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Audit PegFeeHook, a Uniswap v4 hook, and the script that deploys it: src/PegFeeHook.sol and script/DeployPegHook.s.sol. Tests are in test/ and run against the live mainnet PoolManager (forge test --fork-url).

What it is: the dynamic LP fee for one pool, imdUSD/USDC (imdUSD 18 decimals, USDC 6), on Ethereum mainnet. From the pool's price BEFORE each swap: within ±0.25% of $1, or for a trade that moves the price towards $1, the fee is 0.01%; a trade pushing it further away pays more, linearly up to 5% at $0.98 / $1.02, and 5% beyond. Only BEFORE_INITIALIZE and BEFORE_SWAP are used (fee returned with OVERRIDE_FEE_FLAG, zero delta). No owner, no settings, no storage. beforeInitialize accepts exactly one key, (imdUSD, USDC), DYNAMIC_FEE_FLAG, tick spacing 1, this hook, opening at exactly the $1 sqrtPrice. The deploy script mines the lowest CREATE2 salt whose address carries exactly the two flag bits, deploys through the canonical deployer 0x4e59b44847b379578588920cA78FbF26c0B4956C and initializes the pool.

Answer each:

Can any swap revert because of the hook, at any price including the extremes of sqrtPrice and either token order? A revert would freeze the pool.
Is the fee direction right in both token orders (imdUSD as token0 and as token1)? Can a trade that pushes the price away from $1 ever pay the floor fee, other than the documented case of a single swap that starts inside the band?
Is pegSqrtPriceX96 exact for 18 vs 6 decimals in both orders, and is stablePrice() correct and monotone?
Can anyone open a pool with this hook other than the intended one, or open the intended one at another price, or call the hook directly to any effect?
Can the deployment be front-run or squatted: another contract at the mined address, the pool initialized first, a different salt or initcode reaching the same address?
Anything a Uniswap v4 hook must do that this one does not, or must not do that it does: return values, selectors, flag bits, dynamic-fee handling, fee bounds.
Economics: is there a way to trade through this pool that systematically pays less than intended (splitting a trade, sandwiching the band edge, routing through the price check), and what does it cost?

Report findings with a concrete reproduction. The hook is not deployed yet; anything found can still be fixed.

Audit report

7 findings

Four agents audited the code as it is at efd8985, each in one area, and a judge reproduced, merged and ranked what they found, then read the code once more itself. Nothing in the code was changed or deployed.

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1.highEscalated fee is priced from the pre-swap price only: a floor-fee restore leg (or a swap that starts across the peg) lets any size be dumped at 0.01%src/PegFeeHook.sol:106
```
        uint24 fee = feeFor(sqrtPriceX96, params.zeroForOne);
```
beforeSwap reads slot0 once and prices the whole swap from that price and the swap's direction; params.sqrtPriceLimitX96 and the amount are ignored, so nothing bounds where a floor-fee swap may end. Two rules then combine against the design: a trade towards $1 always pays BASE_FEE, and a trade that starts inside the +/-0.25% band pays BASE_FEE however far it pushes (the NatSpec's 'known limit').

The NatSpec claims 'every following trade in the same direction pays the escalated fee'; it does not. A seller at a depegged price first buys imdUSD with a price limit at the peg (towards: 100 pips), which lands the pool exactly inside the band, then sells what they bought plus the real sale in one swap (starts inside the band: 100 pips).

The restore leg is unwound by the dump leg, so its only cost is 0.01% of its turnover plus one swap of gas; with v4 flash accounting both legs sit in one unlock and need no extra capital. Any router or aggregator finds this path because it is simply the better quote.

The same root cause lets one swap that starts on the far side of the peg (e.g. at $0.99, buying imdUSD) cross $1 and end 5% above it at the floor, although a buy starting just above the band pays the ramp for the same path.

Impact: the hook's only purpose (make selling into a depeg cost up to 5% so pressure goes to redemption and LPs holding the peg are paid for it; NatSpec: 'once the fee is at its cap the pool is never a cheaper exit than redemption') does not hold against any informed seller; the pool stays the cheapest exit at ~0.02% total and LPs earn nothing from the escalation.

Measured with the deploy script's intended range (liquidity 4e19 in [pegTick-488, pegTick+488], ~$1M per side), both token orders identical: dumping 100,000 imdUSD at $0.99 directly pays 21,485 pips and nets 96,637.766229 USDC; restore-then-dump pays 100 pips on both legs and nets 98,704.597571 USDC, +2,066.83 USDC (2.1%) taken from LP fee income, ending at the same price ($0.9851). At $0.97 the saving is the whole 5%.

Fix (design decision, both keep no owner/no storage): (a) also price the swap at its end bound, fee = max(feeFor(slot0, dir), feeFor(params.sqrtPriceLimitX96, dir)), so a swap allowed to end beyond the far band edge pays for it and honest arbitrage sets its limit at or before the peg (routers passing MIN/MAX limits then pay the escalated fee on towards-trades: the trade-off); or (b) add AFTER_SWAP + AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA and charge the escalated part on the realised end price (changes the flag set and the mined address).

Either way correct the NatSpec 'known limit'. Variant (a) was checked against the attached test: all four cases pass with it.
Pool (imdUSD 18 dec, USDC 6 dec) opened at pegSqrtPriceX96 with liquidity 4e19 in [pegTick-488, pegTick+488]; sell imdUSD with limit at $0.99 so stablePrice = 0.99e18.

Direct: swap(sell imdUSD, exact-in 100_000e18, limit MIN_SQRT_PRICE+1) -> fee 21485, USDC out 96637766229, end price 0.98520.

Same start, detour: swap(buy imdUSD, exact-in 1e30, limit = hook.pegSqrtPriceX96()) -> fee 100, buys 201,512.61 imdUSD for 200,522.57 USDC; then swap(sell imdUSD, exact-in 201512610368483049251144 + 100_000e18, limit MIN) -> fee 100, 299,227.17 USDC out; net 98704597571 USDC, end price 0.98509.

Expected: the detour nets at most what the direct sale nets (its dump leg pays >= 21485 pips).

Actual: it pays 100 pips and nets 2,066.83 USDC more, in both token orders.

Cross-through: from $0.99, swap(buy imdUSD, exact-in 1e30, limit = sqrt for $1.05) -> fee 100 for the whole path, 1,186,580.75 USDC paid; split at $1.003 the far half pays 1240 pips (token0 order) / 1525 (token1 order) and the two halves cost 1,187,637.81 USDC for the same imdUSD.

Run: forge test --match-path test/scratch/PegFeeBypass.t.sol -vv (4 failures on the current code; the harness is v4-core's own Pool library, since the vendored v4-core cannot compile PoolManager without solmate).

2.mediumHook does not implement getHookPermissions(); the hook admission floor (Hook.protected.t.sol) reverts before checking the flagssrc/PegFeeHook.sol:39

contract PegFeeHook is IHooks {

PegFeeHook implements IHooks directly and validates its address with a raw mask in the constructor, but declares no getHookPermissions() and has no fallback.

The supplied floor suite .imd/reads/protected/univ4_hook/Hook.protected.t.sol states a launch hook may not omit it ('the address is mined for the declared flags, and asking the implementation is the only way to know it agrees with them') and calls IHookPermissions(hook).getHookPermissions() in test_permissionsMatchTheDeclaredFlags and test_callbacksRefuseCallersOtherThanThePoolManager.

A call to a missing selector on a contract without a fallback reverts, so both tests fail with EvmError: Revert before asserting anything, and the hook cannot be admitted although its address bits and callbacks are otherwise consistent. v4 itself never calls the function, so trading is unaffected.

Fix: add function getHookPermissions() public pure returns (Hooks.Permissions memory) returning beforeInitialize = true, beforeSwap = true and the twelve others false, and replace the constructor's raw mask check with Hooks.validateHookPermissions(IHooks(address(this)), getHookPermissions()) so the declaration and the address can never drift (update both if the fee fix adds afterSwap permissions).

Deploy PegFeeHook at a mined address carrying exactly BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG (0x2080), any constructor arguments.

(bool ok, bytes memory ret) = address(hook).staticcall(abi.encodeWithSignature("getHookPermissions()")).

Expected: ok == true and ret decodes to Hooks.Permissions with beforeInitialize and beforeSwap set, equal to uint160(address(hook)) & ALL_HOOK_MASK.

Actual: ok == false, empty return data.

Equivalent floor run: IMD_HOOK_CREATION_CODE= IMD_HOOK_FLAGS=8320 forge test --match-contract HookProtectedTest -> test_permissionsMatchTheDeclaredFlags and test_callbacksRefuseCallersOtherThanThePoolManager fail with EvmError: Revert at the getHookPermissions() call.

All three specialist proofs for this (Proof_10b090433d1a, Proof_b96ae0f24d2f, Proof_efd976a01091) were run and fail for this reason.

proof · a Foundry test that fails on this code and passes once it is fixed

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity 0.8.26;

import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol";
import {IPoolManager} from "v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol";
import {Hooks} from "v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol";
import {PegFeeHook} from "src/PegFeeHook.sol";

/// @dev What the admission floor (Hook.protected.t.sol) asks every hook: not part of IHooks, so a hook that
/// omits it still trades, but the floor cannot admit it.
interface IHookPermissions {
    function getHookPermissions() external pure returns (Hooks.Permissions memory);
}

/// @notice PegFeeHook does not implement getHookPermissions(); the call reverts, and with it the floor's
/// test_permissionsMatchTheDeclaredFlags and test_callbacksRefuseCallersOtherThanThePoolManager.
/// Fails on the current code (the call reverts). Passes once the hook declares the permissions its address
/// carries: beforeInitialize and beforeSwap true, everything else false.
contract PegFeeHookPermissionsTest is Test {
    IPoolManager pm;
    PegFeeHook hook;

    function setUp() public {
        pm = IPoolManager(address(0xBEEF)); // the hook only stores it; nothing here swaps
        address stable = address(0x1000);
        address quote = address(0x2000);
        bytes memory init =
            abi.encodePacked(type(PegFeeHook).creationCode, abi.encode(pm, stable, uint8(18), quote, uint8(6)));
        bytes32 initHash = keccak256(init);
        uint160 flags = Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG;
        for (uint256 salt;; ++salt) {
            address a = vm.computeCreate2Address(bytes32(salt), initHash, address(this));
            if (uint160(a) & Hooks.ALL_HOOK_MASK == flags) {
                hook = new PegFeeHook{salt: bytes32(salt)}(pm, stable, 18, quote, 6);
                require(address(hook) == a);
                break;
            }
        }
    }

    function test_declaresThePermissionsItsAddressCarries() public view {
        (bool ok, bytes memory ret) = address(hook).staticcall(abi.encodeCall(IHookPermissions.getHookPermissions, ()));
        assertTrue(ok, "getHookPermissions() reverts: the hook does not declare its permissions");
        assertEq(ret.length, 14 * 32, "getHookPermissions() must return Hooks.Permissions (14 bools)");
        Hooks.Permissions memory p = abi.decode(ret, (Hooks.Permissions));

        uint160 implemented;
        if (p.beforeInitialize) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG;
        if (p.afterInitialize) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_INITIALIZE_FLAG;
        if (p.beforeAddLiquidity) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG;
        if (p.afterAddLiquidity) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG;
        if (p.beforeRemoveLiquidity) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG;
        if (p.afterRemoveLiquidity) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG;
        if (p.beforeSwap) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG;
        if (p.afterSwap) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG;
        if (p.beforeDonate) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_DONATE_FLAG;
        if (p.afterDonate) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_DONATE_FLAG;
        if (p.beforeSwapReturnDelta) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG;
        if (p.afterSwapReturnDelta) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG;
        if (p.afterAddLiquidityReturnDelta) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_ADD_LIQUIDITY_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG;
        if (p.afterRemoveLiquidityReturnDelta) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG;

        assertEq(implemented, uint160(address(hook)) & Hooks.ALL_HOOK_MASK, "declared permissions differ from the address bits");
        assertEq(implemented, Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG);
    }
}

3.lowrun() initializes the pool unconditionally: anyone can open the (correct) pool first, after which the deploy script reverts with PoolAlreadyInitializedscript/DeployPegHook.s.sol:74
```
        POOL_MANAGER.initialize(poolKey(imdUsd, hook), h.pegSqrtPriceX96());
```
The hook address is public once plan() has run (deterministic lowest salt, canonical deployer, initcode anyone can rebuild from the repo), anyone can deploy the identical initcode through 0x4e59...956C first (harmless: same code at the same address, and run() already tolerates it via the hook.code.length == 0 check), and beforeInitialize accepts the one key at the one price from any sender (it ignores the sender argument).

So a third party can call PoolManager.initialize(poolKey, pegSqrtPriceX96) before the operator. run() does not check whether the pool exists: Pool.initialize (lib/v4-core/src/libraries/Pool.sol:101) reverts PoolAlreadyInitialized, and the script fails after the deploy transaction (if in the same broadcast) was mined; a second run() after a successful one fails the same way, and plan() reports only the hook's status, not the pool's.

No funds or authority are at stake (the squatted pool is exactly the intended pool, no owner), and no other front-run has an effect: a different salt or initcode cannot reach the mined address and no other contract can be placed there. This is the only squatting/front-run with a consequence, and it breaks the documented launch procedure.

Fix: read slot0 for the pool id (StateLibrary.getSlot0 or extsload of keccak256(abi.encode(poolId, 6))) and skip initialize when sqrtPriceX96 != 0, asserting it equals pegSqrtPriceX96; print the pool's status in plan().
State: plan() printed salt S and hook H for IMDUSD.

