Guide | Jun 28, 2026

Money Pools

Basically, how trading works on Ethereum.

It all starts with [identity and ownership](/guides/start-here/), a place or 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.