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Uniswap v4 Hook Ecosystem Draws 8 Early Projects, From Fee Redistribution to On-Chain Monetary Policy

Eight early-stage projects are building on Uniswap v4 Hooks, the custom-rule smart contracts introduced when v4 launched in January 2025, spanning fee design, arbitrage-profit redistribution, liquidity management and token issuance. Among them, Hookr, What The Hook, The Standard Reserve and Bordrless carry market caps of $26.5M, $6.4M, $26.17M and $6.4M respectively. The report flags smart-contract, liquidity and token-value-capture risks, noting that deploying on Uniswap v4 does not constitute Uniswap endorsement.

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The hook thesis is that v4 turns AMM pools into programmable venues, and the early cohort clusters around fee capture and arbitrage redistribution — the places where value accrues fastest. But the report's own caveats are the real signal: deploying on v4 is permissionless, so Uniswap branding carries no endorsement, and a hook project's token capture is a separate question from whether the hook works. The open question is whether any of these hooks generate durable fee flow rather than speculative attention.

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