UF Builder Update #42: Orderflow Explorer, Unichain Integrations, DEF's SEC Letter

demo day is in one week: uhi's 7th cohort has been building hard the last two months: dynamic fee hooks, am-amms, and more. we're judging alongside investors from a16z crypto, variant fund, usv, and dragonfly. rsvp here. applications for uhi 8 close here on jan 4, btw.

citadel got it wrong: they submitted a letter to the sec baselessly encouraging them to regulate defi technologies and developers as traditional sec-registered intermediaries. problem is, each signatory on that letter was blatantly miscited, and we collectively felt an obligation to set the record straight.

we believe defi was built to reduce reliance on intermediaries who serve as gatekeepers. it's transparent, verifiable, permissionless, and available to anyone with an internet connection. citadel claims that broad exemptions for defi would "severely undermine" investor protection and market integrity. but they don't actually say defi undermines market integrity, because it doesn't. in fact, disintermediated public blockchains can achieve these goals even more efficiently than legacy financial intermediaries.

we’re proud to join the defi education fund in telling the sec to disregard citadel's inaccurate letter and continue properly distinguishing cefi vs defi. read the letter here.

allium’s orderflow explorer goes live: tracking swaps across wallets, aggregators, and solvers has been a major pain point for researchers and analysts. allium labs just built the orderflow explorer (funded by a uf grant) to solve for swap visibility. see where trades originate (wallets, dapps, interfaces), how they're routed (aggregators, intent-based systems), and where liquidity is sourced (pools, hooks, pmms). start exploring here.

solana meets base meets flaunch: flaunch (a v4 hook) just launched warp, a bridge letting token creators move their coins from solana to base while keeping 100% of fee earnings. token creators can start bridging here. more coins, more chains, more defi, more love.
cca integration guidelines just dropped: the continuous clearing auction protocol has been getting a lot of interest from projects & integrators wanting to bootstrap liquidity & launch tokens safely, so we created a set of guidelines for you. the essentials: don't send extra tokens you can't recover, set your tick spacing to at least 1 basis point of floor price to avoid gas hell, and make sure your final auction step sells a significant amount of tokens (otherwise your clearing price gets easy to manipulate). read the full integration guidelines here.

pendle brings fixed yield to unichain: pendle just bridged over principal tokens (pts) to unichain, unlocking an new yield infrastructure. they're starting with cap's cusd from ethereum and usdai from arbitrum, with more pts coming as liquidity and demand grow. even defi dave approves.
tao is live on unichain: you asked. we delivered. tao is one of the most requested bridged assets. so now its live on unichain, powered by universal. head to app.uniswap.org or uniswap wallet, select unichain, swap tao. done.

arcadia unlocks simpler lp management: with over $100 million in tvl on uniswap managed manually, arcadia is bringing their lp management tools to unichain. scout pools, analyze liquidity distributions, deploy positions in seconds. built-in tools and automations make adjusting ranges, claiming yield, and compounding rewards effortless. learn more here.