Uniswap v4 will launch in Q3 following the Ethereum Denkun update

The Uniswap Foundation – the organization that supports the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Uniswap – has announced the launch date of v4 of the protocol after the upcoming Denkun update on Ethereum.

In a post on X, the foundation shared a roadmap of its plans for the new release. The company is currently in a “code freeze” phase, where core code is completed, testing, gas optimization, security updates and peripherals are completed.

Now that Denkun's mainnet launch is scheduled for March 2024, we're excited to update it for the community!

Uniswap v4 launch is tentatively set for Q3 2024.

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— Uniswap Foundation (@UniswapFND) February 15, 2024

Following this, the Uniswap Foundation team relies on auditing firms and community auditing competitions to validate the v4 code. The team believes that Uniswap v4 should be “the most tightly validated code ever implemented on Ethereum”. At the same time, the decentralized exchange will be distributed to the testnet as the team makes final adjustments.

According to the Uniswap Foundation, the third phase will push Uniswap v4 to the Ethereum mainnet in the quarter of 2024. The firm stated that this is a time frame based on the status of Denkun's upcoming update on Ethereum.

As previously reported by Cointelegraph, the Ethereum network activated its Denko update on the Gorley testnet on January 17. The update introduces several Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), such as EIP-4844, which focuses on reducing proto-danksharding. Transaction fees.

Gourley's deployment for the Denkun upgrade suffered a four-hour delay. However, the upgrade work on the Sepolia testnet – the second of the three Ethereum testnets – was completed on January 31 without incident. 7.

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On February 8, Ethereum developer Tim Beiko announced that the update will be coming to the mainnet at “slot 8626176”. Blockchain research firm Nethermind has highlighted that this will happen on March 13, 2024, at 1:55:35 PM UTC. After successfully deploying to the Holesky testnet, the date was set by Ethereum developers on a February 8 call.

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