# Getting Ready for NFTs on Unichain

*Author: William M. Peaster*
*Published: Oct 10, 2024*
*Source: https://www.bankless.com/fr/getting-ready-unichain-nfts*

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## **🦄 Uniswap just announced Unichain, a Layer 2 designed for DeFi—but how will its NFT scene shape up?**
- [Unichain](https://blog.uniswap.org/introducing-unichain) is on the way. The new L2, a Superchain network slated to launch in November 2024, is being built to become a new major center for DeFi in the Ethereum ecosystem. 
- The plan is to optimize for performance and user experience. The network will offer near-instant transactions with one-second block times, with 250ms sub-blocks coming later. The L2 is also doubling down on interoperability to power easy cross-chain activities across [Superchain networks](https://www.superchain.eco/) like Base, Zora Network, etc.  
- Yet Unichain isn’t being designed as an appchain focused *exclusively *on the trading vertical, e.g. like [dYdX](https://www.bankless.com/dydx). Instead, the new network will be a general-purpose rollup that**—**besides being a new central hub for the Uniswap ecosystem**—**will *also *be wide open for other apps to deploy on. 
- This openness, combined with [Unichain’s equivalence](https://docs.unichain.org/docs/technical-information/evm-equivalence) with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), means it will be particularly easy to deploy new projects or repurpose existing ones on the L2. Here, cue in NFTs. 
- Indeed, with this ease, the conditions are ripe for a Unichain NFT scene to take shape. For example, you could take open-source L1 infra like Zora’s NFT minting protocol and readily redeploy it on Unichain. 
- Of course, the very first NFTs on the network will be the dynamic [Uniswap V3 NFTs](https://app.uniswap.org/nfts/collection/0xc36442b4a4522e871399cd717abdd847ab11fe88), which are fully onchain SVGs that represent liquidity provider (LP) positions. In fact, it’s already possible to interact with these NFTs on the Unichain Sepolia testnet. But what third-party projects will come next?
[![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXftmT7JrwNpU_eb84ESH_hZaGKd-dNYHtTiKbhPACj5oOIld1TCMaJxsfXx4TgmlXvKjOnNtwxaWvRk2aPj2cmnolPn5G3NLyKj4uZt5nzGgTlIkNZUnwzw4ijqLi7a1VbRBUL0P_v-gioHtQsdX3GzuFg?key=BttfLSYe2TAXInPrMGEupw)](https://docs.unichain.org/docs/technical-information/contract-addresses)*The first Unichain NFTs*
- That remains to be seen. But even though NFTs may not be their primary focus compared to DeFi, Uniswap *will *be ready if Unichain's NFT scene quickly gains momentum. With its [2022 acquisition](https://blog.uniswap.org/genie) of NFT marketplace aggregator Genie and the integration of NFTs into its new [Uniswap Wallet](https://wallet.uniswap.org/), Uniswap is positioned to support non-fungible assets from Day 1 of Unichain's mainnet launch and beyond.
[![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfOXF4v_AXG3hShDMnZmL6l1eOEIJmI5vtOm553_xVLNdciRXi4jjkEhPKOq-3VUkDfZ4BhuGr_Gv-o2cEsrHdN9IrkZasqCSvGHaB-DFuXBfEn3is-_C3QTP1_tJs5qjOEyt1w0tTTOHxwuZClIuDqLSs?key=BttfLSYe2TAXInPrMGEupw)](https://app.uniswap.org/nfts)*"Search tokens and NFT collections..."*
- All that said, we’ll see what happens. I’m sure in the immediate excitement around the mainnet launch, a bunch of commemorative collections will launch on Unichain. What takes hold after that is an open question, though. 
- Will +40% of Unichain’s all-time gas fees eventually come via NFTs, like on Zora Network now? No, surely not. That figure will probably settle in the 2-3% range like it currently has for DeFi-centric L2s like Arbitrum, Base, and ZKsync. Even still, that amount of traction would mark a significant amount of NFT activity considering how much transaction volume Unichain may come to facilitate. 
[![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfB104gZfD48nLt_i3h6vTsulPWcfAl63Oa5HUz59ePd9j-3IDUAZ6CWVxi_9GHqWqQ6cSjSKJOnI6B87-B994FBfb09w9VVfF9yhRYkco_5xt8aU3v0-UWbpfJtwfQ13-FRabU2mq9sXOpdavO26HM46c?key=BttfLSYe2TAXInPrMGEupw)](https://www.growthepie.xyz/blockspace/chain-overview/nft)*via [growthepie.xyz](https://www.growthepie.xyz/blockspace/chain-overview/nft)*
- For now, there isn’t much to do ahead of the November 2024 Unichain mainnet launch, but it is already possible to [set up and fund a wallet](https://docs.unichain.org/docs/getting-started) on the Unichain testnet and start making some trial Uniswap trades. In the meantime, it will be interesting to see if any NFT projects integrate with the testnet. I predict at least a couple will, so get ready!

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