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- Uniswap’s UVN boosts decentralization, shares 65% of revenue with validators and stakers.
- Unichain achieves 2025 milestone, UVN testnet rollout imminent.
- Uniswap integrates Unichain with Optimism Superchain, enabling fast blocks and revenue sharing.
Uniswap recently announced the Unichain Validation Network (UVN), a key addition to Unichain focused on improving decentralization. Revealed on March 7, UVN adds a layer of finality to reduce block conflicts and foster the expansion of DeFi on Unichain.
The UVN has a distributed architecture that enables anyone to operate a node while using the service and performing block validation. Therefore. a minimum of 65% of the total earnings earned from the network will be distributed to the validators and stakers of Unichain. Such changes are expected to increase the participation category, bringing more people into the network and thus enhancing the efficiency and security of the entire network.
The launch of the mainnet was done in February of the year 2022, and it the plans to have one of the milestones of the year 2025 first quarter. This move to introduce UVN aligns with Uniswap’s decentralization plans in the long term and scalability. Testnet will be launched in the next months and followed by the increased mainnet.
Uniswap’s OP Stack Role
Unichain will provide a fast block time and operate rollups as a member of the Optimistic Superchain. It will place Uniswap Labs as one of the vital participants in the development of the OP Stack. To the Optimism Collective, Uniswap Labs has agreed to pay Gross Net Revenue according to the terms of the percentage.
Until the UVN is launched, the generated chain revenue of Unichain will be transferred to the Unichain Growth Reserve which finances ecosystem growth. This strategy helps to maintain the virtue of the network growing and being in constant use. The UVN launch is beneficial for Unichain as it shifts the company’s organization and contributes to the development of decentralization of other DeFi protocols. Concerning decentralization, Unichain provides the validators of networks, as well as a more substantial portion of the revenues in the center of the ecosystem.
The team is effectively implementing the UVN concept, creating a new type of decentralized network, and enhancing Uniswap’s dominance in the DeFi sector. Apart from its initial vision, Unichain seeks to decentralize operations, scalability, and introduce reward to the DeFi chain. In the course of the following few months the network will experience some difficulties on its way to full decentralization and integration into Optimism’s Superchain. Unichain will face a challenging few months before becoming fully decentralized and formally connected to Optimism’s Superchain.
