Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has clarified that the exchange did not intentionally delegate a large amount of UNI tokens to itself, claiming it was a quirk of the Uniswap system. This has eased concerns that the exchange may have been making a move into the governance process of the Uniswap exchange.
Uniswap founder Hayden Adams noted on Twitter yesterday that the exchange had delegated 13 million UNI ($83.5 million) to itself. This made it the second-largest entity by voting power in the Uniswap DAO — the decentralized exchange’s governance forum — second only to VC firm a16z.
Zhao said today that the exchange was merely transferring tokens between its wallets but that, due to the way Uniswap tokens work, this caused the tokens to get automatically delegated. “UNI transferred between internal Binance wallets, causing the UNI to be automatically delegated. This is part of their protocol, not “we intended,” he said on Twitter. “Binance [doesn’t] vote with user’s tokens.”
Adams noted that this happens when Uniswap tokens are sent to an address that is already delegated some tokens. “So the transfers just increased the amount delegated – there was already a binance address that had delegated a smaller amount,” he said.
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