support those claims.
Pump.fun s PumpSwap dosáhl přibližně 1,769 miliardy USD 24hodinového objemu a předstihl Uniswap i PancakeSwap. Platforma tak ovládla obchodování napříč všemi chainy.
A memecoin launchpad that didn’t exist two years ago just out-traded every decentralized exchange on the planet. Pump.fun, operating through its integrated DEX called PumpSwap, recorded approximately $1.769 billion in 24-hour trading volume, placing it ahead of Uniswap, PancakeSwap, and every other competitor across all chains.
How a memecoin machine became a trading giant Pump.fun launched on January 19, 2024, with a straightforward pitch: let anyone create and trade memecoins without needing to seed liquidity pools upfront. That low barrier to entry turned it into the dominant launchpad for Solana’s memecoin economy almost immediately.
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The real strategic move came in March 2025, when the platform introduced PumpSwap, its own built-in DEX. Instead of sending users to Raydium or other external exchanges once tokens graduated from the bonding curve, Pump.fun kept the trading activity in-house.
That decision is now paying off in spectacular fashion. The ~$1.769 billion daily volume isn’t even the platform’s all-time high. Back in early January 2026, Pump.fun hit a $2.03 billion single-day volume, suggesting this isn’t a one-off spike but a sustained pattern of massive trading activity.
The revenue engine behind the volume By mid-March 2026, the platform’s cumulative revenue crossed the $1 billion mark. In the 30 days leading up to its record volume event, Pump.fun generated approximately $39 million in revenue, with daily revenue running around $1.13 million.
A significant piece of Pump.fun’s economic model is its aggressive buyback program for the native $PUMP token. The platform spent roughly $332 million, equivalent to about 2.328 million SOL, buying back more than 106 billion $PUMP tokens. That effort reduced the circulating supply by approximately 30%.
The $PUMP token itself launched through a public sale from July 12-15, 2025, priced at $0.004 per token.
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Uniswap v2, v3, v4 i UniswapX jsou nyní na Robinhood Chain, kde Uniswap funguje jako hlavní veřejný AMM. Robinhood Stock Tokens podporuje od prvního dne přes Web App, Wallet i API přes UniswapX i AMM.
Uniswap v2, v3, v4, and UniswapX are live on Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 built by Robinhood Crypto. Uniswap serves as the primary public AMM on Robinhood Chain with support on the Uniswap Web App, Wallet, and API available from day one. The uniswap-trading-tools AI plugin, which will include three new skills, is coming soon.
Robinhood Chain on Uniswap Robinhood and Uniswap share a mission to democratize finance for all. Robinhood opened access to investing from inside traditional finance while Uniswap pioneered open, self-custodial markets in DeFi, where anyone can swap, provide liquidity, and own assets without an intermediary. On Robinhood Chain, those two paths converge with Uniswap serving as the primary public AMM.
Anyone can now swap, provide liquidity, buy stock tokens, program AI agents, and explore Robinhood Chain with Uniswap. It’s the same trusted set of products millions of users already rely on, now available on Robinhood Chain.
Stock Tokens From day one, Uniswap supports Robinhood Stock Tokens on the Web App, Wallet, and API via UniswapX, Uniswap’s intent based trading infrastructure, and the AMM. Stock Tokens are fully transferrable on Robinhood Chain, offering users around the world a chance to trade and own Stock Tokens 24/7, unlocking new DeFi opportunities outside the constraints of traditional finance.
Developers and Agents For developers, Uniswap API makes it easy to add trading for crypto and real-world assets on Robinhood Chain, directly into applications and bots. To add support:
Go to the developer dashboard to create an account and get an API key Follow the Quickstart Guide to integrate your first trading experience, setting the chain ID 4663 for Robinhood Chain. To help builders move faster, Uniswap Labs has also built an open-source AI skill library that teaches any coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, or your own custom agent) how to integrate Uniswap:
npx skills add Uniswap/uniswap-ai
What you can build on Robinhood Chain
Integrate trading (swap-integration): Generate code to quote and execute swaps via the Uniswap API, Universal Router, or direct contract calls. Point it at chain 4663; it handles approvals, calldata, and slippage. Build with the v4 SDK (v4-sdk-integration): Create trading tools specific to building swap and liquidity UX. Discover and plan (swap-planner, liquidity-planner): Research Robinhood Chain assets and pools and surface trade or LP options before anything executes. A liquidity layer for tokenized value As tokenized value moves onchain, from equities to RWAs to stablecoins, it needs deep, reliable, accessible liquidity. Uniswap is a critical liquidity layer for these assets, now live on Robinhood Chain.
Swappers: explore tokens, swap, and provide liquidity Builders: add Robinhood Chain to your app using the API Agents: add uniswap-ai to integrate Uniswap
Ondo Finance přidala na Uniswap přes 430 tokenizovaných amerických akcií a ETF na Ethereum a BNB Chain. Obchodování je dostupné on-chain 24/7 pro oprávněné neamerické uživatele.
Ondo Finance Brings 430+ Tokenized Equities to Uniswap@OndoFinance has officially integrated more than 430 tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs into the @Uniswap ecosystem, making the assets accessible directly through the Uniswap frontend on both @Ethereum and @BNBChain. The move connects two of DeFi's most prominent platforms and opens up round-the-clock on-chain access to some of the world's most traded equities for eligible non-U.S. participants.
Ondo Finance expanded its Global Markets offering by adding 173 tokenized stocks and ETFs earlier this month, bringing the platform's total catalog to more than 430 assets spanning Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain. The Uniswap integration now routes those assets through the broader decentralized liquidity network.
Uniswap has integrated tokenized securities from issuers including Ondo, xStocks, and Backed, allowing users to trade on-chain versions of assets like SpaceX, Apple, Tesla, and NVIDIA that track underlying stock prices through the Uniswap web app, wallet, and API. The integration uses Uniswap v4 hooks for compliance features such as KYC and allowlists.
UniswapX Routing and 24/7 On-Chain TradingThe assets are routable through the UniswapX API, enabling efficient order execution and deep liquidity for continuous on-chain equity trading. This is a meaningful step beyond traditional market hours: Ondo is live with 24/7 instant minting and redemption on tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs, including on weekends, now across Ethereum and BNB Chain, with Solana coming soon.
Ondo Global Markets gives non-U.S. investors on-chain access to publicly traded U.S. stocks and ETFs, with each token backed 1:1 by the underlying security, purchased and held in custody by a U.S.-registered broker-dealer. The tokens provide holders with economic exposure to the value of the underlying publicly traded assets, including dividends, but are not themselves stocks or ETFs and do not provide rights to hold or receive the underlying assets.
Tokenized stocks have emerged as the fastest-growing asset class on Ethereum in 2026, with Ondo and xStocks leading the sector, according to Token Terminal data. Ondo Global Markets is also the primary issuer behind BNB Chain overtaking Solana in cumulative tokenized stock trading volume. The Uniswap integration adds another layer of distribution and liquidity to a product category that is growing rapidly across decentralized finance.
Sources:
Ondo Finance: Ondo Global Markets
The Defiant: Ondo Finance Adds 173 Tokenized Stocks and ETFs
BNB Chain Blog: Ondo Global Markets on BNB Chain
Uniswap DAO zveřejnilo RFC pro nasazení Uniswap v4 na 0G, modulárním blockchainu zaměřeném na AI. V4 přináší singleton pool manager, hooks a dynamické poplatky.
Uniswap’s decentralized governance machine is grinding forward again. A new Request for Comments (RFC) has been published in the Uniswap DAO proposing the deployment of Uniswap v4 on 0G, a modular blockchain built with artificial intelligence workloads in mind.