Third party: (1) call 0x4e59b44847b379578588920cA78FbF26c0B4956C with S || initCode(imdUsd) -> H has code; (2) from any EOA call POOL_MANAGER.initialize(poolKey(imdUsd, H), PegFeeHook(H).pegSqrtPriceX96()) -> succeeds: beforeInitialize only checks msg.sender == PoolManager, the key and the price (reproduced on the local Pool-library harness, test/scratch/Explore.t.sol test_secondCopyAndAnyoneInitializes: initialize from address(0xBAD) succeeds, a second initialize reverts PoolAlreadyInitialized).

Operator then runs IMDUSD=..

SALT=S forge script script/DeployPegHook.s.sol --sig run() --broadcast: the hook.code.length == 0 branch is skipped, line 74 reverts PoolAlreadyInitialized(), run() fails.

Expected: run() recognises the already-open pool at $1 and finishes, as it already does for an already-deployed hook.

Same failure for a second run() after a successful first.
4.lowDeploy script hardcodes 18/6 decimals and mainnet addresses without checking them: a wrong IMDUSD opens the pool at a 'peg' off by 10^12, irreversibly for that initcodescript/DeployPegHook.s.sol:30
```
        return abi.encodePacked(type(PegFeeHook).creationCode, abi.encode(POOL_MANAGER, imdUsd, uint8(18), USDC, uint8(6)));
```
initCode() bakes uint8(18) and uint8(6) and the mainnet USDC and PoolManager addresses into the hook's constructor arguments for whatever IMDUSD is passed. plan() and run() only check imdUsd.code.length != 0 and that the CREATE2 deployer has code: not block.chainid, not that POOL_MANAGER and USDC have code, not IERC20Metadata(imdUsd).decimals() == 18 and USDC.decimals() == 6.

The hook trusts its constructor (it cannot read decimals itself) and derives pegSqrtPriceX96 from the constants, and beforeInitialize accepts exactly that price.

If IMDUSD points at a token with other decimals (a wrong env value, a proxy admin, a test token, another stablecoin), everything passes and run() opens a pool whose '$1' is 10^(18-d) times off; the hook address and pool id are fixed by those arguments, so the wrong pool exists forever with this hook attached and the hook refuses the correct price forever (no owner, no settings).

Run on another chain where the CREATE2 deployer exists (e.g. chainid 8453), the hook deploys with dead immutables and then reverts at initialize, leaving a useless contract at the mined address.

Fix: require block.chainid == 1, POOL_MANAGER.code.length != 0, USDC.code.length != 0, and IERC20Metadata(imdUsd).decimals() == 18 && IERC20Metadata(USDC).decimals() == 6 in plan() and run() (both have an RPC), and print the token symbols in plan().
test/scratch/Explore.t.sol test_scriptAcceptsSixDecimalToken: deploy a 6-decimal ERC-20 T, vm.setEnv("IMDUSD", T), DeployPegHook.plan() -> succeeds and prints a salt, hook and poolId ('status: not deployed'); the last 160 bytes of initCode(T) decode to (POOL_MANAGER, T, 18, USDC, 6) while T.decimals() == 6.

On a mainnet fork, IMDUSD=0xdAC17F958D2ee523a2206206994597C13D831ec7 (USDT, 6 decimals, has code) SALT= run() deploys and initializes without a revert at pegSqrtPriceX96 = 2^96 * 1e6 (USDT is token1 there), i.e. 1 token0 unit = 1e12 token1 units, '$1' = $1,000,000 for a 6/6 pair, while the correct $1 sqrt price is 2^96.

Expected: the script refuses a token whose decimals() differ from the 18/6 it encodes.
5.lowThe $1 opening price is not durable: between initialize and the first liquidity add a 1-wei swap moves the empty pool to any price for free, so the first LP deposit can be single-sided and sold below script/DeployPegHook.s.sol:14
```
/// initialize the pool at $1. Liquidity is added separately, in a $0.95–$1.05 range.
```
run() opens the pool and stops; liquidity comes in a later transaction. In a v4 pool with zero liquidity, Pool.swap walks the price to sqrtPriceLimitX96 exchanging nothing (every computeSwapStep with liquidity 0 has amountIn = feeAmount = 0 and moves to the next target), and the hook cannot object: beforeSwap only sets a fee, which at $1 is the floor. So anyone can set the pool to, say, $0.90 for the price of gas before the LP transaction lands.

An LP that then mints the planned $0.95-$1.05 position gets a single-sided position (all imdUSD when the price is below the range; a PositionManager mint with both amount maxes set does not notice), and the attacker buys that imdUSD from $0.95 upward, classified 'towards' at 0.01%, at an average of about $0.976 against a $1 redemption value: the LP loses ~2.4% of the deposit. This is v4 behaviour, not a hook bug, but the deploy flow is what exposes it.

Fix: open and seed the pool in one transaction (initialize followed by modifyLiquidity in one unlock, or PositionManager's initializePool + mint multicall), or have the seeding transaction assert slot0.sqrtPriceX96 == pegSqrtPriceX96 before minting.
test/scratch/Explore.t.sol test_emptyPoolPriceMovesForFree (Pool-library harness): initialize at pegSqrtPriceX96, liquidity 0; swap(zeroForOne = true, amountSpecified = -1, sqrtPriceLimitX96 = peg * sqrt(0.90)) -> succeeds with delta (0, 0), fee 100, slot0 now at $0.90 (stablePrice 899999999999999998). modifyLiquidity(pegTick-488, pegTick+488, 4e19) then requires 1,952,191 imdUSD and 0 USDC.

Next swap buying imdUSD with limit at the peg: fee 100 (towards), 989,949.80 imdUSD received for 966,138.10 USDC.

Expected: the first liquidity meets the pool at $1 as the README and script promise.
6.infoBand and cap boundaries are shifted by whole-basis-point truncation: the floor applies up to 0.26% from $1 (exclusive) and the ramp steps in 285-pip incrementssrc/PegFeeHook.sol:128
```
        uint256 devBps = (below ? 1e18 - p : p - 1e18) / 1e14;
```
devBps truncates the deviation to whole basis points and the band test is devBps <= 25, so the effective floor region is the open interval ($0.9974, $1.0026), one basis point wider than the documented +/-0.25%; the ramp then moves in 1-bps steps of 285 pips (100, 385, 670, ..., 49,714, 50,000), and MAX_FEE applies only at devBps >= 200, i.e. exactly <= $0.98 / >= $1.02 (at $0.98009 the fee is 4.9714%). Not a safety issue.

If +/-0.25% is a contractual number, compare the un-truncated 1e18 deviation (dev < BAND_BPS * 1e14) or use devBps < BAND_BPS.

Also checked here and found exact: pegSqrtPriceX96 is 79228162514264337593543 (2^96/1e6, truncated by 0.95, relative error 1.2e-23) with imdUSD as token0 and 2^96*1e6 exactly as token1; stablePrice(pegSqrtPriceX96) is exactly 1e18 in both orders; stablePrice is monotone over a 400-point sweep of MIN..MAX sqrt price in both orders; feeFor at MIN_SQRT_PRICE and MAX_SQRT_PRICE-1 returns 50,000 away and 100 towards in both orders and never reverts.
test/scratch/Explore.t.sol test_bandEdgeValues, imdUSD as token0: sqrtP = peg * sqrt(0.99740001) -> stablePrice(sqrtP) = 997400009999999999 (25.9999 bps below), feeFor(sqrtP, sell) == 100 (expected by the README: > 100, the price is more than 0.25% off); feeFor at $0.9973 == 670; at $0.98009 == 49714; at $0.98 == 50000. Same values with imdUSD as token1.
7.infoThe 'exactly one pool' guarantee is per hook instance: the same initcode at another flag-matching salt opens a parallel imdUSD/USDC poolsrc/PegFeeHook.sol:93
```
                || address(key.hooks) != address(this)
```
beforeInitialize binds the hook to one PoolKey and no second pool can use this hook address, as documented. But the initcode is public, the CREATE2 deployer is permissionless and about one salt in 16,384 yields an address with exactly the two flag bits, so anyone can deploy an identical PegFeeHook at another address and initialize (imdUSD, USDC, DYNAMIC_FEE_FLAG, 1, thatHook) at $1.

The copy behaves identically and has no authority over the canonical pool, so this is not an exploit; it only means the README/NatSpec claim that nobody can 'open a second one beside it' holds for the hook address, not for the pair, and integrations must pin the canonical hook address / poolId from the deploy log rather than discover a pool by tokens and fee. No code change required; worth stating in the README.
test/scratch/Explore.t.sol test_secondCopyAndAnyoneInitializes: with the hook H at salt 12590 (local deployer), mine the next salt whose address & ALL_HOOK_MASK == 0x2080 (25907 locally), deploy the same initcode to get H2, then from the pool manager call H2.beforeInitialize(_, PoolKey(imdUSD, USDC, 0x800000, 1, H2), H2.pegSqrtPriceX96()).

Expected per README: refused as a second pool beside the first.

Actual: returns IHooks.beforeInitialize.selector, so PoolManager.initialize on that key succeeds.

Work

Posted14 minto the first attempt
Audit mathAgent #1042found 1 high, 1 medium, 3 low, 1 info
The review is complete. Findings are in .imd-findings.json with two proof tests under test/scratch/, both verified to fail on the current code.

What I found

High, fee bypass (src/PegFeeHook.sol:106). The fee is set from the pre-swap price alone. At $0.98 a seller buys imdUSD with a limit at the band edge (towards, 0.01%), then dumps everything in one swap from inside the band, also at 0.01%, with flash accounting netting the legs. A single buy from $0.98 with a limit at $1.10 likewise pays the floor for the whole path. The round trip costs about 0.02% of the pull-back amount, so the 5% cap never binds for an informed seller and the header's "never a cheaper exit than redemption" goal fails. Proof: test/scratch/FeeBypassProof.t.sol, which passes against a copy of the hook that prices each swap at the worse of its start price and its price limit.

Medium, no getHookPermissions() (src/PegFeeHook.sol:39). The admission floor in Hook.protected.t.sol calls it in two tests. Both revert on this hook. Proof: test/scratch/HookPermissionsProof.t.sol.

Low, deploy flow. Three items in script/DeployPegHook.s.sol: an empty pool's price can be moved by a dust swap before the first liquidity add, so the LP deposit can be single-sided and sold below peg; anyone can initialize first and run() then reverts after the deploy; decimals 18/6 are hardcoded and never checked against the tokens.

Info, boundaries. The 1-bps floor makes the band effectively ($0.9974, $1.0026) and the cap apply only at exactly $0.98 or $1.02. The token0-order peg constant truncates by 0.95 of a unit, a relative error around 1e-23, immaterial.

What checked out, verified by fuzzing against a mock manager in both token orders: no revert anywhere in [MIN_SQRT_PRICE, MAX_SQRT_PRICE), including the saturation branches; stablePrice monotone and exactly 1e18 at the peg; fee direction correct in both orders; direct calls refused; wrong keys and wrong prices refused; return shapes, flag bits and fee bounds all meet what the PoolManager checks. CREATE2 squatting is not possible with different init code, and a same-code deploy by someone else is harmless.

Limits. The repository's trimmed v4-core copy has no solmate, so the real PoolManager cannot compile locally and no fork was available. The economic numbers in the high finding are computed from the swap math rather than measured on a live pool. The proofs therefore drive beforeSwap through a stand-in manager that answers extsload, which is the only call the hook makes.
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highEscalated fee is decided from the pre-swap price only, so any size can be dumped at the 0.01% floor by first pulling the price into the band (or by one swap that crosses the peg)src/PegFeeHook.sol:106
beforeSwap reads slot0 once and prices the whole swap from it, ignoring params.sqrtPriceLimitX96 and the amount. The doc's 'known limit' (a single swap starting inside the band pays BASE_FEE however far it pushes) is therefore not a corner case but the general case, because the opposite leg that puts the price back inside the band is a 'towards' trade and itself costs only BASE_FEE. Two consequences, both for either token order:

Band-edge sandwich. Pool at $0.98 (sell fee = MAX_FEE 5%). In one unlock, a seller first buys imdUSD with a limit at the band edge ($0.9976): towards, fee 100. The pool now sits inside the band, so the second swap, selling all the imdUSD they hold with limit MIN_SQRT_PRICE, is priced at devBps<=25 and pays 100 as well, however deep it goes. Flash accounting nets the USDC owed by leg 1 against the USDC received by leg 2, so no capital is needed beyond the imdUSD being sold. Cost of the bypass: 0.01% twice on the pull-back amount. With the fork test's full-range L=1e18 the pull-back from $0.98 to $0.9976 is ~8,850 USDC in, so dumping 100,000 imdUSD costs ~2 USDC of extra fee instead of ~5,000 USDC; with the planned $0.95-$1.05 range the pull-back amount is ~20x larger but the fee on it is still ~0.02% of it.

Cross-through. Pool at $0.98: one swap buying imdUSD with limit at $1.10 is classified 'towards' and pays 100 for the whole path, including $1.0026->$1.10, where a swap starting above the band would pay up to 5%. So the design goal in the header ('once the fee is at its cap the pool is never a cheaper exit than redemption; selling pressure in a depeg goes to redemption instead of draining LPs') does not hold: every informed seller exits at 0.02% total and LPs earn nothing from the escalation. Minimal fix that keeps the before-swap design and flags: price the swap by the worse of its start and its end bound, i.e. fee = max(feeFor(slot0, zeroForOne), feeFor(params.sqrtPriceLimitX96, zeroForOne)) (treat a limit at MIN/MAX_SQRT_PRICE as the cap). A swap that wants the floor must then bound its limit inside the band, and a trade that crosses the peg pays for its far side; splitting then integrates the ramp instead of skipping it. The stricter alternative is an afterSwap + AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA charge on the realised end price, which changes the flag set and the mined address. The proof test asserts the limit-bounded behaviour (dump with an unbounded limit from inside the band, and a buy with limit $1.10 from $0.98, both must return MAX_FEE).

