UNI

MountainGuido

ADA doesn't do anything unique that can't be done with SOL . I'd add to this list. XMR, LINK, UNI, and HBAR

LegendaryJohnny

Go to any coin outside big 5, check 5 year graph since end of last true bullrun. Come back and tell me where the channel goes. Check big 2020 coins like UNI, DOT, AAVE, AVAX and many more

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JustPhackOff39104

Yeah, I also don't. But in the top 50 there are lots of solid projects like ARB, AAVE, UNI etc. I consider mid-level alts 51-200 in market cap. They have some niche usage. And others is low-level alts. But let's be real, most of them are shitcoins.

SkibidiUnc

Funny how some coins on certain exchanges went to 0 lol (example: ATOM on binance). Today was the first time i bought Crypto since mid 2022 (when i left the crypto market after BTC lost the 27-30k support). Bought DOT and UNI 😋 this has some Covid crash vibes

GreedVault

Binance alpha alts and newer alts are pumping, but the OG cryptos like ADA, MATIC, UNI, AAVE, SOL aren’t moving as much.

MichaelAischmann

It's the reason I sometimes ask the utility question when people ask for opinions on a (new) token. They often are mainly for governance of the protocol. That means deciding about changes such as supported chains or assets & upgrades. I will not hide that I am not technically versed enough to make these government decisions, ergo I do not need the token. That does by no means imply that I wouldn't use the protocol itself. That looks like solid tech. It is important to educate about the difference between owning ASTER tokens & using the ASTER protocol. And that goes for so many DeFi projects. You don't need UNI tokens to use Uniswap. You don't need AAVE tokens to use AAVE's decentralized lending & borrowing protocol. So if people want to do ASTER governance, sure - invest. Maybe also invest if you use the protocol often (for reduced fees & revenue share). People should clear before investing what benefits the token buys. Many don't even know them let alone can formulate them clearly. "Sell the token to the next guy." is exactly what challenges this clarity.

MichaelAischmann

When it comes to DeFi, too many people (IMO) focus on the tokens such as AAVE or CRV or exchange tokens like UNI. These projects are all part of DeFi but their function is mainly governance of the corresponding portocols & how they should evolve. Like what chains & tokens to support and so on. Mostly these decisions are fairly technical & to make a good decision holders should understand the technology well. So for me it has become much more important to actually use the DeFi protocols. Lend some coins on AAVE to generate some yield, swap on decentralized exchanges instead of CEX to keep custody & control. The real things are build already, my tip is to use them. AAVE is a good start I think. Learn what the protocol does & how the code secures your money. If you feel satisfied, connect your wallet & turn your idle asset into something that generates yield. This works on many L2s as well.

MichaelAischmann

I don't think this is accurate. **Coins** (chain native assets like BTC, ETH, SOL) are not smart contracts. Most **tokens** (like DAI, USDT, LINK, UNI or NTFs) are smart contracts, regardless of the chain they live on. There are only very few examples of tokens that are chain native & therefore aren't smart contracts. A few such tokens are Colored Coins (early Bitcoin “tokens”), Algorand Standard Assets (ASA) or Cardano Native Tokens.

EntertainmentBoth187

You don’t need the token to use the wallet, that’s the whole point. You hold it if you want revenue share + perks. It's like saying that Uniswap's token does nothing because you can still swap without holding UNI

o0c3drik0o

Let's first clear up the concept of staking. Staking just means "locking funds to serve a purpose". What that purpose is, differs from project to project. In general we can say there's two main groups in crypto. 1. Staking for security: you already are familiar with this one. The coin has a value and people are rewarded for staking their value in a node The purpose is to introduce a cost to attack the network (aka. Change parameters). The basic and most common version of this, is single sided/ solo staking. The issue with solo staking is that it ends up as dead capital. Meaning it doesn't serve a purpose beyond just sitting there. Additionally, people expect a reward for locking their funds away. So block rewards are what usually pays that, with the inflation that it brings to the table. 2. Staking for yield: This is usually something that's done on DEXs and DeFi protocols. These ecosystems need liquidity to operate properly. And the more liquidity they have, the more competitive they can be in terms of slippage and price impact. So you are familiar with LP tokens I assume? The purpose of staking for yield, is to lock your LP token in the ecosystem, so it can guarantee better liquidity for trades. When you stake you expect to get paid, so again staking rewards are introduced. This is usually in the form of a DEX token like UNI or something. But, it can also be a share of protocol income that would otherwise go to developer funds etc. ---------- Last bit of information I'll throw at you: You have projects like Maya protocol that does a different approach. There you stake (bond) your LP token directly to a node. So that's a hybrid of what I just explained. To understand why they take this approach, I suggest you look into Maya and Thorchain to see why it can make sense. Thank you for coming to my TED talk

