Uniswap’s UNI token has been closely tracking Bitcoin and the entire crypto market over the past few days and weeks, but this correlation is beginning to break as it bucks the downtrend seen by BTC over the past 24-hours and rallies higher.
One reason behind its slight upswing seen today may be the recent OKEx imbroglio, in which the founder’s arrest by the Chinese authorities effectively froze all the funds on the platform, as it cannot process withdraws without his key.
This has led to 200,000 BTC being in limbo, as well as tens of millions worth of altcoins.
This highlights a major point of failure for centralized exchanges, which may drive some capital towards Uniswap’s UNI token.
One analyst observed that traders are now widely flipping long on UNI, with the inflows of buy-side pressure on its perpetual swap pair on Binance coming about in the minutes following the OKEx announcement last night.
Uniswap Rebounds from Recent Lows But Still Remains in a Precarious Position
At the time of writing, Uniswap is trading up just over 4% at its current price of $3.23. This is around where it has been trading throughout the past couple of days.
Overnight, however, its price dipped as low as $2.90 alongside Bitcoin and the rest of the market, with this selloff coming about directly after news regarding the OKEx situation broke.
Shortly after these lows were set, the cryptocurrency saw