Overview

• Uniswap Labs confirmed the Oct. 6 acquisition of Guidestar, a stealth team founded by Alex Nezlobin, with the entire group joining the company.
• The effort centers on adaptive automated market maker designs tailored to different asset classes, including stablecoins, volatile tokens, liquid staking assets, and real‑world tokens.
• Guidestar’s work will target improved routing and execution quality across on‑chain swaps and aggregated liquidity paths through UniswapX.
• Uniswap v4’s modular architecture will be used to rapidly test specialized pools and routing hooks, including support for priority‑based and first‑come‑first‑served order sequencing models.
• Uniswap frames the deal as a talent‑driven boost to market‑structure research, with outcomes currently at the R&D and prototyping stage rather than immediate product releases.