Uniswap is the leading decentralized exchange protocol, enabling permissionless token swaps on Ethereum and 40+ chains via its AMM model across V2, V3, and V4.
LPs provide liquidity in custom price ranges, drastically increasing efficiency. Liquidity providers have the ability to increase capital efficiency, but at the cost of frequently adjusting the liquidity range if the price is volatile. Uniswap V3 also increases Impermanent Loss compared to V2.
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Centralized exchanges carry custody risk, listing barriers, downtime, and geographic restrictions. Early DEXes lacked liquidity and capital efficiency.
Uniswap created the AMM model — any token pair can be listed permissionlessly and traded 24/7 with on-chain settlement and self-custody.
The original AMM inventor and category leader. V3 concentrated liquidity offers up to 4000x capital efficiency vs V2. V4 hooks enable fully custom pool logic without forking the protocol.
Uniswap is a DEX protocol operating on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, BSC, Polygon, Optimism, Avalanche, Celo, Gnosis, Unichain. Uniswap is the leading decentralized exchange protocol, enabling permissionless token swaps on Ethereum and 40+ chains via its AMM model across V2, V3, and V4.
DeFi Sentinel rates Uniswap AAA with a safety score of 100/100, indicating highest safety tier. The score reflects five risk dimensions: smart contract & technical risk, economic design & market risk, governance & centralization, sustainability & competitive position, and reputation & social trust. Uniswap has 4 audits on record. As with all DeFi protocols, residual risk remains and users should review the full risk breakdown before depositing.
Uniswap has a DeFi Sentinel safety score of 100/100 (rating AAA), last updated May 3, 2026. The score is computed across smart contract & technical risk (30%), economic design & market risk (25%), governance & centralization (20%), sustainability & competitive position (15%), and reputation & social trust (10%).
Uniswap is deployed on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, BSC, Polygon, Optimism, Avalanche, Celo, Gnosis, Unichain.
Yes. Uniswap has 4 audit reports on record from firms including Trail of Bits, Dedaub, OpenZeppelin. Audit reports and dates are linked under the Resources tab on this page.
