{"id":183706,"date":"2023-10-30T18:33:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T13:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=183706"},"modified":"2023-10-30T18:33:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T13:03:13","slug":"uniswap-foundation-moves-more-than-40m-worth-of-uni-tokens-to-crypto-exchanges-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/uniswap-foundation-moves-more-than-40m-worth-of-uni-tokens-to-crypto-exchanges-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniswap Foundation moves more than $40M worth of UNI tokens to crypto exchanges &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\" style=\"margin: 8px 0;clear: both\"> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"placement\" title=\"Stop scaring users with your bad KYC flows\" href=\"https:\/\/link.cryptoslate.com\/Checkin-News-Rectangle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" style=\"max-width: 300px;height: auto\" alt=\"Stop scaring users with your bad KYC flows\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/checkin-cryptoslate-600x500-d-1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/products\/uniswap\/\">Uniswap<\/a> Foundation has dumped nearly 10 million UNI tokens, worth more than $40 million, to crypto exchanges over the past week, according to on-chain <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/token\/0x1f9840a85d5af5bf1d1762f925bdaddc4201f984?a=0xe571dc7a558bb6d68ffe264c3d7bb98b0c6c73fc\">data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blockchain analyst Lookonchain <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1718583724575740100?s=20\">reported<\/a> that the Foundation transferred <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">3.4M <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">UNI tokens, <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">valued at $14.1 million, to OKX, and 3 million UNI tokens, equivalent to $13 million, were sent to Kraken\u2019s Wintermute address.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Foundation moved <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">3.4M <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">UNI tokens, around <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">$14 million, to <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">FalconX, an institutional crypto trading platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Other blockchain analytical platforms, including Peckshield and Spot On Chain, corroborated the fund movement.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of these transactions has raised concerns in the cryptocurrency community, especially given the recent bullish trend in the overall crypto market. Typically, transfers to exchanges are viewed as potential selling signals, which could add further downward pressure on the digital asset.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Foundation has yet to issue public statements regarding these transfers. However, ScopeScan <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/0xScopescan\/status\/1718806306310791318?s=20\">suggested<\/a> that these transactions were conducted for spending and operational purposes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\">Despite these transactions, the UNI price appears unaffected as the decentralized exchange (DEX) token trades for $<span class=\"holepunch holepunch-coin_price_usd\">4.21 as of press time, according to <em>CryptoSlate\u2019s<\/em> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/uniswap\/\">data<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/token\/0x1f9840a85d5af5bf1d1762f925bdaddc4201f984?a=0xe571dc7a558bb6d68ffe264c3d7bb98b0c6c73fc\">Data<\/a> from Etherscan shows that Uniswap\u2019s Foundation wallet still has <span class=\"s5\">about 1.314M UNI tokens, valued at $5.49 million, as of press time.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Uniswap generates more than $500k in 2 weeks<\/h2>\n<p>Uniswap\u2019s recent <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/uniswap-labs-introduces-first-ever-transaction-fee-in-claims-to-foster-sustainability-in-crypto\/\">implementation<\/a> of a 0.15% swap fee, though met with considerable controversy in the crypto community, has proven financially fruitful, raking in over $600,000 in just a fortnight.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dune.com\/Marcov\/uniswap-revenue\">Data<\/a> sourced from the Dune Analytics dashboard by MarcoV showed that Uniswap\u2019s updated fee structure has accumulated a substantial revenue of $623,101. The leading pair responsible for the lion\u2019s share of these fees is the USDC-WETH pair.<\/p>\n<p>This substantial revenue primarily originates from swaps conducted on the Ethereum (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/ethereum\/\">ETH<\/a>) blockchain network and supported by those on layer2 networks, including Optimism (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/optimism\/\">OP<\/a>), Polygon (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/polygon\/\">MATIC<\/a>), and Arbitrum (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/arbitrum\/\">ARB<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Uniswap Labs has indicated that these fees will be allocated to bolster ongoing research, development, and expansion of the platform.<\/p>\n<div class=\"posted-in\">Posted In: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/news\/uniswap\/\">Uniswap<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/tokens\/\">Tokens<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uniswap Foundation has dumped nearly 10 million UNI tokens, worth more than $40 million, to crypto exchanges over the past week, according to on-chain data. Blockchain analyst Lookonchain reported that the Foundation transferred 3.4M UNI tokens, valued at $14.1 million, to OKX, and 3 million UNI tokens, equivalent to $13 million, were sent to Kraken\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[230,225,221,227,226,228,229,60,223,224,222],"class_list":["post-183706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-brave","tag-coinbase","tag-crypto","tag-decentralised","tag-decentralized","tag-decentralized-exchange","tag-erc-20","tag-featured","tag-meme-coin","tag-robinhood","tag-solana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183713,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183706\/revisions\/183713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}