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; Uniswap achieved record-breaking milestones in 2025, including 915 million swaps and over $1 trillion in trading volume, solidifying its dominance in DeFi. Despite generating $1.65 billion in protocol fees and $50 million in annual revenue, the UNI token's price remains stagnant due to the lack of buybacks, profit sharing, and opaque token mechanisms. Experts suggest reforms like revenue sharing, supply transparency, and stronger incentives to align UNI's value with Uniswap's growth. UNI currently trades at $8.09, down 82% from its 2021 ATH. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

Motor-Mousse-2179

i fucking hate working. like, i hate it more than the average person by a long shot. also like staying home alone, so when i managed to make trading work, i simply lost a need for a normal job. that would just make me less money. i'm finishing chemistry UNI, then i want my masters and then to quit my country forever

PenguinsInvading

PEPE, UNI, LDO and ARB (Pmce money flows into the ETH chain coins it'll be a good) potential candidates. ENA can begin another leg as well. Pay attention to HBAR it's kinda repeating a pattern I've seen a lot in previous bullruns. Disclaimer: I won't tell you when to buy and at what price. My strategy works only for myself and my personality. Proceed with your own risk and money management plan. These clins have potential but it doesn't mean they'll start moving up just because I recognize them as good choices. Market can decide to do whatever it wants so don't forget stop losses.

zesushv

Yes at the core of **cryptocurrency**, the major purpose is to be used as a **currency**. The utility of these cryptocurrencies can be within an app, an ecosystem, a community, etc; serving as a means to pay for a service. Trying to twist the very obvious to eradicate the importance of cryptocurrencies like ETH, UNI, LINK, Zeta, XMR, BSC, and others is so 2015. This is not a topic we should be addressing in 2025 where even memecoins are literally gaining relevance for different usecases like supporting charity causes, saving wildlife, providing Healthcare services to less developed countries, planting trees and more.

elvid88

Haven’t been around as long (2020) and have been steadily liquidating my LINK after buying at around $6-$7 during the dip (this was after initially buying in between $15-20). Still hold a lot of UNI, DOT, MATIC/POLY from back then whose prices never recovered.

zesushv

I have been holding Algo for years since it touched 1.9 in 2021 or so. Never touched ava or vet. If I had 10k sitting around I will go with btc 90% and eth 10%. If I am pressed to consider alts, it will be LINK, Monero or UNI; these to me have their value tied to services people use now and will still use in future.

panthera_N

Open the charts of UNI, CAKE, and some other DEX coins for more details 😁

emir_rt192

Yeah, solid picks. You might also look at UNI, LINK, WBT

GreenStretch

I'm not sure how much value the alts hold from cycle to cycle. I believed in the stories you mentioned enough to purchase all four, but sold my DOT and UNI into BTC by now and am waiting to sell LINK and XRP.

blastermckaster

Highest risk and reward right now would be getting into alts. I would recommend ADA, LINK, DOT, AVAX, UNI, ENA & ALGO. I'm personally invested in these and I believe we could see 3 to 5x, or if this altseason is crazy.....10-15x.

EarningsPal

I really thought UNI would eventually burn and absorb the gas guzzler fees from Ethereum. With Unichain, maybe it will happen.

GimmeMoney24

i agree with people saying UNI buy DYOR!! Take a risk if you're young lol! Buying doge at that age bought me my first house!

Neat-Emu-8731

If you’re only riding one, $LINK feels like the best degen bet it’s infra every chain needs, gets monster pumps when narratives heat up, and has way stronger upside vibes than UNI’s weak tokenomics or AVAX/AAVE’s slower grind plays.

AlbiBambi

If you really want to pick one out of all those it's either AAVE or UNI, but thta's just my opinion, and you should NEVER take advice from strangers online who express their opinions. DYOR, figure out which coin looks the best FOR YOU and just make the bet

ruserious2day

Learn from my bags that going too big on Alts no matter how compelling the tech is a bad idea. I invested $150k in a basket of crypto that I felt strongly about. 50% in ETH and BTC and the rest spread evenly in SUI, NEAR, LINK, UNI, POLY, STARK, STACks and AI16z, I’m down 30% overall even though I’m up substantially on ETH, BTC, LINK and SUI. Some of those alts are down 70%! If I could do it all again I’d concentrate 75% in BTC and ETH and I would not hold any ALTS long term. No matter how good the story they will be slaughtered when ALT season ends and crypto winter sets in.

