Announcing Uniswap V4 With Hayden Adams
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🗓️ 13 June 2023
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Hayden Adams joins us to announce the release of Uniswap V4! He walks us through innovations new to Uniswap like hooks and singleton contracts in addition to a new upgrade that can lower gas costs up to 90%.
To launch V4 we need your help, the community, to contribute your opinions and decide the fate of this new protocol.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
5:56 Introducing Hayden
7:37 V4 Launch Date?
9:12 What Goes Live Today?
10:28 How Far Has Uniswap Come?
12:14 Can Uniswap Get Any Bigger?
13:52 Are Centralized Exchanges Competitors?
16:28 Why Do We Need V4
20:10 V4's Flagship Feature
24:47 Introducing, TWAM
28:29 A New Uniswap Fee Structure
33:57 How V4 Solves Efficiency
38:27 Singleton Contracts
41:08 The Gas Refund
43:29 The Hook Centric Roadmap
46:59 What Rollups Will Uniswap Live On?
51:34 Who Will Be Building Hooks
58:20 Fees On Withdrawals
1:05:35 Why Hooks?
1:10:18 Will Liquidity Migrate To V4?
1:16:34 How V4 Is Like a Centralized Exchange
1:20:47 Is This The Last Uniswap Upgrade?
1:22:38 Has Defi Peaked?
1:30:10 How To Get Started On V4
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RESOURCES:
Uniswap V4 Blog Post: https://blog.uniswap.org/uniswap-v4
Hayden Adams: https://twitter.com/haydenzadams
Uniswap Labs: https://twitter.com/Uniswap
Hayden Last on Bankless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fqJzS08pPc
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| 0:00.0 | One cool thing about the single-to-design is it actually reduces. |
| 0:02.6 | Current estimates have it reducing the gas cost of pool deployment by about 99%. |
| 0:07.2 | Wait, what? |
| 0:08.2 | Sometimes people pay when gas costs are high, like north of $1,000 to deploy a pool, just a gas cost. |
| 0:13.2 | And that same, to blame, would be something like $10. |
| 0:18.9 | Thank you, Snation. There's a big announcement for everyone in DeFi today. |
| 0:23.2 | Uniswap. Version 4. It's coming out. |
| 0:26.3 | We have Hayden Adams on the podcast to tell us more. |
| 0:29.1 | We talk about a few things. What is Uniswap? |
| 0:31.4 | Version 4. V4. What does it do when it's coming? |
| 0:34.9 | How big of a deal is this from an order of magnitude size? |
| 0:39.1 | Is this as big as V3? |
| 0:41.7 | We also talk about hooks, this idea of a modular Uniswap. |
| 0:45.7 | What are hooks? What do they do? |
| 0:47.3 | What is the future for liquidity on Ethereum? |
| 0:50.1 | And finally, we talk about DeFi. |
| 0:52.0 | Has DeFi slowed down? Has it diminished? |
| 0:53.8 | Does Hayden still think we're on track to eat traditional finance? |
| 0:57.7 | All of these topics unpacked in the episode today. |
| 1:01.0 | Guys, before we begin, though, want to tell you about a prize-linked |
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