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UF Update to Community - 7 months in

The past few months have been a whirlwind for the Uniswap Foundation since it was formally approved by Uniswap governance in August. Here, we highlight some of what the UF has accomplished since its creation.Growth & InnovationGrowth & Innovation FundingWe have announced ~$2.7M in grants to 33 projects across 2 waves (Wave 1, Wave 2). Many of these grants illustrate the kinds of long-term oriented, high impact work that the UF was founded to support.Our first grant to do R&D into a developer ...

UF Update to Community - 7 months in

Uniswap Grants Retrospective

The Uniswap Grants Program began in 2021, and over the course of 18 months funded $7M to 122 grantees. Since the founding of the Uniswap Foundation in August 2022, the Grants team has awarded 33 grants via two waves of grants totaling ~$2.7M. As we designed our funding strategy for 2023 and beyond, we initially looked to our grant recipients for input. We shared a survey with previous grantees and received 27 responses. Below are the takeaways from the survey and how we are incorporating that...

Uniswap Grants Retrospective

Uniswap Foundation Grants: Wave 2

Today we are announcing the Uniswap Foundation’s second wave of grant disbursements! This second wave of grants sum up to a total of ~$946K, awarded across 19 grants. The grants are spread across four categories:Protocol Growth, including grants to enhance existing tools like xToken Terminal and Seedle, and to make it easier to work with liquidity pools on testnetsResearch & Development, including research to improve user experience related to MEV and to incentivize additional integrations in...

Uniswap Protocol Fee Switch Considerations

Readers are not to construe the contents of this brief as legal, business, tax, accounting, investment, or other advice. Each UNI token holder should consult its own advisers as to legal, business, tax, accounting, and other related matters concerning the proposal in light of such token holder’s particular circumstances. As many in the community know, a proposal was kicked off over the summer to activate the Uniswap Protocol’s fee switch. As discussed in this Technical Breakdown of the fee sw...

Uniswap Protocol Fee Switch Considerations

Shield Distribution Begins

Introduction from the Uniswap FoundationThe Uniswap Foundation is proud to highlight Shields, an on-chain design project which originated with a UGP grant in 2021. As you will read, this project’s design reflects the makeup of the Uniswap ecosystem itself -- a diverse array of teams all building on the common infrastructure of the Uniswap protocol. Shields is also a success case for UGP (now part of the UF), as it evolved into a more expansive open-source project which anyone can leverage in ...

Protocol Fee Switch Education & Research

Over the past few months, there has been ample discussion about the protocol fee switch within the Uniswap community. Many of these discussions were prompted by high engagement forum posts and Temperature and Consensus Checks on the fee switch posted over the summer. In response, the UF has taken steps to support and shine a light on work being done to ensure all delegates are able to make an informed vote when the time comes (see @lay2000lbs’s update on the governance vote here). In that spi...

Protocol Fee Switch Education & Research

Uniswap Protocol Fee Switch: Technical Breakdown

This past summer, a proposal was kicked off in Uniswap governance to assess whether and how to turn on the protocol fee switch. Because Avantgarde is a Uniswap delegate, I followed the conversation and debate as it evolved. As I considered how we should vote, I realized that there was not much information available on what “turning on the fee switch” actually meant from a technical perspective. I didn’t feel comfortable evaluating the downstream effects of turning on the fee switch with incom...

Uniswap Protocol Fee Switch: Technical Breakdown

FAQ on Uniswap v3’s Business Source License

When Uniswap v3 was deployed in May 2021, it was done under a Business Source License 1.1 (BSL). The BSL is an important topic within Uniswap governance, relevant to discussions of cross-chain deployments and other production uses of BSL-protected v3 code. In order to provide more information about the BSL, what it means for those looking to use v3 code and libraries, and how to receive an exemption to the BSL, the Uniswap Foundation has compiled this FAQ. What is the Business Source License ...

FAQ on Uniswap v3’s Business Source License