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Uniswap switches on aggregator hooks on Ethereum, Base and Robinhood Chain

According to The Block, Uniswap's aggregator hooks now route swaps through Fluid, Curve and PancakeSwap on Ethereum, Base and Robinhood Chain.

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what happened

Uniswap Labs has rolled out aggregator hooks on the networks Ethereum, Base and Robinhood Chain. They let Uniswap v4 send trades through liquidity held on outside platforms. Fluid, Curve and PancakeSwap are available from launch, the company said on Thursday, according to The Block.

The hooks can be used through the Uniswap web app and API, and support for more chains is planned. The first such hook appeared in March 2026 on Tempo, a payments blockchain built by Stripe and Paradigm, where it is reachable only through the web app. The idea was first outlined in the UNIfication proposal in November 2025.

Trades that use external liquidity will generate protocol fees, and those fees will be used to burn UNI tokens. The company says total trading volume on the protocol has surpassed $4.5 trillion.

why it matters

For markets, this widens the pool of liquidity available for token swaps and ties UNI supply to trading activity, since the fees feed into burns. The effect on the UNI price will depend on how much volume flows through external sources, so the news alone does not signal where the price is heading.

market impact

UNI: fees from external trades go toward token burns, supporting tokenomics as volumes grow

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sources

  1. Uniswap’s aggregator hooks go live on Ethereum, Base and Robinhood Chain — The Block, 22 October 2026 at 13:55 UTC

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