Uniswap will prohibit trading in hundreds of tokens through the site's interface – Bits Media

Due to the regulatory environment, Uniswap Labs, behind the popular decentralized exchange Uniswap, decided to restrict access to more 100 tokens via the platform interface.

The list published by the company contains tokenized securities, "Mirror" promotions, options and derivatives. The possibility of trading Tether Gold will disappear on the site, tokenized versions of Zelda and Mini Mario Cash games, UMA tokens and “mirror” versions of Amazon and Tesla shares.

“We continue to monitor the evolving regulatory landscape. Today we have decided to restrict access to certain tokens via app.uniswap.org. These tokens have always represented only a small part of the total trading volume on the Uniswap exchange.", – noted in
company message.

Moreover, the article emphasizes, that we are talking about access to tokens only through the exchange interface. Trading will remain available through the Uniswap Protocol set of smart contracts.

Recently, the chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Gary Gensler emphasized, that tokens are shares, as well as any digital products, linked to securities, needs to be regulated.