The world's leading decentralized substitution, Uniswap, has appear the delisting of a number of tokens from its app interface.

Uniswap Labs made the announcement on Friday, emphasizing that the tokens had been removed from the app interface only and that the protocol remains immutable:

"These changes pertain to the interface at app.uniswap.org — the Protocol remains entirely autonomous, immutable, and permissionless."

The company Uniswap Labs is the software developer that has congenital the front-end web app portal. The front-end is separate from the Uniswap protocol itself, which is democratic code that was released as a public skilful.

In the blog post, Uniswap Labs hinted that increased regulatory force per unit area may accept influenced its decision, stating, "We monitor the evolving regulatory landscape." The company also described the move equally "consequent with actions taken past other DeFi interfaces."

The tokens that have been delisted from the platform'south interface include instruments that may exist at chance of beingness classified as securities by a regulator, including tokenized stocks, options tokens, insurance-based tokens and synthetic assets from crypto derivatives platforms like Synthetix.

Gilded-backed token Tether Gold (XAUT) is among the avails targeted, still, Uniswap founder Hayden Adams attributed XAUT's removal to buggy lawmaking. Meme-themed tokens including Grumpy Cat (GRUMPY) had also found their way onto Uniswap'south blacklist.

The reaction from the crypto customs saw Uniswap'due south purported decentralization called into question. Industry observers such as ChainLinkGod asked why Uniswap's UNI holders did not get to vote on the delistings, tweeting:

"Not very informative here. Was this determination fabricated through governance vote? If not, this opens a whole can of worms and sets a terrible precedent."

Uniswap is currently the leading decentralized exchange by merchandise volume, with the protocol'south v2 and v3 versions facilitating a combined $1.45 billion worth of trade in the past 24 hours.

Related: Concern as Uniswap-backed 'DeFi Education Fund' dumps $10M worth of UNI

Regulatory pressure on the crypto sector is mounting across the earth, with Binance and BlockFi recently incurring the wrath of government in the United Kingdom and the United states of america, respectively.

Every bit reported by Cointelegraph on Thursday, the Texas Land Securities Board has joined its counterparts in New Jersey and Alabama in taking activity against the crypto lending platform. Vermont becme the fourth state to event an order against BlockFi on July 25.