✌️Only took 5 years
Uniswap was born out of an idea proposed in 2016 by Vitalik Buterin for a decentralized exchange (DEX) that would employ an onchain automated market maker (AMM) with certain unique characteristics. A year later, Hayden Adams began working on turning this idea into a functional product, Uniswap V1. After receiving $100,000.00 from the Ethereum Foundation, Uniswap launched in November 2018.