Unichain, a decentralized Superchain Layer 2 solution developed by Uniswap Labs, has announced the launch of its public mainnet by early 2025.

The Unichain Sepolia testnet received an overwhelming response after its launch in October 2024. The testnet experienced 50 million test transactions and over 4 million test contracts. Therefore, the platform’s team is working on developing Unichain’s public mainnet.

Unichain Follows a Phased Approach to Its Mainnet Launch

As reported by Uniswap, the Sepolia testnet has been capable of maintaining an uptime of over 99% across all critical services.

Unichain’s public mainnet process is expected to begin with Permissionless Fault Proofs on January 6, 2025. The feature will allow users to verify the Ethereum-based Unichain’s activity. Fault

The mainnet will be available for everyone to utilize. Once the security and stability concerns are validated it’ll be public. The users can bridge funds directly to the network and begin using the applications developed on Unichain.

As the official website reveals, Unichain will follow a phased approach to launch its mainnet. In the first phase, the infrastructure provider will be consistently testing on the mainnet to ensure safety and stability. This phase is already in progress, and Unichain’s mainnet is performing great.

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The second phase would be the Public Mainnet launch. The network will go live in early 2025 with Permissionless Fault Proofs. Thus, any user can verify the chain’s activity.

The third phase will add new features to the mainnet. Unichain will assess new features initially on its experimental testnet and on Sepolia for better testing, and then those features will be available on the Unichain Mainnet.

Uniswap Labs Plans on Introducing New Features to Unichain

Once the public mainnet is launched, some new features are planned for the future. The first feature will be Flashblocks, which will be operated on a public experimental testnet. Flashblocks will improve the scalability of the network by reducing the block times to 250 milliseconds.

Another feature, Unichain Validation Network will also be launched on experimental testnet. It will allow the users to run test validation nodes. These features will run on an experimental testnet to test its performance and build stability. Later, they will be tested on Sepolia, followed by their application on mainnet.

Unichain is expected to become a part of Optimism’s Superchain ecosystem. This’ll take place after the launch of its public mainnet. Additionally, Uniswap Labs will be a major contributor to the OP Stack.

Uniswap’s Recent Milestones

Uniswap, an Ethereum-based decentralized exchange, has achieved its milestone of $1 Trillion worth USDC in the first half of December 2024.

This put goes on to show the feathers in Uniswap’s hat which can contribute to further growth in the future for UNI.