Today Uniswap Labs announced Unichain, an L2 network built on the Optimism Superchain. Unichain is designed to bring together liquidity across chains, becoming a new home for DeFi.
The chain is currently available for public use on the Unichain Sepolia testnet, along with Tenderly’s full-stack infrastructure support. To ensure efficient development and on-chain scaling, Tenderly integrated Unichain, providing full-stack infrastructure for your entire product lifecycle from day one.
A home for multichain liquidity and DeFi innovation
As one of the leading decentralized trading protocols, the Uniswap Protocol facilitates token exchange across the EVM ecosystem, prioritizing censorship resistance, security, and self-custody over assets. Its automated market maker (AMM) model redefined the DeFi landscape, introducing liquidity pools of assets supplied by liquidity providers.
Now, the Unichain network opens new possibilities for DeFi innovation, bringing several important benefits:
- Multichain liquidity: Since Unichain is a part of the Optimism Superchain ecosystem, it enables interoperability between chains, giving unified access to multichain liquidity.
- Greater speed: Launching with one-second block times, Unichain offers near-instant transaction execution. With the block time expected to reduce to 200-250 milliseconds, market efficiency will improve thanks to reduced value lost to MEV and increased arbitrage frequency.
- Lower costs: As a dedicated L2 chain, Unichain offers around 95% lower transaction costs than Ethereum. Additionally, thanks to multiple full nodes participating in block verification, Unichain also introduces further decentralization.
The backbone of decentralized finance
Uniswap Protocol is the largest and most successful decentralized protocol in the world. Since launching in 2018 and gaining incredible traction, Uniswap has set the industry standard across DeFi metrics, having processed over $2.38T in volume – with millions of users and almost half a billion lifetime trades.
Uniswap pioneered the automated market maker (AMM) model, in which users supply tokens to Uniswap “liquidity pools” and algorithms set market prices (as opposed to order books, which match bids and asks on a centralized exchange) based on supply and demand. In turn, users that supply liquidity earn rewards while enabling peer-to-peer trading.
However, Uniswap’s impact on DeFi goes beyond its role as a trading platform. By removing intermediaries and offering a fully decentralized trading experience, Uniswap has become the backbone for countless DeFi applications.
Its open-source nature means anyone can create new liquidity pools or integrate Uniswap’s functionalities into their dapps, leading to widespread adoption. This has democratized access to liquidity and has empowered users to interact with decentralized finance with minimal friction.
Accelerating your velocity on Unichain with Tenderly
With full support for Unichain, you can use Tenderly’s development and production infrastructure to build and scale advanced DeFi products while enjoying an efficient developer experience, from day one. By offering the only Node RPC with integrated development infrastructure and essential tools, Tenderly speeds up your development workflows while ensuring the long-term scalability of your dapp.
As a full-stack Web3 infrastructure, Tenderly supports each step in the dapp lifecycle, from initial development to on-chain scaling with:
- Development infrastructure: As zero-setup development environments, Tenderly Virtual TestNets allow you to fork Unichain to build and test dapps on real-time on-chain data. Fully flexible and customizable, Virtual TestNets fit into your existing team workflows, ensuring efficient team collaboration on a shared infrastructure.
- Production infrastructure: Thanks to soft rate limits, custom SLAs, and multiregional support, Tenderly’s high-performance Node RPC scales with your growing dapp usage. It ensures uninterrupted connection in your dapp worldwide even during high traffic volumes and usage spikes. Plus, it gives you access to Tenderly’s simulation infrastructure, 100% accurate gas estimates, and real-time monitoring.
- Exploration and debugging tools: Tenderly’s industry-recognized Debugger, Simulator, and Gas Profiler enable you to troubleshoot bugs granularly, diving into transaction execution trace by trace. You can debug errors on the exact line where they happened and then resimulate failed transactions with updated code to validate your fix. You can also analyze and optimize gas usage of your transactions to reduce unnecessary costs.
Start building on your Unichain replica
To get started on Unichain with Tenderly, use Virtual TestNets to fork the network and set up your replica of the chain. Since Virtual TestNets are highly flexible and customizable, you can integrate them into your existing frameworks. Just configure your development environment and use the Virtual TestNet RPC in your workflows.
Designed specifically for collaborative dapp development, Virtual TestNets enable you to:
- Build and test dapps on real data syncing with the latest state of the Unichain network, along with all the underlying integrations.
- Customize the state of your Virtual TestNets with RPC methods for setting custom balances, reverting network state, or setting custom storage values.
- Use an unlimited faucet for native and ERC-20 tokens to get unlimited funds for account impersonation or running tests.
- Collaborate with your team by staging your dapp contracts, frontend, and backend on a shared infrastructure and using a built-in private explorer and debugging tools.
- Share a public explorer for external use while being able to limit access to your contract code as needed.
Build and scale dapps for multichain liquidity on Unichain
Striving to become the home for the entire DeFi, Unichain gives you access to multichain liquidity from a single place. The chain also contributes to scaling Ethereum as a part of the Optimism Superchain ecosystem. This way, it enables you to build DeFi dapps that offer a seamless experience thanks to fast confirmation times and low transaction costs.
Tenderly integrated Unichain to support your development journey through all stages of the dapp lifecycle. Integrate Tenderly’s full-stack infrastructure to ensure fast development, seamless collaboration, and long-term dapp scalability.
