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Who it is for

Mei Lin Tan, 38, a pharmacist in George Town, Penang, put 2,000 dollars of ETH and USDC into a pool last spring. During one fast hour, traders who saw the new price first bought from her pool at the old one, and she lost more than a month of fees. Calm Pool runs a hook that watches how fast price is moving: on a quiet afternoon swappers pay a low fee, and when price jumps the fee rises within a hard cap, so the people trading on a stale price pay the providers more for it. Every fee change lands in a public diary, and her weekly report says in plain words what she earned, what price moves cost her and what holding would have done instead.

Two ways to own it

What you get

Base$100

Yours in 6 to 9 days

A Uniswap v4 hook with a dynamic swap fee that follows recent price movement inside a floor and a hard cap, deployment scripts for Unichain, Base, Arbitrum and Ink, a pool page where people add and remove liquidity from their own wallet, a public fee diary, a weekly provider report with fees earned, price move cost and a hold comparison, an owner Base Builder Code slot appended to the app's Base transactions, plans with checkout, and an owner console.

You choose: accent color and logo
You choose: pair and fee curve
You choose: chains to deploy on
You choose: report schedule and channels

Customfrom $1,500

Built around you

Reshape it entirely: new features, your flows, your brand end to end, integrations you need. We scope it with you.

Everything in Base
Custom features and design
Priority build

Why it is new

What exists today, and what this does differently

What is new

Dynamic fee hooks are a known Uniswap v4 pattern and several teams have shipped volatility based fees. What is new is the package for a single owner: a hook with a fee curve anyone can read on one card and a hard cap, a public diary of every fee change with the reason, and a weekly report per provider that compares fees earned with what price moves cost and with simply holding.

Closest things out there

Uniswap v4 dynamic fee hooks and published examples of volatility based fees; managed liquidity vaults such as Arrakis and Gamma. Analytics dashboards show pool fees, but few explain to a single provider what price moves cost them in plain words.

Checked with web searches in October 2026. A search is not proof that nothing similar exists, and the market moves fast, so we recheck before every build.

What it unlocks

The human in it

It gives regular liquidity providers a fair deal and an honest report, instead of a pool that quietly leaks value to faster traders.

The Regatta Board

Races Calm Pool can enter

10 live races fit this app. Each one says why, with its prize and countdown. The rule on existing code is on the race page.

See every race on the board

What you own

The whole app, not a starter kit.

A complete dynamic fee pool you own: a Uniswap v4 hook that raises the swap fee in fast markets and relaxes it when calm, a pool page where people provide liquidity from their own wallet, a public fee diary and honest weekly reports, monthly plans for keepers and operators, your own Base Builder Code on the app's Base transactions, and a console for pricing, growth, the fee curve and the indexing agent.

Base price · $100

The user app, complete

Every buyer gets the same finished app. Basic branding and copy changes come through a quick form.

Illustrated home with the fee now, the fee card and first-run onboardingHome

Three step welcome, then the one thing that matters: what the pool charges right now and why.

Fee card with the published curveHome

Floor, calm threshold, slope and hard cap on one readable card, matching the hook.

Pool page to add and remove liquidityPool

From the user's own wallet through Uniswap's position manager, with removal always available.

Position cardPool

What the position holds now, fees earned and a plain line on what price moves cost.

Market scenarios with the live feeMarket

Play a calm afternoon, a fast candle and a whipsaw and watch the fee follow the curve.

Swap receipt with the fee reasonMarket

Each swap shows the fee it paid, the price move behind it and the transaction.

Public fee diaryDiary

Every fee change in one line, with volume at each fee level.

Fees vs price moves vs holding chartDiary

The weekly comparison, including weeks where holding did better.

Weekly provider reportMe

A plain words report per position, shareable as a card.

Plans and checkoutMe

Free Provider plan, monthly Keeper and Operator plans, paid in USDC.

Open the full app demo

Add-on

Owner console

Your admin side: revenue, paywall editor, users, rules and the agent log.

Revenue dashboard and paywall editorRevenue

Rename tiers, change prices and choose what is gated, live in the user app.

Fee curve editor with timelock previewRules

Propose a new floor, slope or threshold; it shows on the pool page for 48 hours before it applies. The cap is fixed.

Base Builder Code slotRules

Paste your own Builder Code from dashboard.base.org; it is appended as the ERC-8021 data suffix on the app's Base transactions.

Indexing agent logAgent

What the indexer and report job did, what failed and how they adapted.

Roadmap with add-on requestsRoadmap

Request operator pools, fast move alerts and more chains.

Top-up

Growth and referrals

Referral and growth mechanics, switched on when you are ready to grow.