State: pool initialized at pegSqrtPriceX96, imdUSD token0; sqrtPrice for $0.98 = peg*sqrt(0.98) (devBps=200).

Call 1 (from PoolManager): beforeSwap(_, key, SwapParams(zeroForOne=false, amountSpecified=-1e24, sqrtPriceLimitX96=peg*sqrt(0.9976)), '') -> fee 100|OVERRIDE (towards).

Pool is now at $0.9976.

Call 2: beforeSwap(_, key, SwapParams(zeroForOne=true, amountSpecified=-1e24, sqrtPriceLimitX96=MIN_SQRT_PRICE+1), '') -> actual fee 100; expected the cap (50_000) since the same sell issued directly at $0.98 returns 50_000 and this one is allowed to run below $0.98.

Cross-through: at $0.98, beforeSwap(_, key, SwapParams(false, -1e24, peg*sqrt(1.10)), '') -> actual 100; expected 50_000 for a swap bounded 10% above the peg.

See test/scratch/FeeBypassProof.t.sol: both tests fail on the current code (100 < 50000) and pass with the max(start, limit) fee.
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity 0.8.26; import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol"; import {IPoolManager} from "v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol"; import {IHooks} from "v4-core/src/interfaces/IHooks.sol"; import {PoolKey} from "v4-core/src/types/PoolKey.sol"; import {Currency} from "v4-core/src/types/Currency.sol"; import {BeforeSwapDelta} from "v4-core/src/types/BeforeSwapDelta.sol"; import {SwapParams} from "v4-core/src/types/PoolOperation.sol"; import {LPFeeLibrary} from "v4-core/src/libraries/LPFeeLibrary.sol"; import {TickMath} from "v4-core/src/libraries/TickMath.sol"; import {Hooks} from "v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol"; import {PegFeeHook} from "src/PegFeeHook.sol"; /// @dev Stands in for the PoolManager: the hook only reads slot0 through extsload, so answering that call with a /// chosen sqrtPrice reproduces exactly what the hook sees before each swap. (The repository's v4-core copy has no /// solmate, so the real PoolManager cannot be compiled here.) contract FakeManager { bytes32 word; function set(uint160 sqrtPriceX96) external { word = bytes32(uint256(sqrtPriceX96)); } function extsload(bytes32) external view returns (bytes32) { return word; } } /// @notice The escalated fee is decided from the pre-swap price only, so it is bypassed by (1) pulling the price /// into the ±0.25% band with a floor-fee "towards" swap and then dumping any size in one floor-fee swap, or (2) a /// single "towards" swap whose limit lies far beyond the peg on the other side. Both legs below are what the /// PoolManager would charge; the expected values are the cap, which is what the trade's destination warrants. contract FeeBypassProofTest is Test { FakeManager pm; address imdUsd = address(0x1000); // token0 (18 decimals), as the constructor is told address usdc = address(0x2000); // token1 (6 decimals) PegFeeHook hook; PoolKey key; function setUp() public { pm = new FakeManager(); bytes memory init = abi.encodePacked( type(PegFeeHook).creationCode, abi.encode(address(pm), imdUsd, uint8(18), usdc, uint8(6)) ); bytes32 initHash = keccak256(init); uint160 flags = Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG; for (uint256 salt;; ++salt) { address a = vm.computeCreate2Address(bytes32(salt), initHash, address(this)); if (uint160(a) & Hooks.ALL_HOOK_MASK == flags) { hook = new PegFeeHook{salt: bytes32(salt)}(IPoolManager(address(pm)), imdUsd, 18, usdc, 6); require(address(hook) == a); break; } } key = PoolKey(Currency.wrap(imdUsd), Currency.wrap(usdc), LPFeeLibrary.DYNAMIC_FEE_FLAG, 1, IHooks(address(hook))); } function _sqrt(uint256 x) internal pure returns (uint256 y) { y = x; uint256 z = (x + 1) / 2; while (z < y) (y, z) = (z, (x / z + z) / 2); } /// sqrtPriceX96 at which imdUSD is worth `priceE18` USDC (1e18 = $1) function _sqrtFor(uint256 priceE18) internal view returns (uint160) { return uint160(uint256(hook.pegSqrtPriceX96()) * _sqrt(priceE18 * 1e18) / 1e18); } /// The LP fee the PoolManager applies to a swap in `zeroForOne` with limit `limit`, pool at `pre`. function _fee(uint160 pre, bool zeroForOne, uint160 limit) internal returns (uint24) { pm.set(pre); vm.prank(address(pm)); (bytes4 sel, BeforeSwapDelta d, uint24 f) = hook.beforeSwap(address(0xBEEF), key, SwapParams(zeroForOne, -1_000_000e18, limit), ""); assertEq(sel, IHooks.beforeSwap.selector); assertEq(BeforeSwapDelta.unwrap(d), 0); assertTrue(f & LPFeeLibrary.OVERRIDE_FEE_FLAG != 0, "override flag"); return f & ~LPFeeLibrary.OVERRIDE_FEE_FLAG; } /// Pool at $0.98. A direct dump of imdUSD pays the 5% cap. Pulling the price to $0.9976 first (buying imdUSD, /// "towards", floor fee) and then dumping everything with an unbounded limit pays the floor on the dump too. function test_pullIntoBandThenDumpPaysTheFloor() public { uint160 at098 = _sqrtFor(0.9799e18); assertEq(_fee(at098, true, TickMath.MIN_SQRT_PRICE + 1), hook.MAX_FEE(), "direct dump at $0.98 pays the cap"); // leg 1: buy imdUSD with a limit at the band's edge: towards the peg, floor fee (fine) uint160 bandEdge = _sqrtFor(0.9976e18); assertEq(_fee(at098, false, bandEdge), hook.BASE_FEE(), "pull-back pays the floor"); // leg 2: the pool now sits at $0.9976; dump with the limit at the bottom of the range uint24 dumpFee = _fee(bandEdge, true, TickMath.MIN_SQRT_PRICE + 1); assertGe(dumpFee, hook.MAX_FEE(), "a dump allowed to run below $0.98 must pay the cap"); } /// Pool at $0.98. One swap buying imdUSD with its limit at $1.10 is "towards" at its start and ends 10% above /// the peg: it pays the floor for the whole path, including the part from $1.0025 to $1.10. function test_crossThroughPaysTheFloor() public { uint24 fee = _fee(_sqrtFor(0.9799e18), false, _sqrtFor(1.10e18)); assertGe(fee, hook.MAX_FEE(), "a swap whose limit is 10% above the peg must pay the cap"); } }
mediumHook does not expose getHookPermissions(), which the hook admission floor calls and the v4 ecosystem (BaseHook, routers, explorers) expectssrc/PegFeeHook.sol:39
PegFeeHook implements IHooks directly and never declares getHookPermissions(). The supplied Hook.protected.t.sol calls IHookPermissions(hook).getHookPermissions() in test_permissionsMatchTheDeclaredFlags and again in test_callbacksRefuseCallersOtherThanThePoolManager; on this hook both calls hit the fallback-less contract and revert, so both floor tests fail and the hook is refused before any of its own tests matter.

The function is also the only on-chain way for anyone to confirm that the implemented callbacks (beforeInitialize, beforeSwap) agree with the two bits the address was mined for.

Fix: add function getHookPermissions() public pure returns (Hooks.Permissions memory) returning beforeInitialize=true, beforeSwap=true and everything else false, and (optionally) derive FLAGS from it so the constructor check and the declaration cannot drift.
Deploy the hook at any address carrying flags 0x2080 (as test/scratch/HookPermissionsProof.t.sol does by mining a salt), then call getHookPermissions() through the IHookPermissions interface used by Hook.protected.t.sol: actual: the call reverts (EvmError: Revert, no such selector); expected: a Hooks.Permissions struct with beforeInitialize and beforeSwap true and all other fields false, whose bit encoding equals uint160(address(hook)) & ALL_HOOK_MASK. Equivalent floor run: IMD_HOOK_CREATION_CODE= IMD_HOOK_FLAGS=8320 forge test --match-contract HookProtectedTest -> test_permissionsMatchTheDeclaredFlags and test_callbacksRefuseCallersOtherThanThePoolManager fail with a revert.
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity 0.8.26; import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol"; import {IPoolManager} from "v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol"; import {Hooks} from "v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol"; import {PegFeeHook} from "src/PegFeeHook.sol"; /// @dev What the admission floor (Hook.protected.t.sol) asks every hook: the permissions it implements, so they /// can be compared with the bits its address was mined for. interface IHookPermissions { function getHookPermissions() external pure returns (Hooks.Permissions memory); } contract HookPermissionsProofTest is Test { PegFeeHook hook; function setUp() public { address pm = address(0x4444); address imdUsd = address(0x1000); address usdc = address(0x2000); bytes memory init = abi.encodePacked(type(PegFeeHook).creationCode, abi.encode(pm, imdUsd, uint8(18), usdc, uint8(6))); bytes32 initHash = keccak256(init); uint160 flags = Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG; for (uint256 salt;; ++salt) { address a = vm.computeCreate2Address(bytes32(salt), initHash, address(this)); if (uint160(a) & Hooks.ALL_HOOK_MASK == flags) { hook = new PegFeeHook{salt: bytes32(salt)}(IPoolManager(pm), imdUsd, 18, usdc, 6); require(address(hook) == a); break; } } } /// The hook must report its permissions, and they must be exactly the two bits its address carries. function test_getHookPermissionsMatchesTheAddress() public view { Hooks.Permissions memory p = IHookPermissions(address(hook)).getHookPermissions(); uint160 implemented; if (p.beforeInitialize) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG; if (p.afterInitialize) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_INITIALIZE_FLAG; if (p.beforeAddLiquidity) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG; if (p.afterAddLiquidity) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG; if (p.beforeRemoveLiquidity) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG; if (p.afterRemoveLiquidity) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG; if (p.beforeSwap) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG; if (p.afterSwap) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG; if (p.beforeDonate) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_DONATE_FLAG; if (p.afterDonate) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_DONATE_FLAG; if (p.beforeSwapReturnDelta) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG; if (p.afterSwapReturnDelta) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG; if (p.afterAddLiquidityReturnDelta) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_ADD_LIQUIDITY_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG; if (p.afterRemoveLiquidityReturnDelta) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG; assertEq(implemented, uint160(address(hook)) & Hooks.ALL_HOOK_MASK, "permissions disagree with the address"); assertEq(implemented, Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG); } }
lowThe $1 opening price is not durable: between initialize and the first liquidity add, a dust swap moves the empty pool to any price, so the first LP deposit can be single-sided and sold below the pegscript/DeployPegHook.s.sol:74
run() initializes the pool and stops; liquidity is 'added separately'. A v4 pool with zero liquidity lets swap() walk the price to sqrtPriceLimitX96 while exchanging nothing (every computeSwapStep with liquidity 0 moves the price to the next tick for 0 in / 0 out). The hook cannot object: beforeSwap only sets a fee, and at $1 the fee is the floor.

So anyone can set the pool to, say, $0.90 at the cost of gas, before the LP transaction lands. An LP that then mints a $0.95-$1.05 position gets a single-sided position (all imdUSD when the price is below the range) and the next buyer, classified 'towards' and paying 0.01%, takes imdUSD from $0.95 upward, below its $1 redemption value. This is v4 behaviour, not a hook bug, but the deploy flow is what exposes it.

Fix: open the pool and seed it in the same transaction (initialize followed by modifyLiquidity in one unlock, or PositionManager's initializePool + mint multicall), and have the seeding transaction assert slot0 == pegSqrtPriceX96 (or use amount maximums) before minting.
After run(): pool at pegSqrtPriceX96, liquidity 0.

From any router: unlock -> swap(key, SwapParams(zeroForOne=true, amountSpecified=-1, sqrtPriceLimitX96=pegsqrt(0.90)), '') -> succeeds with delta 0/0 and slot0.sqrtPriceX96 == pegsqrt(0.90) (tick -277379 instead of -276325).

Then the LP's modifyLiquidity(tickLower=tick($0.95), tickUpper=tick($1.05), L) requires only imdUSD (amount1 == 0).

Next swap: buy imdUSD, beforeSwap at $0.90 returns fee 100 (towards); the buyer receives imdUSD from $0.95 upwards.

Expected: the first liquidity meets the pool at $1 as the README and script promise.
lowPool initialization can be front-run by anyone (beforeInitialize ignores the sender), after which run() reverts after having already paid for the deployscript/DeployPegHook.s.sol:74
beforeInitialize accepts the one correct key at the one correct price from any caller, which is the intended design (the result is the same pool). But run() calls POOL_MANAGER.initialize unconditionally.

If anyone initializes the pool between plan()/simulation and the broadcast (the hook address is public from plan(), and the hook itself may already have been deployed by anyone through the permissionless CREATE2 deployer), the initialize transaction reverts with PoolAlreadyInitialized and the script run fails after the deploy transaction (if it was in the same batch) was mined; the operator sees a failed run for a correctly opened pool. The hook does not need to change.

Fix in the script: read slot0 of poolKey(imdUsd, hook) through extsload (or StateLibrary.getSlot0) and skip initialize when sqrtPriceX96 != 0, mirroring the existing if (hook.code.length == 0) guard; log 'already initialized' instead of reverting.
Mainnet fork: deploy the hook via mine()+CREATE2 deployer (anyone can).

Then from any EOA call POOL_MANAGER.initialize(poolKey(imdUsd, hook), hook.pegSqrtPriceX96()) -> succeeds (hook only checks msg.sender == PoolManager, key and price).

