14 teams. 3 days. One goal: build the future of DeFi. Unichain Build Week paired emerging teams with top ecosystem mentors for a three-day sprint focused on strategy, product, and growth. Here’s what we learned.

Last month, we brought together a cohort of promising early-stage teams for Unichain Build Week, a pilot program designed to help builders accelerate their impact across the Uniswap ecosystem. Our focus? Getting builders from idea to launchaction, with dedicated support from some of the sharpest minds in DeFi.

Great ideas don’t scale on their own. DeFi builders need support, feedback, and a clear path to product-market fit. Unichain Build Week is a hands-on program that pairs developers with mentors from Uniswap Labs, Uniswap Foundation, Optimism, Variant, Spearbit, Atrium Academy, and more. Over three days, teams work to refine their product strategy, get engineering and design feedback, walking away with:

• Technical and engineering review

• User acquisition and growth plan

• 90-day roadmap with dedicated team support

• Connections to funding, mentors, and partners

Unichain’s early builders are already shaping the chain’s rapid growth. Build Week is designed to help them ship faster, smarter, and more sustainably.

Here’s a snapshot of the teams that joined us in NYC and what they’re building:

Async Labs: An async swap constant sum market maker (AsCSMM) for Uniswap v4 hooks. X

Bunni: Built on Uniswap v4, Bunni is a DEX that maximizes liquidity provider profits in all market conditions. X

FlashiFi: Cross-chain flash loans, powered by Optimism Superchain Interop. X

Flow AI: Flow AI allows users to build AI agent teams to trade data and insights. X

Gorillionaire: Gorillionaire combines on-chain intelligence, AI-powered analysis, and seamless trading execution to give traders an edge. X

Licredity: Licredity offers lending and leverage for DeFi. Coming in 2026. X

LootMogul: LootMogul is an AI-powered fan-centric gaming and e-commerce platform that enables fans to create, play, and monetize their own games and merch using their favorite athletes and sports teams. X

Klik: Now deployed on Unichain and Uniswap v4, Klik allows users to launch an Ethereum coin in seconds. X

Numo: Numo is an automated system for portfolio replication that bootsraps liquidity for foreign exchange (FX) forwards. This allows microlenders lock in a desired FX rate: even when traditional forwards are inaccessible. X

Pathfinder: Pathfinder is a Universal yield orchestration protocol that provides embedded passive and active yield strategies across any asset—cash, crypto, stablecoins, or real-world assets (RWAs). X

Panoptic: Panoptic is a perpetual, oracle-free options protocol built on Ethereum. X

SuperDCA: SuperDCA is a DeFi-native dollar-cost-averaging protocol that automates long-term trading strategies with optimal execution on Uniswap v4. X

Stormbit: Stormbit is a permissionless programmable lending protocol that allows users to launch custom lending markets with no liquidations and  no liquidity needed. X

Solo Labs: Aegis Markets is a new Uniswap v4 hook that uses dynamic fees to protect LPs during volatility and improve pricing efficiency. X

In addition to these teams, more 23 mentors participated in the June event, contributing their time and expertise. We’re grateful to Uniswap Labs, Optimism, Variant, Spearbit, and Atrium Academy for their support of this program.

Unichain Build Week is designed as a starting point and an ongoing support system, not just a single sprint. If you weren’t able to make it in person, you can learn more about Uniswap Foundation grants and developer resources here.

If you’re building on Unichain, get in touch and apply for Unichain grants. We’re here to help you grow. 🦄