What Uniswap v4 actually changes The headline feature is what Uniswap calls a “singleton pool manager.” Previous versions of Uniswap deployed a separate smart contract for every single trading pair. Uniswap v4 consolidates all pools into one contract, meaning fewer contract deployments, lower gas costs, and more efficient routing between pools.
Then there are hooks. These are pluggable smart contracts that developers can attach to individual pools, enabling custom logic at specific points in a trade’s lifecycle.
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Dynamic fees are the natural extension of this flexibility. Rather than locking in a static fee tier when a pool is created, Uniswap v4 allows fees to shift automatically based on real-time trading conditions like volume and volatility. The direct beneficiaries here are liquidity providers, who historically have eaten impermanent loss during volatile periods while earning the same flat fee regardless of market conditions.
Why 0G, and what is it anyway 0G (pronounced “zero gravity”) positions itself as a modular, AI-focused blockchain. The network is designed around high-throughput data availability, which makes it potentially suited for applications that need to process large amounts of on-chain data quickly.
Uniswap has been systematically expanding across chains for years, moving beyond Ethereum to networks like Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, BNB Chain, and others. For 0G specifically, adding Uniswap v4 would provide a foundational DeFi primitive for what is still an emerging network.
The broader multi-chain chess game Uniswap governance proposals typically go through an RFC phase, followed by a temperature check, and then a final on-chain vote. The RFC stage is essentially the community debating whether the deployment makes strategic sense, whether the target chain has sufficient demand, and whether the technical integration is sound.
What this means for investors For UNI token holders, every new chain deployment theoretically expands the protocol’s fee-generating surface area. Uniswap recently activated its fee switch mechanism, meaning protocol-level fees could eventually flow back to governance participants.
Liquidity providers should pay particular attention to the dynamic fee structure. If v4’s fee mechanisms work as designed, providing liquidity on volatile AI-related token pairs could become meaningfully more profitable than the static-fee experience of v3.
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Uniswap a Spark spustily „Stablecoin FX Layer“ pro směnu stablecoinů mezi bankami, fintechy a platebními firmami. Spark do něj vložil zhruba 150 milionů USD likvidity na Uniswap v4.
@sparkdotfi and @Uniswap have joined forces to build what they call a "Stablecoin FX Layer," a shared liquidity network designed to let banks, fintechs, and payment companies move between dollar-pegged tokens without each having to build their own infrastructure from scratch.
Spark deployed approximately $150 million in stablecoin liquidity across two pools on Uniswap v4 to kick off the first phase, with the pools pairing Sky's USDS with Tether's $USDT and PayPal's PYUSD. A Spark spokesperson described the deployment as one of the largest automated market maker liquidity migrations in decentralized finance.
One shared system instead of fragmented poolsThe FX Layer acts as shared liquidity and exchange infrastructure on Uniswap v4, enabling multiple stablecoin issuers to plug into a common system instead of each building and bootstrapping their own liquidity pools, market makers, and inventory management. Spark acts as the orchestration layer, deciding how liquidity is allocated, governed, and coordinated across different stablecoins.
Uniswap and Spark are betting that as the number of stablecoins grows, the market will need the equivalent of a foreign-exchange network to move liquidity between issuers. The issuer landscape is already expanding rapidly, with PayPal's PYUSD, Ripple's RLUSD, Revolut's planned stablecoin, and banking consortiums in Europe and Japan among the projects in development.
The stablecoin market's growth potential frames the urgency: Citi has projected the market could grow from roughly $300 billion currently to $4 trillion by 2030.
DualPool hook to put idle capital to workSpark plans to introduce two additional tools in future phases, a Shared Liquidity Layer and a DualPool hook, both built on Uniswap v4's programmable architecture, with a liquidity hook allowing idle capital to be deployed into approved yield strategies when it is not needed for trades.
Between swaps, DualPool keeps idle stablecoin liquidity in Spark's yield-bearing ERC-4626 vaults, and moves that capital into a Uniswap v4 pool only when it is needed for execution. The DualPool hook will go through a separate security review and testing process before release, with the current deployment using standard Uniswap v4 pools rather than this planned framework.
The project could eventually expand beyond USDS, USDT, and PYUSD as Spark works with additional stablecoin issuers and ecosystem partners. Spark CEO Sam MacPherson summed up the thesis plainly: "It will be defined by the infrastructure that allows hundreds of issuers to operate together at global scale."
Sources:
The Block: Spark, Uniswap build stablecoin FX Layer seeded with $150 million liquidity migration
CoinDesk: Uniswap, Spark aim to build stablecoin FX market as banks and fintechs enter the industry
The Defiant: Spark, Uniswap, and Sky launch $150M liquidity migration to build shared stablecoin FX layer
Uniswap získal od Spark 150 milionů USD v likviditě ve stablecoinech a přesouvá ji do DualPool, který má zlepšit likviditu stablecoinů a snížit slippage. Zároveň spustil bezkódový nástroj pro tokenové aukce v Uniswap Web App.
Uniswap received $150 million in stablecoin liquidity from Spark, with the assets set to transition to DualPool, a new custom liquidity hook, according to an announcement on Thursday.
Under the new setup, liquidity providers will be able to earn swap fees while their underlying assets continue generating yield, eliminating the need to choose between the two.
USDS will serve as the initial quoting asset for DualPool, with support for USDT and PYUSD liquidity expected under Spark's coordination framework. The integration is intended to deepen stablecoin liquidity on Uniswap v4 and reduce slippage for traders.
Uniswap expands product suite with token launch infrastructureUniswap Labs has also launched a no-code token auction tool within the Uniswap Web App, allowing projects to create and distribute tokens through onchain auctions without deploying custom smart contracts, according to a statement on Wednesday.
The feature introduces a self-service interface that enables teams to either import an existing token or create a new one and launch token sales directly from the platform.
Auctions will be available in a dedicated section of the Uniswap Web App, the Auctions tab, where participants can submit bids and track activity in real time.
The launch expands Uniswap's product suite beyond decentralized trading and positions the protocol to compete more directly in the token launch market, where platforms such as Pump.fun have dominated in recent years.
CCA model powers onchain price discoveryUniswap’s latest platform is powered by Continuous Clearing Auctions (CCA), a mechanism designed to facilitate transparent and permissionless token distributions through onchain price discovery.
Unlike fixed-price sales or allocation-based launches, CCA continuously clears bids onchain, allowing token prices to adjust according to market demand throughout the auction process. According to Uniswap Labs, the design reduces opportunities for sniping and manipulation while ensuring all successful participants receive tokens at the same final clearing price.
Following an auction's completion, proceeds are automatically used to seed liquidity in Uniswap v4 pools, eliminating the need for projects to manually establish secondary-market liquidity.
The feature is currently available across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum and Unichain. Projects can also configure advanced settings, including custom liquidity ranges, treasury allocations, participant verification requirements and other launch parameters.
Uniswap Labs highlighted previous deployments of the CCA framework, including Aztec's November token sale, which raised approximately $59 million from more than 17,000 participants.
The CCA contracts have also been reviewed by seven independent auditing firms, including OpenZeppelin and Spearbit, according to the statement.
UNI is trading at $2.85, up 1% over the past 24 hours at the time of writing.
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Spark has deployed approximately $150 million in stablecoin liquidity across two Uniswap v4 pools on Ethereum as part of a collaboration aimed at creating shared liquidity and exchange infrastructure for stablecoin issuers.
A Spark spokesperson told Cointelegraph that the initial deployment is live in two pools pairing USDS with PayPal USD (PYUSD) and USDT, with USDS serving as the foundation. Spark described the deployment as one of the largest automated market maker (AMM) liquidity migrations in DeFi.
“These pools represent the initial deployment of approximately $150 million of liquidity and establish the first phase of the Stablecoin FX Layer,” the spokesperson said. “This initial deployment focuses on bootstrapping shared liquidity on Uniswap v4.”
