Hayden Adams Claims SBF Bought Uniswap.com to ‘Flex’ on the Company

WIPO had previously found that Uniswap.com was used in bad faith. Hayden Adams has claimed that Sam Bankman-Fried paid seven figures for the Uniswap.com domain. Adams said Uniswap Labs had earlier rejected the original owner’s seven-figure asking price. According to Adams, Bankman-Fried later acquired the domain and redirected it to a Uniswap fork. He described the move as a way to “flex” or mess with the company. The domain later became part of a WIPO dispute. Inside the Uniswap.com Dispute According to the WIPO decision, Uniswap Labs filed its complaint back on May 18, 2021, against the registered holder of Uniswap.com. Interestingly, the domain had originally been registered on July 30, 2000. However, the respondent’s legal representative said it acquired the domain on April 7, 2021. This was after the company had already secured trademark rights for UNISWAP. At the time of the case, the domain was redirecting visitors to a page on SushiSwap, which the panel identified as operating in the same financial market as Uniswap. The respondent later changed the domain to a website promoting the trade of sea urchin, using the Japanese term “uni,” after the complaint was filed. The respo...