How Unichain Is Improving the DeFi Experience

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Alexander Karys, product lead at Uniswap Labs for Protocols & Platform, joins CoinDesk to discuss the advancements and challenges addressed by Unichain. Plus, how Unichain aims to improve user experience in decentralized finance (DeFi).

This interview is presented as partner content.

Friends, DeFi is having a moment — Uniswap Labs' web app and wallet connect you to the excitement. Swapping and bridging are simple, low cost, and lightning fast across 13 chains, including Base, Arbitrum and Unichain, the new Layer 2 network designed for DeFi.

Thanks to deep liquidity on Uniswap Protocols, you get minimal price impact on every trade, now with even greater efficiency through Uniswap v4.

Swap, send, on-ramp, off-ramp, and bridge into a bright future — get started at https://app.uniswap.org/.

This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie.

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0:00.0	Friends, Defi is having a moment.
0:08.7	Uniswap Labs, web app, and wallet connect you to the excitement.
0:12.6	Swapping and bridging our simple, low cost, and lightning fast across 13 chains,
0:16.8	including base, Arbitrum, and Unichain, the new layer two network designed for defy.
0:21.7	Thanks to deep liquidity on uniswap protocols, you get minimal price impact on every trade,
0:26.8	now with even greater efficiency through uniswop v4.
0:30.6	Swap, send, on ramp, off ramp, and bridge into a bright future.
0:34.4	Get started at uniswop.org.
0:36.6	Uniswap Labs, layer two, Unichain has been live on
0:39.6	Mainnet for just over two months, providing an elevated experience for users of Uniswop and
0:45.3	similar platforms. Product lead at Uniswap Labs, Alex Karris, joins us now to discuss how
0:51.4	Unichane is enhancing the Defi experience. Alex, welcome to CoinDesk. Thank you. Awesome
0:57.0	to be here. All right. We're talking all about Unichain and I just want you to know that it was launched
1:01.8	on my birthday, Maynett, February 11th, my birthday. Awesome. Awesome. We'll have to send you a note on every
1:08.5	anniversary now. Yes. A little happy birthday message.
1:11.3	Okay, I really look forward to that.
1:13.9	Okay, talk to me.
1:15.2	I want to talk about Unichain itself.
1:18.6	Talk to me about, I guess, some of the challenges you are hoping to address with this chain.
1:24.9	Yeah, for sure.
1:27.1	I think, like, so Unichain is built by the Uniswap Labs team.
1:32.2	And I think to really understand why we needed to build Union Chain, you really have to put
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