A Uniswap v4 hook that captures the price gap a swap opens between connected pools and returns the realised arbitrage to the trader and the pool's LPs instead of an outside searcher
What HEY knows
Building
Shipping consistentlyShipping: 21 meaningful events in 30 days; latest ship 5 days ago.Evidence →Source
Follow puts What The Hook on your private watchlist; its changes then lead “Since you were last here” when you come back. Following needs an account; browsing never does.
Building ranks ahead of market attention among comparable projects: 99.2 of 100 for building, 98.6 of 100 for market attention (a gap of 0.6). What the Discovery Gap is
It compares building with market attention; it is not a prediction and not a reason to trade.
Product usage
Fact9 of 11 watched contracts active · 297,387 calls in 7 days (253,097 calls to the contracts' own functions; 44,290 ERC-20 token transfers and approvals, which trading alone produces).
Counted from the chain. Usage says the contracts are used, not that anyone is building.
What The Hook: TVL $382K · fees 24h $1.8K · revenue 24h $778 (DefiLlama, 2026-10-18). Registry context, not a measure of building.
Contracts
Fact50 contracts on record for code changes, 2 with verified source; latest change 5 days ago: Deployed a new contract: 0xf2ca…85ac.Source
Token market · context
Active market$7.1M fully diluted valuationToken verified
Not yet known
Unknown3 gaps: Repositories (no source), Releases (no source), API description (no source). No repository the project claims as its own.
“Shipping” by the activity rule: 21 meaningful events in the last 30 days, the newest 2026-10-13.
SourceHEY holds no repository, changelog or feed it can read for this project; the status rests on building events it counted from the chain or from corroborated sources.ReadRecordsDeployed a new contract: 0xf2ca…85acDeployed a new contract: 0x1507…db3cDeployed a Uniswap v4 hook: 0xb851…d4c0+2 moreWhat HEY derivedHEY’s activity rule reads the counted events as “Shipping”.Not concludedIt says what HEY can read of the building, not how good the project is, who is behind it, or what its token will do. Quiet or unknown is not "abandoned".
Verified Builder.
The quality gate found verified building evidence from the project's own sources.
Token verified: the project's own site, a deploy record in its own repository, or an on-chain signature names this contract.
SourceThe project's own published sources and HEY's check of the contract.ReadWhat HEY derivedToken verified: the project’s own site names it.Not concludedIt says whether the project itself names this contract. It is not a safety check, and a token is not the project.
Active market.
Active market: the pool holds liquidity and the token traded in the last day.
Source9 readings from HEY's own market tables.ReadWhat HEY derivedHEY’s market rule reads this token’s market as “Active market”.Not concludedMarket status is context only. It never changes activity status or Build Momentum, and it is not a view on the price.
Market figures are context only and never change activity status. Methodology
Bars: meaningful, source-backed ships per week (count). Weeks run Monday to Sunday, UTC, labelled by their Monday. Commits are aggregated, a code week counted once. Hatched: 3 weeks before HEY began reading this project’s sources — not yet read, not zero.
Questions HEY can answer about What The Hook — as of 2026-10-18
Is What The Hook still being built?
DerivedShipping: 21 meaningful events in 30 days; latest ship 5 days ago.Evidence →
What did What The Hook ship last?
FactDeployed a new contract: 0xf2ca…85ac — New contract, 5 days ago.Evidence →
Is 0xb8Fa8010833463Aac5595b55B9045479239EfF79 What The Hook’s own contract?
FactToken verified: The project’s own site names this contract.Details →
What does HEY not know about What The Hook?
Unknown3 gaps: Repositories (no source), Releases (no source), API description (no source). No repository the project claims as its own.Details →
Build timeline
Deployed a new contract: 0x1507…db3c
New contract · Source verified
The account that launched What The Hook’s token deployed 0x1507…db3c on 2026-10-13. Read from the chain; the creating transaction is the evidence.
The account that launched What The Hook’s token deployed a Uniswap v4 hook at 0xb851…d4c0 through a deterministic deployer on 2026-10-12. Read from the chain; the creating transaction is the evidence.