Earlier this month, Standard Chartered identified Uniswap as a potential beneficiary of tokenized assets moving into DeFi. It forecast that total assets held in DeFi could reach $2.7 trillion by 2030, with Uniswap potentially emerging as a liquidity venue for the growing market.
The deployment announced Thursday lays the groundwork for a planned programmable liquidity system that could reduce the need for banks, financial technology firms and stablecoin issuers to build separate liquidity networks while testing whether Uniswap can make onchain capital more efficient without weakening market depth.
Spark plans programmable liquidity expansionSpark said it plans to introduce its Shared Liquidity Layer and DualPool hook in subsequent phases using Uniswap v4's programmable architecture to coordinate how liquidity is distributed across stablecoin markets.
A liquidity hook enables protocols to seamlessly integrate with platforms for capital access and developing yield and trading strategies.
Spark said a hook is intended to allow capital not immediately needed for trades to be deployed into governance-approved products, liquidity venues and yield-generating strategies.
The implementation of the DualPool hook will go through a separate security review, testing and production-readiness process before deployment. The first phase uses standard Uniswap v4 pools rather than the planned programmable framework.
Spark said the planned framework is intended to give future stablecoin issuers access to shared liquidity rather than requiring them to individually bootstrap pools, coordinate market makers and manage inventory across different venues.
The spokesperson told Cointelegraph that Spark is working with additional partners across the stablecoin ecosystem but is not yet ready to disclose those integrations.
Uniswap seen as winner as tokenized assets move onchainIn a June 15 note to clients, StanChart's bank's head of digital assets research, Geoff Kendrick, said that tokenized treasures, equities, bonds and other assets could bring more trading activity and liquidity to decentralized exchanges as their DeFi use expands.
DeFi total value locked as of June 25. Source: DefiLlama
This new $150 million migration offers a more immediate test of StanChart's infrastructure thesis, though it involves stablecoins rather than tokenized securities.
The migration also follows Uniswap’s push into institutional tokenized-asset trading. On Feb. 12, BlackRock said it would bring its $2.1 billion tokenized Treasury fund, BUIDL, to Uniswap, allowing eligible institutional investors and market makers to trade the security through decentralized infrastructure.
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Uniswap spustil ve Web App no-code nástroj pro aukce tokenů, který umožňuje projektům prodávat onchain bez kódu smart kontraktů. Aukce využívá Continuous Clearing Auction a má omezit front-running botů.
For years, Uniswap has been the default DEX for swapping tokens. But when the great memecoin launchpad wave hit, the action moved to Solana and Pump.fun, leaving Ethereum’s premier DEX on the sidelines. That’s now changing. According to the original report, Uniswap has released a no-code token auction tool inside its Web App. Projects can now configure and run onchain token sales directly from a browser, without a line of smart contract code.
A New Breed of Token Sale The tool relies on Uniswap’s Continuous Clearing Auction system. Instead of a single-block sale where bots race to front-run every bid, the auction clears across multiple blocks. All successful bidders pay the same final clearing price, stripping away the advantages enjoyed by high-speed sniper bots. For teams launching a token, that means less chaos and fewer angry community members who saw their allocations vanish before they could even click.
Uniswap already handles massive spot volume. Adding native auction infrastructure signals a clear intention: bring token genesis events back under its own roof rather than losing that flow to other chains and dedicated launchpads. Builders no longer need to stitch together a separate dutch auction contract or trust a third-party platform with their initial token distribution.
Challenging Pump.fun’s Dominance Pump.fun built a cultural and trading flywheel on Solana by making token creation trivial and gambling immediate. Daily volumes have dwarfed many established DeFi protocols. Uniswap’s move is a direct response to that success, but with a different market structure. Where Pump.fun embraces the frenzy of open market price discovery from block one, Uniswap opts for a more orderly auction where the clearing price is uniform for all participants. This targets projects and investors who want fairness over pure speed.
The token launch market has exploded, with platforms like Pump.fun generating billions in volume. The broader tokenization trend, as seen in the tokenization market, shows no sign of slowing. Auction mechanisms that reduce extraction by MEV bots could appeal to a more diverse set of issuers, from community memecoins to early-stage DAO governance tokens.
The Continuous Clearing Auction Advantage Last-block auction manipulation and priority gas auctions have plagued token sales for years. The Continuous Clearing Auction approach reduces the incentive to spam the mempool because bidding over several blocks gives honest participants more time to react. It also prevents a single wealthy actor from stealing the entire round at a discount because all bidders settle at the same price. The design echoes the type of fair price discovery seen in traditional financial markets, something DeFi has long promised but rarely delivered at scale.
No-code tools also lower the barrier to entry. A team can launch a token auction without hiring a Solidity developer, which has been a stumbling block for creators who only needed a simple fair sale. That simplicity might pull activity back to Ethereum and its layer-2 networks, where Uniswap’s liquidity already sits.
Liquidity Flows and DeFi’s Next Phase If the auction tool gains traction, it could redirect token launch liquidity from other chains into the Ethereum ecosystem. Uniswap, built on Ethereum, remains a major protocol in a network that consistently leads in developer activity, so enhancing its offering could attract more developers who want their token to have immediate access to deep AMM liquidity. That would shift the competitive landscape away from fragmented launchpad experiences toward a single, liquid hub.
What’s less clear is whether the tool can generate the same viral attention that Pump.fun enjoys. The latter’s interface and instant gratification mechanics are built for speculation, not careful price discovery. Uniswap’s more regulated approach may attract quality projects but could struggle to capture the memecoin gambling crowd that fuels enormous fee generation. One scenario sees a divergence where Uniswap becomes the venue for fair-launch community sales while Pump.fun keeps its casino-like stronghold. Another scenario sees Uniswap’s deeper liquidity pools siphoning serious volume from newer entrants.
For now, the tool is live and free to use, sitting inside the same interface that millions of DeFi users already trust. The real test begins when the first high-profile token auctions go live and the market judges whether fair price discovery actually translates into sustained user demand.
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ECB uvedla, že top 100 držitelů v Aave, MakerDAO, Ampleforth a Uniswap ovládá přes 80 % governance tokenů, což zpochybňuje jejich „plně decentralizovaný“ status podle MiCA. U Ampleforth navíc top 20 hlasujících drží zhruba 96 % proxy hlasů.
ECB staff paper finds top 100 holders in Aave, MakerDAO, Ampleforth and Uniswap control over 80% of governance tokens. Concentrated voting blocs threaten DeFi protocols’ claims to “fully decentralized” status under MiCA. Findings raise risk that leading DeFi DAOs could be pulled inside the EU’s licensing and compliance regime. The European Central Bank (ECB) has published a working paper arguing that governance in flagship DeFi protocols like Aave, MakerDAO, Ampleforth and Uniswap is far more centralized than their “decentralized autonomous organization” branding suggests, a conclusion that could strip them of regulatory safe harbor under the EU’s MiCA regime. The staff study, titled “Who to regulate? Identifying actors within DeFi’s governance,” finds that the top 100 holders in each of the four protocols collectively control more than 80% of governance token supply, with “around half or more holdings linked” to the protocols themselves or exchanges.
According to the ECB researchers, voting power is even more concentrated than token ownership, with top voters “mostly delegates, who, in many cases, could not be identified nor linked to token holders.” In Ampleforth, the paper highlights that the top 20 voters account for roughly 96% of proxy voting rights, a structure that leaves real control in the hands of a small, opaque elite. That concentration, the authors warn, turns many DAOs into what prior academic work has called “minority rule,” where a few large token holders or delegates can effectively dictate protocol outcomes.
