{"id":63263,"date":"2022-06-22T10:37:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T07:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=63263"},"modified":"2025-09-05T23:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T20:03:18","slug":"uniswap-labs-acquires-nft-marketplace-genie-and-announces-an-airdrop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/uniswap-labs-acquires-nft-marketplace-genie-and-announces-an-airdrop\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniswap Labs acquires NFT marketplace Genie and announces an airdrop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company behind the eponymous DEX, Uniswap Labs, announced the acquisition of the NFT marketplace aggregator Genie.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\/ The Uniswap Universe is expanding \ud83e\udd84<\/p>\n<p>In pursuit of our mission to unlock universal ownership and exchange, we\u2019re excited to share that we\u2019ve acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/geniexyz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@geniexyz<\/a> \u2014 the first NFT marketplace aggregator \u2014 expanding our products to include both ERC-20s and NFTs \ud83e\uddde\u200d\u2642\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vESlbE3kvy\">pic.twitter.com\/vESlbE3kvy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Uniswap Labs \ud83e\udd84 (@Uniswap) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Uniswap\/status\/1539306956002820096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;NFT will be integrated into our products, starting with the Uniswap web app, where you will soon be able to buy and sell non-fungible tokens on all major marketplaces. We will also integrate NFTs into our APIs for developers and widgets,&#8221; the blog post said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Support for the new options is planned this autumn.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We view NFT as another form of value in the growing digital economy,&#8221; the developers emphasised.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to them, non-fungible tokens are a kind of gateway to <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-web3\">Web3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Genie users will have access to the marketplace ahead of the NFT exchange&#8217;s full integration.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the deal, Uniswap will conduct in August an airdrop of the stablecoin USDC among Genie users who had used the platform more than once before April 15, and among holders of the GENIE:GEM NFT.<\/p>\n<p>The leading exchange has long experimented with NFTs: back in spring 2019, Uniswap released Unisocks as a joke. Against the hype around the segment in early 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/in-dogecoins-wake-unisocks-meme-token-surges-to-92500\">the SOCKS price reached $92,500<\/a>. In May of the same year, an unknown <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/unknown-party-trades-unisocks-worth-875000-for-nine-pairs-of-socks\">traded Unisocks worth $875,000 for nine pairs of socks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since its launch in 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/uniswap-trading-volume-tops-1-trillion-since-dex-launch\">the trading volume on Uniswap has surpassed $1 trillion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uniswap Labs announced the acquisition of the NFT marketplace aggregator Genie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1158,1213,1391],"class_list":["post-63263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-airdrops","tag-nft","tag-uniswap-uni"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"29","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63265,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63263\/revisions\/63265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}