DeFi Protocol Engineering

DeFi Protocol Engineering covers protocol design, intents, hooks, liquidity infrastructure, solver participation, and integrations with ecosystems such as Uniswap, 1inch, and Tycho.

This is one of the strongest current research areas on the site. The existing work spans intent architecture, Uniswap v4 hooks, liquidity and resource management, solver execution, Tycho-backed route evaluation, and 1inch contract development.

Current Focus

• Intents and resource management
• Uniswap v4 hooks and execution patterns
• 1inch and Fusion contract research
• Tycho integration and market-data-backed routing
• Liquidity infrastructure and solver participation

Existing Research

• Intents Research
• Protocol and Resource-Locking Architecture
• Resource Management
• Uniswap v4 Hooks
• Uniswap v4 Intent Management Hook
• No Liquidity Solving with Tycho and 1inch
• 1inch NEAR Contract Development

Architecture View

For the latest system-design view, see:

• Intent Architecture
• Protocol Architecture
• Kanga AMM Incentives Migration

DeFi Protocol Engineering overlaps with Trading Systems where protocol integration becomes execution infrastructure.