Now IMDUSD=..

SALT=.. forge script script/DeployPegHook.s.sol --sig 'run()' --broadcast: actual: reverts at line 74 with PoolAlreadyInitialized(); expected: run() recognises the already-open pool and finishes, as it already does for an already-deployed hook.
lowDecimals are hardcoded (18, 6) in the init code and never checked against the tokens, so a wrong IMDUSD decimals opens the pool six orders of magnitude off the peg without any revertscript/DeployPegHook.s.sol:30
The hook trusts its constructor for both decimals (it cannot read them itself without an external call), and the script bakes 18/6 into initCode() for whatever IMDUSD address is passed. plan()/run() only check that IMDUSD has code.

If the address is not the 18-decimal imdUSD (a wrong env var, a proxy whose implementation is a 6-decimal token, a test token), the mined address, the peg and the pool are all computed for the wrong gap; the pool opens at a raw price 1e-12 instead of 1 and the hook's whole fee curve is centred on a price that is 1e6 times off. Nothing reverts and the address is final.

Fix: in plan() and run(), require(IERC20Metadata(imdUsd).decimals() == 18 && IERC20Metadata(USDC).decimals() == 6), and have the test for the script cover it.
IMDUSD=<address of any 6-decimal ERC-20 with code> forge script script/DeployPegHook.s.sol --sig 'plan()' --rpc-url $MAINNET_RPC_URL -> prints a salt/hook/poolId; run() deploys and initializes at pegSqrtPriceX96 = 2^96/1e6 (if IMDUSD < USDC), i.e. 1 token0 unit = 1e-12 token1 units, which for two 6-decimal tokens is $0.000001 per imdUSD. Expected: the script refuses a token whose decimals() differ from the 18/6 it encodes.
infoBand and cap boundaries are shifted by the 1-bps floor: the floor fee applies up to 0.26% from $1 (exclusive) and the cap only at exactly <= $0.98 / >= $1.02src/PegFeeHook.sol:128
devBps truncates the deviation to whole basis points, and the band test is devBps <= 25. A price of $0.99740001 has deviation 25.9999 bps -> devBps 25 -> BASE_FEE, so the effective floor region is the open interval ($0.9974, $1.0026), one basis point wider than the documented +/-0.25%. Likewise the ramp moves in 1-bps steps of 285 pips (100, 385, 670, ...

49,714, 50,000), and MAX_FEE applies only when devBps >= 200, i.e. p <= $0.98 exactly; at $0.980001 the fee is 4.9714%.

Not a safety issue, but if the +/-0.25% is a contractual number it should be devBps < BAND_BPS or the comparison should be done on the un-truncated 1e18 deviation. pegSqrtPriceX96 note (Q3): with imdUSD as token0 the exact value 2^96/1e6 = 79228162514264337593543.950336 is truncated to 79228162514264337593543, a relative error of 1.2e-23 (the pool's opening price is $1 - 2.4e-23); stablePrice(pegSqrtPriceX96) is still exactly 1e18 in both orders because the ratio is computed against the same truncated constant.

Immaterial.
feeFor(sqrtPriceX96 for stablePrice 0.99740001e18, zeroForOne=true) with imdUSD as token0 -> 100 (inside band); feeFor(sqrtPriceX96 for 0.99739e18, true) -> 385; feeFor(sqrtPriceX96 for 0.98009e18, true) -> 49_714; feeFor(sqrtPriceX96 for 0.98e18, true) -> 50_000.

Measured with test/scratch/Probe.t.sol test_values.

Expected per README: floor only within +/-0.25%, i.e. 0.9975..1.0025.
Audit flowAgent #1207found 1 high, 1 medium, 2 low, 1 info
The findings file and scratch tests are in place and are excluded from git by the harness's own exclude rules, so no tracked file was changed. The review is complete.

Result

.imd-findings.json holds five findings, two with Foundry proofs that fail on the current code and pass once fixed. The repo's own fork suite was run against live mainnet through a public RPC and passes, 11 of 11.

Findings

High, src/PegFeeHook.sol:106. The escalated depeg fee is bypassed by a restore-then-dump route. Because each swap is priced from its own pre-swap price and direction, a seller at $0.99 first buys a little imdUSD back into the band at the floor fee, then sells everything from inside the band at the floor fee. Proof on a local PoolManager, both token orders: the detour nets the seller 165,123 USDC against 162,168 USDC for the honest single sell, both legs at 100 pips, with the pool ending at $0.69. The same mechanism lets one swap starting at $1.0027 cross the peg and end anywhere below at the floor. The hook's single purpose is defeated for any informed seller. Fixing it needs a design decision: charge from where the swap ends via afterSwap with a return delta, or at least from the price at the start of the transaction.

Medium, src/PegFeeHook.sol:39. No getHookPermissions(). The admission floor you supplied calls it in two tests and both revert before asserting anything. Trading is unaffected. Proof included.

Low, script/DeployPegHook.s.sol:30. Decimals are hardcoded and never checked against the tokens. Verified on the fork: with USDT as IMDUSD the script deploys and opens the pool at a sqrt price of 2^96 times 1e6, a factor of one million off, with no revert.

Low, script/DeployPegHook.s.sol:74. run() is not idempotent. Verified on the fork: a second run, or any third party initializing the pool first, makes the initialize step revert with PoolAlreadyInitialized.

Info, src/PegFeeHook.sol:128. The band rounds down to whole basis points, so 25.99 bps pays the floor and the ramp begins at 385 pips at 26 bps.

Answers to the seven questions where nothing was found

No swap can revert because of the hook. Both extremes of sqrtPrice in both token orders return 50,000 away and 100 towards. A 512-run fuzz confirms stablePrice is monotone and feeFor never reverts across the whole range.

Fee direction is correct in both orders. The only floor-fee leaks are the two described in the high finding.

pegSqrtPriceX96 is exact for the token1 order and floor-truncated by 0.95 units out of 7.9e22 in the token0 order. stablePrice at the peg returns exactly 1e18 in both orders.

No other pool can be opened, the intended one cannot open at another price, and direct calls to the hook have no effect. Initializing before the hook has code fails with InvalidHookResponse.

Front-running the CREATE2 produces the identical contract. No other salt or initcode reaches the address. The only consequence is the script revert above.

Return values, selectors, flag bits, dynamic-fee handling and fee bounds all satisfy v4-core at the vendored commit. Splitting a trade does not reduce the fee; only the restore-then-dump route does.

ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 32 turns · 13m 38s · 546 in · 53.2K out · 2M cached
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highEscalated depeg fee is bypassed by a restore-then-dump route: the fee only looks at the pre-swap price of each swapsrc/PegFeeHook.sol:106
beforeSwap prices every swap from slot0 as it stands before that swap and from its direction only. Two rules then combine against the design: a swap that moves the price towards $1 pays BASE_FEE whatever it does afterwards, and a swap that starts inside the +/-0.25% band pays BASE_FEE however far it pushes (the documented 'known limit'). The doc claims 'every following trade in the same direction pays the escalated fee'.

It does not: a seller at a depegged price first buys a small amount of imdUSD (towards the peg: 0.01%) until the price is back inside the band, then sells everything (starts inside the band: 0.01%). Both legs pay the floor and the pool ends further from $1 than before. The same mechanism lets one swap that starts on the far side of the peg (e.g. $1.0027, selling imdUSD is 'towards') cross the peg and end anywhere below, at the floor: feeFor(sqrtPrice($1.0027), sell) == 100.

Anyone can do this atomically through any router with two swaps in one unlock, or across two blocks; the restore leg costs ~0.01% x 2 of a few thousand dollars of volume.

Impact: the only thing the hook does (make selling into a depeg expensive so that sellers go to redemption and LPs holding the peg are paid) is defeated for any informed seller; the pool stays the cheapest exit in a depeg, which the header comment names as the harm to prevent.

Fix (design decision needed): charge the escalated part from where the swap ends rather than where it starts, e.g. afterSwap + AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA taking the extra fee on the unspecified currency and donating it to in-range LPs; or at minimum compute the fee from the price at the start of the transaction (transient storage) so the in-transaction detour no longer works, and document that the cross-block variant remains.
Local PoolManager (verbatim copy of v4-core's, see proof), pool (imdUSD 18 dec, USDC 6 dec) opened at pegSqrtPriceX96 with full-range liquidity 1e18 (~1M each side).

Sell imdUSD until the price is $0.99 (from the peg: floor, documented).

Honest route: sell S = 200_000e18 imdUSD exact-in; the Swap event fee is 21_486 pips (~2.15%) and the router receives 162_168.241407 USDC.

Revert to the state after step 1.

Detour: buy imdUSD with a price limit at $0.998 (fee 100; buys X = 4_036.31 imdUSD), then sell X + S exact-in (fee 100; price ends at $0.6887).

Net USDC received for the same S sold: 165_123.508279 USDC.

Expected: the detour nets at most what the direct route nets (the dump leg pays >= the escalated fee).

Actual: the detour nets 2_955.27 USDC (1.8%) more, both legs at 100 pips, in both token orders (test_detourBeatsHonestSell_stableIsToken0 / _stableIsToken1).

Run: forge test --match-path test/scratch/PegFeeHook_FeeBypass.t.sol -vv
mediumHook does not implement getHookPermissions(): the admission floor (Hook.protected.t.sol) cannot admit itsrc/PegFeeHook.sol:39
PegFeeHook implements IHooks directly and declares no getHookPermissions(). The protected suite this hook is judged against (.imd/reads/protected/univ4_hook/Hook.protected.t.sol) calls IHookPermissions(hook).getHookPermissions() in test_permissionsMatchTheDeclaredFlags and test_callbacksRefuseCallersOtherThanThePoolManager, and states it is 'the only way to know the implementation agrees with' the mined address bits.

The hook has no fallback, so the call reverts and both tests fail before asserting anything. PoolManager itself never calls it, so trading is unaffected; this blocks admission/verification, not the pool.

Fix: add function getHookPermissions() public pure returns (Hooks.Permissions memory) returning beforeInitialize = true, beforeSwap = true, all twelve others false (matching FLAGS), and optionally assert in the constructor that the struct's bits equal FLAGS so the two cannot drift.
Deploy PegFeeHook at a mined address (flags BEFORE_INITIALIZE | BEFORE_SWAP) with any pool manager/token arguments, then: (bool ok,) = address(hook).staticcall(abi.encodeWithSignature("getHookPermissions()")).

Expected: ok == true and the decoded Hooks.Permissions has exactly beforeInitialize and beforeSwap set.

Actual: ok == false (revert, no such function).

In Hook.protected.t.sol this surfaces as test_permissionsMatchTheDeclaredFlags and test_callbacksRefuseCallersOtherThanThePoolManager reverting.

Run: forge test --match-path test/scratch/PegFeeHook_Permissions.t.sol
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity 0.8.26; import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol"; import {IPoolManager} from "v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol"; import {Hooks} from "v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol"; import {PegFeeHook} from "src/PegFeeHook.sol"; /// @dev What the admission floor (Hook.protected.t.sol) asks every hook: not part of IHooks, so a hook that /// omits it still trades, but the floor cannot admit it. interface IHookPermissions { function getHookPermissions() external pure returns (Hooks.Permissions memory); } /// @notice PegFeeHook does not implement getHookPermissions(); the call reverts, and with it the floor's /// test_permissionsMatchTheDeclaredFlags and test_callbacksRefuseCallersOtherThanThePoolManager. /// Fails on the current code (the call reverts). Passes once the hook declares the permissions its address /// carries: beforeInitialize and beforeSwap true, everything else false. contract PegFeeHookPermissionsTest is Test { IPoolManager pm; PegFeeHook hook; function setUp() public { pm = IPoolManager(address(0xBEEF)); // the hook only stores it; nothing here swaps address stable = address(0x1000); address quote = address(0x2000); bytes memory init = abi.encodePacked(type(PegFeeHook).creationCode, abi.encode(pm, stable, uint8(18), quote, uint8(6))); bytes32 initHash = keccak256(init); uint160 flags = Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG; for (uint256 salt;; ++salt) { address a = vm.computeCreate2Address(bytes32(salt), initHash, address(this)); if (uint160(a) & Hooks.ALL_HOOK_MASK == flags) { hook = new PegFeeHook{salt: bytes32(salt)}(pm, stable, 18, quote, 6); require(address(hook) == a); break; } } } function test_declaresThePermissionsItsAddressCarries() public view { (bool ok, bytes memory ret) = address(hook).staticcall(abi.encodeCall(IHookPermissions.getHookPermissions, ())); assertTrue(ok, "getHookPermissions() reverts: the hook does not declare its permissions"); assertEq(ret.length, 14 * 32, "getHookPermissions() must return Hooks.Permissions (14 bools)"); Hooks.Permissions memory p = abi.decode(ret, (Hooks.Permissions)); uint160 implemented; if (p.beforeInitialize) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG; if (p.afterInitialize) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_INITIALIZE_FLAG; if (p.beforeAddLiquidity) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG; if (p.afterAddLiquidity) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG; if (p.beforeRemoveLiquidity) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG; if (p.afterRemoveLiquidity) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG; if (p.beforeSwap) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG; if (p.afterSwap) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG; if (p.beforeDonate) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_DONATE_FLAG; if (p.afterDonate) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_DONATE_FLAG; if (p.beforeSwapReturnDelta) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG; if (p.afterSwapReturnDelta) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG; if (p.afterAddLiquidityReturnDelta) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_ADD_LIQUIDITY_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG; if (p.afterRemoveLiquidityReturnDelta) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG; assertEq(implemented, uint160(address(hook)) & Hooks.ALL_HOOK_MASK, "declared permissions differ from the address bits"); assertEq(implemented, Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG); } }
lowDeploy script hardcodes 18/6 decimals and never checks the tokens' decimals(), so a wrong IMDUSD address opens the pool at the wrong 'peg'script/DeployPegHook.s.sol:30
plan() and run() only check that IMDUSD has code (line 51/62). The decimals are constants in the initcode, and the hook's pegSqrtPriceX96 is derived from them, not from the tokens. The hook is immutable and its address is fixed by these arguments; the pool, once initialized, exists forever at that price.

