The largest decentralized exchange Uniswap (UNI) has announced the launch of its NFT marketplace aggregator. It aims to provide gas savings, better price discovery, safer smart contracts, and faster indexing.
Uniswap said in a blog post on Wednesday that its aggregator combines multiple NFT marketplaces in one interface. These include OpenSea, X2Y2, LooksRare, Sudoswap, Larva Labs, Foundation, NFT20, and NFTX.
“NFTs and ERC-20 tokens have largely existed as two separate ecosystems within crypto, but both are essential to growing the digital economy. Launching NFTs on Uniswap is our first step in building more interoperable experiences between the two,” said Uniswap.
The team behind the protocol claimed that the new aggregator saves users up to 15% in gas fees. This is achieved through Uniswap’s new Universal Router contract, which allows swapping multiple tokens and NFTs in one swap.
Uniswap also said it’s airdropping $5 million in USDC to longtime users of Genie, an NFT aggregator the company acquired in June. Based on the snapshot that was taken on April 15, 2022, Uniswap will airdrop $300 to wallets that completed more than one transaction before the snapshot. They will additionally…
