Uniswap Founder Hayden Adams on How ‘Hooks’ Make v4 Different - Ep. 508

Unchained

Laura Shin

News, Tech News, Business News

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The announcement of the upcoming launch of Uniswap v4 sparked fresh versions of old debates. Is it OK for DeFi’s leading DEX to not be fully open source at launch? What counts as composability and what counts as plagiarism? Is Uniswap’s dominance a threat to decentralization? Founder Hayden Adams joins the show to respond to the critics and explain the novel features of Uniswap v4. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Show highlights: how Uniswap was born and how it has evolved since 2018 how the SushiSwap vampire attack was a win for Uniswap whether the new version of Uniswap brings it closer to the true ethos of Ethereum what the problems were with the previous fee model and how the new v4 approaches fee tiers an explanation of “hooks,” the most important feature of the new code what Hayden thinks the most common uses of hooks will be how v4’s time-weighted average market maker (TWAMM) feature works whether Hayden is worried that hooks will be engineered to do rug pulls what Hayden thinks about v4’s new “singleton” approach how EIP-1153 (if implemented) will make Uniswap v4 more efficient when Hayden estimates that the v4 code will be deployed why Uniswap decided to go with a four-year business license Hayden’s response to allegations that Uniswap plagiarized Crocswap for its v4 code whether there’s a risk that U.S. authorities blacklist certain transactions on v4 whether it is possible to add KYC and AML compliance into v4 pools why Hayden is sad about the U.S. approach to regulating crypto why he believes that Uniswap will not become a centralizing force Thank you to our sponsors! Crypto.com TOKEN2049 OKX Guest: Hayden Adams, founder of Uniswap Links Unchained: Uniswap Releases Draft Code for V4 Uniswap V3 Forks Are Now Legal After BSL Expiry Liquidity Pools: How DEXes Allow Trading Uniswap: Our Vision for Uniswap v4 EIP-1153: Transient storage opcodes v4-core/LICENSE at main · Uniswap/v4-core · GitHub Frax Finance’s Sam Kazemian tweet TWAMM - Paradigm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Welcome to Unchained, your no-hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host,
0:08.3	Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians. I started covering crypto eight years ago, and as
0:13.1	a senior editor at Forbes, it was the first mainstream meter porter to cover cryptocurrency
0:17.0	full-time. This is the June 20th, 2023 episode of Unchained. You know it, we know it, they know it.
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1:37.9	for how to enter and tease and seize entrance must be 18 plus. Today's guest is Hayden Adams,
1:42.8	founder and CEO of Uniswap. Welcome Hayden. Thanks so much for having me.
1:48.8	It's amazing that Uniswap is onto its fourth iteration already. Let's walk listeners through
1:55.0	the evolution of Uniswap from V1 through V3. Sounds great. And before I even say that,
2:00.5	I don't know if you know this, but Unchained was actually the first podcast I ever did.
2:05.6	And last time we spoke. Yeah, I don't know if I knew. I might have known that. It was so long ago.
2:12.4	It was like 2018, wasn't it? Yep. If you launched in 2018 and I don't remember exactly when
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