A wrong env value (another stablecoin, a proxy admin, a test token) passes every check in the script and the hook, and run() opens a pool whose '$1' is off by 1e6.

Fix: in plan() and run() require IERC20Metadata(imdUsd).decimals() == 18 and IERC20Metadata(USDC).decimals() == 6 (and, if available, that imdUsd is the vault's token, e.g. by symbol or a known address), before mining.
On a mainnet fork: IMDUSD=0xdAC17F958D2ee523a2206206994597C13D831ec7 (USDT: has code, 6 decimals) SALT=. plan() prints a salt and a hook, run() deploys and initializes without any revert.

Expected: refusal, because the token's decimals() (6) differ from the constructor's 18.

Actual: the hook computes pegSqrtPriceX96 for a 12-decimal gap (2^96 * 1e6 when USDT is token1, 2^96 / 1e6 when it is token0) while the true $1 sqrt price for a 6/6 pair is 2^96, so the pool opens at a raw price of 1e12 or 1e-12 ('$1' = $1,000,000 or $0.000001) and beforeInitialize refuses the correct price forever.
lowrun() is not idempotent: if the pool was already initialized (front-runner or a second run), the initialize step revertsscript/DeployPegHook.s.sol:74
run() skips the CREATE2 when the hook already has code (anyone can deploy the identical initcode through the canonical deployer first, which is harmless), but it calls PoolManager.initialize unconditionally.

Once the hook has code, anyone can initialize the one pool at the peg price (the hook accepts that key and price from any sender), after which the deployer's initialize reverts with PoolAlreadyInitialized(). plan() reports 'ALREADY DEPLOYED' for the hook but says nothing about the pool.

The resulting on-chain state is still the intended one, so this is operational: a failed/wasted broadcast and a confusing script run, and a front-runner can make the deployer's second transaction fail at will.

Fix: read slot0 for the pool id (StateLibrary.getSlot0) and skip initialize when sqrtPriceX96 != 0; have plan() print the pool's status too.
On a mainnet fork, after run() has succeeded once (or after any account called POOL_MANAGER.initialize(poolKey(imdUsd, hook), hook.pegSqrtPriceX96()) following the hook deployment), call run() again with the same IMDUSD and SALT.

Expected: no-op or a clear 'already initialized' message.

Actual: revert PoolAlreadyInitialized() from PoolManager.initialize at line 74; with --broadcast the simulation fails and nothing is sent, or, if the third party initializes between simulation and broadcast, the broadcast initialize transaction reverts on-chain.
infoBand edge rounds down: deviations up to 25.99 bps pay the floor and the ramp starts at 385 pips at 26 bpssrc/PegFeeHook.sol:128
devBps is the integer number of whole basis points, so 'within +/-0.25%' is in fact 'less than 0.26%': a price of $0.99740001 (25.9999 bps off) is inside the band and pays BASE_FEE, and the first escalated step, at exactly 26 bps, is 100 + 49_900 * 1 / 175 = 385 pips, not a continuous rise from 100 at 25 bps.

The direction logic, the cap (devBps >= 200 -> 50_000) and the extremes (MIN_SQRT_PRICE / MAX_SQRT_PRICE-1 return 50_000 away and 100 towards in both token orders, never revert) are all correct; this is only a documentation/precision note. If the stated band is meant literally, compare the 1e18-scaled deviation against BAND_BPS * 1e14 instead of flooring.
hook with imdUSD as token0: sqrtP = pegSqrtPriceX96 * sqrt(0.99740001) -> stablePrice(sqrtP) = 997400009999999999 (25.9999 bps below), feeFor(sqrtP, sell) == 100 (expected by the doc: > 100, the price is 0.26% off).

At $0.9973 feeFor(sell) == 670; at $1.0027 feeFor(buy) == 385.

Checked in test/scratch/PegFeeHook_Probe.t.sol (test_numbers logs).
Audit economicsAgent #866found 1 high, 2 medium, 1 low, 1 info
Everything is in place: the findings file holds five findings, the proof test fails on the current code in both token orders, and the working tree has no stray files (the findings file and test/scratch/ are the task's own outputs).

Findings

Findings are written to .imd-findings.json. Ranked by severity:

High. The escalated fee is bypassable. The fee is priced only from the pre-swap price and direction. A seller at $0.99 first buys imdUSD up to exactly $1 with a price-limited exact-in swap (towards the peg, so 0.01%), then sells that amount plus their real dump in the same transaction (starts inside the band, so 0.01% however far it pushes). With about $1M per side in the intended $0.95 to $1.05 range and a 100k imdUSD dump, the direct sale pays 2.15% and nets 96,638 USDC. The two-leg route nets 98,705 USDC and ends at the same price. The bypass costs about $20 of fee on the restore leg plus one extra swap of gas. The NatSpec's claim that every following trade pays the escalated fee is false, and in a depeg the pool is the cheapest exit, which is the opposite of the stated design. Proof: test/scratch/PegFeeBypass.t.sol, built on the vendored Pool and Hooks libraries because the vendored v4-core has no solmate and the full PoolManager does not compile locally.

Medium. A single towards swap overshoots at the floor. From $0.99, one buy with a limit at $1.05 pays 0.01% for the whole path and leaves the pool 5% from the peg. Same root cause, confirmed in both token orders.

Medium. getHookPermissions() is missing. The supplied admission floor calls it in two tests and both revert before checking anything.

Low. Deploy script checks too little. Decimals are hardcoded rather than read, there is no chain-id or PoolManager/USDC code check, and a pool initialized by a third party between plan and run makes the broadcast revert after a correct deployment.

Info. "Exactly one pool" holds per hook address, not per pair. The same initcode at any other flag-matching salt opens a parallel imdUSD/USDC pool. Harmless, but integrations must pin the canonical hook address.

Answers to the seven questions

Swap reverts: none found. Both sqrtPrice extremes in both token orders return a fee, saturation is consistent, and no arithmetic can overflow in the non-saturated branch.

Fee direction: correct in both orders. Away trades paying the floor beyond the documented case: yes, the overshoot and the two-leg route above.

Peg price: exact for imdUSD as token1 and floored by under one part in 10^22 as token0. The peg maps back to exactly 1e18, and stablePrice was monotone over 512 fuzz runs in both orders. One nit: integer bps truncation widens the band to just under 26 bps.

Other pools or direct calls: this hook instance binds to one key at one price, callbacks refuse non-manager callers, and the unused callbacks revert but are never dispatched. Copies of the hook can open parallel pools.

Deployment squatting: the address is fixed by initcode and salt, so a pre-deployment by anyone yields the identical contract and the script skips it. A pre-initialization is harmless on chain but makes the script revert.

v4 requirements: selectors, return lengths, flag bits, dynamic-fee override and fee bounds are all correct. Only the floor's getHookPermissions() is missing.

Economics: splitting an away trade costs more, not less. Self-sandwiching the band edge is the high finding, at about 0.01% of the restore volume.

ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 39 turns · 13m 52s · 642 in · 61.1K out · 2.4M cached
submission9280c78f584f3569a03034a785beb93f48b50960d852064e87a9cc12db5052a7
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bundlenone
highEscalated fee is bypassable: a floor-fee restore leg puts the price inside the band, then one swap dumps any size at the floorsrc/PegFeeHook.sol:105
beforeSwap prices the fee from the pool's price BEFORE the swap and the swap's direction only.

Two properties combine into a systematic bypass of the escalated fee, which is the hook's whole purpose (NatSpec: "once the fee is at its cap the pool is never a cheaper exit than redemption"): (1) a trade towards $1 always pays BASE_FEE, and an exact-in trade bounded by sqrtPriceLimitX96 = pegSqrtPriceX96 (or the band edge) lands exactly inside the band; (2) a trade that starts inside the band pays BASE_FEE however far it pushes.

The NatSpec documents (2) for a single swap and claims "every following trade in the same direction pays the escalated fee"; that is false, because every following seller just prefixes a restore leg. A seller who wants to dump X imdUSD at $0.99 (intended ~2.15%) or at $0.97 (intended 5%) does, in one transaction through any batch router or unlock callback: buy imdUSD up to $1 (fee 0.01%, receives R), then sell R + X (fee 0.01%).

The restore leg is unwound by the dump leg itself, so its only cost is 0.01% of R plus one extra swap's gas, and the price path and end state equal the direct dump's.

Measured with 4e19 liquidity in the intended $0.95-$1.05 range (~$1M per side), X = 100,000 imdUSD, start $0.99: direct dump pays 21,485 pips and nets 96,637.77 USDC; the two-leg route pays 100 pips on both legs (R = 201,512 imdUSD, restore-leg fee about $20) and nets 98,704.60 USDC, ending at the same price ($0.9851). The seller keeps ~$2,067 that the LPs holding the peg were meant to receive; at $0.97 the saving is ~5% of X.

Restoring only to the band edge ($0.9975) costs a quarter of that. Identical numbers with imdUSD as token1. In a real depeg this makes the pool the cheapest exit at ~0.02%, the opposite of the stated design (selling pressure routed to redemption).

Fix options preserving the design: charge from the post-swap price (afterSwap + AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA hook-owned delta, as the NatSpec itself notes), or price the fee from the worse of the pre-swap price and the swap's effective end price (sqrtPriceLimitX96 clamped to the band), so a swap cannot buy its way to the floor.
State: pool initialized at pegSqrtPriceX96, liquidity 4e19 in [pegTick-488, pegTick+488], price moved to $0.99 by one sell.

Direct route: swap(sell imdUSD, exact-in 100_000e18, no limit) -> Swap event fee = 21485, USDC out = 96637766229.

Bypass route, same starting state: swap(buy imdUSD, exact-in 1e30, sqrtPriceLimitX96 = hook.pegSqrtPriceX96()) -> fee 100, buys R = 201512610368483049251144 imdUSD for 200,522.57 USDC; then swap(sell imdUSD, exact-in R + 100_000e18, no limit) -> fee 100, 299,227.17 USDC out; net 98704597571 USDC.

Expected: a route that sells the same net X and does strictly more trading never nets more than the direct sale (its dump leg should pay >= 21485 pips).

Actual: it pays 100 pips and nets 2,066.83 USDC more.

Run: forge test --match-path test/scratch/PegFeeBypass.t.sol -vv (fails in both token orders).
mediumA single 'towards' swap may cross $1 and end arbitrarily far on the other side at the floor feesrc/PegFeeHook.sol:132
feeFor decides 'towards' from the pre-swap price and direction alone and then returns BASE_FEE with no regard to where the swap ends. From $0.99, buying imdUSD is 'towards' $1, so one exact-in buy with a price limit at $1.05 (or MAX_SQRT_PRICE) pays 0.01% for the whole path even though the segment from the band's upper edge ($1.0025) to $1.05 is exactly the trade the ramp is meant to charge up to 5% for, and the pool ends 5% from the peg, further than it started.

This is distinct from the documented known limit (a swap that STARTS inside the band): here the swap starts outside the band on the opposite side. Same root cause as the restore-then-dump finding and fixed by the same change (charge from the post-swap price / effective end price); if the before-swap design is kept, at least clamp a 'towards' swap's sqrtPriceLimitX96 to the far band edge so crossing the band is a second swap that pays the ramp.
State: pool at peg with 4e19 liquidity in [pegTick-488, pegTick+488]; sell imdUSD with a limit at $0.99 so stablePrice = 0.99e18.

Call swap(buy imdUSD = !sellsStable direction, exact-in 1e30, sqrtPriceLimitX96 = pegSqrtPriceX96 * sqrt(1.05) (token0 order) or / sqrt(1.05) (token1 order)).

Expected per spec: the part of the trade pushing the price beyond +0.25% pays the ramp up to MAX_FEE 50000.

Actual: Swap event fee = 100 and stablePrice after = 1.05e18 (1049999999999999999 / 1050000000000000003 in the two orders); the next buy from there pays 50000, the next sell 100.

Observed in test/scratch/Explore.t.sol test_overshoot_t0 / _t1.
mediumgetHookPermissions() is not implemented, so the hook admission floor (Hook.protected.t.sol) reverts before checking the flagssrc/PegFeeHook.sol:39
The hook implements IHooks directly and validates its address with a raw mask in the constructor, but exposes no getHookPermissions().

The supplied floor suite .imd/reads/protected/univ4_hook/Hook.protected.t.sol states that a launch hook may not omit it ("the address is mined for the declared flags, and asking the implementation is the only way to know it agrees with them") and calls IHookPermissions(hook).getHookPermissions() in test_permissionsMatchTheDeclaredFlags and test_callbacksRefuseCallersOtherThanThePoolManager.

A call to a missing selector on a contract with no fallback reverts, so both tests fail with a revert rather than checking anything, and the hook cannot be admitted as is. The v4 PoolManager itself does not need the function, so this is a tooling/admission requirement, not an on-chain fault.

Fix: add function getHookPermissions() public pure returns (Hooks.Permissions memory) returning beforeInitialize = true, beforeSwap = true and all else false, and replace the constructor's raw mask check with Hooks.validateHookPermissions(IHooks(address(this)), getHookPermissions()) so the two can never disagree.
Deploy the hook at a mined address, then (bool ok,) = address(hook).call(abi.encodeWithSignature("getHookPermissions()")); -> ok == false (test/scratch/Explore.t.sol test_getHookPermissionsMissing).

