{"id":61973,"date":"2022-05-25T12:16:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T09:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=61973"},"modified":"2025-09-05T15:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:17:50","slug":"uniswap-trading-volume-tops-1-trillion-since-dex-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/uniswap-trading-volume-tops-1-trillion-since-dex-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniswap trading volume tops $1 trillion since DEX launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uniswap&#8217;s cumulative trading volume has surpassed the equivalent of $1 trillion since the DEX launched in 2018.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\/ It\u2019s been one hell of a ride \ud83d\ude80<\/p>\n<p>As of today, the Uniswap Protocol has passed a lifetime cumulative trading volume of $1 Trillion. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/stFdMDgJPZ\">pic.twitter.com\/stFdMDgJPZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Uniswap Labs \ud83e\udd84 (@Uniswap) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Uniswap\/status\/1529102980296867842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to data from the project\u2019s backers at Uniswap Labs, the number of protocol users has approached 3.9 million \u2014 more than 80% of all DeFi participants.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2\/ Over the past three years, The Protocol has<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udef9 Onboarded millions of users to the world of DeFi<br \/>\ud83d\udcb8 Introduced fair and permissionless trading<br \/>\ud83d\udeb0 Lowered the barrier to liquidity provision <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mT2ZzjMTav\">pic.twitter.com\/mT2ZzjMTav<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Uniswap Labs \ud83e\udd84 (@Uniswap) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Uniswap\/status\/1529102985393057797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to metrics <a href=\"https:\/\/dune.com\/hagaetc\/dex-metrics\">Dune Analytics<\/a>, the project remains the dominant player in trading volume among Ethereum DEXs. Over the last seven days its share was 84% ($9.09 billion); in April it was 76.2% ($51.4 billion).<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-665.png\" alt=\"Uniswap trading volume exceeds $1 trillion since DEX launch\" class=\"wp-image-174048\" width=\"840\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-665.png 870w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-665-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-665-768x498.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Monthly trading volumes on DEXs. Data: Dune Analytics.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>When considering DEX trading activity across all networks (including all versions), Uniswap&#8217;s share is 41.3%, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/dex\">CoinGecko<\/a>. The nearest competitor, PancakeSwap on BNB Chain, is 15.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with centralised platforms, Uniswap by daily trading volume of $1.05 billion would rank seventh behind Binance, FTX, Coinbase, KuCoin, Huobi Global and OKX. DEX figures were higher than Kraken, Crypto.com, Bitfinex and others.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/\">DeFi Llama<\/a>, <span data-descr=\"volume of locked assets\" class=\"old_tooltip\">TVL<\/span> of the project stands at $5.9 billion. By this metric, Uniswap ranks fifth among all protocols and second among DEXs.<\/p>\n<p>The decentralised exchange supports Ethereum, Polygon, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/uniswap-vnedrila-reshenie-masshtabirovaniya-vtorogo-urovnya-optimism\/\">Optimism<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/polzovateli-uniswap-odobrili-zapusk-dex-v-seti-vtorogo-urovnya-arbitrum\/\">Arbitrum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Uniswap launched the Swap Widget service, which allows developers to integrate the project\u2019s features into third-party <span data-descr=\"decentralized applications\" class=\"old_tooltip\">dapps<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the US, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/investory-obvinili-uniswap-labs-v-narushenii-zakonov-o-tsennyh-bumagah\/\">was accused<\/a> of violating securities laws.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2021, SEC <span data-descr=\"U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission\" class=\"old_tooltip\">Chair Gary Gensler<\/span> warned of tighter regulation of DeFi and stressed that the decentralised nature of projects <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/geri-gensler-detsentralizatsiya-defi-ne-daet-immuniteta-ot-nadzora-sec\/\">does not immunise them from the agency\u2019s oversight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In September he <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/geri-gensler-vystupil-v-polzu-garmonizatsii-regulirovaniya-kriptoindustrii\/\">called DeFi platform users \u201cvulnerable\u201d<\/a>. Gensler said the sector is \u201crife with fraud, scams and abuses\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, media reports emerged about SEC investigations into several sector companies, including Uniswap Labs.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2022, Gensler <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/sec-poobeshhala-usilenie-nadzora-nad-bitkoin-birzhami\/\">said<\/a> regulation for crypto exchanges was a priority for the year.<\/p>\n<p> Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news stream, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uniswap&#8217;s cumulative trading volume has surpassed the equivalent of $1 trillion since the DEX launched in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1093,1391],"class_list":["post-61973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-defi","tag-uniswap-uni"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"34","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61975,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61973\/revisions\/61975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}