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USDT Selling on Curve, Uniswap Spooks Traders Amid Bitcoin Drop

Millions worth of tether (USDT) stablecoins appeared to be selling off on popular Uniswap and Curve pools Thursday morning, sparking early signs of concern among traders. USDT, which usually trades around $1, lost its peg to the U.S. currency and dropped as low as $0.9968. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie presents "The Chart of the Day."

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Tech

Unveiling the Uniswap Foundation's Bridge Report: Winners and Losers

Wormhole and Axelar take top honors after a months-long assessment process aimed at addressing concerns with Uniswap’s previous bridge selection practices.

Puente. (Aleksandr Barsukov/Unsplash)

Tech

Uniswap Labs Releases Its Plan for Uniswap v4, Invites Community Feedback

The biggest decentralized crypto exchange is opening its development process to the public for the first time as the SEC cracks down on its centralized competitors.

Uniswap booth at ETHDenver 2023 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Uniswap Community Votes Down Protocol Fees for Liquidity Providers

The initial snapshot poll was voted against by the community in a surprising move.

Floatie in the form of a unicorn, the emblematic mythical creature featured in Uniswap's logo and marketing materials. (Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto’s Quirky Automated Market Makers and How They Differ From TradFi Exchanges

Crypto exchanges have order books just like the NYSE, but the digital asset realm also offers something very different known as automated market makers (AMMs).

An exchange trading floor (Getty Images/modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

DeFi Must Get Easier to Use to Win Over Retail Customers, Uniswap Survey Finds

Many respondents said they are put off by the complexity and cost of on-chain trading.

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Finance

Bakkt Mass Delists Tokens Including Aave, Avalanche, Compound, Filecoin, MakerDAO and Uniswap

Intercontinental Exchange-owned Bakkt discontinued its consumer-facing app in February as it shifts away from retail

Bakkt Holdings, Inc. leadership outside the New York Stock Exchange following a successful merger with VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings to take the firm public. (NYSE)

Markets

Decentralized Exchange Uniswap Trading Volume Outpaces Coinbase for 4th Consecutive Month

Uniswap, the decentralized exchange, outpaced centralized exchange Coinbase in April.

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Finance

Polychain Snubs Lucrative Crypto Arbitrage, Prepares to Trade $6M of ROOK Token on Uniswap

After activist investors successfully lobbied for a major overhaul of ROOK, a potentially very lucrative trading opportunity opened up for token holders.

Polychain CEO Olaf Carlson-Wee (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Uniswap Weighs Proposal to Enrich Token Holders, Switch on Liquidity Pool Fees

The plan to turn on fees for some of Uniswap’s liquidity pools would funnel money to the protocol’s treasury and token holders.

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