Expected by the floor: ok == true with beforeInitialize and beforeSwap set, equal to IMD_HOOK_FLAGS = 0x2080.

Actual: revert; the floor's two tests fail with EvmError: Revert at the getHookPermissions() call.
lowDeploy script bakes decimals and mainnet addresses in without checking them, and reverts if the pool was initialized before it runsscript/DeployPegHook.s.sol:30
initCode() hardcodes 18/6 decimals and the mainnet USDC and PoolManager addresses; run() only checks that IMDUSD and the CREATE2 deployer have code, not block.chainid, not that POOL_MANAGER and USDC have code, not that IERC20Metadata(imdUsd).decimals() == 18 and USDC.decimals() == 6, and not whether the pool is already initialized.

Three concrete misfires: (a) IMDUSD pointed at a token with other decimals (any 6-decimal token, or a wrong address that has code) deploys a hook whose pegSqrtPriceX96 is 2^96/1e6 and opens the pool at a raw price of 1e-12 quote per unit, i.e. the 'peg' is 1e12 times off and the hook will refuse the correct price forever (no owner, no settings), while the lowest flag-matching salt for that initcode is consumed; (b) run against another chain where the CREATE2 deployer exists (Base, chainid 8453: USDC 0xA0b8... has no code, the PoolManager is at a different address) deploys the hook with dead immutables and then reverts at POOL_MANAGER.initialize, leaving a useless contract at the mined address; (c) if anyone deploys the same initcode and initializes the pool at the peg between plan() and run() (both are permissionless: the hook accepts initialize from any sender), run() skips the deploy correctly but then reverts with PoolAlreadyInitialized, so the broadcast fails although the deployment is complete, and plan() reports only the hook's status, not the pool's.

None of these lose funds; (a) is the only one that produces a wrong on-chain artifact, and it is irreversible for that initcode.

Fix: require block.chainid == 1, POOL_MANAGER.code.length != 0, USDC.code.length != 0, read decimals() from both tokens into initCode (or assert they equal 18 and 6), and read slot0 (StateLibrary.getSlot0) to skip initialize when sqrtPriceX96 != 0, reporting the pool's status in plan().
(a) IMDUSD=<address of a 6-decimal ERC-20 with code> SALT= forge script ... run(): the hook deploys with pegSqrtPriceX96 = 79228162514264337593543 (token0 order) and the pool opens at that price; expected: the script refuses a token whose decimals() != 18.

(b) Same command with --rpc-url for chainid 8453: hook deployed, then initialize reverts (no code at 0x000000000004444c5dc75cB358380D2e3dE08A90); expected: refuse before deploying.

(c) On mainnet after a third party runs the same CREATE2 call and PoolManager.initialize(poolKey, peg): run() reverts with PoolAlreadyInitialized; expected: skip initialize and report the pool as already open.
infoThe 'exactly one pool' guarantee is per hook instance: the same initcode at any other flag-matching salt opens a parallel imdUSD/USDC poolsrc/PegFeeHook.sol:93
beforeInitialize binds the hook to one PoolKey, and no second pool can use this hook address, as documented. But the initcode is public, the CREATE2 deployer is permissionless, and roughly one salt in 16,384 yields an address with exactly the two flag bits, so anyone can deploy an identical PegFeeHook at another address (salt 25907 in the local reproduction) and initialize (imdUSD, USDC, DYNAMIC_FEE_FLAG, 1, thatHook) at $1.

The copy behaves identically and holds no authority over the canonical pool, so this is not an exploit: it only means the README/NatSpec claim that nobody can 'open a second one beside it' holds for the hook address, not for the pair, and integrations must pin the canonical hook address / poolId from the deploy log rather than discover a pool by tokens and fee. No change required; worth stating in the README.
With hook H deployed at salt s0, mine the next salt s1 > s0 whose address & ALL_HOOK_MASK == 0x2080, deploy the same initcode at s1 to get H2, call PoolManager.initialize(PoolKey(imdUSD, USDC, 0x800000, 1, H2), H2.pegSqrtPriceX96()).

Expected per README: refused as a second pool beside the first.

Actual: succeeds (test/scratch/Explore.t.sol test_secondCopyOpensSecondPool, salt 25907 locally).
Audit permissionsAgent #286found 1 high, 1 medium, 2 low
The review is complete. The findings file holds four substantiated findings, two with self-contained Foundry proofs that fail on the current code and pass under a plausible fix. No repository files were changed; only .imd-findings.json and test/scratch/ were written, and the exploration scaffolding was removed.

Findings

High. The escalated fee can be routed around, because it is priced from the pre-swap price only. A sale starting on the far side of the peg at $1.01 can run to $0.95 in one swap at the 0.01% floor. Worse, from a depegged $0.99 a seller buys a little imdUSD back into the band at 0.01%, then sells everything at 0.01%. For a 50,000 imdUSD sale that netted 960 USDC more than the intended 2.15% direct sale and left the pool deeper below the peg. With flash accounting the buy leg needs no capital. Any router will find this as the better quote, so the hook's whole purpose fails against a non-naive seller. Proof attached; it measures net USDC and end price rather than one mechanism, and it mines for the flag sets either fix style would use.

Medium. No getHookPermissions(). The network's protected hook floor calls it in two tests; the call reverts, so admission fails before any assertion. Proof attached.

Low. The deploy script initializes unconditionally. Anyone can redeploy the identical initcode at the mined address and open the pool at $1 first, after which the script reverts with PoolAlreadyInitialized. Harmless to funds, but the two-transaction broadcast can strand the procedure.

Low. The script hardcodes 18/6 decimals and never reads decimals(). A wrong IMDUSD address opens an irreversible pool off by 10^12 with no revert.

Verified clean, against the real vendored PoolManager in both token orders: no swap can revert because of the hook across the full sqrtPrice range; stablePrice is monotone and saturates correctly at both extremes; fee direction is right whether imdUSD is token0 or token1; only the one key at the one price initializes; direct calls to the hook have no effect; selectors, 96-byte return shape, override flag and fee bounds all satisfy v4; the mined address cannot be squatted with other code. The peg sqrtPrice is exact when imdUSD is token1 and floor-truncated by one unit when it is token0, a relative error near 1e-23 that is inherent to a uint160 and not a defect.

Limits of this run. The fork tests could not run here and the vendored v4-core lacks solmate, so proofs use a SwapMath-exact single-range pool; the real-PoolManager numbers were obtained with an ad-hoc command-line remapping and match the proofs to within rounding. The deploy script was reviewed by reading, not executed, because forge's broadcast-mode handling of the canonical CREATE2 deployer blocked a local run.
ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 45 turns · 14m 49s · 770 in · 72.8K out · 3.2M cached
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bundlenone
highEscalated fee is computed from the pre-swap price only, so any seller routes around it: a 'towards' or in-band start lets one swap push the price arbitrarily far away at the 0.01% floor, and a cheap bsrc/PegFeeHook.sol:105
beforeSwap prices the whole swap from slot0 BEFORE the swap and the swap's direction, and nothing bounds where the swap may end. Two consequences, verified against the real PoolManager (vendored v4-core, local deployment, 1e18 full-range liquidity as in test/PegFeeHook.t.sol) and reproduced in the attached proof on a SwapMath-exact single-range pool:

(a) A single swap that starts on the far side of the peg is 'towards' at its pre-swap price and pays BASE_FEE for its entire size however far it crosses. At $1.01 (outside the band, above), selling imdUSD with sqrtPriceLimit at $0.95 runs the price from $1.01 through $1 down to $0.95 and the Swap event records fee = 100 (0.01%). The NatSpec 'known limit' only admits the case of a swap that starts inside the band; the far-side start is the same hole and is undocumented.

(b) The escalated fee on an 'away' sale is therefore optional. Price at $0.99 (depegged; selling imdUSD is 'away' and should pay 100 + 49,900*74/175 = ~21,485 pips). Seller first buys imdUSD until the price is back inside the band ($0.9976): that leg is 'towards' and pays 100 pips. Then sells everything (what was just bought plus the real sale) in one swap: pre-swap price is inside the band, fee = 100 pips for the whole sale. Measured with Y = 50,000 imdUSD: direct sale pays 21,485 pips and returns 46,188.035 USDC; the bypass pays 100 pips on both legs and nets 47,148.894 USDC, i.e. +960.86 USDC (+2.08%) for the seller, taken from LP fee income, and it leaves the pool at $0.8984 instead of $0.9002 (deeper depeg for less fee). The buy leg needed 3,835.65 imdUSD / 3,812.22 USDC of turnover and costs 0.01% of it; with v4 flash accounting both swaps sit in one unlock so it needs no capital at all. The bypass wins whenever 0.02% * (turnover to re-enter the band) < (escalated fee - 0.01%) * sale, i.e. for any sale larger than roughly 1/100 of the turnover needed to move the price back to the band edge, and the deeper the depeg the cheaper it gets relative to the 5% cap. Routers/aggregators will find this path automatically because it is simply the better quote.

Impact: the hook's only purpose (make selling into a depeg cost up to 5%, so pressure goes to redemption and LPs are paid for holding the peg) does not hold against any seller who splits the trade into buy-then-sell or starts from the far side. LPs lose the escalated fee; the peg loses its intended friction.

Fix needs a design decision because a before-swap fee cannot see where the swap ends. Options that keep 'no owner, no storage': (1) also price the swap at params.sqrtPriceLimitX96 clamped to the pool's side (fee = max(feeFor(pre), feeFor(limit, dir))) so a swap allowed to end beyond the far band edge pays for it; honest 'towards' arbitrage then sets its limit at or before the peg (routers that pass MIN/MAX limits would pay the escalated fee on towards-trades, which is the trade-off); or (2) add AFTER_SWAP + AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA and charge the escalated part on the output for the distance the swap actually travelled past the band on the away side (the 'hook-owned delta' the NatSpec declined). Either way, update the NatSpec 'known limit' to the actual one. The attached test measures outcomes (net USDC and end price), not a particular mechanism, and tries the flag sets both fixes would use.
Setup: imdUSD/USDC pool with this hook, 1e18 full-range liquidity at $1 (as in test/PegFeeHook.t.sol).

Sell imdUSD with limit at $0.99 so the price is $0.99 (outside the band). Direct: sell 50,000e18 imdUSD exact-in, limit MIN -> Swap event fee 21485, seller receives 46,188,035,529-531 USDC units, price ends 0.9002.

Instead, from the same $0.99 state: buy imdUSD with limit at $0.9976 (fee 100; receives 3,835.65e18 imdUSD for 3,812.223252 USDC), then sell 3,835.65e18 + 50,000e18 imdUSD exact-in, limit MIN -> Swap event fee 100, receives 50,961.117992 USDC; net 47,148.894740 USDC > 46,188.035529 USDC expected ceiling; price ends 0.8984 < 0.9002.

Single crossing swap: move price to $1.01, sell imdUSD with limit at $0.95 -> Swap event fee 100 for a swap that ends 5% below the peg. Expected: a sale that pushes the price away from $1 from outside the band pays the escalated fee whichever way it is routed; actual: the floor.

mediumHook does not expose getHookPermissions(); the admission floor's permission and caller-refusal checks revert on itsrc/PegFeeHook.sol:39
PegFeeHook implements IHooks directly and has no getHookPermissions() (and no fallback).

The network's hook floor (.imd/reads/protected/univ4_hook/Hook.protected.t.sol) calls IHookPermissions(hook).getHookPermissions() in test_permissionsMatchTheDeclaredFlags and again in test_callbacksRefuseCallersOtherThanThePoolManager; a call to a missing selector on a contract without a fallback reverts, so both tests fail before asserting anything, and the hook cannot be admitted although its address bits and its callbacks are otherwise consistent. v4 itself never calls this function, so there is no on-chain effect; the effect is on the gate this hook must pass.

Fix: add function getHookPermissions() public pure returns (Hooks.Permissions memory) returning beforeInitialize = true, beforeSwap = true, everything else false (matching FLAGS), and keep it in step with FLAGS if the fee fix adds afterSwap permissions.
Deploy PegFeeHook at an address carrying exactly BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG (mined salt, any poolManager address).

Call address(hook).call(abi.encodeWithSignature("getHookPermissions()")).

Expected: success, returning Hooks.Permissions with beforeInitialize and beforeSwap true and the rest false, equal to the address's flag bits.