Altruistic-Buy8779

They're called ERC20 tokens. Things like AAVE, UNI, 1INCH, USDT, USDC, to name a few popular ones. Some like the ones I name actually have a utility other's don't and must be a meme coin, a funding token, or an presale of an ICO.

Any-Dragonfruit8363

Diversify your portfolio. the future is uncertain honestly. Just don't invest in memes (unless you support the culture and product). I have BTC, SOL, ETH, and other "unsure but might be good" assets like HYPE, AVAX, OKB, SUI, UNI, ARB, & APT. 70% is allocated to BTC, SOL, ETH. 30% for the rest. and the reason why I have the other 30% is because I personally use their service. If I can't use them, why would I buy them? it's not just another number stored in your wallet. It's the utility that matters.

Key_nine

Same with $AERO. With Google threatening to ban any wallet app not federally registered it just leaves Coinbase as the biggest app and $AERO is the biggest dex for base. $AERO is probably going to be one of the strongest surprise runner this cycle. $UNI was a inbetween to buy base coins but with $AERO being added to base/coinbase and any token created on it will let traders bypass the need for $UNI and $CAKE.

Hot-Efficiency7190

When the tradefi guys come to look at crypto, they'll understand what orcales like LINK and exchanges like UNI do, and buy them.

45Bulldog

UNI is the largest DEX with a majority portion operating in ETH

Over_Zombie37

Etherum betterplays like ENA, UNI snd more underlying assets.

Decent-Test-2479

The farm yields from BTC and ETH have been unheard of… 50 percent APY for BTC and ETH pools. There is a UNI WBTC & USDC vault with 50 percent APY right now.

blastermckaster

Rate my portfolio. I'm BULLISH on ALGO. || || |ALGO|33.45%| |LINK|20.17%| |ADA|12.25%| |ENA|10.63%| |ETH|6.44%| |UNI|6.10%| |DOT|5.94%| |AVAX|4.98%|

MichaelAischmann

Gotcha. $LINK & $UNI are build on Ethereum too, have a higher MC than PEPE & have actual utility.

DankShibe

Tokens are crypto that don't have their own blockchain and operate on another coin's blockchain. Tokens are the numerous crypto that are using the ETH/SOL and Binance blockchains. Examples are stuff like WIF, UNI, and CAKE. Coins are crypto that have their own blockchain and are named after it. Examples are stuff like ETH, DOGE, or RUNE. BTC was made as an experiment from a nerdy group that was exploring the technology of the blockchain. Doge wasn't designed only as a joke but also to be used as a fun little currency. And since Doge is decentralized and open source, it is one of the coins that stays true to Satoshi's ethos. And it is still relevant 10 years after it was made. Now, remember ICP? A "serious project" that is completely and utterly crashed down to low prices and hasn't recovered at all by now. The same goes with EOS. While Doge is still comfortably staying between the top 10-15 crypto.

BitcoinIRA

Great question. Depending on your level of expertise, we have a few recommendations for a diversified portfolio. **1. Beginner Portfolio (3-5 coins)** * BTC * ETH * 1-3 other assets, notably in DeFi, stablecoins, or infrastructure. Examples are UNI, USDC, and LINK. **2. Intermediate Portfolio (5-10 coins)** Diversify further and consider Layer1 (SOL, AVAX), and Web3 + Metaverse (SAND, AR) coins. **3. Advanced Portfolio (10-20+ coins)** If you're a seasoned investor and you feel comfortable with risk, this could work for you. You'll essentially expand into "riskier" coins.

YogurtCloset3335

Buy Silicon Valley shitcoins that are pumped by David Sacks and his cronies. Wait, first plug your nose. Then buy. SOL, XRP, AVAX, UNI, WLD, RAY, etc. I hate all of them, but they've made me money to be a bagholder of projects I think have real potential to transform money and banking. YMMV

Decent-Test-2479

Another good technique is pay attention to UNI and other platforms like that offering rewards to their holders/pool participants. You get a piece if every bit of that coin trades on that profile and you get a bit of rewards generated. That’s what’s going on in your vault giving you the high APY. So if you anticipate say UNI having some sort of huge crypto special or rolls out a rewards program or a rewards program starts. Vaults with that defi native coin will do good.. don’t confuse that with that defi program having its own “eth arb pool” that will also have a nice APY if uni is being used to trade and swap… I believe uni is the most used platform for that

GlitteringLock9791

ETH just climbed. So did Solana and UNI and a lot of others.

