FairFlow celebrates successful first year with $3.2B in swap volume

If you’ve ever provided liquidity on a decentralized exchange, you’ve probably experienced a familiar sting. You deposit tokens, earn some trading fees, and then watch arbitrage bots extract value from your position faster than you can say “impermanent loss.” FairFlow, a Uniswap v4 hook built by KyberSwap, launched roughly a year ago with a simple pitch: what if those arbitrage profits went back to you instead? Since its August 5, 2025 launch, FairFlow has facilitated over $3.2 billion in trading volume across 22 pools spanning Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Monad, and BNB Chain. How the plumbing actually works FairFlow operates as a “hook” on Uniswap v4, the modular upgrade to Uniswap that lets developers attach custom logic to liquidity pools. When an arbitrageur extracts value from a price discrepancy between a pool and the broader market, FairFlow intercepts a portion of that profit and routes it back to the people who supplied the liquidity in the first place. The split is 70/30. Liquidity providers receive 70% of the captured EG, while the platform retains 30%. Distributions happen weekly and arrive in the pool’s native tokens. LPs don’t need to stake anything extra. Their funds r...