Actual: the call returns ok = false with empty return data (verified with the real PoolManager deployment and in the attached test).
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity 0.8.26; import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol"; import {IPoolManager} from "v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol"; import {Hooks} from "v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol"; import {PegFeeHook} from "src/PegFeeHook.sol"; /// @notice The network's hook admission floor asks every hook `getHookPermissions()` and compares the answer with /// the flag bits of the mined address. PegFeeHook has no such function: the call reverts, and with it the floor's /// permission and caller-refusal checks. contract PegFeeHookPermissionsTest is Test { address constant POOL_MANAGER = 0x000000000004444c5dc75cB358380D2e3dE08A90; address constant IMDUSD = 0x1000000000000000000000000000000000000001; address constant USDC = 0xA0b86991c6218b36c1d19D4a2e9Eb0cE3606eB48; PegFeeHook hook; function setUp() public { uint160[4] memory candidates = [ Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG, Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG, Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG, Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG ]; bytes32 initHash = keccak256( abi.encodePacked( type(PegFeeHook).creationCode, abi.encode(IPoolManager(POOL_MANAGER), IMDUSD, uint8(18), USDC, uint8(6)) ) ); for (uint256 c; c < candidates.length && address(hook) == address(0); ++c) { for (uint256 salt;; ++salt) { address a = vm.computeCreate2Address(bytes32(salt), initHash, address(this)); if (uint160(a) & Hooks.ALL_HOOK_MASK != candidates[c]) continue; try new PegFeeHook{salt: bytes32(salt)}(IPoolManager(POOL_MANAGER), IMDUSD, 18, USDC, 6) returns ( PegFeeHook deployed ) { hook = deployed; } catch {} break; } } require(address(hook) != address(0), "could not place the hook on an address it accepts"); } function test_getHookPermissionsAnswersAndMatchesTheAddress() public { (bool ok, bytes memory ret) = address(hook).call(abi.encodeWithSignature("getHookPermissions()")); assertTrue(ok, "getHookPermissions() reverts: the admission floor cannot read the hook's permissions"); Hooks.Permissions memory p = abi.decode(ret, (Hooks.Permissions)); uint160 implemented; if (p.beforeInitialize) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG; if (p.afterInitialize) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_INITIALIZE_FLAG; if (p.beforeAddLiquidity) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG; if (p.afterAddLiquidity) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG; if (p.beforeRemoveLiquidity) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG; if (p.afterRemoveLiquidity) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG; if (p.beforeSwap) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG; if (p.afterSwap) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG; if (p.beforeDonate) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_DONATE_FLAG; if (p.afterDonate) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_DONATE_FLAG; if (p.beforeSwapReturnDelta) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG; if (p.afterSwapReturnDelta) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG; if (p.afterAddLiquidityReturnDelta) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_ADD_LIQUIDITY_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG; if (p.afterRemoveLiquidityReturnDelta) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG; assertTrue(p.beforeInitialize, "a launch hook needs an initialization callback"); assertEq(implemented, uint160(address(hook)) & Hooks.ALL_HOOK_MASK, "permissions disagree with the address"); } }
lowDeploy script initializes unconditionally: anyone who sees the plan can deploy the identical hook and open the pool at $1 first, after which run() reverts (deploy and initialize are two transactions, script/DeployPegHook.s.sol:74
The hook address is public knowledge once plan() has run (deterministic salt, canonical deployer, initcode anyone can rebuild from the repo), and the pool cannot be opened before the hook has code (PoolManager.initialize calls beforeInitialize; an empty address returns no data and Hooks.callHook reverts InvalidHookResponse).

But anyone can deploy the identical initcode with the mined salt through 0x4e59...956C (same address, same code: harmless, and run() already tolerates it via the hook.code.length == 0 check), and then call PoolManager.initialize(poolKey, pegSqrtPriceX96) themselves: beforeInitialize accepts it because it is the one key at the one price. run() does not check whether the pool is already initialized, so Pool.initialize reverts with PoolAlreadyInitialized (lib/v4-core/src/libraries/Pool.sol:101) and the script fails.

Because the script broadcasts the hook deployment and the initialize as two transactions, a front-runner who acts between them makes the second fail after the first is mined; in simulation the whole run fails and nothing is broadcast. No funds or authority are at stake (the squatted pool is exactly the intended pool, no owner), but the launch procedure breaks and needs a hand-edit.

A different salt or initcode cannot reach the same address, and a different contract cannot be placed there, so squatting the address itself is not possible; this is the only front-run with an effect.

Fix: read slot0 via StateLibrary.getSlot0 (or extsload of keccak256(abi.encode(poolId, 6))) and skip initialize when sqrtPriceX96 != 0, asserting it equals pegSqrtPriceX96 instead.
State: IMDUSD deployed; plan() printed salt S and hook H.

Third party: (1) call 0x4e59b44847b379578588920cA78FbF26c0B4956C with S || initCode(imdUsd) -> H now has code; (2) call POOL_MANAGER.initialize(poolKey(imdUsd, H), PegFeeHook(H).pegSqrtPriceX96()) -> succeeds (beforeInitialize returns its selector for this key/price).

Then the operator runs `IMDUSD=..

SALT=S forge script script/DeployPegHook.s.sol --sig run() --broadcast: the hook.code.length == 0branch is skipped,POOL_MANAGER.initialize(...)` reverts PoolAlreadyInitialized, run() reverts.

Expected: the script recognises the already-open pool at $1 and finishes.

Actual: it reverts and the documented launch procedure cannot complete.
lowDeploy script hardcodes 18/6 decimals and never checks IMDUSD.decimals(): a wrong IMDUSD address opens the pool at a price off by 10^12 with no revertscript/DeployPegHook.s.sol:30
imdUSD comes from the IMDUSD environment variable and the only check is imdUsd.code.length != 0. Its decimals (and USDC's) are constants in the initcode. The hook has no way to notice: pegSqrtPriceX96 is derived from the constants, and beforeInitialize accepts exactly that price.

If the operator points IMDUSD at the wrong contract (a proxy admin, a different-decimals token, a token on the wrong chain with code at that address), the script deploys and opens a pool whose '$1' is 10^(18-d) times off, and since the hook address and pool id are fixed by the arguments, the only remedy is a new hook and a new pool while the wrong one stays open forever with this hook attached.

Cheap guard: require IERC20Metadata(imdUsd).decimals() == 18 and IERC20Metadata(USDC).decimals() == 6 in plan() and run() (both have an RPC), and print the token symbols in plan().
IMDUSD=<address of any 6-decimal ERC-20 with code> forge script script/DeployPegHook.s.sol --sig run() --rpc-url $MAINNET_RPC_URL.

Expected: refusal ('IMDUSD is not an 18-decimal token').

Actual: mine() succeeds, the hook deploys with stableDecimals = 18, the pool is initialized at pegSqrtPriceX96 = 2^96/1e6 (imdUSD as token0) i.e. 1 imdUSD = 1e-12 raw, which for a 6-decimal token is $0.000001; the hook reports stablePrice(peg) = 1e18 and charges the floor at that price.
Audit judgeAgent #956found 1 high, 1 medium, 3 low, 2 info
The review is complete. The findings file holds 7 findings, the tracked tree is unchanged, and all scratch work lives under test/scratch/.

What I kept, after reproducing each against the code

High, fee bypass at src/PegFeeHook.sol:106. The fee is priced from the pre-swap price and direction only. A seller at a depegged price buys imdUSD back to the peg at the floor fee, then sells that plus the real sale in one in-band swap at the floor fee. With the deploy script's intended range, dumping 100,000 imdUSD at $0.99 nets 2,066.83 USDC more than the honest sale and ends at the same price. One swap starting across the peg likewise crosses to $1.05 at the floor. All four specialists reported this. I merged the restore-then-dump and cross-through variants since they share one root cause and one fix. I wrote a new proof on a harness built from v4-core's own Pool library, since the vendored v4-core cannot compile PoolManager without solmate. It fails in both token orders now and passes with the max-of-start-and-limit fix, which I verified and then reverted.

Medium, missing getHookPermissions() at line 39. The protected floor suite calls it in two tests and both revert. All three specialist proofs fail for this reason. I attached one of them and confirmed it passes once the function is added.

Low, deploy script initializes unconditionally at script/DeployPegHook.s.sol:74. Anyone can open the correct pool first, and the script then reverts with PoolAlreadyInitialized. The hook accepting any sender and the second-initialize revert were reproduced on the harness.

Low, hardcoded decimals and addresses at line 30. The script's plan() accepts a 6-decimal token and encodes 18 regardless. Reproduced.

Low, empty pool before first liquidity at line 14. A 1-wei swap moved the empty pool to $0.90 with zero delta. The planned range then minted single-sided, and the buyer took imdUSD at the floor fee for an average of about $0.976.

Info, band truncation at line 128 and info, parallel pool from a second copy at line 93, both reproduced.

What did not reproduce or is clean

No swap can revert because of the hook. The extremes of sqrtPrice return 50,000 away and 100 towards in both orders. The direction logic is correct in both orders.

pegSqrtPriceX96 is exact as token1 and off by 1.2e-23 as token0; stablePrice is exactly 1e18 at the peg and monotone across a sweep in both orders.

No other contract can be placed at the mined address, and no other salt or initcode reaches it.

Return values, selectors, flag bits, override flag, and fee bounds are all correct.

Limitations

The repository tests require a mainnet fork and no RPC was available, so the hook was exercised on the local Pool-library harness, not the live PoolManager. The protected floor suite itself could not be run here because it imports PoolManager and files outside this tree.
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highEscalated fee is priced from the pre-swap price only: a floor-fee restore leg (or a swap that starts across the peg) lets any size be dumped at 0.01%src/PegFeeHook.sol:106
beforeSwap reads slot0 once and prices the whole swap from that price and the swap's direction; params.sqrtPriceLimitX96 and the amount are ignored, so nothing bounds where a floor-fee swap may end. Two rules then combine against the design: a trade towards $1 always pays BASE_FEE, and a trade that starts inside the +/-0.25% band pays BASE_FEE however far it pushes (the NatSpec's 'known limit').

The NatSpec claims 'every following trade in the same direction pays the escalated fee'; it does not. A seller at a depegged price first buys imdUSD with a price limit at the peg (towards: 100 pips), which lands the pool exactly inside the band, then sells what they bought plus the real sale in one swap (starts inside the band: 100 pips).

The restore leg is unwound by the dump leg, so its only cost is 0.01% of its turnover plus one swap of gas; with v4 flash accounting both legs sit in one unlock and need no extra capital. Any router or aggregator finds this path because it is simply the better quote.

The same root cause lets one swap that starts on the far side of the peg (e.g. at $0.99, buying imdUSD) cross $1 and end 5% above it at the floor, although a buy starting just above the band pays the ramp for the same path.

Impact: the hook's only purpose (make selling into a depeg cost up to 5% so pressure goes to redemption and LPs holding the peg are paid for it; NatSpec: 'once the fee is at its cap the pool is never a cheaper exit than redemption') does not hold against any informed seller; the pool stays the cheapest exit at ~0.02% total and LPs earn nothing from the escalation.

Measured with the deploy script's intended range (liquidity 4e19 in [pegTick-488, pegTick+488], ~$1M per side), both token orders identical: dumping 100,000 imdUSD at $0.99 directly pays 21,485 pips and nets 96,637.766229 USDC; restore-then-dump pays 100 pips on both legs and nets 98,704.597571 USDC, +2,066.83 USDC (2.1%) taken from LP fee income, ending at the same price ($0.9851). At $0.97 the saving is the whole 5%.

Fix (design decision, both keep no owner/no storage): (a) also price the swap at its end bound, fee = max(feeFor(slot0, dir), feeFor(params.sqrtPriceLimitX96, dir)), so a swap allowed to end beyond the far band edge pays for it and honest arbitrage sets its limit at or before the peg (routers passing MIN/MAX limits then pay the escalated fee on towards-trades: the trade-off); or (b) add AFTER_SWAP + AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA and charge the escalated part on the realised end price (changes the flag set and the mined address).

Either way correct the NatSpec 'known limit'. Variant (a) was checked against the attached test: all four cases pass with it.
Pool (imdUSD 18 dec, USDC 6 dec) opened at pegSqrtPriceX96 with liquidity 4e19 in [pegTick-488, pegTick+488]; sell imdUSD with limit at $0.99 so stablePrice = 0.99e18.

Direct: swap(sell imdUSD, exact-in 100_000e18, limit MIN_SQRT_PRICE+1) -> fee 21485, USDC out 96637766229, end price 0.98520.

Same start, detour: swap(buy imdUSD, exact-in 1e30, limit = hook.pegSqrtPriceX96()) -> fee 100, buys 201,512.61 imdUSD for 200,522.57 USDC; then swap(sell imdUSD, exact-in 201512610368483049251144 + 100_000e18, limit MIN) -> fee 100, 299,227.17 USDC out; net 98704597571 USDC, end price 0.98509.

Expected: the detour nets at most what the direct sale nets (its dump leg pays >= 21485 pips).

Actual: it pays 100 pips and nets 2,066.83 USDC more, in both token orders.

Cross-through: from $0.99, swap(buy imdUSD, exact-in 1e30, limit = sqrt for $1.05) -> fee 100 for the whole path, 1,186,580.75 USDC paid; split at $1.003 the far half pays 1240 pips (token0 order) / 1525 (token1 order) and the two halves cost 1,187,637.81 USDC for the same imdUSD.

Run: forge test --match-path test/scratch/PegFeeBypass.t.sol -vv (4 failures on the current code; the harness is v4-core's own Pool library, since the vendored v4-core cannot compile PoolManager without solmate).
mediumHook does not implement getHookPermissions(); the hook admission floor (Hook.protected.t.sol) reverts before checking the flagssrc/PegFeeHook.sol:39
PegFeeHook implements IHooks directly and validates its address with a raw mask in the constructor, but declares no getHookPermissions() and has no fallback.

The supplied floor suite .imd/reads/protected/univ4_hook/Hook.protected.t.sol states a launch hook may not omit it ('the address is mined for the declared flags, and asking the implementation is the only way to know it agrees with them') and calls IHookPermissions(hook).getHookPermissions() in test_permissionsMatchTheDeclaredFlags and test_callbacksRefuseCallersOtherThanThePoolManager.

A call to a missing selector on a contract without a fallback reverts, so both tests fail with EvmError: Revert before asserting anything, and the hook cannot be admitted although its address bits and callbacks are otherwise consistent. v4 itself never calls the function, so trading is unaffected.

Fix: add function getHookPermissions() public pure returns (Hooks.Permissions memory) returning beforeInitialize = true, beforeSwap = true and the twelve others false, and replace the constructor's raw mask check with Hooks.validateHookPermissions(IHooks(address(this)), getHookPermissions()) so the declaration and the address can never drift (update both if the fee fix adds afterSwap permissions).
Deploy PegFeeHook at a mined address carrying exactly BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG (0x2080), any constructor arguments.

(bool ok, bytes memory ret) = address(hook).staticcall(abi.encodeWithSignature("getHookPermissions()")).

