UF Builder Update #41: Buenos Aires went hard

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take us back to unicup: in buenos aires, 32 teams competed in the biggest fútbol tourney crypto has ever seen, and it was beautiful. in the end, zksync were crowned the champions, and the polymarket reached $3.6m in volume (craaazy). thanks to all who played, cheered, and asado’d with us.

ten teams to watch: also in ba, at the uniswap house, ten uniswap builders presented to mentors from uniswap labs, the uf, and pantera capital at our demo day. congratulations to these teams: alphix, usher, damm, zup, lumis, levery, relayer, vyro, vaultedge, delta.

one step closer to unification: snapshot passed for unification, the governance proposal that turns on protocol fees and aligns incentives across the uniswap ecosystem. 
unpacking unification: devin went on the rollup to chat about unification, why the foundation/labs split happened in the first place, the major upcoming changes, the burn mechanism, and so much more. would highly recommend tuning in here.

we made bug bounty history (again): speaking of unification, its $15.5m bounty on cantina is open, and includes the protocol fees repo, execution logic, consensus mechanisms, and more. find a critical bug, become a millionaire. get involved here.

get an audit subsidy: the uf security fund is accepting applications for the next cohort until jan 7. if you’re building on uniswap v4, you’re eligible for up to 100% coverage of your audit costs, and access to a marketplace of 25 whitelisted auditors. apply here.
but if you’re not quite audit ready, you can sign up for a pre-audit scan, which you can use as you build to save on audit costs later on. learn more here.

token launches are having a moment: most token launches & distributions are lacking fair price discovery, transparent allocation, and open participation. continuous clearing auction (cca) protocol solves this by enabling market-driven price discovery. it's free & permissionless for teams to build on. learn more here. aztec used it for their ico btw.

ethglobal buenos aires recap

buenos aires builders went hard. you guys produced so many amazing projects, we couldn’t choose just 6. we ended up with 10 uniswap track winners, including amm launchpads, prediction markets, intents, and more.

volatile-pairs hooks winners

p.a.t: a proprietary amm launchpad combining tees with an oracle-driven pricing mechanism to enable offchain pricing with onchain settlement. built by @suripuri23 @0xericselvig @sarthak_dengre

orbswap prediction: a hook using complex + prb-math functions to enable prediction markets directly on amms. by @ck_2049 @goerlibot @nomo_derek

private fhe intents: a privacy-preserving hook enabling encrypted swaps through fhe and intent-based matching to mitigate mev. by @alejandro99so @lautaroseth @tomi204_

redfish: a zkml-powered hook using ezkl’s engine for trustless anomaly detection to make the “impossible trinity” of defi security possible. by @pepe_museum @cesarnunez2323

ala: a crowdsourced market maker using data-scientist-submitted models to manage fees, output deltas, and liquidity reallocation. by @teogutter @waltervvega

stable-asset hooks

orbital hook: a hook implementing a custom spherical amm curve for efficient stable asset swaps. by @0xdhruva
onetx: one-click universal router to access defi instruments across chains via global ids, using v4 to intercept transactions and extract global ids from calldata. by @TereCF7 @IAlberquilla
antidote: a fully permissioned, atomic-margin risk insurance hook combining institutional-grade KYC with real-time price data from pyth. by @tat0tbd
sage protocol: a hook that dynamically adjusts trading fees based on real-time stablecoin stability data from s&p global's stablecoin stability assessment (ssa). by @danelerr
anti-toxicity hook: a hook that reduces impermanent loss by rewarding trades that go against the market, protecting lps by incentivizing balanced trading activity. by @Elli_Le_Saumon