Uniswap Labs has quietly pushed its ecosystem beyond Ethereum, rolling out support for Solana directly through its web interface - a move that could reshape how traders access liquidity across multiple blockchains.
Rather than building a separate Solana-native version, Uniswap opted for a flexible framework that plugs any blockchain into its interface. Solana is the first beneficiary of this “architecture layer,” which Uniswap engineers say was designed to make multi-network trading seamless.
To handle the technical side, Uniswap tapped Jupiter, Solana’s largest liquidity aggregator, ensuring that swaps made through Uniswap’s app route through Jupiter’s Ultra API. The partnership gives users access to Solana’s entire DEX landscape without ever leaving Uniswap’s familiar environment. Jupiter’s pseudonymous co-founder SIONG described the collaboration as a milestone, calling Uniswap the first major platform to integrate the new API.
Solana’s decentralized exchanges have been booming, processing nearly $140 billion in volume over the last 30 days, while Jupiter itself generated $17.5 million in fees. With Uniswap now in the mix, that liquidity could soon flow both ways – strengthening Solana’s on-chain activity while opening new revenue streams for Uniswap.
The Solana launch also ties into Uniswap’s long-term vision for Unichain, its layer-2 network introduced in February. According to Danny Daniil, Uniswap’s head of trading engineering, linking Solana liquidity to Unichain will let traders chase the best execution across ecosystems. “When tokens and liquidity from networks like Solana and HYPE bridge to Unichain, the best trades will simply happen wherever conditions are optimal,” he said.
Uniswap’s cross-chain expansion lands at a pivotal moment for decentralized finance. Competitors like 1inch and Curve are also experimenting with multi-chain tools, while centralized exchanges face an identity crisis. Earlier this month, 1inch co-founder Sergej Kunz predicted that centralized exchanges will evolve into little more than access points for decentralized liquidity networks within the next decade.
Having surpassed $3 trillion in lifetime trading volume earlier this year, Uniswap is clearly betting on that same future – one where the boundaries between chains fade away and DeFi liquidity becomes truly borderless.