MiCA’s “fully decentralized” exemption under pressure Under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation, crypto-asset services that are “provided in a fully decentralised manner without any intermediary” can fall outside the core licensing perimeter. The ECB paper directly questions whether Aave, MakerDAO’s Sky ecosystem, Uniswap and Ampleforth can plausibly claim that status when more than half of governance tokens in some cases are linked to founding teams or centralized exchanges such as Binance. “The concentration of governance power remains stable over time,” the authors write, arguing that decentralization here is “form over substance.”
Regulatory anchor points for DeFi For policymakers, the study’s aim is explicit: identify “regulatory anchor points” in systems that were designed to avoid having a traditional issuer, board or CEO. The authors stress that limited on-chain transparency about the real-world identities behind key delegates “complicates efforts to assess accountability and reinforces concerns about the concentration of power.” That, in turn, bolsters arguments from EU agencies and legal commentators that MiCA’s decentralization exemption must be interpreted narrowly, with regulators focusing on where effective decision-making and operational control actually sit, rather than on marketing language about DAOs.
In practice, the ECB’s approach signals that supervisors are ready to treat DeFi governance structures with the same forensic scrutiny applied to large banks’ shareholder registers and control chains. If Aave, Uniswap or MakerDAO cannot demonstrate materially dispersed and accountable governance, their DAOs may be forced into the same kind of licensing, capital, and compliance obligations now facing centralized crypto-asset service providers across the bloc.
Humanity Project uvedl, že při cross-chain útoku bylo z blockchainů Ethereum a BNB Chain odcizeno a prodáno asi 141,18 milionu H tokenů. Útočník získal klíč přes phishingový e-mail maskovaný jako upozornění od Bithumb.
June 14 — The Humanity Project team issued a statement in the early hours of yesterday regarding a cross-chain attack targeting its H token that took place on June 8. The attacker used a phishing email to gain access to a board member’s device, stealing their private key to execute on-chain transactions. The report noted the attack displayed technical tactics and tooling similar to those linked to a North Korean hacker group. The breach occurred across both Ethereum and BNB Chain. Using the stolen key, the attacker upgraded the Ethereum contract and transferred roughly 141.18 million H tokens. Simultaneously, they seized control of the BSC-side ProxyAdmin contract and minted additional tokens. Over an approximately 8-hour window, the attacker gradually sold these assets on Uniswap and PancakeSwap, disrupting liquidity and harming token holders. The project team confirmed the attack vector was a targeted social engineering phishing email disguised as an update notification from crypto trading platform Bithumb. The victim was tricked into opening a malicious attachment, which installed a remote access trojan that granted full device control, enabling theft of wallet data and private keys. As of the latest update, the Ethereum-side H contract has been frozen via an unaffected multi-signature (multi-sig) mechanism. However, the BSC-side deployment remains under the attacker’s control, leaving open the potential for additional minting. The team is collaborating with exchanges and stakeholders to develop fixes and remedies, and advised users to stay on alert for phishing links and scam messages.
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Uniswap chce rozšířit fee-and-burn na BNB Chain, Polygon a Celo, čímž by se systém rozšířil na 13 blockchainů. Současně CryptoQuant ukazuje rostoucí odtoky UNI z Binance, což naznačuje akumulaci.
TLDR: Uniswap’s temp check vote targets BNB Chain, Polygon, and Celo, expanding the fee-and-burn to 13 chains. Every swap generates a protocol fee that bridges to Ethereum and permanently burns UNI at a dead address. CryptoQuant data shows rising UNI net outflows on Binance, pointing to smart money accumulation near lows. The governance vote closes May 21st with 18.1M UNI cast, 100% in favor, and the 10M quorum already cleared. Uniswap is moving to extend its fee-and-burn mechanism to BNB Chain, Polygon, and Celo. A temp check vote is currently underway, drawing strong community support.
Meanwhile, on-chain data from CryptoQuant shows rising net outflows on Binance as UNI trades near its lower price range. Together, these developments are drawing fresh attention to the token’s near-term outlook.
Governance Vote Targets 13-Chain Fee-and-Burn Rollout The proposal, shared via Snapshot.eth on behalf of Uniswap’s governance, aims to bring the fee-and-burn system to three additional networks. If passed, the rollout would cover 13 chains in total.
Every swap on these networks generates a protocol fee, which bridges back to Ethereum and permanently burns UNI at a dead address.
The system has been live since December across Ethereum and nine other networks. BNB Chain and Polygon would connect through Wormhole’s Native Token Transfer setup.
Celo was approved in an earlier vote but failed due to a configuration error. This proposal corrects that path and re-runs the execution.
Forum member Abel189 described the move as “a coherent next step” given Uniswap’s “increasingly multi-chain reality.”
@Uniswap is running a temp check to extend its fee-and-burn system to @bnbchain, Polygon, and @Celo, bringing the rollout to 13 chains.
Every swap generates a protocol fee that bridges back to Ethereum and permanently burns $UNI at a dead address. The system has been live since… pic.twitter.com/13h6954YSG
— Snapshot.eth (@SnapshotLabs) May 20, 2026
He supports incremental, chain-by-chain expansion but flagged growing cross-chain messaging complexity as a key watch item going forward.
L2BEAT’s governance team, including members Kaereste and Manugotsuka, voted in favor after their research team verified the implementation, contracts, and expected governance payloads.
They noted the unchanged fee structure and continuity with the previously approved framework as reasons for their support.
On-Chain Outflow Data Points to Accumulation Activity On the market side, CryptoQuant data on the Uniswap Exchange Netflow chart for Binance is showing notable movement.
As UNI’s price corrected deeply, netflow bars grew denser with large net outflows becoming more frequent. This pattern tends to reflect behavior from longer-term holders and smart money participants.
These outflows typically mean UNI is being withdrawn from Binance and moved to personal wallets for holding. That reduces the available supply on the exchange and lowers direct selling pressure over time. Analyst Rei Researcher noted this trend as a potential setup for an accumulation zone near the bottom.
Source: Cryptoquant
Currently, UNI is seeing a mild price recovery. If the outflow trend continues and exchange supply tightens further, buying demand could push the price higher.
The combination of reduced sell-side pressure and growing protocol utility through the burn mechanism adds a structural layer to that potential move.
The governance vote closes on May 21st at 5:30 PM UTC. As of the latest update, 258 wallets have cast 18.1 million UNI votes, with 100% in favor and the 10 million quorum already cleared.
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Uniswap Tightens Its Grip on Ethereum and Layer 2@Uniswap remains the dominant liquidity venue in decentralized finance, capturing 67.3% of total DEX volume on Ethereum this week. That concentration is not new, but it is deepening. Data from KuCoin's Ethereum Q1 2026 review shows Uniswap accounted for approximately $85.5 billion in Q1 volume, representing roughly two-thirds of the entire Ethereum DEX ecosystem.
The protocol's reach extends well beyond mainnet. @Uniswap controls 84.6% of DEX market share on Arbitrum and 46.6% on Base, cementing its position across the two most active Layer 2 networks. Uniswap remains the largest spot DEX by every meaningful measure, clearing roughly $73 billion in 30-day volume across Ethereum mainnet and 39 other chains.
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$UNI Earns a New Look From Institutional AnalystsThe volume story is only part of what is drawing attention to $UNI in 2026. A structural shift in the token's economics has changed how analysts frame it. With the fee switch now active, UNI can be viewed through a cash-flow lens rather than only as a governance token. The UNIfication proposal passed in late December 2025 fundamentally changed Uniswap's economics: for the first time, protocol revenue is directly captured by the system and used to buy and burn $UNI, aligning token value with actual network usage.
That shift has caught the attention of major financial institutions. Standard Chartered's digital asset research head, Geoff Kendrick, initiated coverage on Uniswap with a long-term price target of $100 for $UNI by 2030, with the bank's thesis centered on the exponential growth of tokenized real-world assets, projected to surge from roughly $340 billion to $4 trillion by 2028. Standard Chartered projects a $UNI price target of $6.50 in 2026, citing Uniswap's position as a dominant DEX to capture fees from tokenized real-world assets.
