Hayden Adams Claims Sam Bankman-Fried Bought Uniswap.com to Provoke Him

Adams detailed the account on X, noting that his team originally rejected a seven-figure asking price for the domain. According to the Uniswap founder, Bankman-Fried subsequently purchased the site and redirected traffic toward a fork of the Uniswap protocol. Adams characterized the act as an attempt to flex his influence or disrupt the project. The domain, which once funneled visitors to the competing exchange SushiSwap, became the subject of a formal dispute brought by Uniswap Labs to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

In September 2021, a WIPO panel ruled in favor of Uniswap Labs, ordering the domain transferred after determining it had been registered and used in bad faith. While the official WIPO case record confirms the domain's malicious redirection to SushiSwap, it identifies the respondent as 'Future XXX' rather than Bankman-Fried. The legal proceedings did not verify the identity of the purchaser or the alleged seven-figure price tag. Bankman-Fried, who previously held a high-profile, temporary role in the management of SushiSwap during its 2020 migration, has not publicly confirmed his involvement in the domain purchase. Today, Uniswap.com remains under the control of Uniswap Labs, serving as a redirect to the project's official trading interface.