Mega_2018

**From SnapShot, co-founder of Glue:**  Here’s how it works. When you sign up to Glue and fund your account, ideally with USDC, which is our main supported stablecoin right now, you can use that balance to buy tokens from other networks, not just Glue. That’s the power of cross-chain swaps. Let’s take an example. Suppose you want to buy MOON on Arbitrum. Normally, you’d need to figure out how to bridge your USDC from Glue to Arbitrum, then find which DEX on Arbitrum has the best liquidity, make the swap there, and then figure out how to bridge the MOON back to wherever you need it. That’s a complicated process, and most people either give up or stick with centralized exchanges to avoid it. With Glue, all of that complexity is abstracted away. The user experience is identical to trading locally on the Glue DEX. The only difference is that cross-chain swaps take a little longer because of the bridging. Behind the scenes, this is what happens when you submit a trade: 1. **Glue checks for local liquidity**. If MOON is available directly on the Glue DEX, your swap happens instantly and cheaply. 2. **If local liquidity isn’t available**, Glue automatically picks the best network (like Arbitrum), bridges your USDC to that network, and uses the DEX with the best pricing to buy the token on Arbitrum. 3. **Then, and this is key, the purchased token is bridged back to Glue**. That part is missing in most other cross-chain swap systems. They might send your funds to another network, but they don’t bring them back. We think that’s a terrible experience. Who wants their tokens scattered across 10 chains? On Glue, no matter where you buy—MOON on Arbitrum, UNI on Ethereum, BTC on Avalanche—your assets always end up back on Glue. That gives you one place to hold and manage your crypto. You can easily track what you own, provide liquidity, use lending protocols, or off-ramp, all without needing to worry about which network your tokens are on. And it helps the entire ecosystem too. Since tokens are bridged back to Glue, our local liquidity grows. It becomes faster and cheaper to trade. It improves TVL. Users can use their assets directly on Glue without needing to bridge again. In short, Glue acts as a unified, decentralized home base for your crypto. When you want to sell, you just click sell. We handle bridging the tokens out, unwrapping them, selling them for you, and bringing the funds back. The whole process is seamless and fully abstracted. That’s how cross-chain swaps work on Glue: full end-to-end execution, handled for you!

brickedupbuilds

Initially got in with XRP back in November, ever since I've been buying dips. Recently diversified into SUI, UNI, and LINK, total invested is $6300 current value is $7000

SevereArrivals13

I mean I can't complain about airdrops when I remember that buying a bit of a random shitcoin on Uniswap years ago gave me a $12,000 airdrop of UNI which also gave me like $4000 in Badger, 7-8k in ARB and many more lesser drops too. These airdrops raised a lot of publicity for retail investors for sure

veegaz

It's really a luck draw I'm DCAing the top 30 each month BNB, ADA, ETH pretty much became stablecoins FET, UNI, PEPE pump and dump like crazy But if I compare to 3 months earlier then TAO, RENDER, FET are the best performers Nobody knows shit about fuck 🤷

-UncommonKnowledge-

Figure Markets is great, app is super beginner friendly. Currently 0 fee trading on (BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, USDC, LINK, UNI, HASH) and self-custody (MPC, user holds keys)

biba8163

> You can practically undo the damage with such a small reinvestment in good projects that you expect to do well in the future like RWA and Gaming It's always bagholders who buy one scam after another and continue to lose money that continue to have confidence about picking the right projects that will do well in the future. Stop. You got scammed. You don't know shit. > **NEAR, FET, UNI, ONDO, LINK - don't think you can lose money on these over next four months.** AMP will go up aswell. https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1hhfmsi/daily_crypto_discussion_december_19_2024_gmt0/m2ud0gq/

Somebody__Online

What the fuck coins are you all trading? I thought like UNI, CRV, BAL, SOL, GMX as alt coins If your trading meme BS from Pump.fun then yes stop and swap it to btc.