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A wallet tied to US government seized FTX Chainlink holdings moved 98,590 Chainlink (LINK) tokens, worth about $768,000, to Coinbase Prime on Wednesday, reviving speculation over a potential sale.
Blockchain trackers flagged the deposit within minutes. However, on-chain data alone does not confirm that the tokens are headed for the open market.
US government wallet transferring seized FTX Chainlink (LINK) to Coinbase Prime, Source: ArkhamWhy the Seized FTX Chainlink Transfer MattersOn-chain tracker Lookonchain first reported the movement, and tracking account Solid Intel flagged the same deposit.
Arkham labels the sending address under its US government entity and has documented earlier movements from the same cluster.
The US Government just moved $800K of Alameda’s funds.
Many Alameda/FTX assets that were seized by the DOJ will be returned to FTX estate creditors and those who lost assets in FTX’s collapse.
Another $800K has been reclaimed for crypto users. pic.twitter.com/jW7PAcF1p4
— Arkham (@arkham) May 29, 2026 Follow us on X to get the latest news as it happens
The funds originate from assets confiscated after FTX and Alameda Research collapsed in November 2022.
A federal judge later ordered Sam Bankman-Fried to forfeit $11 billion after his fraud conviction, with recovered funds directed toward victim compensation.
The US Marshals Service selected Coinbase Prime in July 2024 to custody and trade its large-cap digital assets.
“After a comprehensive process, the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, selected Coinbase Prime as its partner to safeguard and trade its “Class 1” (large cap) digital assets,” read an excerpt in a 2024 Coinbase blog.
Therefore, deposits to the platform often precede custody changes, over-the-counter deals, or liquidations.
The agency has managed seized crypto sales for over a decade, beginning with its auction of 30,000 Silk Road bitcoins in 2014.
Historically, it has favored structured sales over open-market dumps.
The transaction also extends a pattern of earlier seized altcoin transfers involving Uniswap (UNI), Render (RNDR), Ethereum (ETH), and The Sandbox (SAND), plus stablecoins.
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Analysts See Limited Risk of a LINK Sell-OffChainlink’s current price sits near $7.66, down 2% over the past 24 hours. The token holds a $5.57 billion market cap and ranks 21st among cryptocurrencies.
Chainlink (LINK) Price Performance. Source: BeInCryptoThe transferred amount equals less than 0.4% of LINK’s $225 million daily trading volume. It also represents roughly 0.01% of the 727 million tokens in circulation.
Consequently, even an outright sale would barely move market liquidity.
Sentiment around the token remains cautious after a 27% slide over the past 30 days. LINK has also shed 49% over the past year, leaving holders alert to new supply signals.
In contrast, Chainlink’s ETF inflow outlook suggests institutional demand could absorb modest government supply over time.
Whether the tokens move to an over-the-counter desk or stay in custody should become clearer in the coming days.
The wallet’s next transaction will reveal whether the deposit marks routine management or the start of a liquidation.
Until then, the sell-off fears look larger than the numbers behind them.
Lido DAO navrhuje automatizovaný buyback LDO prostřednictvím likviditního poolu LDO/wstETH, který má snižovat nabídku v oběhu a zlepšit on-chain likviditu. Aktivace má nastat jen při ceně ETH nad 3 000 USD a ročním výnosu nad 40 milionů USD.
In a recent proposal, Lido introduced an automated buyback mechanism. It would use LDO and wstETH liquidity to form a Uniswap v2-style liquidity pool. It will be managed by the Aragon Agent. If approved, the plan could launch as early as Q1 2026. The goal is simple but powerful: remove LDO tokens from circulation through automated buybacks while improving on-chain liquidity. This would make LDO more useful across decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms, giving token holders more confidence and long-term value.
How the Buyback Mechanism Works In traditional finance, companies buy back their own stock to reduce supply and increase value. Lido’s proposal brings a similar idea on-chain. Instead of purchasing shares, the DAO would buy its own LDO tokens using revenue generated from staking rewards. The tokens would then be paired with wrapped staked ETH (wstETH) in a liquidity pool, improving trading depth while gradually removing LDO from the open market.
The system activates only under certain conditions. For instance, buybacks would occur when ETH trades above $3,000 and Lido’s annual revenue exceeds $40 million. The program would use up to 50% of staking inflows above that threshold, with a limit of $10 million per year to prevent excessive spending.
A proposal to implement an automated LDO buyback mechanism is now live on the Lido DAO Forum.
Opinions regarding mechanism, proposed parameters and more are welcome.https://t.co/Hve7cS405J
— Lido (@LidoFinance) November 11, 2025
This setup is anti-cyclical, meaning it responds to market performance. When ETH prices and revenues rise, buybacks increase, supporting token value. In bear markets, the system slows down or pauses, preserving DAO funds. This approach mirrors treasury strategies seen in protocols like MakerDAO’s Smart Burn Engine, which also automates buybacks based on market conditions.
More About Lido Lido DAO has unveiled stRATEGY, a new product that makes earning DeFi rewards easier and more automated. Built on Mellow Protocol’s Core Vaults, stRATEGY lets users deposit ETH, WETH, or wstETH just once and automatically distributes those funds across trusted platforms like Aave, Ethena, and Uniswap. The system continually rebalances to maximize rewards, simplifying what used to be a complex process.
Introducing stRATEGY
Curated DeFi rewards centered around stETH
Aave, Ethena, Uniswap & more
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— Lido (@LidoFinance) November 6, 2025
In exchange, users receive strETH, a token that accrues both DeFi yields and Mellow points for added incentives. At any time, strETH can be swapped back into wstETH, giving users full flexibility. With stRATEGY, Lido DAO aims to make DeFi participation more accessible while focusing on reliable, battle-tested integrations that optimize returns.
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Tokenizované zlato v 1. čtvrtletí 2026 dosáhlo objemu spotového obchodování 90,70 miliardy USD, přičemž růst táhnou hlavně PAXG a XAUT. Tyto tokeny ale mají odlišná pravidla odkupu, úschovy i práv držitele.
Gold-backed crypto sounds straightforward until you check the redemption rules, custody setup, and issuer terms. In practice, two tokens may track the same ounce of gold while offering very different rights to the holder.
That gap between price exposure and holder rights is drawing more attention in 2026 as tokenized gold trading volume rises and products like Pax Gold (PAXG) and Tether Gold (XAUT) pull in more activity across crypto markets. This guide explains how tokenized gold works, how PAXG and XAUT differ, and what buyers should check before they treat a token like physical bullion.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
➤ Tokenized gold tracks physical bullion, but holder rights, redemption terms, and custody structures can differ sharply between issuers.
➤ Tokenized gold trading volume reached $90.7 billion in Q1 2026, with PAXG and XAUT leading the category’s growth.
➤ Issuer risk, redemption limits, wallet controls, and regional regulations still affect how tokenized gold works in practice.
➤Tokenized gold gives crypto users 24/7 transferability and wallet access, but it does not remove traditional gold-market risks.
In this guide:
What is tokenized gold? How gold-backed crypto works in 2026PAXG vs. XAUT, side by sideDo you own real gold with PAXG and XAUT?Can you redeem PAXG and XAUT for physical gold?Tokenized gold vs. gold ETFs vs physical bullionTokenized gold risks and how to mitigate themHow to buy tokenized gold in 2026Frequently Asked Questions What is tokenized gold? How gold-backed crypto works in 2026 Tokenized gold is a digital token issued on a blockchain that is backed by physical gold stored in audited vaults. Gold has long attracted buyers who want a hard asset outside fiat currencies, but physical settlement, storage, and transfers can be slow or expensive.
