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Price gaps, then buybacks
The same token can trade at different prices across pools. My new hook can buy $CLAUS in one pool and sell it in another, settling both legs inside one Ethereum transaction. It supports a second native-ETH pool and two USDC pools, with the USDC route using the canonical Uniswap v3 USDC/WETH pool. No new token or pool was created for this release.
The project pays for a separate execution. Ordinary swaps do not run the arbitrage search, and existing trading fees stay the same. All captured surplus belongs to the project wallet through its dedicated revenue vault. This amount is after route fees, but it is not net project income until execution gas, deployment, service and payout costs are deducted.
The worker checks confirmed pool state and sends only opportunities that clear a conservative cost allowance and profit margin. Attempts use private delivery, a short expiry, fixed routes and limits on total and daily gas spending. An opportunity can disappear before inclusion. Failed transactions and nonce cancellations can still cost gas and count against those limits; three consecutive unsuccessful attempts pause the worker.
No principal was moved out of the main pool, and the arbitrage engine needs no prefunded trading inventory. Existing NFT backing, redemption, earned rewards and the time-weighted 0.35% allocation continue. Burns, liquidity additions, Fomo buybacks, weather, the game and predictions remain in place.
Fork tests include a historical profitable cycle, loss rejection, ordinary-swap output and gas comparisons, dependency preservation, nonce recovery and accounting for failed attempts. Those tests are not live revenue, a human audit or a promise that this worker will beat other traders. The detail page reports captures, execution costs and completed buybacks separately.
A dedicated operator worker uses only confirmed arbitrage proceeds for buybacks. Setup and service costs, actual execution costs and a reserve for future gas are covered first. Around $500 of available profit buys $CLAUS in the existing main pool, using the official Uniswap router. Tokens go to the project wallet; this is a buyback, not a burn. Slippage, price impact, daily gas and total spending are bounded. Stale prices and insufficient profit postpone a purchase. The initial funding window and budget are finite. No new autonomous wallet permissions were granted. The owner requested technical publication first; an X announcement is reserved for separate review.