Build TickBandGateHook, a simple, creative Uniswap v4 hook: a peg-band hook for stable pairs: at initialization the hook records a band [minTick, maxTick] fixed at construction, and afterSwap reverts …
Build TickBandGateHook, a simple, creative Uniswap v4 hook: a peg-band hook for stable pairs: at initialization the hook records a band [minTick, maxTick] fixed at construction, and afterSwap reverts (undoing the swap) if the pool's tick leaves the band, so the pool trades only inside it. Tests cover a swap that stays inside, one that would leave, and initialization outside the band being refused.
Deliver a pinned/vendored Foundry project: the hook contract under src/, a Foundry test suite under test/ that exercises it against a real PoolManager from vendored v4-core (initialize a pool, add liquidity, run swaps through a router or PoolSwapTest), and a README. Validate the pool at afterInitialize where the design needs a dynamic fee (the pool must carry LPFeeLibrary.DYNAMIC_FEE_FLAG) and revert otherwise.
Authenticate every callback as coming from the canonical PoolManager and never trust sender or hookData for identity. Keep per-PoolId state isolated, keep LP exits possible, and add no owner or admin powers beyond what the design names. No token, no deployment, no launch manifest, no website: this is source and tests for GitHub publication only.
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highVendored v4-core has no types/PoolOperation.sol, so the protected Hook floor cannot compile against this projectremappings.txt:2
remappings.txt maps v4-core/ to lib/v4-core/. That snapshot (README: e50237c…) still defines SwapParams and ModifyLiquidityParams inside IPoolManager and has no src/types/PoolOperation.sol. The protected suite .imd/reads/protected/univ4_hook/Hook.protected.t.sol imports {ModifyLiquidityParams, SwapParams} from v4-core/src/types/PoolOperation.sol.
The delivered test and hook both use IPoolManager.SwapParams, so nothing in the delivered project noticed the mismatch.
Hook does not validate its own address flags, so a wrongly mined deployment can trap LP exitssrc/TickBandGateHook.sol:32
The constructor never calls Hooks.validateHookPermissions(this, getHookPermissions()). Anyone can deploy this exact bytecode at an address carrying extra flag bits. PoolManager dispatches by address bits, and the hook has no matching function or fallback for those callbacks.
That makes the README statement 'the hook cannot block LP exits' conditional on the deployer's mining. The requirement 'keep LP exits possible' is therefore not enforced by the code.
vm.etch the runtime code at address(uint160(0x1040 | (1<<9))), i.e. AFTER_INITIALIZE | AFTER_SWAP | BEFORE_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY, with band [-120,120].
Initialize a dynamic-fee pool at tick 0 (succeeds).
Add liquidity [-600,600] with 1000e18 (succeeds). modifyLiquidity(-600,600,-1000e18) reverts because the manager calls the missing beforeRemoveLiquidity, so the LP cannot exit.
I ran this and it reverts; a constructor check would make the deploy fail instead.
Dynamic-fee flag is mandatory but the hook never sets a fee, so LP fee is 0 forever with no way to change itsrc/TickBandGateHook.sol:54
afterInitialize refuses any pool without DYNAMIC_FEE_FLAG, yet nothing calls poolManager.updateDynamicLPFee. That call is restricted to the hook address, and the hook has no code path or owner that makes it. Every pool this hook accepts therefore has lpFee = 0 permanently, and LPs on a stable pair earn no swap fees while carrying peg-band inventory risk.
The README frames the flag as 'making compatible pools explicit' and never says the fee stays 0. The task only asks for the dynamic-fee check 'where the design needs' one, and this design has no fee logic.
Initialize a pool with fee = DYNAMIC_FEE_FLAG, tickSpacing 60, on this hook.
Add liquidity [-600,600] with 1000e18, then swap zeroForOne -1e18. getSlot0 shows lpFee == 0, and getFeeGrowthGlobals returns (0,0). updateDynamicLPFee(key, 500) from any other address reverts.
I ran this.
Fixing it needs a scope decision: drop the flag requirement, or state an explicit fee rule in the design.
Inclusive lower bound is not honoured when the price lands exactly on the band-edge tick boundarysrc/TickBandGateHook.sol:70
afterSwap trusts slot0.tick. For a zeroForOne swap that ends exactly at sqrtPrice(tickNext), v4 stores tick = tickNext - 1. If an LP range or word boundary sits at minTick, a swap that exactly reaches price(minTick) is reported as minTick-1 and reverts, although the README says a final tick equal to an endpoint is allowed.
The upper side has no such problem: reaching price(maxTick) stores tick = maxTick and passes. The band is therefore asymmetric, and the natural configuration of liquidity aligned to the band edge cannot be traded down to its edge.
Band [-120,120], tickSpacing 60, liquidity [-120,120] with 1000e18, pool initialized at tick 0. swap(zeroForOne=true, amountSpecified=-100e18, sqrtPriceLimitX96=TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(-120)) reverts with TickOutsideBand(-121,-120,120).
The mirror swap (zeroForOne=false, limit getSqrtPriceAtTick(120)) succeeds and leaves tick == 120 with price == price(120).
I ran both.
Test suite passes with the upper-bound check removed from afterSwap, and with either bound made exclusivetest/TickBandGateHook.t.sol:88
The only swap-revert test moves the price down (zeroForOne) with a bare vm.expectRevert(). No oneForZero swap is tested, and no test uses a tick equal to minTick or maxTick, so the inclusive-bound claim is unverified. Reverts are never matched on TickOutsideBand.
In a scratch copy, change afterSwap to
if (tick < minTick) revert TickOutsideBand(tick,minTick,maxTick);, so the upper-bound swap check is gone.forge teststill gives 6 passed.Changing _checkTick to
tick >= maxTickortick <= minTickalso gives 6 passed.Only removing the upper check from the shared _checkTick makes test_initializationOutsideBandIsRefused fail, and that mutation is caught only because of the init test.
afterSwap caller authentication is untestedtest/TickBandGateHook.t.sol:139
test_callbacksRejectNonManagerCaller calls only afterInitialize. The requirement 'authenticate every callback' has no test for afterSwap.
Delete
onlyPoolManagerfrom afterSwap in a scratch copy; all 6 tests still pass. A direct callhook.afterSwap(address(this), key, params, delta, "")from a non-manager address then succeeds and returns the selector; it should revert with NotPoolManager.'Isolation' and 'LP exit' test asserts nothing about either propertytest/TickBandGateHook.t.sol:128
test_poolStateIsIsolatedAndLiquidityCanExit never initializes a second pool, so isolation is only 'an uninitialized key is not registered'. The exit half removes liquidity and then asserts hook.initializedPools(key.toId()), which says nothing about the exit.
It does not check the returned balances, a state after a reverted swap, or a pool sitting at a band edge. test_swapStayingInsideBandSucceeds only asserts that the tick is in [-120,120], which is already true at tick 0 before any swap, so a swap that did nothing would pass.
Comment out the removal call in test_poolStateIsIsolatedAndLiquidityCanExit; the test still passes. In test_swapStayingInsideBandSucceeds, replace the swap with a no-op; the test still passes.
README claim that a swap 'may cross a bound transiently' is not meaningfulREADME.md:18
A single v4 swap moves the price monotonically, so it cannot leave the band and return. The hook only ever sees the final tick, and no test or mechanism corresponds to this claim. The wording implies a behaviour that does not exist and could mislead integrators.
A swap's tick path is monotone in zeroForOne. There is no input for which the price exits [minTick,maxTick] mid-swap and ends inside, so the documented case cannot occur.
