Uniswap launches permissionless bridging across nine networks

Decentralized exchange Uniswap has introduced in-app, permissionless cross-chain bridging for its users, with the service available across nine blockchain networks.

On October 23, the Uniswap (UNI) team announced that the permissionless cross-chain bridge is now live, bringing the DEX protocol closer to enabling cross-chain swaps. According to the announcement, cross-chain intent protocol Across Protocol powers this in-app Uniswap bridging feature.

Local assets only

With the launch, Uniswap users will now be able to conduct cross-chain transactions across nine networks. These include Ethereum (ETH), Arbitrum (ARB), Polygon (POL) and ZKSync (ZK). Other networks with initial support are Base, Zora, Blast, OP Mainnet and World Chain.

This feature only supports native assets such as ETH on the Ethereum network or ARB on the Arbitrum network. Bridging will also be available for stablecoins. In terms of functionality, users will conduct cross-chain transactions directly through the Uniswap interface and Uniswap Wallet.

According to data from Dune, multi-chain access currently has a cumulative number of more than six million Uniswap users. However, cross-chain bridge swaps remain low. The Uniswap Labs team aims to increase this number significantly.

Uniswap recently introduced UniChain, a new layer-2 chain targeting DeFi and cross-chain liquidity. Announced on October 10, UniChain aims to help the crypto market overcome the challenges facing DeFi. The key to this vision is decentralization, near-instant transactions and multi-chain exchanges.