Uniswap Drama: BUIDL Sparks Whale-Watching Rally

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The past few days have been something of a soap opera for Uniswap (UNI). All very exciting and, frankly, a bit exhausting, since UNI’s price was basically sulking downhill until the drama arrived.

Uniswap Labs is in the news today after it announced that Securitize will be plugging BlackRock’s tokenized treasury product BUIDL into their protocol. Because these are smart contracts, the tokenized treasuries would operate beyond the shackles of banking hours.

That came hot on the heels of Bitwise filing for a Spot Uniswap ETF a few days earlier. While UNI’s price didn’t swoon dramatically for the Bitwise news, it positively strutted its stuff after the BUIDL bombshell.

So the pressing question on everyone’s lips: what happens to UNI price next, darling?

How did the price, volume react to BlackRock partnership?

UNI shot up more than 42% on the BUIDL news, leaping from about $3.23 to $4.59 in just two hours-the move arriving as if the press release had a caffeine injection.

Momentum peaked that hour, MACD screaming like a brunch order. By press time, the exhilaration had faded, and sellers were back, at least for the near term.

Transaction volumes exploded too, climbing from $8.38 million to $38.19 million as the day wore on.

Yet, in true bear-market fashion, the price cooled and retraced back toward where it started, settling near $3.42 after the sprint.

Still, the bulls were valiantly buying but lacking the spark. Whales stepped in, and UNI did what the rest of the market sort of pretended to do-up about 0.5% for the market, while UNI attempted a 5% rise in the wake of the correction.

So, how were these whales involved?

What do these whales know?

According to Lookonchain, a dormant whale-out of action for more than four years-roused just before the news. He shuffled about 4.39 million UNI, worth roughly $15 million, into a fresh wallet.

Some insisted this felt like insider drama-timing too neat, a whale waking from a krypt-like slumber after years. Coincidence, they suggested, is overrated.

Another whale went long on UNI immediately after the news.

On-chain data revealed a buy order of 1.21 million UNI with 10x leverage-about $4.81 million not-so-humorlessly deployed. At $3.99, the trench of profit was about $350k.

UNI’s short squeeze building?

Then the liquidation heatmap revealed shorts totaling around $15 million stacked between $3.81 and $5.12. The big cluster around $4 suggested a squeeze could ignite, especially with the current bullish vibes.

All of this makes UNI a coin to watch, mind you, though caution is wise with a sell-the-news whiff in the air. The curtain may be about to fall on the drama, darling.

Final Thoughts

  • Uniswap shot up more than 42% on the BUIDL news, which is basically a mood ring for crypto nerds.
  • Although the price pulled back, the data still reads like a silver lining: volume, momentum, and even some hearty chatter from the whales.

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2026-02-12 18:47