画像を読み込み中Uniswap rolls out aggregator hooks to tap rival DEX liquidity

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The Uniswap v4 hooks, live on Ethereum, Base and Robinhood Chain, route trades through Curve, Fluid, PancakeSwap V3 and other venues

Thu 22 Oct 2026 · 09:59 EDT · 2 min read

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Uniswap Labs has rolled out aggregator hooks, a feature that lets Uniswap v4 pools route trades through liquidity held on external platforms, The Block reported. The hooks are live on Ethereum, Base and Robinhood Chain.

Supported external sources include Curve, Fluid, PancakeSwap V3 and Slipstream, as well as forks of Uniswap V2 and V3, according to Uniswap’s developer documentation. The documentation describes the hooks as production-ready as of late October 2026, and the feature arrived without a formal launch announcement.

Drawing on more pools gives orders a better chance of finding depth, which could reduce slippage on large trades in thin markets. The change also moves part of the routing role played by standalone aggregators, which sit above exchanges such as Uniswap, into the protocol layer.

Hooks are smart contracts that attach to individual liquidity pools and change how they behave. Aggregator hooks join existing options in Uniswap v4’s modular toolkit, including Permissioned Pools, which limit access to approved participants, and Dynamic Fee Hooks, which let fees move rather than stay fixed.

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Robinhood Chain emerges as a key Uniswap venue

Robinhood Chain, which launched in July 2026, has quickly become a prominent venue for Uniswap activity alongside Ethereum and Base, at times accounting for more than 50% of certain Uniswap volume metrics. The network has also seen substantial hook adoption.

Uniswap’s official documentation does not reference any independent third-party aggregator hooks, suggesting the aggregation layer is currently Uniswap Labs’ own work.

Routing across external platforms adds smart contract code and creates dependencies on those platforms behaving as expected.

Disclosure: This article was edited by Estefano Gomez. For more information on how we create and review content, see our Editorial Policy.