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Uniswap is the next big frontier in America’s war on crypto

September 9, 2024No Comments4 Mins Read
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US government regulation of DeFi is reaching a critical point, with Uniswap as the next major battleground.

Our industry as a whole must champion Uniswap’s role in the future of finance, or risk losing a foundational technology that enables decentralized ecosystems to thrive.

The New York company behind the popular DEX has agreed to pay $175,000 to the CFTC for facilitating retail trading of a series of leveraged index tokens that, according to the tickers in the complaint, were created by Index Coop.

Part of the CFTC settlement states that Uniswap Labs must stop offering these types of tokens to the general public.

Pairs of these tokens are no longer available through the Uniswap Labs frontend for the DEX. The website states, “Not available. You cannot trade this token using the Uniswap app.”

Uniswap Labs can technically lock up as many tokens as it wants on its web app for US residents, but the tokens will still be tradable on the technology itself underneath, either through another web app or by interacting directly with smart contracts with the code.

Watch for this particular nuance to be debated ad nauseam if the Securities and Exchange Commission follows through on its Wells opinion and actually pursues Uniswap Labs.

The company itself is a DeFi mainstay, on par with Maker (which recently rebranded to Sky). Uniswap’s volumes have remained relatively consistent over the years despite waves of new trading platforms looking to steal its spotlight.

With that in mind, if Uniswap Labs does sue, it will be on behalf of DeFi as a whole. That’s a different battle than proving that bitcoin and ether are “money,” or at least commodities.

Learn more: CFTC Commissioners Disagree Over Uniswap Rules

Money is just one of the many applications of blockchain. But so far, it is clearly the most popular.

Bitcoin is perhaps the purest expression of monetary application in the context of blockchain. And the bitcoin war has largely been fought and won – the CFTC has long considered it a commodity and the SEC has never had a chance to find Satoshi Nakamoto in any case.

ETF issuers and other lobbyists have, in my opinion, planted the flag of victory in the war over the monetary potential of cryptocurrencies.

ETH got its own commodity label in light of bitcoin’s victory in this fight. And while a commodity classification doesn’t automatically If you make bitcoin or ether a “currency,” that puts them on par with older currencies that have intrinsic value, like silver and gold. Which is just as well.

Today, the political defense of bitcoin is less about the right to conduct peer-to-peer digital cash transactions than about the right to mine bitcoin, especially in regions that have not been as receptive to the industry.

Just as it is possible to separate money (the application) from the blockchain, it is also possible to separate Uniswap, the front-end application, and Uniswap, the technology – the set of smart contracts that make its transactions, listings, and liquidity provision possible.

At least that’s what Uniswap Labs will likely have to prove again and again.

Vitalik (and other smart city advocates) might wish our minds would immediately turn to other use cases when we think of blockchains. Tokenized digital identities, marriage registries and driver’s licenses, not memecoin exchanges and yield farms.

They may be right. There may very well be much more to life than recreating traditional finance on blockchain rails.

One day, the world may well run on smart contracts and AI agents. Until then, DeFi is arguably the fastest growing user base in cryptocurrency, and right now, protecting it is essential.

An edited version of this article first appeared in the Empire Daily Newsletter. here so as not to miss tomorrow’s edition.


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