🇺🇦 Uniswap, You’re Blocking Freedom-Fix It Now! 🚀

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In the dusty corners of the digital frontier, where men and machines clash like waves on a restless sea, a lone Ukrainian voice cried out into the void. On X (formerly Twitter, the town square of the internet), a user penned an open letter to Uniswap, the mighty titan of decentralized finance. His plea was simple: lift the geo-blocking, for the love of all that’s holy and blockchain-y. 🌾

“Dear @Uniswap,” he began, his words heavy with the weight of a nation at war, “your dapp is still blocked in Ukraine. We’ve danced this dance before, and yet, here we are. Support ticket 169045 gathers dust like an old, forgotten ledger.” Artem Chystiakov, the man with the courage to speak truth to code, argued that Uniswap had misread the stars-or rather, the U.S. Treasury’s OFAC sanctions list. Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk-yes, those are the troublemakers. But Kyiv? The rest of Ukraine? They’re as innocent as a freshly minted token. 💼

Dear @Uniswap,

I am writing this letter to you because your dapp is still blocked and can’t be used in Ukraine. We had this conversation before and despite my efforts to convince you why it is legal to access the dapp from Kyiv (support ticket 169045), nothing has changed since…

– Artem Chystiakov (@Arvolear) October 13, 2025

“Absurd,” he called it, with the kind of exasperation only a man fighting two wars-one on the ground, one online-could muster. Kyiv, he reminded them, is not a rogue region. It’s a city of resilience, of hope, of people just trying to keep their financial heads above water. And yet, Uniswap stands like a gatekeeper with a broken compass, blocking access to the very technology that promised freedom from such gatekeepers. 🛑

“Crypto and DeFi as we know them today would not exist without Uniswap’s leadership and open-mindedness,” he wrote, his tone a mix of admiration and disappointment. But now, he argued, they’re tripping over their own ideals. Blocking Ukraine during wartime? That’s like handing out umbrellas in a hurricane and then charging extra for the holes. 🌪️

“Ukraine is fighting for freedom,” he added, “and you’re limiting access based on false regulatory claims. It’s like showing up to a fistfight with a spreadsheet.” His plea was urgent, his hope pinned on the power of public attention. As of now, Uniswap remains silent, leaving the question hanging in the digital breeze: Will they fix this, or will they let the winds of bureaucracy blow them into obscurity? 🌪️

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2025-10-13 20:04