Finance Redefined: Uniswap’s bang ends in whimper, Sept. 16-23
DeFi users got a fat stimulus check, but Uniswap’s token fell short of the community’s inflated expectations. The biggest event of this week was definitely the sudden release of Uniswap’s token, UNI, which enriched many DeFi users by at least $1200 each.Uniswap gave 400 of its tokens to anyone who had ever traded with the protocol, even if the interaction somehow failed. And by “anyone” I mean “any wallet” — some people almost certainly got more than one such allocation by having multiple wallets.Sadly, I wasn’t one of them, and to be honest I barely used Uniswap anyway. In my treatise....
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If you look at its governance, definitely not. No major euphoria-worthy moments happened this week — the ecosystem is still cooling off. I think the biggest sign of that is Uniswap’s trading volume. After hitting a peak of slightly less than $1 billion in daily volume in early September, those numbers steadily deflated.Courtesy of Uniswap’s sleek dashboard.But despite the downtrend, I think even the current level is still well beyond the wildest imagination of a DeFi fan in 2019. For reference, those figures are roughly on par with Bitstamp or Bitfinex (even though as I write this, their....