We're thrilled to announce the first winners of Unichain’s Infinite Hackathon, our ongoing initiative to discover and support high-potential projects being built across the Uniswap ecosystem.

Resourcing and recognizing early Unichain Builders

Unichain is a Superchain L2 that's built to be the home for liquidity across chains, and designed to accelerate the work of developers: enabling fast blocks, cheaper execution, and cross-chain interoperability. At the Uniswap Foundation, our mission is to support builders at every level. Since Unichain's mainnet launch, we've seen over 750 builder submissions for Unichain grants, including the Infinite Hackathon, which provides go-to-market support and financial support to promising Unichain projects from hackathons and coding competitions worldwide. Unichain Infinite Hackathon entries are judged by a dedicated committee of DeFi experts, researchers, protocol engineers, institution leads, and investors: Mika Honkasalo, Peteris Erins, Kenneth Ng, Gordon Liao and Austin Adams. Vetted applicants are eligible for grants of up to $7.5K, awarded on a monthly basis.

Today, we’re excited to announce the first two Unichain Infinite Hackathon Winners.

Meet the Winners

Vivek Kumar: Unipump

Vivek's journey in crypto began during college hackathons, where he participated in the Tezos India fellowship to expand his expertise in EVM-compatible chains before focusing on Uniswap's ecosystem.

Unipump brings pump.fun functionality to EVM chains using Uniswap v4 hooks, implementing custom bonding curves that allow projects to use Uniswap not just as a secondary marketplace but as a primary launch platform for token sales.

"Unipump allows users to create and trade memecoins just like pump.fun, but it basically uses Uniswap's v4 hooks to give a custom bonding curve. You can just use it in your pool, using the hooks," Vivek explains.

Unipump aims to bring this momentum to EVM chains through its unique bonding curve modeled as x = ae^yb. It's already deployed on Unichain Sepolia and Base Sepolia, with plans to expand as Uniswap v4 evolves.View the Unipump team’s ETH Global presentation here.

Shift0x: Prediction Market Hook

Shift0x, who developed the Prediction Market Hook at the Edge City Lanna Hackathon, came to crypto with a background in software engineering and finance. He became seriously involved in 2021, attracted by the permissionless nature of the ecosystem.

His hook enables any registered Uniswap pool to permissionlessly host prediction markets. Participants can speculate on whether the price of a pair at some future point will be above or below the current price, with each side having a corresponding floating market price governed by UniswapV2 math.

"What really drew me to crypto is the thread of making markets more efficient," Shift0x shares. His first major project was a spot arbitrage tool that helped rebalance pools when they became unbalanced—essentially creating a DeFi version of high-frequency trading.

This prediction market hook removes centralized components and friction from traditional options markets, introduces a novel approach to reducing impermanent loss in volatile pools, enables decentralized leveraged trading for short-term traders, and allows LPs to hedge expected price movements.

The Spirit of Open Source

Both winners exemplify the collaborative spirit of open-source development that makes the DeFi ecosystem thrive.

"All my code is open source. I don't really hold anything back, so anyone can just browse, take a look at what's there, and build on it if they want to," Shift0x emphasized.

Vivek plans to continue refining Unipump to create a more user-friendly experience before its official launch, making the platform accessible while showcasing the potential of what can be built on Uniswap v4.

Apply for the Infinite Hackathon

The Uniswap Foundation is proud to support innovative builders who are pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the DeFi space. If you're building on Unichain or exploring the possibilities of Uniswap v4, we want to hear from you!

Enter the Infinite Hackathon today and join the ranks of builders shaping the future of DeFi. Applications are reviewed on a monthly basis, with grants of up to $7.5K available for promising projects.

Learn more and become part of the next generation of DeFi innovation.

Unichain and Uniswap v4 enable a diverse variety of project development, and any of those projects might touch on different areas of laws or regulations in different forums. The Uniswap Foundation encourages compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, and it is incumbent upon builders to consult with legal counsel as appropriate to determine the legal requirements and restrictions (if any) for their projects.