Research corpus MarketsBLC-STUDY-0035

Uniswap v2 Core

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.

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Authors: Hayden Adams, Noah Zinsmeister, Dan Robinson
Date: 2020
Publisher: Hayden Adams, Noah Zinsmeister, Dan Robinson
Version: Source cited by the 2020 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0035
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Adams, H., Zinsmeister, N., & Robinson, D. (2020). Uniswap v2 Core. Hayden Adams, Noah Zinsmeister, Dan Robinson. https://uniswap.org/whitepaper.pdf

BibTeX

@techreport{uniswapv22020,
  title = {Uniswap v2 Core},
  author = {Hayden Adams, Noah Zinsmeister, Dan Robinson},
  year = {2020},
  institution = {Hayden Adams, Noah Zinsmeister, Dan Robinson},
  url = {https://uniswap.org/whitepaper.pdf},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/uniswap-v2}
}

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TI  - Uniswap v2 Core
AU  - Hayden Adams
AU  - Noah Zinsmeister
AU  - Dan Robinson
PY  - 2020
PB  - Hayden Adams, Noah Zinsmeister, Dan Robinson
UR  - https://uniswap.org/whitepaper.pdf
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
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Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
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