The world’s most popular decentralized exchange by trading volume announced that its total trading volume has surpassed a whopping $2 trillion.
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Uniswap Labs also posted a link to the Dune dashboard, which tracks overall trading volume for the protocol. According to the dashboard, Uniswap trading volume reached nearly $2.9 billion in the last 24 hours.
Uniswap total trading volume. Image: Sand dunes.
Unlike profit-driven, centralized exchanges like Coinbase, Kraken, and Binance, Uniswap is a decentralized exchange and its protocol is open source. Centralized exchanges Coinbase and Binance are currently handling much higher trading volumes than Uniswap, according to Block Data Dashboard.
Uniswap in February The foundation, which promotes use of the Uniswap protocol, has proposed governance changes that include strengthening the fee mechanism to reward users who delegate and stake UNI tokens on the platform.
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