Bancor filed for a patent for its decentralized trading technology in 2017, having invented it in 2016. It’s the same technology that it used to launch its AMM powered DEX protocol.
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Bancor sues Uniswap for patent infringement
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Bancor designed its Constant Product Automated Market Maker (CPAMM) technology in 2016 and subsequently patented it in January 2017
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