Uniswap UNI
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CM Profile: Uniswap
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about UNI, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 on 2 exchange order books lost 0.14% on each, on 9 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
- Not established
- What an on-chain sale would return on BNB Chain and Ethereum. It trades mostly off-chain there, so we do not measure it on-chain.
- 11 of its chains are not among the 3 we read.
- Whether it can be held without a company. We have no sourced answer yet.
- 4 other questions about what it can do have no written answer. Some may not apply to it.
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold UNI. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 9 October- Price down 17.5% since 2 October.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell UNI
Selling $100,000 of UNI into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kraken UNI/USD | 0.14% | $99,858 | 2026-10-09 median of 18 |
| Coinbase UNI/USD | 0.14% | $99,855 | 2026-10-09 |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps UNI on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
What Uniswap is
Uniswap is a decentralised exchange protocol on Ethereum, launched in 2018 by Hayden Adams. It replaced the order book with a formula: anyone can deposit a pair of tokens into a pool, and the pool quotes a price automatically based on the ratio of what it holds. Traders swap against the pool, and the people who supplied it earn a share of the fees.
That design is why it works for assets no exchange would list. There is no listing process and no gatekeeper — a pool for any token can be created by anybody, which is simultaneously the protocol's most important property and the reason scam tokens are trivially tradeable on it.
The UNI token is worth understanding separately from the protocol. It was distributed in 2020, partly by airdrop to past users, and it is a governance token: it grants a vote, not a share of the fees. Whether to route protocol revenue to holders has been debated for years and is a decision made by vote, not a right. Supplying liquidity carries its own distinct risk — when the pool's price ratio moves, a liquidity provider can end up with less value than simply holding the two tokens would have produced, a loss the fees may or may not cover.
What Uniswap can do
Selling $100,000 on Kraken lost 0.14% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 9 October 2026
UNI pays nothing to its holders. The fees the Uniswap protocol collects are used to destroy UNI, which shrinks the supply, and are not paid out.
Source: Uniswap docs: the UNI token · checked 2 October 2026
UNI does not run applications. It is a token on Ethereum that gives its holders a vote on how the Uniswap exchange protocol is run.
Source: Uniswap docs: the UNI token · checked 2 October 2026
One billion UNI were created at launch. Holders can vote to create up to 2% more each year and have not done so, and protocol fees are used to destroy UNI.
Source: Uniswap docs: the UNI token · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
Where UNI lives
On Ethereum, Base and BNB Chain, GoPlus's analysis of each contract is read weekly: whether it has a function to block addresses or pause transfers, and whether an owner holds it. That is GoPlus's reading, not ours. Where a token exists on several chains, one copy's settings say nothing about the original coin.
Always verify a contract address against the project's own site before sending anything. Addresses are shown as published by CoinGecko, not as an endorsement — and identical-looking tokens on other chains are the most common way people lose money here.
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Uniswap data synced 3m ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell UNI.