They’re not worse if you want programmability, or to trade at night/weekend/holidays, live outside the US, don’t have a bank account, want to use them in DeFi apps/hold them in a crypto wallets, etc People always make the same mistake assessing early crypto PMF, focusing only on potential risks and downsides while ignoring the upsides leading to the PMF in the first place Early AMMs had downsides, but they still got adopted because the existing market structures poorly served so many users and use cases in the first place End of the day, tokenized stocks are pretty similar to early stablecoins - are they exactly the same as dollars? No. But they are meeting a user demand in a way that nothing else is.

👀 $HOOKR is now officially verified on @fomo ✅ Big thanks to the Fomo team for making it happen. Excited to build together 🤝 More visibility. More distribution. More hooks🪝👀

Badges are now live on Pools 🐸 Every badge is earned from onchain data, whether it's volume, unique holders, or how early a token launched Tokens that do the work now get to wear it

Been building in DeFi long enough to see great primitives die because nobody gave them distribution. That’s the part of Hookr I care about most. Builders & projects like @V4RCADE should be able to ship an idea, plug it into markets, and share in the upside when people actually use it. We won’t predict the killer hook from a roadmap. We’ll find it by giving more builders a place to experiment 🪝

@Uniswap intermediates ~77% of chain volume, enough that Robinhood Chain now accounts for over 50% of Uniswap volume across all chains, the first non-Ethereum chain to do so. It also holds the majority of all Uniswap v4 hook-pool swaps, a meta @Hookrfun fits.

We love seeing @Uniswap openly support teams pushing v4 forward. That kind of public backing is rare and it’s a big net positive for the entire ecosystem. Huge congrats to @ponsdotfamily 👏 well deserved and feels like just the start🦄🪝

We’ve been silent because we’ve been working to bring @Uniswap v4 hooks to another level. These are not just games on a screen, it's the beginning of something you never saw before. Offchain hooks. Anything that is offchain and verifiable can be hooked, and we are starting with something you all are really familiar with. With our tech we can plug any gameplay inside the market because anything offchain that can be verified can be hookable. We stand as a hook provider. Bigger playing field. Not play-to-earn. Play-to-execute.

This is why we’re making Hookr modular. @V4RCADE built a game where your score changes the fee you pay. With the new Hookr launch, tokens will be able to launch fresh pools with it—and v4rc earns a share of the fees their hook generates. One of several partnerships coming with the new launch. We’ve got builders working across arb recapture, LP tooling, rewards and leverage too. Different experiments, same bet: give hook builders distribution and let the best blocks compound across every new market. More soon, stay hookin' 🪝

Looks like @Hookrfun is going for it. v4 hooks are game changers for DeFi and will unlock a completely new suite of applications. The market does NOT know how to price this in yet. And @Hookrfun will be the distribution platform for this tech, partnering with launchpads, platforms, and services accross the space. I have no doubt this is going to be $50M soon, and then 9 figures. It could well be one of the 10-figure infra platforms this cycle. You absolutely want $HOOKR in your bag for exposure to v4 hooks.

📢PSA: we’ll be pausing new hook + token launches on the website while we finish moving Hookr’s UI and contracts to the new modular system. The new version brings new Hook Building Blocks you’ll be able to compose into programmable markets for any supported asset pair. Nothing changes for existing hooks or LP positions. Their contracts and pool configurations remain untouched, so they’ll keep working exactly as they do today. Also: nearly 3.5M $HOOKR burned 🔥 stand by… we’re hookin’ it 🪝

Hooks unlock entirely new markets—but also a trust problem: most people can’t tell what happens under the hood. This is where Hook Analyzer. I want Hookr to become the place people check before touching any hooked pool. Just paste in pool, token, hook or just a swap tx and we surface and analyze any custom hooks behind it. Approved discoveries can earn the finder HOOKR, while recurring onchain royalties from approved Hookr integrations go to the verified original builder. I genuinely believe this can change how DeFi products get built. A builder shouldn’t need to create an entire protocol to contribute one great idea. They should be able to build one useful hook block, prove how it works, let other people compose it, and keep earning when it creates value. Zaps made complicated DeFi actions feel like one product. I think Hookr can do something similar for programmable liquidity: turn difficult, opaque hook systems into products people can understand, trust, combine and actually use. This is only the first version. It will improve quickly. You'll notice ux focused more around pools now as we gear up for hooks on existing tokens. If something break for you let me know 🫡 Blunt feedback please.

Introducing Hook Analyzer 🔍 Analysis and screening layer for Uniswap Hooks. Build or Find → Audit → List → Earn. Build a hook—or surface a great one you found. Learn more 👇

Great news everyone! Our hook submission has been approved by @Uniswap and is now eligible for routing. What this means for Hookrs: •Pools with your custom hook built on Hookr are now considered by Uniswap's routing algorithm. •New pools that use the hook will automatically be identified for routing within 15 minutes of those pools being created. Right now you're able to compose with 5 'hook blocks': • Anti-Snipe • Surge Fees • Auto Burn • LP Rewards • Nth-Buy Pot But we’re just getting started...more blocks loading in this week.

PSA: If you see any token or contract deployed from our deployer wallet—or any wallet you think is associated with it—do not buy or interact with it. I’ve been doing a lot of YOLO testing in early days and saw some buys. Safe to say, I’ll be moving testing away from the deployer. Every test token will be clearly labeled TEST, and none of these or any other tokens launched are endorsed. There’s only one $HOOKR in my life—and it’s the only one you can tell your wife about and have her actually be proud of you.

Grail, and everyone in the community—wanted to thank you again for the support. We’ve been trusted with a big responsibility, and I don’t take that lightly. Feels like everything I’ve learned throughout my years in DeFi has been leading to this moment. Hook now or die tryin 🪝

If you’re interested in, building, or simply have good ideas, surrounding V4 hooks, you need to be tapped in with @NodarJ @Hookrfun will be the premier venue to distribute and monetize your hooks amongst all the top launchpads, and within the next 3-6 months, it’s not crazy to think every liquid pool will have multiple hooks on top of them

We’ve been deep in conversations with hook builders, launchpads and teams building on top of Hookr. The signal is clear: builders want more building blocks. Soon, Hookr Builder will open to new composable blocks from across the ecosystem. Building a hook? DMs are open.