This “tokenized” model has brought two markets together that rarely interacted in the past. One is physical gold, which offers a 5,000-year store-of-value record but settles slowly, trades on dealer hours, and is hard to fractionalize. The other is public blockchains, which can settle transactions in seconds, run 24/7, and split assets into tiny units.
A gold-backed token bridges the two by locking real bullion with a custodian and minting transferable claims on it.
What is a troy ounce and London Good Delivery gold?
A troy ounce is the standard unit used in global precious-metals markets and equals about 31.1 grams. “London Good Delivery” refers to large gold bars that meet quality and purity standards accepted by major bullion markets, central banks, and institutional traders.
How tokenization works An issuer such as Paxos or TG Commodities acquires physical gold from refiners or bullion dealers and stores it with a professional custodian. The issuer then creates a matching amount of blockchain-based tokens tied to that gold reserve. Token holders can buy, sell, transfer, or self-custody the assets like other crypto tokens.
When holders redeem tokens through the issuer, the corresponding amount of gold leaves the reserve pool and may be sold, transferred, or delivered physically if redemption minimums are met. Independent attestors or audit firms publish reserve reports on a scheduled basis to verify that the token supply matches the underlying gold holdings.
Why tokenized gold is exploding in 2026 Adoption has accelerated through 2025 and into 2026 as real-world asset (RWA) tokenization moved from pilots to live products. Tokenized gold achieved $90.70 billion in total spot trading volume in Q1 2026, surpassing the $84.64 billion traded throughout 2025, according to CoinGecko’s RWA Report 2026.
Meanwhile, on March 19, 2026, the World Gold Council and Boston Consulting Group proposed a “Gold as a Service” framework designed to standardize custody, reconciliation, compliance, and redemption processes across digital gold products.
Tokenized gold is not a stablecoin. Its price moves with the spot price of gold, so holders gain or lose value as bullion rallies or falls. The “stability” only refers to the 1:1 backing, not a fixed dollar peg.
The combination of rising gold prices, clearer rules in some jurisdictions, and on-chain demand for non-dollar collateral has produced what looks like a structural rather than cyclical lift.
The tokenized gold market includes smaller products such as Kinesis Gold (KAU), Comtech Gold (CGO), VeraOne (VRO), and Matrixdock Gold (XAUM). Even so, market activity and liquidity remain concentrated around Pax Gold (PAXG) and Tether Gold (XAUT), which makes them useful reference points for how large-scale gold-backed tokens currently operate.
Top tokenized gold products by market cap: CoinGecko PAXG vs. XAUT, side by side Pax Gold (PAXG) and Tether Gold (XAUT) together hold roughly nine-tenths of the gold-backed token market. They follow the same backing standard, but their regulator, chain support, audit cadence, redemption process, and US availability are not the same.
AttributePAXGXAUTIssuerPaxos Trust CompanyTG Commodities Limited (Tether)RegulatorOCC, U.S. federal oversight; previously NYDFSCNAD, El SalvadorBacking1 token = 1 troy ounce LBMA Good Delivery1 token = 1 troy ounce LBMA Good DeliveryVault locationBrink’s vaults, LondonSwiss vaults via MKS PAMP and LoomisAuditor and cadenceKPMG LLP, monthlyBDO Italia, quarterly ISAE 3000ChainsEthereum (ERC-20)Ethereum, TRON, Polygon, Solana via LayerZero, BNB ChainIssuance and redemption feeTiered 1% down to 0.125%Flat 0.25%Minimum physical redemption430 tokens for a full bar, 1 gram and up via Alpha Bullion430 tokens for a full bar, no fractional partnerOwnership typeAllocated gold with Paxos bar lookupUndivided gold rights with Tether Gold bar lookupReserve and oracle supportPaxos attestations, allocation lookup, and Chainlink reserve-related infrastructureTether Gold attestations, wallet/bar lookup, and Chainlink XAUT/USD market-data feedsUS retail availabilityListed on Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Crypto.comRestricted, not directly available to US retailMarket cap (May 2026)About $2.2 billion per CoinGeckoAbout $2.6 to $2.7 billion per CoinGecko Pax Gold at a glance PAXG launched in September 2019, when Paxos operated under its NYDFS trust-company framework. Paxos later received approval to convert to a national trust charter overseen by the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Current PAXG terms say PAXG is issued pursuant to specific OCC approval.
Paxos assures that the underlying gold is stored in Brink’s vaults in London, and each PAXG token is linked to a specific serial-numbered gold bar that holders can verify through Paxos’ allocation lookup tool. KPMG took over the monthly attestation in February 2025, replacing WithumSmith+Brown, and the reports are published on the Paxos site.
Tether Gold at a glance XAUT was launched by TG Commodities Limited in January 2020 and is now operated under a license from El Salvador’s National Digital Assets Commission, known by its Spanish initials CNAD.
The bullion is stored in Swiss vaults, with MKS PAMP and Loomis named in TG Commodities’s attestation materials. XAUT launched on Ethereum and TRON before expanding to additional networks through the XAUT0 cross-chain system. Tether later announced Polygon, Solana, and BNB Chain integrations between late 2025 and early 2026.
BDO Italia issues an ISAE 3000 opinion on the reserves on a quarterly basis.
Fees, audits, and oracle data PAXG’s fee structure has changed over time. As of May 2026, Paxos advertises zero on-chain transfer fees and zero storage fees for PAXG, although its terms still reserve the right to impose storage fees in the future with notice. Its terms also govern conversions into USD, unallocated gold, or allocated gold through the Paxos platform.
XAUT says it charges no custodian fee and applies a one-time 25 basis point fee when verified customers purchase or redeem XAU₮ through TG Commodities.
Chainlink has supported reserve-related infrastructure for PAXG, while Chainlink also provides XAUT/USD market-data feeds. A price feed is not the same as a reserve feed. In both cases, users still need to check issuer attestations, custody disclosures, and official lookup tools rather than relying on oracle data alone.
Do you own real gold with PAXG and XAUT? The short answer is that both products describe gold ownership, but the issuer structure, custody chain, legal terms, and redemption process are not the same.
PAXG gives holders ownership rights to allocated London Good Delivery gold held under Paxos custody. XAUT gives holders undivided ownership rights to gold on specified bars, with bar details available through Tether Gold’s lookup system.
The practical question is not only whether gold backs the token, but how each issuer records, verifies, and redeems that claim.
How ownership is recorded PAXG uses an allocated-gold structure. Paxos says each PAXG represents one fine troy ounce of a London Good Delivery gold bar held in professional vaults. Its terms also say that when a holder is not allocated a full bar, the holder owns a pro rata share of that bar based on their PAXG balance. Paxos’ lookup tool lets eligible on-chain holders view bar details tied to their holdings.
XAUT uses a different legal structure. Tether Gold says XAU₮ gives holders undivided ownership rights to gold on specified bars. It also says the allocated gold is identifiable by serial number, purity, and weight through Tether Gold’s lookup system.
So, the cleaner distinction is not “specific bar versus pool.” Both products describe a bar-level link. The real differences come from issuer structure, custodian arrangements, jurisdiction, disclosure cadence, redemption rules, and the legal terms behind each token.
Bankruptcy remoteness and counterparty risk The difference matters most if the issuer fails. Paxos Trust Company is a New York limited-purpose trust company that holds the bullion as a bailee, a structure designed to be bankruptcy remote, meaning the bullion would not be available to general creditors.
TG Commodities is a private Tether subsidiary under El Salvadoran oversight rather than a US trust company, which leaves the holder’s claim subject to El Salvadoran insolvency rules.
As of May 2026, neither structure has faced a major issuer failure or large-scale court test, so the legal outcome in a stress event remains untested.
Insurance and custody disclosures Paxos says each PAXG is backed by one fine troy ounce of gold held in LBMA vaults in London. Its allocation lookup tool lets holders of PAXG in on-chain Ethereum wallets view serial-number and bar information, though the tool does not apply to tokens held through custodial exchanges or wallets. Paxos also publishes monthly PAXG attestation reports.
