Today, Uniswap officially announced the launch of Unichain, a second-layer extension based on Ethereum. This extension will be built on Optimism's OP Stack and aims to provide faster transaction speeds and seamless inter-chain token swaps.

The Uniswap team said that this move will not only improve the user experience, but also better expand the Ethereum ecosystem. However, industry insiders have different views on this. Some people believe that the existing second-layer expansion technology can already meet the needs, and the launch of Unichain may just be a further diversion of liquidity.

Nevertheless, Unichain may bring new empowerment to the UNI token and enhance its role in the Uniswap ecosystem. Overall, this step is neither eye-catching nor bad, but it may have a demonstration effect on other DeFi projects.