-The response comes after users took to X to complain about Uniswap asking for as much as $20 million for protocol deployment. Uniswap CEO Hayden Adams has refuted allegations floating around on X that it has demanded money from decentralized finance protocols for deployments.

The CEO took to X on Sept. 12 and said that neither Uniswap Labs nor Uniswap Foundation charge for protocol deployments. Adams said protocol deployments happen through governance votes. He explained that for the Uniswap interface, the requirements for deployment on a new chain are based on the activity and effort required. The reaction from the Uniswap CEO comes after X user Alexander alleged that Uniswap asked developers “to pony up $20M for an ineffective Uniswap deployment.”

The comment came in response to a tweet from Kene Ezeji-Okoye, co-founder of Millicent Labs, who claimed Uniswap had charged $10 million for a protocol deployment “and an extra $10 million in user incentives focused on trading carbon credits.”

Alexander did not immediately respond to Cointelegraph’s request for comment.

The Uniswap protocol is used for providing liquidity and trading ERC-20 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. Uniswap Labs developed the Uniswap protocol and interface. Uniswap settles with US regulator In other news, Uniswap recently got into a regulatory tussle with the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). On Sept. 4, the regulator charged Uniswap Labs with illegally providing leveraged cryptocurrency trading to US retail investors.

Uniswap Labs settled the charges by paying a $175,000 civil penalty and agreeing to cease violating the Commodity Exchange Act.

Uniswap identifies as a software company In April, the US Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that Uniswap operated an unregistered securities exchange.

In its response, Uniswap said it is a software company, based in New York, that “reimagines market structures” and is not “an exchange, broker, or clearing firm under any reasonable reading of the securities laws.”

“Yes, I’m frustrated that the SEC seems to be more concerned with protecting opaque systems than protecting consumers. And that we’ll have to fight a US government agency to protect our company and our industry,” CEO Adams wrote on X at the time. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/uniswap-ceo-refutes-claims-protocol-deployment-fees Show Less