XAUT’s terms refer to custodian insurance, but the public disclosures do not itemize coverage at the same level of detail. XAUT’s terms refer to custodian insurance, but they also say there is no assurance that the custodian will maintain adequate insurance, or any insurance.
The public terms do not give the same bar-level insurance detail that a cautious buyer may want before they rely on insurance as a risk control. Holders should review the latest issuer terms, reserve reports, and custody disclosures before they treat insurance as meaningful protection.
Allocated ownership is one of the strongest legal protections available in the gold market, but it depends entirely on the custody chain functioning as advertised. Always read the latest attestation rather than relying on marketing language.
Can you redeem PAXG and XAUT for physical gold? Eligible verified holders can redeem both PAXG and XAUT for physical bullion, but the rules are not necessarily retail-friendly in the same way.
PAXG supports direct full-bar redemption through Paxos and smaller physical-gold redemptions through partnered retailers. XAUT redemptions, by contrast, occur through TG Commodities and must be tied to full gold bars.
PAXG redemption Paxos says holders can convert PAXG into USD, unallocated gold, or allocated gold through the Paxos platform, subject to its terms.
Direct allocated-gold redemption requires at least 430 PAXG plus the applicable fee for each London Good Delivery gold bar. Paxos also says customers with smaller holdings can redeem fractional amounts through partnered gold retailers.
Alpha Bullion, a platform tied to Bullion Exchanges and Paxos, says it lets PAXG holders redeem physical gold in sizes from 1 gram to 1 kilogram.
Note that Alpha Bullion requires account verification before order fulfillment. Because product availability, fees, taxes, and delivery terms can change, holders should check Alpha Bullion’s current checkout terms before they treat PAXG as an easy route to small physical-gold delivery.
XAUT redemption XAUT redemption follows a relatively stricter process. Tether Gold says only KYC-verified customers can redeem through the Tether Gold website, and redemptions can occur only for full gold bars. Since those bars usually range from about 385 to 415 fine troy ounces, holders are generally asked to deposit at least 430 XAU₮ to cover a full-bar redemption.
After redemption, the gold can be delivered to the verified customer’s chosen location in Switzerland, with delivery costs payable by the customer. Tether Gold says it does not currently offer delivery outside Switzerland.
Instead of physical delivery, a verified customer may ask Tether Gold to attempt a sale of the gold bar in the Swiss gold market and return the USD proceeds, minus the redemption fee. That sale is subject to available rates and counterparties, and Tether Gold says it has no obligation to repurchase the tokens or gold bars.
How to verify your gold on-chain Both issuers offer on-chain transparency tools. For PAXG, holders enter an Ethereum address into the Paxos lookup page and see the serial numbers of the underlying bars. For XAUT, the Tether site shows the gold attributed to a wallet at a given time.
These tools can help holders check issuer-level allocation data, while Chainlink infrastructure can support market-data or reserve-related checks depending on the token. Users should still treat issuer attestations, custody disclosures, and official lookup tools as the main sources for reserve verification.
That is the redemption side. The next question is how tokenized gold stacks up against the alternatives most investors already know.
Tokenized gold vs. gold ETFs vs physical bullion Tokenized gold is right there in between two long-established options. The table below compares the three on the dimensions that drive most allocation decisions.
AttributeTokenized gold (PAXG, XAUT)Gold ETFs (GLD, IAU, GLDM)Physical bullionCustodyLBMA vault held by issuer custodianLBMA vault held by ETF trusteeSelf-custody or third-party vaultTrading hours24/7/365Stock market hoursDealer hoursAnnual fee0% storage, 0.125% to 1% issuance and redemption0.17% to 0.40% expense ratioDealer spread plus storage and insuranceSettlementSeconds, on-chainT+1Same day at dealerRedemption for physicalYes, with minimumsNo, cash settlement onlyAlready physicalDeFi useCollateral, lending, yieldNoneNoneUS tax treatmentProperty treatment likely, still developingCollectibles 28% per IRS guidanceCollectibles 28% per IRS guidance Fee math at retail scale Headline fees can look simple until you apply them to a real position size. For example, take a $10,000 PAXG buy held for 12 months. If that order falls into Paxos’ 2–25 PAXG fee tier, the 1% entry fee comes to about $100.
Paxos currently advertises zero on-chain transfer fees and zero storage fees for PAXG.
If the position is sold or converted through the Paxos wallet at the same fee tier, the exit fee would add another $100. That puts the direct Paxos round-trip cost at about $200 on a $10,000 position held for one year, before spreads, gas, taxes, exchange fees, or any third-party platform costs.
Cost note: This example assumes direct Paxos wallet creation and sale or conversion at the 1% fee tier. If you buy or sell PAXG through an exchange, your actual cost may come from trading fees, spreads, withdrawal costs, and venue-specific rules instead.
A $10,000 GLD position over the same period pays the 0.40% expense ratio, or about $40, before any broker-specific costs. A $10,000 GLDM position is cheaper still at 0.10%, or roughly $10 for the year.
On direct fees alone, a lower-cost gold ETF such as GLDM can be much cheaper than a direct PAXG round trip at the 1% tier. PAXG’s case becomes stronger only if the holder values features an ETF cannot provide, such as crypto-wallet custody, around-the-clock transfers, DeFi use, or PAXG-specific redemption routes.
Tax treatment In the United States, the Internal Revenue Service classifies physical gold and most gold ETFs as collectibles, which carry a long-term capital gains rate of up to 28% rather than the standard 20%.
As of May 2026, tokenized gold is in a less settled position. Some practitioners argue it should follow the underlying asset and be treated as a collectible, while others apply general property rules for digital assets. UK, EU, and UAE treatments vary and depend on whether the holder uses an exchange domiciled in a regulated venue.
Always confirm with a tax professional before relying on any single framing.
Tokenized gold in DeFi The structural advantage of tokenized gold over an ETF is on-chain usability. PAXG is listed as collateral on the Aave deployment on Ethereum and trades in Curve and Uniswap pools, while XAUT has integrations on TRON-based DeFi venues and emerging yield vaults on platforms such as Falcon Finance.
Yields available in 2026 have ranged from low single digits to mid single digits, depending on the pool and risk tier, with strategies that wrap gold collateral into lending or basis trades.
Tokenized gold risks and how to mitigate them The risks attached to tokenized gold are not the same as the risks attached to physical bullion or to an ETF. Buyers should weigh three categories before committing.
Issuer and depeg risk Both PAXG and XAUT depend on a single issuer to honor redemptions and report reserves. A failure at Paxos or TG Commodities would cap the value of the token at whatever a court determined was the holder’s claim on the bullion.
Token prices can also drift from spot during stress events. PAXG traded at a premium to spot during the February 2025 London bullion shortage as physical delivery times stretched, an episode that reminded the market that on-chain liquidity does not always equal physical liquidity.
Smart contract, sanctions, and wallet freezing PAXG and XAUT contracts both include administrative functions that allow the issuer to freeze tokens in specific wallets. Paxos has used the function to comply with US sanctions enforcement, and Tether has frozen XAUT-related addresses tied to flagged activity. The functions exist for legitimate compliance reasons, but they mean a holder who trips a sanctions flag could lose access to their tokens.
Both tokens can be frozen by the issuer. A buyer who values censorship resistance above gold exposure should consider physical bullion or self-custody alternatives instead.
Regulatory risk Paxos previously operated under NYDFS oversight and is now OCC-regulated as a national trust institution.
XAUT has a narrower U.S. retail access path. Tether Gold says U.S. persons cannot purchase or redeem XAU₮ directly through its issuer platform, which means U.S. users should not assume they can access issuer-level redemption features.
