Uniswap founder says SBF paid seven figures for domain

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams has said Sam Bankman-Fried paid seven figures for Uniswap.com before Uniswap Labs secured the domain through a 2021 legal proceeding that found it had been used in bad faith. Summary Hayden Adams says SBF paid seven figures for Uniswap.com after Uniswap rejected the seller’s price. WIPO ordered Uniswap.com transferred to Uniswap Labs in September 2021 after finding bad-faith domain use. The 2021 WIPO ruling confirmed Uniswap.com redirected visitors to SushiSwap, a competing decentralized exchange platform. WIPO records identify Future XXX as respondent but do not name Sam Bankman-Fried as purchaser. Uniswap.com currently redirects visitors to Uniswap’s official app, confirming the domain remains under project control. In a Sept. 21 post on X, Adams said the original owners wanted a seven-figure payment for the domain, which his team declined. He claimed Bankman-Fried later paid that amount and redirected Uniswap.com toward a fork of the Uniswap protocol. Adams did not disclose the purchase price, transaction documents or identity of the seller in his post. You might also like: Uniswap extends DEX lead as volume passes $70 billion “I guess to flex / mess with us,” Adams wrote while discussing Bankman-Fried’s possible motive. The phrasing was speculation by Adams, not a documented finding from the later domain proceeding. Fun fact, the og owners of https://t.co/bRvDs5brca wanted 7 figures, but we refused to pay that amount So SBF bought it (for 7 figures) and pointed it to a fork – I guess to flex / mess with us This malicious use of the domain was enough for our legal team to get it for free https://t.co/ZV0yJhdvZg — Hayden Adams 🦄 (@haydenzadams) September 20, 2026 A review of the official WIPO case record confirms several other parts of the account. Uniswap Labs filed a complaint over Uniswap.com in May 2021, and a three-member World Intellectual Property Organization panel ordered the domain transferred to the company on Sept. 3, 2021. Uniswap.com redirected users to SushiSwap in 2021 The dispute began after Uniswap.com appeared to send visitors to SushiSwap, the decentralized exchange created as a fork of Uniswap. Contemporary reporting from The Block documented the redirect in May 2021, when the identity of the domain owner was not publicly known. SushiSwap contributor 0xMaki said at the time that the SushiSwap team had not bought the domain. WIPO later examined the redirect directly. Its panel reviewed a screenshot dated May 18, 2021 and checked archived versions of Uniswap.com through the Wayback Machine. The records showed pages from May resolving to a SushiSwap webpage. The panel described SushiSwap as operating in the same financial market as Uniswap Labs. The respondent contested parts of Uniswap Labs’ case.