Uniswap Foundation Splashes $1.8 Million in First Round of Grants

According to the Foundation’s announcement, this grant sum totals $1.8 million across 14 recipients. It is the first round of grants from the Uniswap Foundation and it comes less than a month since the Uniswap community voted to establish it. These grants will be awarded to projects and teams working on three main areas: protocol growth, community growth, and governance stewardship.

Uniswap Diamond is one of the grant recipients and will receive $808,725, the single largest for any project or team in this first wave. The project aims to help Uniswap to translate its dominance of the decentralized exchange market into the broader crypto trading arena. This is because, despite its dominance of the decentralized exchange market, Uniswap only accounts for about 1% of the entire crypto trading market — including centralized platform giants like Binance, FTX, and Coinbase, among others. Uniswap Diamond will use the grant to develop tools similar to those on offer on centralized exchanges. Apart from Uniswap Diamond, other grant recipients in the protocol growth category include Uniswap.fish, Numoen, and projects working on data extraction and decentralized volatility oracle.