Uniswap is coming to Elysium, the high-speed chain built for HYPE trading

Uniswap is coming to Elysium. That was the entire announcement on X: five words, no thread, no roadmap. The short post sits on top of a larger build. Elysium is a new chain designed for speed-obsessed traders, and Uniswap’s contracts could become a core part of its trading plumbing. What Elysium is building Elysium is being developed by Kinetiq and is described as a new layer-2 chain on Arbitrum Orbit. A layer-2 is a separate lane built beside a busier highway, meant to move traffic faster and more cheaply. The chain runs on HyperEVM technology and uses HYPE tokens as its native gas token. Every transaction fee on the network is paid in HYPE, much as fees on Ethereum are paid in ETH. The performance targets are aggressive. Elysium is aiming for block times of approximately 100-200 ms and throughput of around 300 Mgas/s. That profile targets a specific crowd: high-frequency traders and professional market makers. The mainnet chain ID is 999, and the testnet uses chain ID 998. Developers and wallet providers use these numbers to make sure transactions land on the intended network. Where Uniswap fits in The Uniswap angle runs through Elysium’s token launch design. Launchpads on the ch...