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PancakeSwap has seen a lot of interest in recent weeks. Essentially a clone of Uniswap, PancakeSwap provides a very similar user experience to Uniswap. However, with rising Ethereum transaction fees and network congestion, a serious automated market maker (AMM) competitor was bound to emerge. There have been several attempts to copy the #1 AMM on Ethereum. However, the first-mover advantage and strong fundamentals have kept Uniswap in the spotlight for several months. Until recently, that is, when PancakeSwap rose to prominence seemingly overnight. The space has seen a huge wave of adoption and trading volume galvanized by the Binance Smart Chain community. But, how do PancakeSwap vs Uniswap stack up against each other?
You might be forgiven for thinking that food-themed cryptocurrencies were just a ‘flash in the pan’, so to speak. To an extent, you may have even been correct. The yield farming frenzy during Summer 2020 produced several food-based yield farming protocols and tokens. PancakeSwap is a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange (DEX) built on Binance Smart Chain (BSC), powered by the BEP-20 Pancake token (CAKE). The CAKE token is one of several tokens used within the PancakeSwap protocol and made available for token swaps. Similar to Uniswap, PancakeSwap is an automated market maker (AMM) and decentralized application (dApp) that features liquidity pools where users can earn fees from staking, lending, and yield farming.
