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Uniswap: paper, then practice.

Uniswap v2, in the paper, is a constant-product pool. The formula is the mechanism. It is not a view about the future price.

Hayden Adams, Noah Zinsmeister, Dan Robinson. 2020. Status: Design paper. Last reviewed: 1 October 2026.

  1. The paper. The 2020 core paper for Uniswap v2: a constant-product automated market maker, with arbitrary ERC-20 pairs, price accumulators, and a flash-swap callback. It is the clearest short specification of the pool that much of later DeFi either forked or assumed.
  2. Automated market maker.
  3. Uniswap profile.
  4. A pool is not a recommendation.

What this chain does not claim

It does not rank a network, quote a yield, or say the live client still matches the paper. The full study keeps the limits. Primary source: Uniswap v2 core paper.

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