Uniswap (UNI)

Uniswap turns token launches into a few clicks, no coding required

@Uniswap now lets teams launch a token sale straight from its web app, with no smart-contract deployment needed. The feature runs on Uniswap's auction protocol, which sets a token's price through live bidder demand instead of a team picking an arbitrary number.

Bids are spread across the auction rather than rewarding whoever clicks fastest, the whole process runs onchain in the open, and Uniswap says its first big auction, for Aztec, showed no clear signs of sniping or bot manipulation.

It is live on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and Unichain, with the underlying contracts cleared through seven audits. Teams that once needed engineers to run a fair launch can now do it from the same app people swap on.

Dan Tapiero on why, as a crypto fund manager, he avoids tokens:

"There's still a bit of confusion as to where revenue accrues."

He's watched Uniswap and Aave governance battles play out firsthand.

With equity, 100 years of case law tells you exactly what you own. With tokens, you're still guessing.

That's why he stays in equity... for now.

FT @KevinWSHPod @DTAPCAP.

Luca Netz Consumers don’t want to Figure It Out

“that’s been crypto’s biggest problem for a long time, we’ve just assumed people would take the time to learn I remember using Uniswap for the first time back in 2017, 2018 even for me, it took about an hour to get comfortable It wasn’t intuitive it wasn’t familiar ”

“You can’t expect a normal consumer to spend an hour trying to understand something like that that’s literally where the drop off happens People are just going to leave, they’re not going to stick around and figure it out ”

“So I think most of the engineering effort should go into fixing that zero to one onboarding, like through abstract global wallets If we can crack that, and pair it with strong distribution, plus an ecosystem that’s fun with creators actually engaging you get a really interesting flywheel that could be something crypto hasn’t really seen before ”