The team behind Unichain, a layer-two Ethereum solution from the decentralized exchange Uniswap, has announced the launch of its mainnet in early 2025.
Back in October, we announced Unichain ✨
Today we’re sharing the official Unichain roadmap to public mainnet and beyond
And we’re also announcing that Unichain will go live with permissionless fault proofs from day one ? pic.twitter.com/BFtE9jvbIA
— Unichain (@unichain) December 20, 2024
The project was introduced in October. Since its launch on the Sepolia testnet, the protocol has processed over 50 million transactions and deployed more than 4 million smart contracts.
The L2 solution is developed within the Superchain ecosystem by Optimism, based on the OP Stack technology stack.
Uniswap Labs, the company behind the leading DEX, provides primary technical support and manages the Unichain Sequencer. The Uniswap Foundation funds the development.
On January 6, 2025, the team will conduct a scheduled update of the Unichain testnet to implement Permissionless Fault Proofs technology. It is expected that this error-proof mechanism, which does not require third-party involvement, will be operational from the start on the mainnet.
Shortly after the launch, Unichain will integrate the Rollup-Boost block builder from Flashbots, which uses a trusted execution environment. This technology orders transactions, increases their speed, and prevents failures.
According to the roadmap, the creation of an experimental testnet will follow. The first feature to be tested will be Flashblocks. This solution aims to reduce the effective block time to 250 ms and make transactions “practically instantaneous.”
As reported by The DeFi Report analyst Michael Nadeau, Unichain could potentially generate around $500 million annually for Uniswap Labs and UNI token holders.