[RFC] Four for V4

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Summary

GFX Labs/Oku Trade proposes deploying Uniswap V4 on four EVM-compatible networks: Sei, Etherlink, Pharos, and 0G. These deployments expand V4’s footprint, generate protocol fees across new chains, and give hook developers new environments to build on. With Morpho deployed on these networks, the addition of V4 provides a playground for unique financial applications to be developed. V3 is deployed on all chains and acts as the main liquidity hub for the networks.

No treasury spend is requested — GFX Labs covers all costs.

Background

Since 2022, GFX Labs has deployed Uniswap V3 to 30+ EVM chains through Oku Trade, funding and executing the majority of deployments independently. With Oku’s V4 interface complete, we are positioned to continue this expansion.

This proposal covers four chains where the community, liquidity environment, or emerging technical primitives create meaningful opportunities for the Uniswap DAO.

Upside for the DAO

The four networks in this proposal collectively represent a meaningful and growing source of protocol fee revenue for the DAO. Sei recorded $1.5B in DEX volume in Q1 2026 with TVL holding steadily above $50M. With limited competition outside of Sei’s native DEX Saphyre, V4 is well positioned to carve out meaningful market share. Pharos adds further upside — with mainnet recently live and over $100M committed to RWAs on the network, V4 has a clear opportunity to become the primary trading protocol on a chain purpose-built for institutional liquidity.

Applying a 5bps protocol fee across anticipated V4 pool activity at common 5bps and 30bps LP fee tiers, even conservative volume assumptions produce meaningful accrual. If V4 captures 15-20% of Sei’s quarterly DEX volume, that represents roughly $300M flowing through V4 pools and an estimated $150,000 in quarterly protocol fees from a single chain at current activity levels. With Uniswap’s fee switch now active following the UNIfication proposal, every incremental deployment directly contributes to protocol revenue, making low-cost (zero in this case), high-conviction expansions like this the most efficient path to growing the DAO’s fee base.

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Proposed Deployments

Sei

Sei is a Layer-1 blockchain built specifically for trading and financial applications. With over $300M in minted stablecoins, predominantly through Ondo’s multi-chain U.S. treasury product, Sei has established a strong and growing foothold in EVM DeFi. The network’s ongoing full EVM migration plan aims to enhance network performance and further position itself as the backbone for institutional-grade onchain infrastructure.

Etherlink (Tezos EVM)

Etherlink is the EVM-compatible Layer 2 of the Tezos ecosystem, backed by the Tezos Foundation, one of crypto’s most established and consistently funded foundations since 2014. Etherlink has developed a notable presence in novel onchain RWA markets, specifically for metals, as exemplified by tokenized uranium (xU308), which can be leveraged as collateral for USDC-backed loans on Morpho. With a focus on bringing unique assets onchain, V4 adds another layer to Etherlink’s growing suite of financial markets. Etherlink is currently undergoing a rebranding to TezosX - a consolidation effort to strengthen and reunify the Tezos brand and act as the primary EVM DeFi environment for the network.

Pharos

Pharos is an EVM Layer 1 focused on RWA tokenization, high-throughput DeFi, and institutional-grade infrastructure. Built and incubated by Ant Group with over $50M in raised capital from investors including Sumitomo, Chainlink, and Flow Traders, Pharos heads into its 2026 mainnet after an exceptional testnet that processed 4.3B transactions across 200 million wallets, with its inaugural RWA vault reaching $50M capacity within days of opening. With Morpho live on the network, combining V4’s programmable liquidity layer gives Pharos the most capable DeFi stack available for institutions looking to move, lend, and trade tokenized assets in a compliant environment at scale.

0G

0G is a modular Layer 1 built for AI and autonomous applications, backed by $290M in funding, with mainnet launching in September 2025. It offers decentralized storage with 2 GB/s throughput and a data availability layer that is significantly faster and cheaper than Ethereum’s. As AI agents and autonomous DeFi protocols grow in prevalence, they’ll need reliable onchain liquidity infrastructure. V4’s hooks to enable dynamic fees, TWAMM, and programmable pool behaviors are a strong fit for AI-driven strategies that require more nuanced market infrastructure than standard AMMs offer. Deploying V4 on 0G positions Uniswap as the default DEX for the emerging agentic economy. 0G is currently incentivizing three V3 pools with $40,000 $0G distributed monthly.

Benefits to the DAO

More protocol fee revenue. Four additional chains means four more sources of fees accruing to the DAO as V4 adoption grows.

Expanded V4 footprint. Each deployment grows the total addressable market for Uniswap — more users, more LPs, more developers interacting with V4 infrastructure.

No cost. GFX Labs handles all technical deployment, maintenance, and Oku interface support. No treasury expenditure, no token subsidies.

