Builder Update #36: Cyfrin, Crecimiento, and the Compact

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ship your first swap router: if you’re ready to dive into hooks, start here. the new cyfrin updraft v4 course covers is designed to help you take your first steps into writing secure v4 contracts, apps, and protocols. you’ll learn hooks, singleton architecture, flash accounting, protocol operations and lifecycle, and get practice building your own swap router from scratch.

scale your project to $250k tvl: in october, the uf and crecimiento are running a 6-week defi builder track designed to help teams drive traction, users, and broad ecosystem visibility. if you finish the program with $250k tvl will receive a $5-7k grant, with the opportunity to demo at the startup world cup at devconnect, plus additional grants funding, technical support and gtm resources. along the way, you’ll get expert mentorship, hands-on workshops, and irl co-working time at aleph hub and uniswap house in buenos aires. apply here by september 28th, we want to see you in argentina. 

a new era for crosschain swaps: the compact is an open-source, composable smart contract system that enables crosschain interoperability. builders can now enable credible commitments within their applications through the compact's resource locking mechanism. it's now live on ethereum mainnet, unichain, base, and arbitrum. integrate and contribute here.

the evolving landscape of onchain assets: an extremely deep dive from keyrock and maple on vaults, curators, and the way asset management is being rewritten right now. what began as experimental passive vaults and vanilla lending markets has matured into an ecosystem with over $35b in aum. explore the full report here.

introducing board coins: phi recently launched phi boards on base as a place to showcase onchain identity. this week, the team (shout out noubaki) recently launched board coins, tokenized identity assets built on v4. each board coin is tied to each users phi board, and is paired with yield-generating eth (creatoreth) powered by aave and morpho. check it out.

v4 hooks at 5k: more than 5k hooks have been initialized since january, spanning everything from programmable policy and mev protection to creator market infra and punk strategy. what you can build is infinite. there’s always a lot of good inspiration from uhi grads here.

you can just build things (on unichain)

unichain support is live on fordefi. use the extension to connect to unichain dapps, bridge assets, stake, and execute swaps with built-in simulation and policy controls.

you can now use uniderp to launch tokens on unichain using $sol bridged from wormhole’s portal bridge, powered by uni v4

unimon is close to hitting the soft cap required for season 2 to start. it's the first game built on unichain. mint yours, get ready for war. ⚔️