ispotdouchebags

Agree but disagree. Bitcoin is the standard - full stop. Digital gold. Irrefutable. Undeniable. But, only for a store of value. Alt coins will serve a big purpose: Higher Potential Returns • Altcoins are more volatile, meaning they can rise faster (and fall harder). • Smaller market caps = more room to grow. • Example: In bull markets, coins like Solana or Avalanche can do 5x–20x while Bitcoin might only 2x–3x Innovation and Use Cases • Many altcoins power specific ecosystems or technologies: • Ethereum (ETH): Smart contracts and DeFi. • Chainlink (LINK): Decentralized oracles. • Polygon (MATIC): Scaling Ethereum. • Filecoin (FIL): Decentralized storage. • Bitcoin is seen more as a digital gold than a technology platform Access to New Sectors • Altcoins let investors target trends: • DeFi (Decentralized Finance) – e.g., AAVE, UNI • Gaming & Metaverse – e.g., SAND, MANA • AI tokens – e.g., FET, AGIX • This allows exposure to emerging sectors of Web3 Portfolio Diversification • Just like in traditional investing, some use altcoins to diversify their crypto holdings, reducing exposure to just one asset. And the big one: Lower Entry Price (Psychological) • Some investors feel they “missed the boat” on Bitcoin. • They are attracted to altcoins priced under $1 or $10, even though price per coin doesn’t equal value (market cap is what matters).

NihilisticMind

Honestly? I researched Dapps online as well as asked chatgpt to explain blockchain technology and what the vision of web3 might be. After reading about it, and asking more questions, I was able to narrow down some criteria that make sense to me for long term. Here is chatgpt's conclusion: >Conclusion: Ethereum (ETH), Chainlink (LINK), Polygon (MATIC), Filecoin (FIL), and Uniswap (UNI) are the tokens that most directly align with the principles of Web 3.0—decentralization, privacy, ownership, and interoperability. These tokens represent both the infrastructure needed for a decentralized internet and the financial ecosystems that Web 3.0 will likely be built upon. Hope that helps!

tomhughesnice

Yeah, when I got into Crypto 10 years ago there were so many alts that claimed to be the "next Bitcoin", or the "New Global Payment system" etc. I've seen tons of coins in the top 10, then fade away to obscurity. I've had some amazing airdrops over the years, UNI(Uni swap) probably the standout. I've had coins that have gone up 1000% and others that have rugged. All I really see are lots of coins and networks that really just facilitate gambling. I used to be 50% BTC / 50% Alts. A few years ago I switched all my Alts to BTC. Zero regrets

WellPayed

UNI would like a word

GlitteringLock9791

$UNI is doing pretty well.

CryptoCryptonaire

The actual list includes XLM, XRP, SOL, ETH, BTC, LINK, UNI, LTC and ADA. Why are you posting this as though its "only" ADA?

panthera_N

converted all UNI to ETH then to BTC and missed the +35% candle, what a shame

basketballcharles

Holy UNI! Haven't seen them move up like that in a while.

panthera_N

UNI is pretty cheap right now, bought some 😁

tradinghabits89

Degen, SUI, GHST, UNI

bricarp

I'm confused. You say your UNI is stuck because you don't have enough ETH to move it. > Want me to buy a completely useless NFT? Ape into some ridiculous meme coin? Try to launch a DAO with nothing? Make an on-chain donation to some bizarre smart contract address? Don't all of these things require ETH to do? Probably more ETH is required to do these things than to just move your UNI somewhere else.

GlitteringLock9791

If you don’t tp, Dow Jones might be the better investment. A lot of people think UNI will grow to 10-20$ soonish, ETH would be up for correction but didn’t really show any stop sign yet. SOL could be heading for some more gains. A lot of coins crashed alot with the liberation day bs, so I assume they could all recover.

panthera_N

this is the chart of UNI, it is in the top defi, this price shows we are still at the bottom of the market. https://i.redd.it/t8qy4a62l50f1.gif

Logical_Lemming

His forum post is [here](https://gov.uniswap.org/t/pepo-delegate-platform/24896/21) and it's a great read for anyone interested in Web3 governance. Personally I think what's been happening with Uniswap governance is really disgusting, and I don't blame this guy for stepping down. I mean they literally passed a proposal to turn on the fee switch and bring utility to the UNI token, and the Foundation basically said "Nope, the VCs say we can't do this." And now they're incentivizing their new Unichain once again at the expense of UNI holders. Fuck any web3 protocol with a split token/equity structure. THIS TYPE OF TOKEN SHOULD ITSELF BE AN EQUITY!!! That would solve the alignment issues, but shady-ass web3 founders don't want to do the hard work required to be a legit on-chain equity. Gensler was right about everything.

askolein

Honestly I don't know. The market is so bad that I'm not sure I can recommend ANY of them. I like ALGO, XMR. L1s have the best token model by definition (platform usage drives token demand directly). INJ, LINK, UNI may be interesting. Other DeFi and DePIN with actual real economies are also interesting. One issue is that, when a company starts generating revenue with B2B deals, it's hard for them to make the token capture it (outside of buy backs, which is like a dividend kind of token). When a token captures on-chain value, it's hard for it, currently, to generate a lot of revenue, outside of L1 platforms.

