We’re excited to share that Uniswap Labs has acquired Guidestar – a team that’s been building new AMM and routing technology in stealth for the past two years. As part of this acquisition, the Guidestar team, including Alex Nezlobin, will join Uniswap Labs to continue their work on advanced market design and execution research.
Strengthening the protocol
The Uniswap Protocol has always set the standard for AMMs, and with v4 it is now more flexible than ever. Building on that flexibility, Guidestar has been exploring how to adapt AMMs to the specific needs of different markets: stablecoins, liquid staking tokens, real-world assets, long-tail and high-volume tokens, across a variety of onchain environments (from blockchains with priority ordering to first-come, first-serve models). Together, we’ll continue to expand the design space so the protocol can serve more types of markets with more flexibility and efficiency.
Smarter routing and execution
Execution is only as strong as the routing behind it. Our goal is to make Uniswap Labs products the fastest and most reliable way to access competitive liquidity – whether users are transacting directly in the public mempool or through protocols like UniswapX. Guidestar’s research and engineering will help accelerate this effort, advancing smart order routing so that users continue to get the best swaps using Uniswap apps.
What’s next
Uniswap Labs has always focused on advancing AMMs and onchain market infrastructure. Guidestar adds more world-class talent to that effort and accelerates our work toward a global, decentralized exchange for all tokenized value.
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