Expected: ok == true and ret decodes to Hooks.Permissions with beforeInitialize and beforeSwap set, equal to uint160(address(hook)) & ALL_HOOK_MASK.

Actual: ok == false, empty return data.

Equivalent floor run: IMD_HOOK_CREATION_CODE= IMD_HOOK_FLAGS=8320 forge test --match-contract HookProtectedTest -> test_permissionsMatchTheDeclaredFlags and test_callbacksRefuseCallersOtherThanThePoolManager fail with EvmError: Revert at the getHookPermissions() call.

All three specialist proofs for this (Proof_10b090433d1a, Proof_b96ae0f24d2f, Proof_efd976a01091) were run and fail for this reason.
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity 0.8.26; import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol"; import {IPoolManager} from "v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol"; import {Hooks} from "v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol"; import {PegFeeHook} from "src/PegFeeHook.sol"; /// @dev What the admission floor (Hook.protected.t.sol) asks every hook: not part of IHooks, so a hook that /// omits it still trades, but the floor cannot admit it. interface IHookPermissions { function getHookPermissions() external pure returns (Hooks.Permissions memory); } /// @notice PegFeeHook does not implement getHookPermissions(); the call reverts, and with it the floor's /// test_permissionsMatchTheDeclaredFlags and test_callbacksRefuseCallersOtherThanThePoolManager. /// Fails on the current code (the call reverts). Passes once the hook declares the permissions its address /// carries: beforeInitialize and beforeSwap true, everything else false. contract PegFeeHookPermissionsTest is Test { IPoolManager pm; PegFeeHook hook; function setUp() public { pm = IPoolManager(address(0xBEEF)); // the hook only stores it; nothing here swaps address stable = address(0x1000); address quote = address(0x2000); bytes memory init = abi.encodePacked(type(PegFeeHook).creationCode, abi.encode(pm, stable, uint8(18), quote, uint8(6))); bytes32 initHash = keccak256(init); uint160 flags = Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG; for (uint256 salt;; ++salt) { address a = vm.computeCreate2Address(bytes32(salt), initHash, address(this)); if (uint160(a) & Hooks.ALL_HOOK_MASK == flags) { hook = new PegFeeHook{salt: bytes32(salt)}(pm, stable, 18, quote, 6); require(address(hook) == a); break; } } } function test_declaresThePermissionsItsAddressCarries() public view { (bool ok, bytes memory ret) = address(hook).staticcall(abi.encodeCall(IHookPermissions.getHookPermissions, ())); assertTrue(ok, "getHookPermissions() reverts: the hook does not declare its permissions"); assertEq(ret.length, 14 * 32, "getHookPermissions() must return Hooks.Permissions (14 bools)"); Hooks.Permissions memory p = abi.decode(ret, (Hooks.Permissions)); uint160 implemented; if (p.beforeInitialize) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG; if (p.afterInitialize) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_INITIALIZE_FLAG; if (p.beforeAddLiquidity) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG; if (p.afterAddLiquidity) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG; if (p.beforeRemoveLiquidity) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG; if (p.afterRemoveLiquidity) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG; if (p.beforeSwap) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG; if (p.afterSwap) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG; if (p.beforeDonate) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_DONATE_FLAG; if (p.afterDonate) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_DONATE_FLAG; if (p.beforeSwapReturnDelta) implemented |= Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG; if (p.afterSwapReturnDelta) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG; if (p.afterAddLiquidityReturnDelta) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_ADD_LIQUIDITY_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG; if (p.afterRemoveLiquidityReturnDelta) implemented |= Hooks.AFTER_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG; assertEq(implemented, uint160(address(hook)) & Hooks.ALL_HOOK_MASK, "declared permissions differ from the address bits"); assertEq(implemented, Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG); } }
lowrun() initializes the pool unconditionally: anyone can open the (correct) pool first, after which the deploy script reverts with PoolAlreadyInitializedscript/DeployPegHook.s.sol:74
The hook address is public once plan() has run (deterministic lowest salt, canonical deployer, initcode anyone can rebuild from the repo), anyone can deploy the identical initcode through 0x4e59...956C first (harmless: same code at the same address, and run() already tolerates it via the hook.code.length == 0 check), and beforeInitialize accepts the one key at the one price from any sender (it ignores the sender argument).

So a third party can call PoolManager.initialize(poolKey, pegSqrtPriceX96) before the operator. run() does not check whether the pool exists: Pool.initialize (lib/v4-core/src/libraries/Pool.sol:101) reverts PoolAlreadyInitialized, and the script fails after the deploy transaction (if in the same broadcast) was mined; a second run() after a successful one fails the same way, and plan() reports only the hook's status, not the pool's.

No funds or authority are at stake (the squatted pool is exactly the intended pool, no owner), and no other front-run has an effect: a different salt or initcode cannot reach the mined address and no other contract can be placed there. This is the only squatting/front-run with a consequence, and it breaks the documented launch procedure.

Fix: read slot0 for the pool id (StateLibrary.getSlot0 or extsload of keccak256(abi.encode(poolId, 6))) and skip initialize when sqrtPriceX96 != 0, asserting it equals pegSqrtPriceX96; print the pool's status in plan().
State: plan() printed salt S and hook H for IMDUSD.

Third party: (1) call 0x4e59b44847b379578588920cA78FbF26c0B4956C with S || initCode(imdUsd) -> H has code; (2) from any EOA call POOL_MANAGER.initialize(poolKey(imdUsd, H), PegFeeHook(H).pegSqrtPriceX96()) -> succeeds: beforeInitialize only checks msg.sender == PoolManager, the key and the price (reproduced on the local Pool-library harness, test/scratch/Explore.t.sol test_secondCopyAndAnyoneInitializes: initialize from address(0xBAD) succeeds, a second initialize reverts PoolAlreadyInitialized).

Operator then runs IMDUSD=..

SALT=S forge script script/DeployPegHook.s.sol --sig run() --broadcast: the hook.code.length == 0 branch is skipped, line 74 reverts PoolAlreadyInitialized(), run() fails.

Expected: run() recognises the already-open pool at $1 and finishes, as it already does for an already-deployed hook.

Same failure for a second run() after a successful first.
lowDeploy script hardcodes 18/6 decimals and mainnet addresses without checking them: a wrong IMDUSD opens the pool at a 'peg' off by 10^12, irreversibly for that initcodescript/DeployPegHook.s.sol:30
initCode() bakes uint8(18) and uint8(6) and the mainnet USDC and PoolManager addresses into the hook's constructor arguments for whatever IMDUSD is passed. plan() and run() only check imdUsd.code.length != 0 and that the CREATE2 deployer has code: not block.chainid, not that POOL_MANAGER and USDC have code, not IERC20Metadata(imdUsd).decimals() == 18 and USDC.decimals() == 6.

The hook trusts its constructor (it cannot read decimals itself) and derives pegSqrtPriceX96 from the constants, and beforeInitialize accepts exactly that price.

If IMDUSD points at a token with other decimals (a wrong env value, a proxy admin, a test token, another stablecoin), everything passes and run() opens a pool whose '$1' is 10^(18-d) times off; the hook address and pool id are fixed by those arguments, so the wrong pool exists forever with this hook attached and the hook refuses the correct price forever (no owner, no settings).

Run on another chain where the CREATE2 deployer exists (e.g. chainid 8453), the hook deploys with dead immutables and then reverts at initialize, leaving a useless contract at the mined address.

Fix: require block.chainid == 1, POOL_MANAGER.code.length != 0, USDC.code.length != 0, and IERC20Metadata(imdUsd).decimals() == 18 && IERC20Metadata(USDC).decimals() == 6 in plan() and run() (both have an RPC), and print the token symbols in plan().
test/scratch/Explore.t.sol test_scriptAcceptsSixDecimalToken: deploy a 6-decimal ERC-20 T, vm.setEnv("IMDUSD", T), DeployPegHook.plan() -> succeeds and prints a salt, hook and poolId ('status: not deployed'); the last 160 bytes of initCode(T) decode to (POOL_MANAGER, T, 18, USDC, 6) while T.decimals() == 6.

On a mainnet fork, IMDUSD=0xdAC17F958D2ee523a2206206994597C13D831ec7 (USDT, 6 decimals, has code) SALT= run() deploys and initializes without a revert at pegSqrtPriceX96 = 2^96 * 1e6 (USDT is token1 there), i.e. 1 token0 unit = 1e12 token1 units, '$1' = $1,000,000 for a 6/6 pair, while the correct $1 sqrt price is 2^96.

Expected: the script refuses a token whose decimals() differ from the 18/6 it encodes.
lowThe $1 opening price is not durable: between initialize and the first liquidity add a 1-wei swap moves the empty pool to any price for free, so the first LP deposit can be single-sided and sold below script/DeployPegHook.s.sol:14
run() opens the pool and stops; liquidity comes in a later transaction. In a v4 pool with zero liquidity, Pool.swap walks the price to sqrtPriceLimitX96 exchanging nothing (every computeSwapStep with liquidity 0 has amountIn = feeAmount = 0 and moves to the next target), and the hook cannot object: beforeSwap only sets a fee, which at $1 is the floor. So anyone can set the pool to, say, $0.90 for the price of gas before the LP transaction lands.

An LP that then mints the planned $0.95-$1.05 position gets a single-sided position (all imdUSD when the price is below the range; a PositionManager mint with both amount maxes set does not notice), and the attacker buys that imdUSD from $0.95 upward, classified 'towards' at 0.01%, at an average of about $0.976 against a $1 redemption value: the LP loses ~2.4% of the deposit. This is v4 behaviour, not a hook bug, but the deploy flow is what exposes it.

Fix: open and seed the pool in one transaction (initialize followed by modifyLiquidity in one unlock, or PositionManager's initializePool + mint multicall), or have the seeding transaction assert slot0.sqrtPriceX96 == pegSqrtPriceX96 before minting.
test/scratch/Explore.t.sol test_emptyPoolPriceMovesForFree (Pool-library harness): initialize at pegSqrtPriceX96, liquidity 0; swap(zeroForOne = true, amountSpecified = -1, sqrtPriceLimitX96 = peg * sqrt(0.90)) -> succeeds with delta (0, 0), fee 100, slot0 now at $0.90 (stablePrice 899999999999999998). modifyLiquidity(pegTick-488, pegTick+488, 4e19) then requires 1,952,191 imdUSD and 0 USDC.

Next swap buying imdUSD with limit at the peg: fee 100 (towards), 989,949.80 imdUSD received for 966,138.10 USDC.

Expected: the first liquidity meets the pool at $1 as the README and script promise.
infoBand and cap boundaries are shifted by whole-basis-point truncation: the floor applies up to 0.26% from $1 (exclusive) and the ramp steps in 285-pip incrementssrc/PegFeeHook.sol:128
devBps truncates the deviation to whole basis points and the band test is devBps <= 25, so the effective floor region is the open interval ($0.9974, $1.0026), one basis point wider than the documented +/-0.25%; the ramp then moves in 1-bps steps of 285 pips (100, 385, 670, ..., 49,714, 50,000), and MAX_FEE applies only at devBps >= 200, i.e. exactly <= $0.98 / >= $1.02 (at $0.98009 the fee is 4.9714%). Not a safety issue.

If +/-0.25% is a contractual number, compare the un-truncated 1e18 deviation (dev < BAND_BPS * 1e14) or use devBps < BAND_BPS.

Also checked here and found exact: pegSqrtPriceX96 is 79228162514264337593543 (2^96/1e6, truncated by 0.95, relative error 1.2e-23) with imdUSD as token0 and 2^96*1e6 exactly as token1; stablePrice(pegSqrtPriceX96) is exactly 1e18 in both orders; stablePrice is monotone over a 400-point sweep of MIN..MAX sqrt price in both orders; feeFor at MIN_SQRT_PRICE and MAX_SQRT_PRICE-1 returns 50,000 away and 100 towards in both orders and never reverts.
test/scratch/Explore.t.sol test_bandEdgeValues, imdUSD as token0: sqrtP = peg * sqrt(0.99740001) -> stablePrice(sqrtP) = 997400009999999999 (25.9999 bps below), feeFor(sqrtP, sell) == 100 (expected by the README: > 100, the price is more than 0.25% off); feeFor at $0.9973 == 670; at $0.98009 == 49714; at $0.98 == 50000. Same values with imdUSD as token1.
infoThe 'exactly one pool' guarantee is per hook instance: the same initcode at another flag-matching salt opens a parallel imdUSD/USDC poolsrc/PegFeeHook.sol:93
beforeInitialize binds the hook to one PoolKey and no second pool can use this hook address, as documented. But the initcode is public, the CREATE2 deployer is permissionless and about one salt in 16,384 yields an address with exactly the two flag bits, so anyone can deploy an identical PegFeeHook at another address and initialize (imdUSD, USDC, DYNAMIC_FEE_FLAG, 1, thatHook) at $1.

The copy behaves identically and has no authority over the canonical pool, so this is not an exploit; it only means the README/NatSpec claim that nobody can 'open a second one beside it' holds for the hook address, not for the pair, and integrations must pin the canonical hook address / poolId from the deploy log rather than discover a pool by tokens and fee. No code change required; worth stating in the README.
test/scratch/Explore.t.sol test_secondCopyAndAnyoneInitializes: with the hook H at salt 12590 (local deployer), mine the next salt whose address & ALL_HOOK_MASK == 0x2080 (25907 locally), deploy the same initcode to get H2, then from the pool manager call H2.beforeInitialize(_, PoolKey(imdUSD, USDC, 0x800000, 1, H2), H2.pegSqrtPriceX96()).

Expected per README: refused as a second pool beside the first.

Actual: returns IHooks.beforeInitialize.selector, so PoolManager.initialize on that key succeeds.
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