No_Touch_3015

UNI student? As in Northern Iowa?

biba8163

> my environmental concerns Because you are repeating some narrative from 2016 saying "destroys the environment" without articulating anything. Most of BTC mining is powered by clean renewable energy today and trending more to that. It's actually helps bring demand to transition to renewable energy, stablizes the grid, reduces the need for gas peaker plants, etc. > Also ETH via UNI and AAVE allows people from countries with no access to dollars to not only hold dollars via stablecoins TRON dominates Stablecoin usage in developing countries and as I've said many times, rails for stablecoins is the killer use case for these competing networks which will have to remain cheap. > Ethereum will have to scale and that has seen the rise of L2/sidechains which results in loss transaction fees and MEV tips essentially stealing value from ETH. This essentially turns Ethereum, Solana, BSC, Tron, L2/Sidechains, etc into competing networks for DeFi casinos and rails for StablecCoin transfers where they have to remain cheap or utility and users will move to competing chains https://np.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/1f9ef5k/daily_general_discussion_september_5_2024/llmkgtm/ > ETH’s dapps are decentralized...Via governance, you know, the only buzz word you chose to not include in your rant. Decentralized Governance is a scam. I've called this centralized governance bullshit scam out many times, 5 years ago, 3 years ago, etc. > One man, Rune Christensen controls the system, interest, fees, voting, etc. There are ELEVEN addresses that accounted for 98% of the voting for the protocol change for an "executive vote" used USDC. Eleven addresses control the entire protocol and a protocol change was voted in just...what 24 hrs? And most of those addresses are probably owned by a handful of people. On what planet is that decentralized? https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/fl68d4/crypto_collateralized_stable_coins_have_proven/fkxc40i/ > AGP42 : Put differently: aside from one whale, AGP42 passes. The Aragon community overall voted for AGP42, but it was rejected with 69% of the vote because of one whale. > AGP37: 82% in favor of AGP37. 453k to 99k. But then the whale voted. So despite 83% of addresses voting in favor of AGP37, on the surface it appears to be a large defeat where 66% vote against. > AGP-35:: Here’s another case in point: Edgeware Lockdrop Proposal for Aragon..The 792k whale voted for this. Deduct the whale’s votes and you get 338k. Which means that this proposal was losing by about 15% at ~43% versus ~57% pre-whale. Then the vote went from losing decisively to winning by a massive landslide. So aside from the whale, the Aragon community voted against Edgeware lock drop participation https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/16qpy14/comment/k1zmjv5/

TrueDreamchaser

Lol did nothing to address my environmental concerns Also ETH via UNI and AAVE allows people from countries with no access to dollars to not only hold dollars via stablecoins but also earn interest on them. This combats the issue of high inflation in many countries. A real use case. ETH’s dapps are decentralized. Each modification is written in GitHub (or something similar) by community members and voted on by holders. Via governance, you know, the only buzz word you chose to not include in your rant. Also I never said I was an ETH maxi, I even opened the door to alternatives. The fact you failed to address bitcoin’s environmental concerns and deflected tells me CLEARLY what maxi you are though.

JohnBITbigcoin

Bitcoin already has a know. fork to protect and make it quantum proof do yes it will and also it is upgradable as new threats come available. Where the wealth is is where the network will be & bitcoin has too much riding on its back already, I kniw most ogs like me dont agree but I have been in xrp since a dime and enjoying my 23-36x so where so many banks use and now defi is live on it i di believe the coins will be as follows. BITCOIN Ethereum Xrp Solana LINK SUI ENS *( 30 YRS) UNI,AAVE,COMP DEFI LP / YIELD BNB i believe after a crazy dip when it becomes more decentralized will still be around & kinda took over where neo fell I do believe that we need a couple strong privacy coins & lite coins could take this niche

Somebody__Online

DRV UNI HDX I’m curious what your take is on these

Somebody__Online

You can look on decentralized perpetual markets like GMX and see what market is currently paying the best funding rates. I am farming ETH, UNI, and APE at the moment for a 70% Apr average. The move is to set the collateral asset to the risk asset and then short sell at 1x So like for uniswap I set the collateral asset to UNI and then open short for 1x. For the APE it’s the same but with APE as collateral and short APE. Then you just need to check in on the markets to make sure the funding rates are stating positive. You can close back into stable coin when the funding fees stop being positive.

