Hassan Maishera
On Saturday, the Uniswap team announced via X that SMBC Nikko, one of Japan's largest securities firms, and Nethermind are building the DeFi Gateway, an onchain trading venue for Japanese investors on Uniswap v4.
The gateway combines custom liquidity pools designed around Japan's regulatory requirements with a new liquidity provisioning protocol that seeds them. Uniswap Labs, Base, and Nyx Foundation are supporting development. Completion is targeted for mid-2027.
Liquidity will cover stablecoins, real-world assets (RWAs), and other digital assets. The pool framework will be open for other teams to build on.
SMBC Nikko and Nethermind will also build AI-powered vaults and interfaces for onboarding investors. Uniswap Labs is advising on integration and liquidity deployment.
Uniswap is a decentralized exchange protocol built on Ethereum. To be more precise, it is an automated liquidity protocol. No order book or centralized party is required to make trades.
Uniswap is a popular decentralized trading protocol, known for its role in facilitating automated trading of decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens.
An example of an automated market maker (AMM), Uniswap launched in November 2018, but has gained considerable popularity this year thanks to the DeFi phenomenon and associated surge in token trading.
Uniswap aims to keep token trading automated and completely open to anyone who holds tokens, while improving the efficiency of trading versus that on traditional exchanges.
Uniswap creates more efficiency by solving liquidity issues with automated solutions, avoiding the problems that plagued the first decentralized exchanges.
UNI, the native token of Uniswap, is currently trading at $9.04, down 0.15% in the last 24 hours.
