Uniswap launches Android wallet beta for Google Play

Decentralized crypto speech Uniswap launched a closed beta Android mentation of its mobile app connected October 12, according to a blog station from the app’s improvement team. Uniswap has antecedently lone been disposable connected PC and iOS mobile devices.

— Uniswap Labs (@Uniswap) October 12, 2023

Uniswap is the world’s largest decentralized crypto speech by cumulative volume, having processed implicit $1.7 trillion worthy of trades since its inception, according to information from DeFi Llama. Most of its trades person been done via a web-based application. However, the squad launched a mobile app for iOS connected April 13. Prior to this date, the squad had complained that Apple was holding up the app’s launch successful the Apple App Store. Even aft getting the greenish airy from the App Store, Uniswap inactive did not person a dedicated app for Android devices.

According to the Oct. 12 announcement, the caller Android beta app allows users to prime coins connected antithetic chains without switching networks. It automatically detects which web a coin is connected and switches to that web without the idiosyncratic prompting it to. It tin beryllium utilized connected Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base and BNBChain currently, with much concatenation compatibility slated for the future.

The wallet besides routes Ethereum transactions done a backstage excavation successful bid to assistance debar front-running and sandwich attacks, though this diagnostic tin beryllium turned disconnected if the idiosyncratic prefers. In addition, it automatically detects astir coins that person built-in transportation fees. These fees are displayed successful the interface, making the idiosyncratic alert of them.

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The announcement linked to a signup for an email waitlist, which it stated volition beryllium utilized to rotation retired copies of the app to aboriginal adopters. The squad besides plans to merchandise the app’s open-source codification successful the coming weeks, arsenic portion of its information audit with Trail of Bits.

Uniswap is not the lone decentralized speech to connection a mobile wallet. In 2021, 1Inch launched a mobile wallet for iOS, and an Android mentation of it was published successful October.