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Uniswap has added a no-code token auction tool to the Uniswap Web App, letting any team configure and launch an onchain token sale from a browser without writing code.
The tool runs on Uniswap's Continuous Clearing Auction mechanism, which conducts price discovery entirely onchain. In a CCA, bids accumulate across multiple blocks, each clearing at the same price that carries forward from the previous one.
Bidders set a total budget and a maximum price per token. As blocks clear, participants receive tokens if their price is competitive, and everyone pays the same final clearing price. Because the auction distributes across time rather than resolving in a single block, it removes the speed advantage that favors bots and last-second sniping.
Uniswap described the mechanics in a post on Aztec's token sale, which raised $59 million from 17,000 bidders across 191 countries and cleared at a price 60% above Aztec's floor.
The new web-app flow guides teams through four steps: adding token information, configuring the auction, customizing the liquidity pool, and launching. Uniswap posted a walkthrough of the setup sequence Wednesday. Once the auction closes, liquidity routes directly into a Uniswap pool, giving projects price discovery and a bootstrapped trading pair in a single flow. The dedicated @UniswapAuctions account tracks live auctions and outcomes.
The mechanism has a live track record on the platform. Cap Labs' $CAP auction drew 1,002 unique bids, closed 5.5x oversubscribed, and cleared at a $106 million fully diluted valuation, drawing $16.4 million in total commitments. STRATO ran a CCA that grew into the fourth largest in Uniswap's history. Both ran before the no-code interface existed.