Requested Action

GFX Labs requests that the Uniswap DAO:

  • Grant GFX Labs a Uniswap V4 BSL

This proposal continues Oku’s role as a reliable execution partner for the DAO — handling the operational lift of the V4 expansion so the DAO can capture the upside without the overhead. More chains, more hooks, more fee generation.

We welcome feedback on the networks, deployment process, or integration timelines.

— GFX Labs / Oku.Trade

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The following reflects the views of L2BEAT’s governance team, composed of @kaereste and @Manugotsuka, and is based on their combined research, fact-checking, and discussion.

We voted FOR.

We are generally comfortable with expanding Uniswap v4 to additional EVM-compatible networks, especially when no treasury spend is requested from the DAO.

In this case, GFX Labs is covering the deployment and maintenance costs, and has prior experience deploying Uniswap across multiple chains. While we do not assume that every new deployment will generate meaningful activity, we think this is a reasonable low-cost expansion of v4’s footprint.

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Thank you for the proposal.

I appreciate that this expansion is designed to increase Uniswap’s footprint without requiring treasury funding, making it a relatively low-cost opportunity for the DAO.

One aspect I think would be valuable to define is how the success of these deployments will be evaluated over time. Since the proposal includes expectations around protocol fee generation, liquidity growth, and ecosystem development, it could be useful to establish a simple set of post-deployment metrics—for example trading volume, protocol fees generated, liquidity retention, developer activity, and hook adoption.

Having a consistent evaluation framework would not only help governance assess these four deployments, but also provide objective benchmarks for future chain expansion proposals.

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We believe autonomous AI agents will become one of the largest new classes of economic participants over the coming decade. These agents won’t just consume information; they’ll own wallets, deploy capital, launch services, hire other agents, and transact continuously.

That’s why we’re excited to bring Uniswap v4 to 0G. Its extensible architecture provides the programmable liquidity layer needed for an AI-native economy: powering agent launchpads, dynamic liquidity, AI-created assets, and entirely new market mechanisms.

Our goal is to make 0G the home of the agent economy, and we see Uniswap v4 as a foundational piece of that vision. We’re looking forward to building with the Uniswap community and demonstrating what decentralized markets can look like when the primary users are autonomous AI agents.

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Hi @GFXlabs I appreciate the continued effort to expand Uniswap’s footprint, and on the surface this seems like a straightforward way to extend V4 to ecosystems where there may be meaningful liquidity and fee-generation potential.

That said, I do not think “no treasury spend” necessarily means “no DAO cost.” Each additional deployment creates ongoing governance and operational obligations, including the documentation and coordination required for cross-chain governance, contract verification, bridge / messaging configuration where relevant, and future maintenance or upgrade decisions.

Could GFX share the documentation and operational process used for its prior V3 deployments, as well as the proposed standard for these V4 deployments? In particular, it would be useful to understand:

  • what chain-specific deployment and verification materials will be published;
  • how cross-chain governance and bridge/messaging dependencies will be documented;
  • who maintains the canonical deployment records and responds to future operational issues; and
  • whether there is a repeatable V4 deployment runbook that the DAO can review before approving four new networks at once.

I am open to the expansion thesis, especially given the stated commitment to cover technical deployment costs. I just think the DAO should evaluate the recurring coordination and governance burden alongside the expected fee upside.

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This looks like a compelling proposal, especially since it expands Uniswap V4’s reach without requiring treasury funding.
Targeting ecosystems with distinct growth narratives. RWAs, AI, and emerging DeFi markets could diversify where protocol fees come from while giving hook developers more environments to build in.

One thing I’d like to see discussed further is the framework for selecting future deployment chains.
Beyond projected volume, should governance establish a consistent set of criteria such as developer activity, TVL, long-term ecosystem sustainability, and user adoption so that future expansion decisions are evaluated against the same benchmarks?

Having clear success metrics before deployment and reporting against them afterward would also make it easier for the DAO to assess whether these deployments are delivering the expected value.

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Hi Rika,

The operation overhead for the DAO is pretty limited. In our experience with the couple dozen Uniswap v3 deployments we did for the DAO, the only effort was for the UAC to review the deployment to ensure it was canonical and that ownership was correctly handed back to the DAO.

For each deployment, GFX Labs deploys the canonical contracts, verifies them on the primary block explorer for the chain, verifies the deployments match their expected values, and sets up and configures ownership of the protocol per the DAO’s standards.

The protocol itself requires no maintenance once deployed. The contracts are mostly immutable. Uniswap Governance has the option to exercise its ownership powers as desired, but there would be no requirement to do so.

GFX Labs will always be available to assist the DAO as we have in the past.

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