- Uniswap Labs has rolled out the mainnet of its layer-2 community Unichain.
- The launch comes practically 4 months after Uniswap’s unveiling of the EVM-compatible L2.
- Day 1 launch companions embody Coinbase and Circle.
Uniswap has introduced the mainnet launch of Unichain, the decentralized Superchain layer 2 community.
The Uniswap Labs staff revealed the roll out of the mainnet for the Ethereum-compatible L2 on Feb. 11.
Unichain goes reside practically 4 months after Unichain’s unveiling in October 2024. The platform has undergone rigorous testing within the interval since, with over 95 million transactions and greater than 14.7 million sensible contracts deployed on testnet.
Unichain mainnet additionally launches with virtually 100 crypto merchandise on-chain, together with by Coinbase, Uniswap, Circle, Lido, and Morpho. The platform expects extra merchandise and protocols to go reside on the community startng at the moment.
Coinbase Onramp is increasing to Unichain.@unichain customers now have a seamless strategy to convert fiat-to-crypto, with fee-free USDC onramping out there at launch.
Unichain is a quick, decentralized Superchain L2 designed to be a house for DeFi and cross-chain liquidity. pic.twitter.com/1W91Nfv3tA
— Coinbase Developer Platform🛡️ (@CoinbaseDev) February 11, 2025
Commenting on the launch, Uniswap Labs chief govt officer Hayden Adams mentioned:
“Unichain is the next big step ‒ an L2 designed for DeFi. Launching as a stage 1 rollup with 1 second blocktimes, it only gets better from here. In the months and years to come, we will be launching many new improvements to accelerate blockchain scaling.”
Adams shared the feedback by way of a publish on X.
Uniswap’s v4 went reside in late January, including to the enhancements delivered in v2 and v3.
The newest improve introduced the best stage of customizability and lowest prices. Uniswap v4 is reside on Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain, Polygon, Arbitrum, Zora Community, OP Mainnet,Blast, and World Chain and Avalanche.