Launching Uniswap v3 on Ronin with co-incentives

Overview

This proposal advocates for an official UniswapV3 deployment on Ronin along with a co-incentivization campaign to establish UniswapV3 as a primary DEX in the Ronin Ecosystem.

All contracts necessary for Uniswap v3 deployment will be managed under Uniswap’s governance control. To bootstrap liquidity, in combination with the migration of POL and chain-owned liquidity from the Katana DEX to Uniswap v3, Ronin proposes a $1M contribution in RON tokens, matched by $500K in UNI tokens from the Uniswap DAO.

Historically, Ronin has prioritized Katana DEX as its primary trading venue but is now shifting its focus towards making Uniswap v3 its canonical DEX.

Further details on the Ronin chain and its refreshed 2026 roadmap can be found in the RFC: https://gov.uniswap.org/t/rfc-deploying-uniswap-v3-on-ronin-with-co-incentives/25810

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Key Mutual Benefits of Deployment

1. Ecosystem Expansion (Gaming x DeFi) Bringing Uniswap v3 to Ronin strengthens the DeFi offering within the largest Web3 gaming ecosystem. Ronin is actively innovating on new game loops that plug directly into DeFi primitives to seamlessly onboard the millions of active gamers into DeFi.

2. High Demand and Engagement With 700K+ Discord members, 2,500+ content creators, and 300K newsletter subscribers, Ronin’s hyper-engaged community presents fertile grounds for rapid liquidity bootstrapping.

3. Bootstrapping Uniswap v3 Ronin looks to position Uniswap as the chain’s primary trading hub. Sky Mavis is in-favor of migrating chain-owned liquidity, incentive provisions, and heavy marketing support.

4. Historical Success with Uniswap In 2021, prior to the launch of Ronin’s homegrown Katana DEX, Ronin gaming tokens such as AXS and SLP had staggering trading volumes on Uniswap generating millions in LP fees while attracting over a million unique wallets to Uniswap.

5. Access to Unique Assets Ronin’s unique edge is fostering the development of massive player-owned economies, With an average of 500K DAU across dozens of titles, Uniswap’s v3 will be the trading hub of these game tokens.

6. Aligned Incentives The proposed matching structure ($1M in RON + $500K in UNI) ensures both parties share risk and reward, following proven co-incentive models used in previous network expansions.

7. DeFi on Ronin As the Ronin ecosystem opens its doors to DeFi, Uniswap v3 work in synergy with other blue chip dApps and platforms such as Compound Finance, Morpho, Merkl, Impossible Finance, Steer, and Liquity v2 - with more on the way.

8. The DeFi Home of the Philippine Peso Stablecoin (PHPC) In collaboration with coins.ph, Ronin looks to position itself as the DeFi hub of PHPC. Multiple in-game integrations, lending market listings, incentivized DEX pools, and real-world payment integrations are in the works. Ronin will be the most exciting chain for PHPC token utility.

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Proposal Stakeholders

Proposer: Sky Mavis

Deployer: GFX Labs

Bridge Provider: Wormhole

Target Chain: Ronin

Front-end: Oku

Proposal Sponsor: PGov

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⏱ Proposal Plan / Timeline

1. Request for Comment – 1 week (22nd Aug 2025)
2. Community Snapshot Check – Gauge community support in deploying Uniswap v3 on Ronin with $500k of UNI incentives to match Ronin’s $1m commitment (Aug 2025)
3. Deployment: GFX will deploy Uniswap v3 on Ronin on the Oku frontend (Sept 2025)
4. On-chain Vote – If Snapshot passes, an on-chain proposal will be created (Aug 2025)
5. Deployment & Incentive Distribution – Should the on-chain vote pass, we will work with the Accountability Committee to distribute the $500k if matched UNI and the Uniswap Growth Program to allocate the $1m of RON

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Incentive Plan

• Uniswap DAO Match: 500K in UNI tokens distributed via liquidity mining over 6 months from the date of launch
• Ronin Contribution: $1M in RON tokens
• Monitoring Metrics: TVL, trading volume, LP retention, wallet activity — tracked via public Dune dashboards and posted monthly on the UEII thread.
• UNI Incentive Allocations: 75% of the 500K in UNI tokens will be distributed to token pairs that include BTC, ETH, Stablecoins, and their derivatives. 25% of UNI incentives will be allocated to top-performing gaming token pools. This ensures that depth is created for blue chip asset pairs, while simultaneously strengthening trading experiences for gamers and speculators.

We will work with the Uniswap Growth Program to iterate on distribution details as the program progresses, collaborating with necessary partners like Merkl and various ALMs.

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Governance and Oversight

Deployment oversight will be managed by the Uniswap Accountability Committee, along with escrow of DAO-owned funds intended for incentivization purposes.

The incentives proposal is being presented to the DAO prior to the deployment of the v3 contracts by the Oku team due to strategic timing purposes. Ronin would like to align efforts around marketing the v3 deployment with simultaneous incentive opportunities for LPs via the Ronin’s DeFi Blitz incentive program.

Having $UNI and $RON incentives live at the same time as the v3 contract deployment will send a strong signal of unity to the community and supercharge the incentive program to bootstrap the Uniswap v3 pools with greater efficacy.

If this incentives proposal were to fail, the v3 deployment will still take place, however, incentive allocation on the Ronin side will not be guaranteed.