Uniswap (UNI) developer Uniswap Labs has officially launched the Unichain mainnet, a Layer 2 network designed to advance decentralized finance (DeFi) by promising lower fees, faster transactions, and seamless interoperability.
The launch provides new options for users and developers to build and deploy DeFi applications on Unichain.
Uniswap Labs announced that nearly 100 leading cryptocurrency protocols have confirmed their participation in the network, including Uniswap, Circle, Coinbase, Lido, and Morpho. Many of these projects have already been launched, with more expected to launch in the coming weeks.
“I think we’ve learned a lot over the years, as we have the most widely used on-chain protocol and one of the most popular front-end interfaces,” said Uniswap founder Hayden Adams.
Unichain will introduce a new block creation system called Rollup-Boost, developed in collaboration with Flashbots, to enable sub-second block times. This tool will not be available at launch, but is expected to be available in the coming months.
Rollup-Boost is a middleware that moves much of the transaction sequencing responsibilities typically performed by a central sequencer to a “trusted execution environment,” or TEE, that lives on physical chip hardware. The tool will split Unichain blocks into four, allowing for 250-millisecond subblocks.
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