Rules and rails
A step forward for developer protections.
this week: bipartisan support for clarity ∞ payment flows for uniswap api ∞ angstrom at $2b ∞ portfolio aware capital deployment ∞ the fair flow frontier
Community news
CLARITY advances: Some good news from DC this week. The CLARITY Act passed out of the Senate Banking Committee with bipartisan support, a historic step toward giving software developers the protections they need to keep building.
What matters most: while there have been edits to the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA), the current draft protects non-custodial developers from money-transmitter liability. This is critical. A developer who never touches user funds shouldn’t be regulated like one who does. Clear rules are what give builders the confidence to take risks, experiment, and scale new technologies. The job isn’t done, but today, we’re closer. Next stop: the Senate floor.
Uniswap API now supports payment flows: Builders can add a <𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚙𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝> to quote requests, which allows swap outputs to go directly to any address. Built for checkouts, payouts, cross-asset transfers, and more. View docs.
Another billion reasons to pay attention to hooks: Angstrom passed $2B in total volume this week. Angstrom is a new kind of DEX built on top of Uniswap v4 that internalizes MEV through application-level sequencing. By enforcing its own transaction ordering, Angstrom redirects value that would normally be extracted by MEV bots and validators back to the actual participants: LPs and swappers. Read up.
Portfolio-aware capital deployment, in one CLI: Zerion launched Zerion CLI this week, a new financial layer for agents. The CLI tool lets agents read portfolios across 40+ chains, explore DeFi positions across 8k+ protocols, execute swaps and bridges in a single command, and sign locally. Ready to build? There are a few new Uniswap skills baked in for swapping and payments. : )
The fair flow frontier: Last day to secure your spot for UHI10. Uniswap Hook Incubator is a free, hands-on program designed to help devs speedrun v4. The upcoming cohort will focus on MEV: swap ordering, fee-rebate hooks, and MEV auction logic. Time’s almost up, you should apply.
A few more updates from UHI grads: The Lumis team introduced Moat this week, a free, open source day-one firewall for early stage teams. And AsyncSwap is working on a new marketplace for swappers, you can explore it right here.
Quick hits:
Top swaps: Last week’s top tokens traded in Uniswap Apps included 2 tokens that launched with CCA, more here.
Stablecoin motion: In the last 30 days, Uniswap has processed $16.6B in Stable ⇄ Stable volume. That’s more than the next four leading DEXs combined.
World computer: The Protocol has now processed $3T in all-time volume on Ethereum mainnet.