Uniswap Introduces Permissioned Pools for Regulated Assets

Uniswap Labs has introduced Permissioned Pools for v4 via a hook that enforces issuer-managed allowlists onchain, enabling RWA trading on AMMs without altering core protocol neutrality.

This allows issuers to gate who swaps and who provides liquidity, while the base protocol stays permissionless for everything else. The new feature is designed to bridge regulated assets with DeFi's liquidity hubs.

According to Uniswap Labs, onchain demand is surging, with the new Robinhood Chain seeing over $6B volume in a week, including its first $1B day. This underscores cross-chain traction for tokenized assets and highlights the need for permissioned pools.

Ecosystem teams are already moving size to v4 hooks, with Spark shifting roughly $150M of stablecoin liquidity ahead of features like DualPool.