Uniswap jumps above $9: what UNI holders should check on the fee switch now

The price of Uniswap (UNI) rose to $9.05 on September 18, 2026, a gain of 18.67 percent within 24 hours and of 48.8 percent over a week. Two things lie behind the jump that have nothing to do with each other and yet coincide on the same day: a rebuild of the protocol's fee logic that has been running for months and burns UNI by design, and an exemption granted by the US securities regulator the day before that lets tokenised stocks into automated trading pools for the first time. Which of that matters to you depends less on the price than on three practical questions: where you can buy UNI in Germany in a compliant way at all, how the tax office treats a swap on a decentralised exchange, and what you actually hold as a holder.

The UNI price at a glance: these are the figures currently on the screen

All the values that follow come from our own query of the CoinGecko API on September 18, 2026 at 20:51 UTC. UNI is quoted at $9.05, or 7.87 euros. Over the past 24 hours the high was $9.39 and the low $7.52. That is a range of around 25 percent within a single day, and it says more about the state of the market than the closing level does.

Over seven days there is a gain of 48.8 percent, over 30 days one of 155.59 percent. Market capitalisation stands at $5.62 billion, which puts UNI in 21st place among the largest crypto-assets. Trading volume over the past 24 hours was $2.13 billion. There are 621.0 million UNI in circulation out of a total of 888.2 million.