Uniswap just launched Univ4 hooks. What’s next for the protocol and $UNI?...Meanwhile, $UNI holders are pushing back against what they view as unfair treatment compared to Uniswap...For context, these threads are a great summary of Uniswap history, and $UNI.
https://x.com/Tiza4ThePeople...
Products that users directly interact with (Uniswap, Jupiter, Pump fun, etc.)....Unichain is in fact a general-purpose L2 designed under the Uniswap brand....around the Uniswap protocol and its users....Take, for example, arbitrage MEV between DEXs like Uniswap and Sushiswap.
A perfect example of this phenomenon is $UNI and Uniswap Labs....The UNI token DAO can only vote to monetize the LP fees and Unichain sequencer, whereas Uniswap Labs...(the actual Uniswap team) still owns all other products and revenue streams....In essence, $UNI claims to be a DAO governance token but doesn’t actually govern Uniswap as a whole.
This led to the subsequent advent of the concentrated liquidity AMM under Uniswap v3....We will likely see more of these designs as “hooks” under Uniswap v4....In the same way that Uniswap democratized access to liquidity provisioning via AMMs, Elixir wants to...
In practice, this means you will interface with Uniswap as a standalone Uniswap App, Aave as a standalone...elements of the Uniswap ecosystem....DEX/ACC in the Uniswap Ecosystem
This year, there were a few developments in the Uniswap ecosystem, and...NoOp hooks are the ultimate customization tool for Uniswap v4.
This was the case with Ink (Kraken – $25M OP), BASE (Coinbase – $118M OP), and likely Unichain (Uniswap...Unlike the hooks in Uniswap v4, this module can be enforced in-protocol with validator logic, instead...of relying on the application level as in the case of Uniswap on Ethereum.
When Clanker deploys a token, it initiates a single-sided 1% fee pool on Uniswap v3....Clanker tokens are launched in a 1% fee tier Uniswap v3 pool....But we are already seeing Aerodrome and a 30bp fee pool on Uniswap steal over half of CLANKER’s total...With the introduction of Uniswap v4 and inevitable maturation of tokens, Clanker may need to make adjustments...
The most-used protocols – Uniswap, Lido, Compound, saw no direct value accrue to their tokens....Uniswap, in particular, became the poster child for this disconnect....Uniswap as a Case Study
Nowhere is this dysfunction more visible than in Uniswap....But as this IPO trend continues, the biggest meme would be a Uniswap Labs IPO.
Starting April 15, Uniswap will start distributing $5M worth of $UNI over two weeks across 12 pools to...Fresh $UNI incentives, straight from the pockets of $UNI holders , redirected by Uniswap Labs & Foundation...0xc1d4a8a176ff97f6db053f983af4612009414fe93d5498ad2e33ccc3a7e0a26b
Good for farmers, bad for holders, as this is basically $UNI dilution from the Uniswap...
Clanker v4 highlights:
Uniswap v3 → Uniswap v4
Customizable Fee Structures: Flexibility in fee tiers...Clanker tokens were deployed to a canonical full range 1% fee Uniswap pool....Aero protocol votes try to vampire emerging @uniswap pools w 10K+ APY to prop up the #1 dex narrative...
...sellers are exhausted
Most retail holders haven’t (and may never) realized what’s happened yet
The Uniswap...The Uniswap Foundation, for example, has mastered this game:
Firstly, their governance process requires...repeatedly teased turning on the fee switch for UNI holders to share in their $4.4 billion revenue (Uniswap...
Consider the pattern: Uniswap launched an L2, Ethena is building an L1, and dYdX migrated to its own...Uni v4, but this is a complex 9-step process, requiring manual withdrawals, cross-chain bridging, and Uniswap...The solution is live at Uniswap Migrator.
This is why, in the early stages of most networks outside of Ethereum, Uniswap does not have the majority...Uniswap is not usually able to come in and become the market leader immediately....To keep in mind here: this flywheel tends to break as the rollup matures, and Uniswap liquidity on that...
...than a monolithic pooled protocol, Morpho Blue functions more like a toolkit—letting anyone deploy Uniswap-style...Even Uniswap, since 2018, introduced the concept of isolated, permissionless liquidity pools—though for...
Meanwhile, Ethereum has MetaMask, Etherscan, Uniswap, Lido, Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, etc....They’ve paid Kraken to build Ink, Coinbase to build BASE, and now Uniswap to launch Unichain, all using...