How Unichain Is Improving the DeFi Experience
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🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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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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