What currency are grant payments made in?
Grant payments are currently made in fiat USD or USDC.
How are grant payments made?
During the Selection phase of the application process, a team member will work with you to outline grant milestones, each of which will be associated with clear deliverables and tied to a portion of the overall payment. Typically, grants have 2-5 milestones, each of which will be defined in the contract that you execute upon approval. The initial payment will be disbursed following KYC and contract signatures. Subsequent payments are delivered upon the completion of each milestone.
Do I have access to help if I have any questions?
Yes, Uniswap Foundation grantees receive both 1-1 help and community driven support. Throughout the duration of your grant, you are assigned a point person to work with. They are the ones you check in with when you complete a milestone, and who you can always reach out to ask for help.
What is the Uniswap Foundation?
The Uniswap Foundation is a Delaware non-profit organization founded in 2022 whose mission is to support the growth, decentralization, and sustainability of Decentralized Finance. Its funding was provided by the Uniswap community, through the approval of a community governance proposal.
Through grants, we’re driving value in five key focus areas:
Developers
Onboard new developers to build on the Uniswap Protocol and support them through the development lifecycle.
Infrastructure
Develop new core infrastructure and growth strategies that create value for the Uniswap and broader DeFi community.
Governance
Empower Uniswap governance to support protocol growth and sustain itself.
Research
Seed DeFi research and its practical implementations.
Security
Protect the Protocol’s users through investments into security.
What is the Foundation’s relationship with the rest of the Uniswap ecosystem?
The Uniswap Foundation operates independently from other entities working within the Uniswap ecosystem, including Uniswap Labs and other organizations that are working to advance the goals of decentralized finance.
Can I work at Uniswap Foundation?
Check out our job opportunities here.
What is the Uniswap Protocol?
The Uniswap Protocol is a set of persistent, non-upgradable smart contracts that allows its users to provide liquidity, create liquidity pools, and swap between tokens in a liquidity pool without requiring any trusted intermediaries or a central authority. It is an implementation of a noncustodial automated market maker (AMM), in that it pools liquidity and makes pooled tokens available at a price set by an algorithm.
The Uniswap Protocol is built to prioritize censorship resistance, permissionlessness, security, decentralization, and self-custody. It makes market creation, liquidity creation, and swapping accessible, fair, and secure to all.
How does the Uniswap Protocol work?
Uniswap is an automated market maker (AMM). In practical terms, it is a collection of smart contracts that define a standard way to create liquidity pools, provide liquidity, and swap assets.
Each liquidity pool contains two assets. The pools keep track of aggregate liquidity reserves and the pre-defined pricing strategies set by liquidity providers. Reserves and prices are updated automatically every time someone trades. There is no central order book, no third-party custody, and no private order matching engine.
Because reserves are automatically rebalanced after each trade, a Uniswap pool can always be used to buy or sell a token — unlike traditional exchanges, traders do not need to match with individual counterparties to complete a trade.