Uniswap Ships V2, V3 and V4 on Elysium at Network Launch

Uniswap has deployed versions 2, 3 and 4 of its automated market maker protocol on Elysium Network, placing all three generations of the trading stack on the network from its first day of operation. The deployment gives developers building within the Hyperliquid ecosystem access to the full Uniswap toolset — v2, v3 and v4 — for trading and liquidity services from launch onward.

The move is a launch-day infrastructure decision rather than a staged rollout. Developers can integrate any of the three versions on Elysium immediately, choosing between v2's constant-product design, v3's concentrated liquidity model and v4's hook-based architecture as options for their applications. What Uniswap has not disclosed is which version it expects to dominate usage, or whether incentives such as liquidity mining will accompany the deployment; neither the protocol's team nor Elysium has committed to a timeline for adoption metrics.

Elysium produces blocks every 100 milliseconds — roughly ten blocks per second, an order of magnitude faster than Ethereum's twelve-second cadence, and faster than most general-purpose layer 2s. That cadence describes how frequently the network finalizes new blocks, which matters for market makers and arbitrage bots that depend on rapid settlement. Whether sub-second block times translate into sustained liquidity depth in practice remains untested on this network.

How does the network actually run?

Elysium uses HYPE, the token of the broader Hyperliquid ecosystem, to pay gas fees. Transactions on Elysium settle on HyperEVM, the Ethereum-compatible execution layer within Hyperliquid's infrastructure. In plain terms: HYPE covers the cost of every transaction, while HyperEVM is the settlement layer where those transactions are recorded and finalized. The three elements — 100-millisecond blocks, HYPE-denominated fees and HyperEVM settlement — form the operational baseline onto which Uniswap's three protocol versions have now been placed.

For developers, the practical consequence is integration choice at launch. A team building a trading interface can route through v2 for simplicity, v3 for capital efficiency or v4 for customizable pool logic without waiting for future deployments. That breadth is unusual; most new networks begin with a single dominant DEX deployment and add alternatives as demand appears. Elysium starts with three.

What is not yet known?

The announcement leaves several operational questions open. It does not state total value locked, liquidity commitments from market makers, or fee structures specific to the Elysium deployments. It does not specify audit status for the v4 integration on a non-Ethereum execution environment, a relevant question given v4's hook architecture expands the attack surface relative to earlier versions. No adoption targets or usage milestones appear in the material.

The caveat follows every promise here: availability is not usage. Having three Uniswap versions live on day one gives Elysium developer optionality, but the deployment's significance will be measured by liquidity attracted and volume retained in the months after launch — figures that, at this stage, do not exist. Watch on-chain records for the first sustained liquidity migration to Elysium's Uniswap pools as the earliest signal of whether the launch-day bet pays off.