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Fidelity Investments is deploying stablecoin liquidity pools on Uniswap V3, using its Fidelity Digital Dollar (FIDD) token as the centerpiece.
FIDD, an ERC-20 stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the US dollar and issued by Fidelity Digital Assets, launched on February 4, 2026. It has since accumulated a circulating supply of roughly 62.6 million tokens and a market cap of approximately $62.6 million. The token trades near its $1.00 peg with only minor deviations.
What the Uniswap integration actually looks like
The FIDD pools live on Uniswap V3, the concentrated liquidity version of the protocol that lets liquidity providers allocate capital within specific price ranges. Active pools include FIDD/USDC and FIDD/USDT pairs, with 24-hour trading volumes reaching into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Fidelity first announced FIDD on January 28, 2026, roughly a week before the token went live.
A decade in the making
Fidelity’s interest in digital assets stretches back to 2014, making it one of the earliest institutional explorers in crypto. The firm launched Fidelity Digital Assets as a dedicated subsidiary to custody and trade digital currencies for institutional clients. It later filed for Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds.
FIDD represents the next step in that strategy. Where custody and ETFs gave Fidelity exposure to crypto as an asset class, a stablecoin gives the firm a tool for on-chain settlement and payments.
What this means for investors
For DeFi participants, FIDD pools on Uniswap V3 create new yield opportunities. Stablecoin-to-stablecoin liquidity provision is one of the lower-risk strategies in DeFi, and adding a Fidelity-backed token to the mix could attract capital from participants who previously stayed on the sidelines because they didn’t trust the issuers behind existing stablecoins.
There are also early indications that FIDD liquidity pools could expand to other decentralized exchanges beyond Uniswap.
At $62 million in market cap, FIDD is a rounding error compared to USDT or USDC. Fidelity’s institutional distribution network is its biggest advantage here. If the firm can onboard even a fraction of its existing client base to use FIDD for on-chain transactions and settlements, that market cap could grow by orders of magnitude.
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