Uniswap Labs announced Monday that it has acquired Guidestar, a stealth team focused on automated market maker (AMM) and routing technologies.
The move will increase Guidestar's engineers, including founder Alex Nezlobin, with research into advanced market design and execution. According to Uniswap Labs, the acquisition builds on Uniswap v4's enhanced flexibility, which allows developers to adjust liquidity pools and market structures for a variety of assets, from stablecoins and liquidity staking tokens to real-world assets and long-tail tokens.
Guidestar has worked to adapt AMM to a variety of market types and blockchain environments, including environments that use both priority and first-come, first-served transaction models. Uniswap said this joint effort will expand the protocol's ability to serve diverse on-chain markets with greater efficiency and flexibility.
In addition to market design, the acquisition will strengthen Uniswap's efforts in routing and execution, which are key to ensuring optimal swaps for users. Guidestar's expertise will support improvements to UniswapX, an off-chain and cross-chain protocol that aggregates liquidity beyond traditional pools.
Uniswap Labs said its goal is to make its product the fastest and most reliable path to competitive liquidity in decentralized finance.
With this acquisition, Uniswap continues its broader commitment to scalable and transparent market infrastructure. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
