Uniswap Raised a $165M Investment Fund

Published on: 15.10.2022

Uniswap raised a $165M investment fund from its prominent partners. Uniswap Labs is bringing the powerful simplicity and security that has defined the Uniswap Protocol to even more people across the world. By investing in its web app and developer tools, launching NFTs, moving into mobile, and more.

Uniswap’s $165 million in Series B funding was led by Polychain Capital. Also with participation from longtime investors a16z crypto, Paradigm, SV Angel, and Variant.

As Uniswap Labs focuses on products, a much broader ecosystem continues to grow and thrive beyond what any one company can do on its own. As an example, the governance community recently voted to create the Uniswap Foundation. It will contribute to the Protocol’s decentralized development and give at least $60 million in grants to community projects over the next few years.

The Uniswap Protocol is an open-source protocol for providing liquidity and trading ERC20 tokens on Ethereum. It eliminates trusted intermediaries and unnecessary forms of rent extraction, allowing for safe, accessible, and efficient exchange activity. The protocol is non-upgradable and designed to be censorship resistant.

How does Uniswap Protocol work?

Uniswap is an automated market maker. In practical terms, it is a collection of smart contracts that define a standard way to create liquidity pools, provide liquidity, and swap assets.

Each liquidity pool contains two assets. The pools keep track of aggregate liquidity reserves and the pre-defined pricing strategies set by liquidity providers. Reserves and prices update automatically every time someone trades. There is no central order book, no third-party custody, and no private order matching engine.

Because reserves are automatically rebalanced after each trade, a Uniswap pool can always be used to buy or sell a token. Unlike traditional exchanges, traders do not need to match with individual counterparties to complete a trade.