Crecimiento and the Uniswap Foundation co-ran the Uniswap Foundation Acceleration Season: a six-week, fully online accelerator for early-stage startups ready to integrate Uniswap's API suite into their products and move toward real traction. It ran from April 20 to May 28, 2026, and closed with a live Demo Day before an investor panel.
Out of 57 applications spanning 26 countries, 14 startups were selected. The program built on a model that had already proven itself: the DeFi Track of the Buildathon Season, which in 2025 supported 20 startups through a similar structure of mentoring, masterclasses and ecosystem access.
The journey ran in three two-week phases. Build: onboarding to the Uniswap API landscape, integration planning and a working prototype, with direct office hours from the technical team. Grow: business model stress-testing, go-to-market strategy and a concrete plan for driving real volume and TVL, with Uniswap's BD team opening doors. Show: pitch refinement and delivery at the Demo Day.
Every team received weekly masterclasses with Eli Engelman (Uniswap Foundation), Agustín do Rego, Facundo Werning (Agora), Mashal Waqar (Octant) and Hanna Schiuma (Lucero Ventures); group mentoring and 1:1 sessions managed by Crecimiento; $5,000 in AWS credits; and a clear path forward: the program feeds into the next Startup World Cup.
The 2026 cohort: Aqua0, AsyncSwap Labs, CryptoMate, Fiet, HOOKED!, HookMind, Mantua.AI, Maru, Mosaic, Nora Finance, Omnis Labs, Orchestra, Precog Markets and WOWMAX.
By the end of the program, 12 of the 14 teams had shipped on Uniswap rails: four on mainnet (Fiet, AsyncSwap Labs, Maru and Precog Markets), six with validated testnets and two on the verge of deploying. Among the highlights: AsyncSwap Labs registered its first organic volume on Unichain before Demo Day, Fiet validated $50K in volume integrating the API into its FX infrastructure on Arbitrum One, HookMind's v4 hook was published on Uniswap's official registries, and Mantua.AI shipped four testnet hooks from a single team.
The close came on May 28: a 60-minute, live-streamed Demo Day, with the 14 startups pitching 3 minutes each and around 850 people following the stream. The investor panel: Harrison Dahme (Hack VC), David Alemany (1kx), Kun Peng (Blockchain Builders Fund), Hanna Schiuma (Lucero Ventures) and Eli Engelman (Uniswap Foundation). Crecimiento facilitates the introductions between investors and teams.
Relive the full Demo Day: