SushiSwap’s liquidity grab actually made Uniswap stronger — Data shows

SushiSwap’s liquidity grab actually made Uniswap stronger — Data shows

New data shows that one month after SushiSwap’s vampire mining attack Uniswap is the real beneficiary. SushiSwap is widely thought to have syphoned liquidity from Uniswap but new data from Flipside Crypto, a cryptocurrency on-chain analytics resource, suggests that the decentralized exchange’s launch mechanism actually benefited Uniswap by bringing new money into its liquidity pools.On Aug. 28, SushiSwap announced that it would launch its own decentralized exchange and many in the DeFi community referred to the project as a “vampire mining attack”. After forking from Uniswap, the most....


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