The single purchase was made at $9.39 per UNI. The report was published at 9:39 p.m.
The planned contracts would cover 10,000 UNI and 1,000 UNI, with trading scheduled for Oct. 19 pending regulatory review.
UNI's spot-led rally approaches $11 as CME futures plans and positive whale activity strengthen demand.
UNI was priced at $9.10 on Binance spot at 12:01 a.m. ET on Sept.
UNI fell from $10.24 over four hours. Long positions accounted for $400,000 in liquidations during the same one-hour period, while short liquidations totaled $0.
CME adds Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures on October 19, giving institutions restricted from offshore crypto venues a regulated route to both tokens.
The founder of Uniswap, Hayden Adams, alleges that Sam Bankman-Fried previously purchased the Uniswap.com domain for a seven-figure price before Uniswap Labs successfully reclaimed it through legal channels.
Uniswap founder Hayden Adams says SBF paid seven figures for Uniswap.com before a 2021 WIPO ruling transferred the domain to Uniswap Labs.
Uniswap's dominance in tokenized stock trading highlights DeFi's potential to disrupt traditional finance by offering 24/7, decentralized trading. Uniswap leads tokenized stock DeFi TVL growth, adds $83M in 30 days.
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The token recorded a 30% increase on September 18, reaching a value of $9.20. The asset's market capitalization stood around $6 billion in the last 24 hours. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a temporary exemption for transactions with tokenized stocks on decentralized networks.
The SEC never named Uniswap, yet traders quickly found familiar architecture in its exemption.