Shareable fast hour cardGrowth

Providers share how the fee rose during a fast move and what swappers paid them.

Operator pool invitesGrowth

Token communities apply for their own pair on your deployment.

The money path, built in

How it earns for you

A free plan for every provider, and monthly plans for keepers who track many positions and operators who run a community pair. An optional owner share of the fast market surcharge is off by default, capped at 10 percent of the surcharge only, and disclosed on the fee card if switched on.

ProviderFreeAdd and remove liquidity, the fee diary, the fee card and a weekly report for one position.

Keeper$8 per monthReports for every position on four chains, fast move alerts, the hold comparison and CSV export.

Operator$49 per monthA community pair on your deployment, a branded pool page and a monthly provider letter.

Optional owner share: 0 percent by default, at most 10 percent of the amount the fee rises above the floor, never of the floor fee itself, always shown on the fee card.

Prices are yours to set. Illustrative, not a promise of income.

Growth loops, built in

How it spreads

Fast hour cards that show how the fee rose and what providers were paid
A public fee diary that hook builders and researchers link to
Operator pools for token communities that want fair liquidity for their pair
Weekly reports that bring providers back to check their position

Roadmap · build the next phase with us

Where it goes next

v1 included

The fair pool

Dynamic fee hook with floor and hard cap
Pool page with add and remove
Public fee diary
Weekly provider report
Base Builder Code slot, plans, paywall editor, agent log

Included

Operator pools and alerts

Community pairs with branded pages
Fast move alerts by email and Telegram
Monthly provider letter

Add-on from $600

More chains and curves

Arbitrum and Ink deployments with shared reports
A second curve shape for stable pairs
Public curve comparison page

Add-on from $900

The pitch, ready for investors and grant reviewers

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

Your 2 minute demo script

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

Make it entirely yours

Your brand, pair and fee curve, the chains you deploy on, report channels, an audit coordination package, or a white label for a token community are scoped and priced together.

Custom from $1,500

BLUEPRINT

Why it matters and how it really works

The recipe (how it is built, the data, costs, risks, build order, the pitch and the demo script) is unlocked when your app is paid in full.

The need

People who provide liquidity in a fixed fee pool lose value whenever price moves fast: traders who already see the new price buy from the pool at the old one. In calm markets a low fee brings swappers, but in a fast hour the same low fee hands value to whoever is quickest. Most providers never see this cost written down, so they only notice when their position is worth less than if they had held.

What exists and what is new

Dynamic fees largely exist as an idea: Uniswap v4 lets a hook set the swap fee on each swap, and volatility based fee hooks have been published and shipped by several teams. Calm Pool is an incremental, owner ready take: a fee curve with a floor and a hard cap printed on one card, a public diary of every fee change with the reason, and a weekly plain words report per provider that compares fees earned, the cost of price moves and simply holding. Research verdict: partly exists, medium novelty.

The data it runs on

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

1.The mission

Providing liquidity should be a fair trade with a readable price: low fees when it is calm, fair fees when it is fast, and a report that tells the truth.

2.Why people can't resist it

The fee card One card shows the curve: the floor, the cap and how fast price must move before the fee rises. Anyone can check the hook against it.

The fast hour diary Each time the fee rises or relaxes, the diary writes one line with the price move that caused it and what swappers paid.

Fees vs price moves vs holding A weekly report for each provider: fees earned, what price moves cost, and what holding the two tokens would have been worth. Sometimes holding wins, and the report says so.

3.How it works for real

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

4.Pricing

Cost per use: unlocked when your app is paid in full.

Provider Free

Add and remove liquidity, the public fee diary, the fee card and a weekly report for one position.

Keeper $8 per month

Reports for every position on all four chains, fast move alerts, the hold comparison chart and CSV export.

Operator $49 per month

For a community or token team: their own pair on a Calm Pool deployment, a branded pool page and a monthly provider letter.

5.Growth loop

The fee diary and the weekly report are shareable and honest, including weeks where holding did better. Token communities that want deeper, fairer liquidity for their pair can run an Operator pool. Hook builders share the fee card as a readable reference.

6.Risks and guardrails

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

7.Build order

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

8.Where this is going

Now
One fair pool with a readable fee card, a public diary and an honest weekly report.
Next
Operator pools for community tokens, fast move alerts and deployments on Arbitrum and Ink.
Later
A shared library of readable fee curves, each with its public diary, so providers can pick a pool by how it behaves.
The world it builds
Regular people can provide liquidity on fair terms, and every pool tells them the truth about what it cost.

Costs and tools are estimates at the time of writing. General information only, not legal or financial advice.