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; DeFi dominance has dropped to levels not seen since the 2021 bull market, with token valuations and total value locked (TVL) showing bearish trends. TVL decreased to $90 billion, and lending protocols saw a sharp downturn. DeFi tokens like Uniswap (UNI) and Aave (AAVE) have underperformed, with dominance at 3%, far below the 2021 peak of 5.9%. The sector's stagnation reflects broader altcoin weakness, as Bitcoin absorbs liquidity. Despite stablecoin growth, DeFi struggles to recover, with synthetic assets and lending facing challenges amid bearish market conditions. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

GreenStretch

4 years ago: BTC, ETH slightly up today, BNB up XRP up ADA slightly down, DOT, UNI, LTC, LINK, BCH down. [https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20210307/](https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20210307/)

izdigohkz

That's even too many coins to hold at this time. Reason is because you want a port that you can monitor easily. If you are not so big in capital, You should just fix on low to mid caps. I wuldn't want to hold UNI, DOT and LINK at this time. SUI is a good bet. Maybe add Supra and some other mid caps.

CorneliusFudgem

Hayden needs to make the price of $UNI go up now 😭

ec265

SEC have dismissed their case against UNI Regulatory landscape has flipped from being hostile

stanton_HZN

UNI would be an interesting one because its business model is so clear and it makes money. Biggest risk is in American regulations since it’s registered in the US.

Itur_ad_Astra

Nobody's going to bother hacking your ledger with $14 worth of stETH and $3 worth of UNI.

jekpopulous2

That’s not the way it works at all. Alt season is 90% beta tokens on major chains. If ETH (for example) goes 3x - the DeFi protocols that live there go nuts. AAVE, LINK, UNI, ARB, etc all go 10-20x. Smaller caps in the ecosystem might go 50-100x. That’s what alt-season looks like.

LegendaryJohnny

Probably good decision because there is no long term hold diamonds hand winner if you hold literally anything but bitcoin. I am also 2017. Lost five figures in scam Omise GO. In 2020 right after UNI airdrop I had 2200 UNI, but it kept going down and down and I stopped believing in it and sold literally 2 cents for all time low of UNI. I was just thinking it can't go down if so many people received 400 UNI for free. It was $45 dollars in April. Last year I was accumulating 'good projects' all year, every spare money. And it did 2x, but I didnt want to repeat that UNI fail from 2020 so I held. I held till profit went to 1.1x then converted all to BTC and fuck this shit.

Itur_ad_Astra

I just converter my last NANO (held since 2017!) and my last UNI (held since the 2020 airdrop, my first airdrop and the only one I never sold). It wasn't much, but it was sentimental. I never thought I would sell that last NANO since it was my initiation into crypto. I don't have any BTC, sold it all starting from 0.04 and down to 0.03. I sold all my SOL a couple of months ago (I made a comment about it on ethfinance, but can't find it). I am now, for the first time, purely 100% ETH. Not 99%. Not 99.9% Just 100%. This is the last crypto I will ever hold, not because I'm married to my bags, but because I can't find anything better. ETH sentiment is at the lowest lows that I have *ever* seen it. It's worse than the Covid Crash, it's worse than the DAO hack, and it's worse than the Luna and FTX crashes. Much worse. ETH can't even pump $10 without it being followed by a $100 dump. Sure, it might wick to $1500 this Sunday. It might not. It's clear that Trump is manipulating the price with all these tariff talks, but it's also clear that his son is buying, and the ETF inflows were never higher. He could say it's included in the Crypto reserve at any moment, and leave everyone on the sidelines. You can keep listening to the bots and Cointelegraph telling you to buy XRP because it's going to $99, or you can buy the actual blood on the streets. Let's see if there's anything here.

thursdayjunglist

I'm willing to lose the $1000 I already invested plus another grand. I'm in $100 each on ADA, AVAX, BTC, DOGE, ETH, HBAR, LINK, UNI, XLM, and XRP. I already have some Solana (nice profit), BTC, and Shib from before. Any of these you would advise against doubling down on, or swap for a different coin?

ec265

ETH - decentralised world computer that will be the financial settlement layer of the internet RPL - an ETH staking token with revenue share and so the more that is staked, the better the token performs ZK - my pick of the ETH L2’s; zero knowledge proofs are fundamentally going to disrupt crypto for the better, and the token also had a favourable distribution compared to others That’s it. My focus is on understanding and high conviction, rather than spreading myself and just hoping for the best. UNI gets an honourable mention. I think once it gets revenue sharing it will pump like crazy, but it doesn’t have the best token distribution.

