Uniswap is the largest decentralized exchange (DEX) and automated market maker (AMM) protocol on Ethereum and 18+ other chains, founded by Hayden Adams and deployed to Ethereum mainnet on November 2, 2018. It has processed cumulative trading volume in the trillions of dollars. Uniswap's Twitter Score is 787 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of November 2026, ranking it #63 out of 504,529 crypto accounts tracked on this platform, with 1,484,265 followers and 7,867 posts published. Uniswap ranks #63 (top 0.1%) out of 504,529 tracked accounts on TwitterScore.
Uniswap operates as an open-source AMM, with Uniswap Labs serving as the primary developer and maintainer of the protocol web app, a self-custodial wallet, UniswapX for gasless swaps and MEV protection, and a developer API. The UNI governance token launched in September 2020 and was airdropped to approximately 250,000 historical users, with total supply capped at 1 billion tokens. The Uniswap Foundation, formed in 2022 as a nonprofit following a ~95% UNI holder vote, supports governance, grants, protocol development, and community.
Uniswap has attracted backing from prominent crypto and venture capital investors. Uniswap Labs raised $11 million in a Series A in August 2020, led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Paradigm, Union Square Ventures, Variant, ParaFi Capital, SV Angel, Version One, and A.Capital. A $165 million Series B followed in October 2022, led by Polychain Capital at a $1.66 billion valuation, with a16z crypto, Paradigm, SV Angel, and Variant among the participants. Additional backers include BlackRock and Coinbase Ventures.
Uniswap released Uniswap v4 on January 31, 2025, introducing hooks and expanded protocol customization. Unichain, a DeFi-focused Ethereum Layer 2 built on the OP Stack and Superchain, launched on mainnet in February 2025. In November 2025, Uniswap Labs and the Uniswap Foundation jointly proposed UNIfication, which was later approved, activating protocol fees, programmatic UNI burn from Unichain sequencer revenue and other sources, and a 100 million UNI treasury burn. The SEC closed its multi-year investigation into Uniswap Labs with no action in February 2025, following a prior Wells Notice.
Uniswap has been mentioned by 6,139 accounts, with 22,593 total mentions across the platform.
Uniswap's associated ecosystem assets include TESSERA, UNI Grants Program Now Under UniswapFND, Scaling Ethereum, Euler Labs, Genie, Panoptic, Sardine and Sardine.
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Uniswap draws notable followers from across crypto, DeFi, and traditional finance. The accounts that follow Uniswap include 3,152 founders, 711 angel investors, 1,581 influencers and 121 VCs, among them Chris Dixon, Solana, Toly, Ansem, Erik Voorhees and Laura Shin.