OWNER PLAYBOOK

Own it, then chart your voyage

Nine routes from one vessel. Tap a port to open its chart.

Why own Calm Pool

Every fixed fee pool leaks value to faster traders when price jumps, and most providers never see it written down. Owning Calm Pool means you run the fair version: a fee that follows the market inside a hard cap, a public diary of every change, and a weekly report that tells providers the truth even when holding would have done better. You earn from monthly plans and operator pools, and any owner share of the fast market surcharge is optional, capped and disclosed.

What’s stopping you?

“I am not a DeFi engineer. Can I run a hook pool?”

The hook, deploy scripts and pool page come with your copy, and the fee curve is set on one card. Your job is to run a small, well explained pool and answer providers. Start on a testnet, then with small deposits after an independent audit.

“What if providers lose money and blame me?”

They can, and the app says so on the pool page and in every report. A higher fee in fast markets reduces what faster traders take, but it does not remove loss compared with holding. Never show projected returns, and point to the report, which shows weeks where holding won.

“Is this legal where I live?”

Running a pool interface is treated differently by country, and charging an owner share can change that. Calm Pool never holds deposits, and the owner share is off by default. Take local advice before you charge one, and never call the pool an investment.

“Uniswap pools already exist. Why would anyone use mine?”

Providers who were hurt in a fast hour understand the fee card in one look, and the public diary proves it works. Start with a pair you know and the people who already provide liquidity for it.

A revenue ladder, step by step

Monthly Keeper plans for active providers, Operator pools for token communities, and an optional disclosed owner share of the fast market surcharge. Illustrations, not promises.

$320

$4,300

$7,000 plus keepers

$110,000

First pool

40 paying keepers

$8 a month

Known in two communities

500 keepers and 6 operator pools

$8 to $49 a month

Operator channel

60 operator pools

$49 to $199 a month

Category regular

9,000 keepers and 300 operator pools

Mixed

Publish the fee diary for every fast hour and let the numbers speak
Offer operator pools to token communities that need fair liquidity
Keep the free plan generous so every provider gets an honest weekly report

Illustrative stages, not a forecast. Results depend on you and the market; nothing here is guaranteed.

Pick your destination

Grow it into a business

Providers who were hurt in a fast market are easy to find and understand a rising fee at once. Every fast hour card they share is your ad.ARRIVE: Thirty providers in the pool and ten paying for Keeper, about $80 a month.5 moves · first one within the hour →

Raise for it

A live hook pool with a readable curve and public data is the kind of DeFi building block that Unichain and Base programs support. Be honest about TVL; a new pool will not have much on day one.ARRIVE: Two grant applications submitted with real pool data and the hook code public.5 moves · first one within the hour →

Become a real builder on a chain

Deploying a v4 hook under your wallet on Unichain, Base, Arbitrum and Ink, and running real swaps through it, leaves a strong public builder footprint. Base and Ink have no live token today. Airdrops are never guaranteed. You are positioning, not buying a payout.ARRIVE: Calm Pool live under your name with a verified hook, your Builder Code on Base and a public build log.4 moves · first one within the hour →

Win with it at hackathons

DeFi, hooks and infrastructure tracks fit a feature built on Calm Pool. Check each event's rule on existing code; many want new work started at the event.ARRIVE: One hackathon submission with a new hook feature, disclosed honestly.4 moves · first one within the hour →

Run your own work on it

If you provide liquidity, Calm Pool replaces the hours you spend reading charts after a fast move with one report that says what happened.ARRIVE: Your positions reported weekly in plain words, with no spreadsheet.4 moves · first one within the hour →

Get your people moving

The fee card and a fast hour diary are a short, honest way to teach people what providing liquidity really costs and why fees matter.ARRIVE: One session where a group reads a real fast hour together.4 moves · first one within the hour →

Partner with founders and projects

Token communities want deep, fair liquidity for their pair without running an exchange. An operator pool on your deployment is an easy partnership.ARRIVE: One community running an operator pool on your deployment.4 moves · first one within the hour →

Prove your skills with it

Shipping a verified Uniswap v4 hook with a public diary across four chains is strong proof of careful smart contract and product work.ARRIVE: A public case study a hiring manager can read in five minutes.4 moves · first one within the hour →

Sell it as a service

Token teams want a fair pool for their pair but do not want to write a hook. Setting one up is a service you can sell.ARRIVE: Three paid pool setups with a short testimonial each.4 moves · first one within the hour →

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NOT QUITE CALM POOL?

Commission your own version.

Send a short brief: the idea, the chain, your budget and deadline. A real person replies usually within a day with questions or a fixed quote. The custom tier for Calm Pool starts at $1,500, and you pay nothing until you approve the quote.

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