boredscrollingreddit

Missed the big dip unfortunately - wasnt paying attention and missed out. Still was able to buy some UNI, ETH, BTC and Doge on this dip, but fuck if I was near my phone last night :(

Indulgent-edison

I all in ETH, SOL, and DOGE with 1.8 of D/A ratio (1.8 leverage) with an average entering price 3302, 183, and 0.2905 for my conservative funds. For my small funds, I all in PEOPLE, LINK, UNI, CRO, TRB, ADA, GALA, pretty much the other coins you could think of.

therealweebkiller

shib till 22nd/23rd selling and buying more UNI till april

Impressive-Level-276

ETH, XRP, TRX, UNI, DOT, LINK Some lost more than dogecoin

CRABMAN1981

NEAR, FET, UNI, ONDO, LINK - don't think you can lose money on these over next four months. AMP will go up aswell.

LegendaryJohnny

Well yeah we do. But when everything is actually up. Last bullrun UNI went from 1.75 in november to like 7-8 dollars in late december. Literally most alts in top100 were 5x. Now you have few alts 2x, very few 4x, most are below March minipump now.

New_Reputation

RUNE undervalued, more volume than Uniswap, RUNE mc only $2b while UNI is $10B. Also Bitcoin beta. Bought moreeee

ec265

ETH beta plays DeFi - UNI/ENS/RPL/AAVE L2s - STARK/ARB/OP/ZK

wojak42069

LTC, LINK, AVAX, UNI, MATIC, GRT. Potentially FIL and DASH too?

gowithflow192

Personally I would recommend those coming in late to just invest in high market cap alts. I suspect they'll get greater returns from a basket of ETH, SOL, XRP, LINK, DOT, XLM, HBAR, UNI than they would from BTC alone.

gsnurr3

I didn’t foresee the current upcoming administration’s proposals. I’m just not lucky enough to have insider information ahead of time or a working crystal ball. That being said, I do own UNI. That was my ETH play this cycle. It’s not like I was betting on ETH to go downhill at the time. That speculation has changed now. The rest of the US based crypto in the proposals I owned at one time or another, but not currently. ALGO had not ran to much by the time the news was making headlines, so I did pick up TINYMAN, but that’s it when it comes to this context.

Gloomy_Season_8038

When market is moving pretty fast like now, buy bridge and swap tokens, heavily used to borrow, loan, swap, during high volatility periods AAVE, LINK, UNI

Logical_Lemming

UNI's not doing bad, either. Memecoins may be getting all the press this cycle, but OG DeFi is quietly killing it.

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; Popular memecoin Pepe (PEPE) surpassed Uniswap's token (UNI) in market capitalization on Dec. 7, reaching over $11 billion compared to UNI's $10.6 billion, marking a new all-time high. Pepe gained approximately 16.8% in the past 24 hours and is up 26% over the past week. Since its launch in 2023, Pepe has grown significantly, with an 18x increase in market cap from the start of the year. The memecoin, inspired by a cartoon frog, has become a favorite among traders, despite having 'no intrinsic value.' *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

_TheWolfOfWalmart_

It's not. HBAR, KAS, UNI pumping too.

GreedVault

Unichain L2 and SEC could be dropping the UNI case. After the next governance takeover, regulation on defi will probably be more lax than the current ones.

callme_e

Why is UNI and AAVE climbing up everyday?

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; Uniswap (UNI) has experienced significant growth, with its market cap surpassing $10 billion and its price increasing by 80.44% over the past 30 days. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is at 67, indicating potential for further growth before reaching overbought conditions. The Average Directional Index (ADX) is at 39, suggesting a strong uptrend despite a slight dip in momentum. If the bullish trend continues, UNI could test resistance at $17.39 and potentially reach $20, its highest since 2021. Key support is at $13.5. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

SevereArrivals

Lol I mean the first one I got was the UNI airdrop and that was insane. By tens of thousands its probably closer to 25k I've made in airdrops though the years. Badger and AGAVE are too I also remember quite fondly. 3 upcoming ones I farm quite hard are SUILEND, Mitosis and Berachain. The latter 2 are all on testnet and don't need any investments except for some time.

Alienpot

Everyone knows its [Uniswap](https://renalim.com) but of course noobs will take years to figure this out, you can also check out 1inch or pancakeswap or traderjoexyz but UNI is by far the best… good luck