The account that launched What The Hook’s token deployed a Uniswap v4 hook at 0x58a6…94c0 through a deterministic deployer on 2026-10-04. Read from the chain; the creating transaction is the evidence.
The account that launched What The Hook’s token deployed a Uniswap v4 hook factory at 0xf299…4bb5 on 2026-09-13. Read from the chain; the creating transaction is the evidence.
The account that launched What The Hook’s token deployed a Uniswap v4 hook factory at 0xd090…500c on 2026-09-13. Read from the chain; the creating transaction is the evidence.
75 changes on HEY’s record for What The Hook: 1 verification change · 2 market checks · 55 contract changes · 1 build pace change · 16 other changes in 2 more kinds.
NewNew v4 pools1d ago
2 new Uniswap v4 pools observed using What The Hook’s attributed hook on 17 Oct
Liquidity fell from the $17.8M it held (2026-10-14) to $1.8M (2026-10-18), on two consecutive daily readings of HEY's market index. Readings: DEX Screener.
The project’s own X account, as HEY last read it. Context only: a post is never counted as building and never sets the activity status.
Posted on X2026-10-17robinhood:0xb8fa8010833463aac5595b55b9045479239eff79 x robinhood:0xe8ffd7e24187f72afb08d75b1bb13088a989a791 🤝
Posted on X2026-10-16Hook day 🪝 Our distributed revenue surpassed the staggering $170,000+ retention > extraction
Posted on X2026-10-15Hook evening 🪝 Today we've surpassed $17,000,000+ in total arbitrage volume! retention > extraction
Posted on X2026-10-15In less than 2 days, we’ve already managed to retain 3000$ from our integration with @deltaliquidity That’s an additional 1504$ in rewards for the LP providers of the few pools on their platform that have our hook enabled so far. Retention > Extraction
Posted on X2026-10-15Incredible to see more and more builders using our arbitrage recapture 🪝 Great stuff @Hookrfun @MCDAOio
Showing 5 of 20, newest first; HEY keeps 90 days.
Around the latest ship
Observed after, 14–17 Oct so far: price +1.5% (before: −3.8%) · calls 49,891/day (before: 13,617/day) · volume $745K/day (before: $346K/day).
Deployed a new contract: 0xf2ca…85ac · New contract · on 13 Oct
Observed before (6–12 Oct) and Observed after (14–17 Oct so far): Deployed a new contract: 0xf2ca…85ac
Measure
Observed before6–12 Oct
Observed after14–17 Oct so far
Pricepartly provider archiveAround this event:▲ +34.7%up 34.7 percent over the day· 12 Oct–13 Oct closes
▼ −3.8%down 3.8 percent over 7 days
▲ +1.5%up 1.5 percent over 4 days13 Oct–17 Oct closes so far
Volume per daypartly provider archive
$346K/day
$745K/day4 of 7 days so far▲ +115%up 115 percent against the days beforevs beforeagainst before
Liquidity
$1.4M
$1.7Mat 17 Oct so far▲ +18.5%up 18.5 percent against the days beforevs beforeagainst before
Valuation
$5M
$6.8Mat 17 Oct so far▲ +36.6%up 36.6 percent against the days beforevs beforeagainst before
Calls per day
13,617/day
49,891/day4 of 7 days so far+266.4%vs beforeagainst before
Active contracts (busiest day)
7
74 of 7 days so far
Distinct caller addresses (busiest day)
676
1,5094 of 7 days so far+123.2%vs beforeagainst before
Price and volume on days HEY holds no price reading of its own come from GeckoTerminal’s daily candles (provider archive, read 6 Oct), not from HEY’s own readings. The archive holds no liquidity or valuation.
Observed around the same time — HEY does not claim this event caused it.
Market context and product usage, placed by time. Seven days either side; the day in progress is never compared. Open evidence · As data
Named in code by
1 published project names What The Hook’s token in its code.
Named in code or runs on a hook, read from public code and the chain: a link, never a partnership or an on-chain interaction. A code link is a reference: the code names the token, which shows neither a dependency nor use; only a hook link is a pool running on the other’s hook. As data