This round of buffs really feels like it’s starting to stack onto $UNI .

Look at the price.
Right now UNI is a little over $9; the historical high is over $44.
That means if it really goes back to the prior high, based on the current level it’s roughly a 5x move.
Many people might think: it’s already climbed so much—why still aim for the prior high?
What’s there to be afraid to buy? You’re basically betting that the broader crypto market could rise from over $80k to $400k—getting that from Bitcoin would be much harder than climbing a mountain.
But UNI is much easier, and besides, $44 won’t be its endpoint anyway.

On the policy side, the path for tokenized stocks and RWA is becoming clearer and clearer.
On the product side, Uniswap’s own Permissioned Pools and v4 are no longer just slide decks.
On the capital side, CME’s UNI futures are also coming—planned to launch on October 19, and even micro contracts are included.

And I especially think the real question worth considering is: if all these new things ultimately land on UNI, why must the prior high be the end point?

In the past, people traded UNI as the DEX leader.
Now, $UNI is starting to extend into on-chain trading infrastructure, RWA, and institutional trading tools.
And the protocol revenue is already linked to UNI burn— the more active Uniswap trading becomes, the more there is to discuss in this value-capture mechanism.

So I’m not satisfied with just watching $44.
To me, $44 is more like a big-tier checkpoint for testing the waters.
Only when it actually breaks out will the market start re-discussing: how much is UNI truly worth?
And if you FOMO at that point, it might be genuinely too late!

So I’ll say it again: if the $ETH ecosystem truly takes off again, I don’t think a leader of UNI’s caliber is only meant to accompany the run.
#UNI #Uniswap #ETH #DeFi