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Uniswap Labs is readying to launch the fourth iteration of its platform, v4, and is offering $2.35 million in the largest prize pool in DeFi history. Applicants will help Uniswap independently review its v4smart contracts and Universal Router System, which facilitates ERC-20 swaps. Uniswap Labs, the company behind the leading decentralized crypto exchange, has announced the largest prize pool in the DeFi ecosystem. The $2.35 million prize pool is available to developers who participate in the independent review of its upcoming fourth iteration, better known as v4. The Uniswap Foundation, whose mission is to build a self-sustaining community for the Uniswap Protocol, and Cantina, a Web3 security platform, also contributed to the prize. We’re teaming up with @UniswapFND and @cantinaxyz for the largest security competition in DeFi history $2.35M is up for grabs to help make sure v4 is the most audited code ever deployed onchain Competition starts September 4th 🦄 pic.twitter.com/OwqgxX6pul — Uniswap Labs 🦄 (@Uniswap) August 16, 2024 In its announcement, Uniswap revealed that the competition kicks off on September 4 and runs for three weeks. All security experts and general enthusiasts are welcome to submit any vulnerabilities they discover in the v4 codebase, whose draft code founder Hayden Adams released to the public in June last year. Uniswap will grant rewards based on the severity of a developer’s bug. The competition focuses on the v4 Core Repository, the v4 Periphery Repository, and the Universal Router. The latter is an ERC20 and NFT swap router that gives users flexibility across multiple tokens. It allows users to purchase NFTs across eight marketplaces, wrap and unwrap ETH, fill trades partially, split trades, and more. The new competition will be posted on Cantina’s Competition Page in September. Cantina conducts competitions for developers to find bugs in blockchain and crypto applications. Its…

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