In the European Union, MiCA rules for asset-referenced tokens and e-money tokens became applicable on June 30, 2024, while broader crypto-asset service provider rules followed on Dec. 30, 2024. Paxos says it operates under MiCA compliance through FIN-FSA in the EU, but its current PAXG page also says PAXG is unavailable in the EU.
Put simply, access can depend on the issuer, exchange, user location, and product feature. So, as a buyer, you should check current exchange notices and issuer disclosures before they assume PAXG or XAUT is available in the jurisdiction you are in.
How to buy tokenized gold in 2026 Tokenized gold trades on both centralized exchanges and on-chain venues. Most retail buyers start on a centralized exchange for the smoothest path, then move tokens to self-custody or a DeFi position if they want to use the gold as collateral.
Buying on a centralized exchange PAXG is listed on Coinbase, Kraken, Crypto.com, Binance, and Bitpanda, among others. The standard flow is to fund an account with fiat, place a market or limit order against the PAXG pair, and either keep the tokens on the exchange or withdraw them to a personal wallet.
XAUT is listed on a smaller set of venues, with Bitfinex and several non-US exchanges providing the deepest order books. US residents typically cannot buy XAUT directly through a domestic exchange.
Buying on a DEX On Ethereum, PAXG can be bought on Uniswap and Curve pools using ether or a stablecoin, though gas costs and pool depth should be checked before larger trades.
XAUT liquidity tends to sit in TRON-based and non-EVM venues, which makes the operational steps more involved. Buyers who use a DEX should always verify the token contract address from the issuer’s official site to avoid scam tokens.
Other gold-backed tokens worth knowing PAXG and XAUT dominate the market, but several other gold-backed tokens are worth knowing. Kinesis Gold (KAU) and Kinesis Silver (KAG) pay a share of network fees back to holders, which gives them a yield profile unlike PAXG or XAUT. CACHE Gold (CGT) uses a fractional-gram model with on-chain bar serial assignment.
AurusX (AWG) and Matrixdock XAUM are relatively newer entrants targeting cross-jurisdictional retail demand. Comtech Gold (CGO) markets a Shariah-compliant structure aimed at Middle East and South Asian buyers.
Note that liquidity for these smaller tokens is thinner, so always check the on-chain market depth before committing.
Frequently Asked Questions What is tokenized gold and how does it work? Tokenized gold is a digital token on a blockchain that represents ownership of physical gold held in an audited vault. Each token typically equals one troy ounce of London Good Delivery bullion held by a custodian on behalf of the issuer. Holders can transfer the token like any other crypto asset and, in some cases, redeem it for physical metal when minimums and verification rules are met.
Do you own real gold with PAXG? Yes. PAXG uses an allocated ownership model in which each token is mapped to a portion of a specific London Good Delivery bar identified by serial number. Paxos publishes a lookup tool that lets a wallet holder view the bars assigned to their address. The bullion is held in Brink’s vaults in London and is described by Paxos as legally separate from the company’s general balance sheet.
Can you redeem PAXG for physical gold? Yes, with two paths. A holder with 430 PAXG or more can redeem directly through Paxos for a full London Good Delivery bar, subject to Paxos’ terms. Holders below that threshold can use Alpha Bullion’s partner route for smaller physical-gold redemptions from 1 gram upward, subject to identity verification, product availability, taxes, delivery terms, and any current checkout costs.
Can you redeem XAUT for physical gold? Yes, but only at the full-bar level and only in Switzerland. A holder must accumulate at least 430 XAUT, complete identity verification with TG Commodities, and arrange Swiss delivery or cash settlement at spot. There is no fractional retail partner equivalent to Alpha Bullion, so most XAUT holders treat the token as a price exposure rather than a redemption vehicle.
What is the difference between PAXG and XAUT? The main differences are issuer structure, regulatory profile, chain support, audit cadence, and redemption rules. Paxos previously operated under NYDFS oversight and is now OCC-regulated as a national trust institution. PAXG uses monthly attestations and links holdings to allocated London Good Delivery gold. XAUT is issued through TG Commodities, operates under El Salvador’s CNAD framework, uses quarterly assurance reports, and gives holders undivided gold rights with Tether Gold’s bar lookup system. PAXG is Ethereum-based, while XAUT is available across several networks.
Is tokenized gold safe and what are the main risks? Tokenized gold inherits the price behavior of physical gold and adds three risk categories on top. Issuer risk covers the potential failure of Paxos or TG Commodities, smart contract risk covers code or governance failures, and sanctions risk covers the issuer’s ability to freeze tokens in flagged wallets. Holders mitigate these risks by reading the latest attestations, splitting positions across issuers, and avoiding behavior that could trigger a wallet freeze.
Podle Nansen už v peněžence hackera WazirX zůstává jen asi 5 milionů USD poté, co prodal Uniswap, Chainlink i The Sandbox. Největší tlak byl na Chainlink a PUSH.
The entity behind the WazirX exploit has liquidated a good portion of its ill-gotten gains, which analysts have noted has had a major impact on some prices.
Alex Svanevik, CEO of blockchain analytics firm Nansen, pointed out on Twitter that the entity behind the hack of Indian exchange WazirX—suggested to be a North Korean hacking group—became the top Uniswap (UNI) seller. Nansen data for UNI shows that the address in question has sold $859,514 worth of the token over the last seven days.
The @WazirXIndia Exploiter is back on the move...
In the past hour, they've moved 21.16b $BOB ($800k) and some smaller holdings that have also been sold. And a further 6.7m $CHR ($1.6m), was sent to a separate address and was sold a few minutes ago
This is after the… pic.twitter.com/L0zPf8Id0O
— Nansen 🧭 (@nansen_ai) July 22, 2024
Similarly, the presumed North Korean hacker group also topped the sale charts for Chainlink (LINK) and The Sandbox (SAND). Nansen data shows that the hacker sold over $2.77 million of Chainlink and $1.6 million of SAND over the last seven days.
Later, the firm's main account sent a tweet saying that there's now only $5 million worth of funds left in the exploiter's wallet. The remainder is mostly comprised of Celer Network (CELR), Ooki (OOKI), and Frontier (FRONT).
Market reacts to WazirX hacker's sellingDespite this, according to CoinMarketCap data, Chainlink is trading at $14.16 after seeing a 2.57% gain over the last seven days. Similarly, The Sandbox is trading at $0.3371 after seeing 3.61% worth of gains over the last seven days. Uniswap is trading at $7.91 after trading in the red for most of the last seven days—even before the hack—and lost 6.1% over the last seven days.
The same cannot be said about Push Protocol (PUSH). The token has dropped 24% over both the last seven days and 32% in the last 24 hours. It's now trading at $0.1027 after rebounding 28% from its $0.08022 low reported earlier on Monday. Nansen data shows that the WazirX hacker wallet sold $529,167 worth of PUSH over the last da—with the next top seller only having sold $11,133, highlighting the low liquidity.
Push Protocol and The Sandbox 24-hour price chart. Source: CoinMarketCapPush Protocol & The Sandbox 24-hour price chart. | Source: CoinMarketCap
The difference in impact is to be largely attributed to the different levels of liquidity. Push Protocol has a market cap of under $6.2 million and a 24-hour volume of under $4.9 million as of press time.
Hi Push Community
As you may know, WazirX exchange has been the victim of a hack that exposed several coins, and unfortunately, PUSH as well. We have traced them to this address: https://t.co/NA2ObL7eM6 exploiter of the exchange has sold 100% of the reserve of PUSH tokens… pic.twitter.com/m43ec4TrME
Chainlink has a market cap of nearly $8.6 billion and a volume of over $421 million, whereas The Sandbox has $767 million and $69 million respectively. Uniswap has a market cap of $4.74 billion and a volume of nearly $158 million.
Edited by Stacy Elliott.
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