Hassan Maishera
On Wednesday, the Uniswap team announced in a blog post that MetaMask has integrated the Uniswap API as one of its swap providers. The integration gives MetaMask users a direct connection to Uniswap v2, v3, v4, and UniswapX.
MetaMask integrated the Uniswap API for its deep liquidity, competitive pricing, and battle-tested infrastructure across 16+ chains. The same API already powers swaps across Uniswap Labs' own apps, as well as products from OKX, Talos, Fireblocks, Anchorage Digital, Ledger, and more.
By integrating Uniswap API, MetaMask users now benefit from:
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Competitive pricing and deep liquidity. Access to onchain and offchain liquidity, powered by efficient routing across Uniswap Protocol and UniswapX, which has historically delivered meaningful price improvement for swappers against the leading aggregator.
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The most trusted infrastructure in DeFi. Built by Uniswap Labs, the US-based team behind the protocol that has processed $4T+ in all-time volume, with zero hacks. Uniswap API is trusted by some of the most used platforms in crypto, including wallets like OKX and Ledger, institutional platforms like Fireblocks, Talos, and Anchorage Digital, and Uniswap Labs' own apps.
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 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. UNI, the native token of Uniswap, is currently trading at $3.88, up 1.7% in the last 24 hours.
