The Uniswap-Arbitrum Grants Program (UAGP) will run from November 8, 2023 to May 9, 2024, with support provided by Direct Grants newly launched on Grants Stack. This 6-month program will provide ARB token grants ranging from $50,000 to $250,000 to developers building in the Uniswap-Arbitrum ecosystem. With 1.1 million available ARB tokens, the goal is to accelerate adoption and highlight the broad opportunities Uniswap brings to Arbitrum.

On November 6th, according to an official announcement, HashKey will soon launch UNI, and deposits and withdrawals are now open. The UNI/USD trading pair will be available starting at 16:00 (UTC+8) on November 9th, and is only open to professional investors.

Venus Protocol has announced support for UNI tokens. UNI token holders can use this protocol to earn interest, borrow, or participate in liquidity mining.

Uniswap founder Hayden Adam posted on social media that the "SBF guilty verdict" is not worth celebrating, as billions of dollars of user funds have been lost and the industry's reputation has suffered a huge blow. The only winners are a few law firms and various cryptocurrency opponents. Hayden Adam also quoted other comments stating that everything SBF is involved in and supports is highly centralized and looks more like something that cryptocurrencies should improve upon. SBF's so-called "effective altruism" is a clever marketing gimmick.

According to the latest exchange benchmark report released by CCData, seven centralized exchanges including Coinbase, Bitstamp, and Kraken received the highest AA rating. Coinbase stood out in the benchmark for centralized exchanges, having the highest security rating and replacing Bitstamp as the top exchange. <br>In the category of derivative exchanges, 8 out of 27 platforms received the top rating of "BB+", with OKX leading the way and Bybit also receiving an AA rating. <br>In decentralized exchanges, only Uniswap received an AA rating, recognized for its excellent security and liquidity. Curve received an A rating, while dYdX and GMX received a BB rating. Regulatory compliance is on the rise, with 75 out of 107 centralized exchanges holding regulatory licenses according to VASPnet data. <br>

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin, on November 1st, the Uniswap Foundation's custodial address transferred 500,000 UNI to FalconX, worth approximately $2.07 million, 9 hours ago.

Uniswap community has voted in favor of the "Temperature Check Proposal for Investing in Ekubo Protocol" this week, with a support rate of 63.82%. However, the largest vote has raised questions in the cryptocurrency community. It is reported that the vote came from Jesse Walden, a general partner of Variant Fund, who provided 8 million UNI out of a total of 21 million UNI in favor of the proposal and hopes that Ekubo can contribute to Uniswap's codebase. In response, Moody Salem, the founder of Ekubo Protocol and an early engineer at Uniswap, clarified that Ekubo had no relationship with Variant Fund before the Uniswap community launched the temperature check proposal vote.&nbsp;

According to Lookonchain monitoring, on October 29th, the Uniswap Foundation transferred a total of 9.8 million UNI tokens (about 40.66 million US dollars) within the past 6 days. Among them, 3.4 million UNI tokens (about 14.1 million US dollars) were deposited into OKX; 3 million UNI tokens (about 12.45 million US dollars) were deposited into Kraken; and 3.4 million UNI tokens (about 14.1 million US dollars) were transferred to FalconX.

The Snapshot vote results showed that Swiss bank Fiat24's proposal to issue a joint Uniswap-Visa debit card was not approved, with a 93% opposition rate. Earlier, Fiat24 initiated a temperature check vote on the Uniswap governance platform, proposing to "issue a Visa debit card with the Uniswap logo". The proposal stated that Fiat24 is a regulated and licensed Swiss bank that operates on Arbitrum, and has abandoned servers, relying entirely on smart contracts to handle all banking operations. Fiat24 serves as the legal currency layer in decentralized exchanges such as Uniswap. Fiat24 proposed to cooperate with Uniswap to launch a joint Visa card to strengthen this bridge and expand its services to Europe, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.

On October 29th, Snapshot voting page displayed that the Uniswap community voted in favor of the "Temperature Check Proposal" for investing in Ekubo Protocol. Uniswap invested 12 million US dollars worth of UNI in the Starknet ecosystem AMM Ekubo Protocol in exchange for a 20% stake in Ekubo Protocol's future governance tokens. It is reported that MoodySalem, the founder of Ekubo Protocol, was formerly the engineering lead of the Uniswap team and contributed a lot to Uniswap's early code.