Money Games | Apr 22, 2026

The Uniswapiverse

Basically, how trading works on Ethereum.

It all starts with identity and ownership, a place (address) to send and receive things. The next step is trading, how to change one thing into another. This is where Uniswap comes in.

Uniswap started in 2018 and is now an essential element of the Ethereum universe. It lets users trade without needing to trust anyone in the middle, which is possible because of smart contracts, code on Ethereum that always runs as programmed. Fast forward to today and Uniswap has "[processed over $2.75 trillion in trading volume, with zero hacks](https://blog.uniswap.org/uniswap-v4-is-here)" and created a complete user experience from [wallet](https://wallet.uniswap.org/) to [application](https://app.uniswap.org/) to [chain](https://www.unichain.org/).