- Demand for self-custody pushes triggers for extra Uniswap utility.
- UNI’s long-term outlook has improved after final week’s occasions.
Uniswap simply introduced that the variety of customers on its internet app lately soared to a brand new 2022 excessive. This consequence is unsurprising contemplating that current occasions revealed that many centralized exchanges could not have sufficient reserves.
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Crypto customers have thus been shifting their cryptocurrencies from exchanges. Consequently, decentralized exchanges (DEXes) like Uniswap have seen a rise in exercise.
Uniswap’s newest publish acknowledges that demand for self-custody options and transparency has elevated. Consequently, decentralized exchanges have seen extra consumer adoption.
New customers of Uniswap’s Internet App reached a 2022 excessive.
Self-custody and transparency are in demand and customers are flocking to what they know and belief.
Let’s hold constructing. pic.twitter.com/IwPqTmx58J
— Uniswap Labs 🦄 (@Uniswap) November 14, 2022
The important thing purpose why merchants have shifted to DeFi is that FTX sowed the seeds of mistrust in opposition to centralized exchanges. It has grow to be clear to merchants that holding cryptocurrencies on exchanges might not be very best. If extra merchants transition to DEXes, we’d witness an explosion of utility for DEXes in the course of the subsequent bull run.
Uniswap’s short-term consequence already confirms that the variety of addresses utilizing the DEX has elevated. The variety of addresses with non-zero steadiness transacting on UNI has been rising steadily this month. They have been on the highest stage within the final three months, on the time of writing.

Supply: Glassnode
New addresses and lively addresses registered wholesome progress since mid-October. They lately peaked close to mid-November, after which they pivoted. The upside is because of a resurgence of demand at current lows. The truth that each lively addresses and new addresses have pivoted is affirmation that short-term demand has tapered off.
Uniswap’s reported enhance in utilization could have been short-lived primarily based on the above observations. The DEX’s quantity and transactions metric verify that there was, certainly, a pointy enhance in transactions and quantity this week. Nonetheless, the identical metrics have pivoted simply as shortly.

Supply: Glassnode
It’s price noting that each the quantity and transactions managed to attain new 3-month highs throughout this week. This implies that extra exercise has taken place this week and this could be because of the traders’ migration to DEFI.
Affect on UNI value motion
We are going to doubtless see a repeat of the identical in the long term if traders’ demand continues to favor DEXes.
Such an consequence will favor Uniswap’s community progress within the long-run whereas additionally favoring UNI demand. UNI’s value pulled off a 36% upside from final week’s lows to its Tuesday’s (15 November) highs.

Supply: TradingView
UNI’s 50-day shifting common lately fashioned a golden cross with the 200-day MA. That is historically a bullish signal. We’d see extra upside if the value manages to cross above the 2 shifting averages.