Uniswap is the leading decentralized exchange on Ethereum with over $745B in volume traded over the protocol in the past 12 months*. It's a peer-to-peer system where you can swap your crypto (like USDC) for other crypto (ETH, LINK, MATIC, other ERC-20 tokens), create liquidity pools for people to trade against, or provide liquidity to existing pools to earn rewards, and vote on governance proposals. Many Ethereum based projects leverage the Uniswap protocol to build and enhance their own products such as Metamask, Zapper, OpenSea, 1inch, Token Terminal, and many more. Uniswap is governed by a Decentralized Autonomous Organization ("DAO"), meaning its operated by the community that owns the UNI tokens. *Trading volume source was provided by Token Terminal.