{"id":66861,"date":"2022-09-08T11:56:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T08:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=66861"},"modified":"2025-09-07T03:33:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T00:33:41","slug":"uniswap-will-not-back-potential-ethereum-pow-forks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/uniswap-will-not-back-potential-ethereum-pow-forks\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniswap will not back potential Ethereum PoW forks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uniswap protocols will not support any Ethereum forks on the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-the-proof-of-work-pow-algorithm\">Proof-of-Work<\/a> algorithm after <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/the-merge-what-to-expect-from-ethereums-largest-update\">The Merge<\/a>. The claim was made by Uniswap Labs, the organisation behind the project.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Merge is coming, but Uniswap users don&#8217;t need to do anything. We support the upgrade &#038; have no plans to back forks in our web app.<\/p>\n<p>For those building, read our blog on keeping web3 safe post-merge when dealing with replayable permits &#038; TWAP oracles. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MA7l8j0rnv\">https:\/\/t.co\/MA7l8j0rnv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Uniswap Labs \ud83e\udd84 (@Uniswap) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Uniswap\/status\/1567567465290559491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The project team noted that migrating Ethereum to the Proof-of-Stake algorithm will create potential problems for the TWAP price oracle in version 3 of the protocol.<\/p>\n<p>the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-pow-fork-supporters-call-it-inevitable\">possible launch<\/a> of PoW forks of the network of the second-largest cryptocurrency during the upgrade could open a new attack vector against Uniswap via the re-enabling of transfers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abUltimately, these are small problems, and they are worth addressing, given the benefits for the entire ecosystem. We are excited and looking forward to The Merge!\u00bb, \u2014 the developers said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, a number of major industry players, including <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/chainlink-declines-to-back-potential-ethereum-forks\">Chainlink<\/a>, mining-pool <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/largest-ethereum-mining-pool-will-not-back-pow-forks-of-the-network\">Ethermine<\/a> and NFT marketplace <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/opensea-to-drop-support-for-potential-ethereum-forks\">OpenSea<\/a>, refused to back potential Ethereum PoW forks.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on 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 protocols will not support any Ethereum forks on the {{AOPEN_1}}Proof-of-Work{{ACLOSE_1}} algorithm after {{AOPEN_2}}The Merge{{ACLOSE_2}}. The claim was made by Uniswap Labs, the organisation behind the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66862,"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":[46,268,1391],"class_list":["post-66861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ethereum","tag-hardfork","tag-uniswap-uni"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66861","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=66861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66863,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66861\/revisions\/66863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}