How Uniswap reacted to Continued Jobless Claims on 26 March 2026

The short answer

Hardly a reaction. In the 15 minutes after the figure came out, Uniswap's price swung 1.00 times as much as in a normal 15 minutes that day. For a Continued Claims release, 1.35 times is usual. An hour later the price was unchanged.

1.00x

Quiet

Trading (volume ratio)
4.82x
usual for Continued Claims: 1.51x
Price at 8:30 AM
$3.540
15 minutes later
0.00%
One hour later
0.00%
range 0.56%, hour before 0.56%
UNI/USDT, 1 minute candles around the release, 8:30 AM America/New York

The dashed orange line is the release. Chart data from Binance.

Open
3.700
Close
3.530
24h change
-4.82%
24h high
3.720
24h low
3.480
24h volume
2.551M UNI

The release

Released by the Department of Labor on 26 March 2026 at 8:30 AM EDT. Continued Jobless Claims rose to 1832K for the week ending 14th Mar, from 1816K in the week ending 7th Mar.

It arrived at the same moment as Initial Jobless Claims, so the reaction measured on this page belongs to all of them together.

Measured by Clometrix

Uniswap's volatility ratio was 1.00x, against 1.35x for a typical Continued Claims release since 2021. Its volume ratio was 4.82x, against a typical 1.51x. Under 1.5x is not a reaction at all: the market barely noticed this release. Both compare the quarter hour of the release with an ordinary quarter hour that same day, where 1.00x is no change: volatility is how far the price ranged, volume how much traded.

How Uniswap moved

Uniswap was at $3.540 when the figure came out. Fifteen minutes later it was unchanged, and an hour later unchanged. Its high-to-low range in the hour after was 0.56% of its price, against 0.56% in the hour before.

What made it matter

Since 2021, Continued Claims releases in the two weeks before a Fed decision have moved Uniswap about as much as those at other times: a median volatility ratio of 1.46x across 92, against 1.33x across 204. This one was not within two weeks of a Fed decision. Its own ratio of 1.00x compares with 1.33x for those, so it moved the price less than its circumstances would suggest.

How it compares

Across 296 Continued Claims releases since 2021, Uniswap's usual price swing is 1.35x. This one was 0.74 times the usual.

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Thin line: Continued Claims's usual, 1.35x. Thick line: this release, 1.00x. Under 1.5x counts as no reaction at all.

Minute by minute

Each row is the time after the release, with the same length of time before it for comparison.

After High Low Close Change Range Range before Volume
1 minute 3.54 3.54 3.54 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 516 UNI
5 minutes 3.54 3.53 3.54 0.00% 0.28% 0.28% 28,322 UNI
10 minutes 3.54 3.53 3.54 0.00% 0.28% 0.28% 67,080 UNI
15 minutes 3.54 3.53 3.54 0.00% 0.28% 0.28% 84,709 UNI
30 minutes 3.54 3.53 3.53 -0.28% 0.28% 0.56% 101,118 UNI
1 hour 3.55 3.53 3.54 0.00% 0.56% 0.56% 128,534 UNI
2 hours 3.57 3.53 3.55 0.28% 1.12% 1.40% 301,210 UNI
4 hours 3.57 3.50 3.51 -0.85% 1.96% 2.49% 570,662 UNI
6 hours 3.57 3.48 3.49 -1.43% 2.52% 2.76% 732,486 UNI
8 hours 3.61 3.50 3.51 -2.28% 3.05% 3.49% 1.116M UNI
12 hours 3.57 3.48 3.53 -0.28% 2.52% 5.38% 1.355M UNI

Every coin at this release

Coin Price swing Usual for Continued Claims Reaction
Bitcoin 1.16x 1.52x Quiet
Ethereum 1.11x 1.47x Quiet
XRP Not measured 1.18x -
BNB 0.98x 1.42x Quiet
Solana 1.05x 1.39x Quiet
Dogecoin 0.80x 1.39x Quiet
TRON 2.19x 1.33x Strong
Cardano 0.89x 1.35x Quiet
Chainlink 0.79x 1.43x Quiet
Sui 1.25x 1.24x Quiet
Bitcoin Cash 0.72x 1.34x Quiet
Hedera 0.82x 1.32x Quiet
Avalanche 1.30x 1.42x Quiet
Litecoin 0.79x 1.38x Quiet
Gram Not measured 1.02x -
Shiba Inu 0.68x 1.34x Quiet
Uniswap 1.00x 1.35x Quiet
Polkadot 1.02x 1.31x Quiet
Aave 1.35x 1.38x Quiet
Bittensor 1.47x 1.41x Quiet
NEAR Protocol 1.02x 1.24x Quiet
Aptos Not measured 1.41x -
Internet Computer 1.00x 1.46x Quiet
POL (prev. MATIC) 1.98x 1.42x Strong
Filecoin 1.73x 1.27x Strong

What is Continued Jobless Claims?

The weekly claims report is released Thursdays at 8:30 a.m. ET by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). Continued claims, also referred to as insured unemployment, is the number of people who have already filed an initial claim and who have experienced a week of unemployment and then filed a continued claim to claim benefits for that week of unemployment. Continued claims data are based on the week of unemployment, not the week when the initial claim was filed.

Every Continued Claims release for Uniswap

Questions about this page

Is 1.00x a lot?

No. Under 1.5x the market barely noticed the release.

Will the next Continued Claims do the same?

Nobody can say. A forecast shows the range Uniswap moved in after past Continued Claims releases, so you can plan for the likely size of the move.

Do weekly jobless claims move crypto?

Weekly jobless claims have a median Bitcoin price swing of 1.52x since 2021, which places Initial Claims and Continued Claims in Tier 3. They are released at 8:30 a.m. ET. When a claims release falls on the same minute as a bigger report, such as CPI, the reaction belongs to both. Clometrix measures 296 claims releases in the record since 2021.

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Disclaimer

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