Uniswap's founder Hayden Adams announced that they’ve raised $165 million in Series B funding, led by Polychain Capital and with participation from longtime investors a16z crypto, Paradigm, SV Angel, and Variant.
On May 5, 2021, Uniswap V3, with Concentrated Liquidity offering unprecedented capital efficiency for liquidity providers, has been deployed to the Ethereum mainnet.
2020 Sep
Introducing $UNI
On Sep 16, 2020, UNI, the Uniswap token, is alive. 60% of the UNI genesis supply is allocated to Uniswap community members, a quarter of which (15% of total supply) has already been distributed to past user.
To start, UNI is available through four liquidity mining pools: UNI holders may vote to add more pools after an initial 30-day governance grace period.
2020 Aug
Series A founding led by Andreessen Horowitz
On Aug 6, 2020, Uniswap announced raising $11M in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz with additional investments from USV, Paradigm, Version One, Variant, Parafi Capital, SV Angel, and A.Capital.
“On November 2, 2018, Uniswap was publicly announced and deployed to the Ethereum mainnet. In an exciting, anxiety-inducing moment I fired off the announcement tweets to my ~200 followers.” ------ Hayden Adams
2018 Mar
Uniswap Pre-alpha
By late January 2018, all major smart contract issues had been solved. Exchange contracts could support multiple liquidity providers by using an internal liquidity token to track each LP’s share of generated fees and the underlying collateral. A factory contract allowed anyone to add support for a token. All tokens were paired with ETH allowing it to be used as an intermediary for anything-to-anything swaps in a single transaction.