DrawdownCap

A limit down. The pool may not fall more than a fixed distance below where the current epoch opened, and the limit resets on a schedule rather than on anyone's say-so.

A production Uniswap v4 hook. It holds no funds and takes no fee for itself. No owner, no pause switch, no upgrade path.

• Site: https://drawdown-cap.pages.dev
• Catalogue: https://hookforge.pages.dev
• Contract: src/hooks/DrawdownCapHook.sol
• Licence: Apache-2.0

{CircuitBreakerHook} is symmetric and reactive: a violent move in either direction halts the pool, then the halt clears. This is the other shape, and it is the one commodity and equity venues actually use. It is asymmetric, because a collapse and a rally are not the same event for the people holding the asset.

It is a hard cap rather than a trigger, so the fall never happens rather than being noticed after it did. And it resets on a clock, so everyone can see in advance when selling reopens and at what level. allowed while openTick - tick <= maxFallTicks, where openTick is the tick at the start of the epoch Buying is never restricted.

A pool at its limit can still be bid up, and doing so does not raise the limit for that epoch, because the reference is the epoch's opening price and not a running high. When the epoch rolls, the pool takes its current price as the new opening and gets a fresh allowance. As with {RatchetFloorHook}, the cap is expressed as a price a router can trade into: {sqrtPriceLimitDownX96} returns the value to pass as a swap's sqrtPriceLimitX96, so a seller fills as far as the cap allows and stops there.

The afterSwap revert is the backstop for callers that pass no limit. Liquidity operations are never blocked, so nobody is trapped by a limit-down epoch. One tick is one basis point to within rounding, so maxFallTicks = 1000 is a ten percent daily limit.

Trading halts and price bands are standard on regulated venues and absent on-chain, where the closest equivalents are governance pause switches and oracle-deviation guards. Hook implementations of trading hours exist. A scheduled, asymmetric, self-resetting limit down with no privileged role does not.

A limit down does not stop a decline, it defers one. If the market has genuinely repriced, the pool reopens each epoch and falls again, one limit at a time, and in the meantime the gap between the pool and the real price is an arbitrage that grows. It buys holders time to react, which is worth something, and it costs liquidity providers the trades they would rather have made, which is not free.

Uniswap v4 removed hookData from initialize, so per-pool parameters arrive out of band. Fix them for a pool key whose pool does not exist yet, then initialize. Nobody can change them afterwards, including you.

hook.configure(
    key,
    DrawdownCapHook.Config({
        maxFallTicks: /* uint24 */ 0,
        epochSeconds: /* uint32 */ 0
    })
);

poolManager.initialize(key, startingSqrtPriceX96);

Uniswap v4 reads a hook's permissions from the low fourteen bits of its own address, which is why deploying one means mining a CREATE2 salt. This hook claims 3 of the fourteen:

• afterInitialize
• beforeSwap
• afterSwap

Mask: 0x10c0, so every deployment of this hook has an address ending in those bits.

Every hook in this family implements IHookMetadata: four view functions that let an indexer, a wallet, a router or an agent identify a hook from its address alone, with no registry in the loop.

cast call $HOOK "hookName()(string)"    # DrawdownCap
cast call $HOOK "hookVersion()(string)" # 1.0.0
cast call $HOOK "specURI()(string)"     # the machine-readable manifest
cast call $HOOK "hookTags()(string[])"  # risk, circuit-breaker, oracle-free, no-admin

The manifest this repository ships as hook.json is what specURI() points at.

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/nirholas/drawdown-cap
cd drawdown-cap
forge build
forge test

Foundry 1.7 or newer, Solidity 0.8.26, EVM version cancun (Uniswap v4 requires transient storage).

# Dry run: mines the salt and prints the address without sending anything.
forge script script/Deploy.s.sol --rpc-url $RPC_URL

# For real.
forge script script/Deploy.s.sol --rpc-url $RPC_URL --broadcast --verify

Needs PRIVATE_KEY in the environment and a funded deployer on the target chain. See docs/deploying.md.

Unaudited. Built to an audited shape, on OpenZeppelin's audited hook bases, and tested against a real PoolManager. No third party has reviewed it. Read "where it does not help" above before putting money behind it.

Not affiliated with Uniswap Labs.

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