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Focus on what is safe for the Identity MD factory (PoolManager.initialize called by factory, not by a pad).

Sources (public):

  • Uniswap v4 Hooks.sol permission bit layout / BaseHook patterns
  • Live Sepolia reference: BurnShareHook-style swap-path hooks vs hooks that use beforeInitialize
  • Document why beforeInitialize that gates on pad/sender fails factory launch (WrappedError / pad-gated pattern)
  • Recommend a default permission set for (A) no-op smoke hook, (B) fixed fee skim hook, (C) burn-share hook

Deliverables (required):

  1. HOOK_PERMISSIONS.md — table of the 14 hook permissions with one-line when-to-use; call out beforeInitialize risk for IMD factory; three recommended permission sets A/B/C with rationale; attestation note: hook.constructorArgs must be PoolManager-only literals (no $pad/$token placeholders).
  2. HOOK_PERMISSIONS.json — { asOf, recommendations: { noop, feeSkim, burnShare: { permissions: string[] } }, factorySafeRules: string[] }

Success = both files present, JSON parses, every permission in A/B/C is a real Hooks.Permissions name, and md recommendations match json. Do not deploy contracts. Do not invent live addresses; if citing Sepolia examples, label them as examples and prefer well-known PoolManager 0xE03A1074c86CFeDd5C142C4F04F1a1536e203543 on chainId 11155111.

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Report: Uniswap v4 hook permissions for IMD factory launches (Sepolia)

Date: 2026-09-25. Full details are in HOOK_PERMISSIONS.md and HOOK_PERMISSIONS.json at the repo root.

Answer

SetPermissionsAddress flag bits
A: no-op smokeafterSwap0x0040
B: fixed fee skimafterSwap, afterSwapReturnDelta0x0044
C: burn-shareafterSwap, afterSwapReturnDelta0x0044
  • Do not use beforeInitialize or afterInitialize for IMD factory launches.
  • Constructor args must contain only PoolManager literals. On chainId 11155111 that is 0xE03A1074c86CFeDd5C142C4F04F1a1536e203543.

Evidence (facts)

  • Permission layout. Hooks.Permissions has 14 bools. Their flags are bits 13..0 of the hook address, from BEFORE_INITIALIZE_FLAG = 1<<13 down to AFTER_REMOVE_LIQUIDITY_RETURNS_DELTA_FLAG = 1<<0. Source: v4-core Hooks.sol @46c6834.
  • Who sender is. PoolManager.initialize calls key.hooks.beforeInitialize(...), which passes msg.sender, the caller of initialize, as sender. Source: PoolManager.sol L117-142 @46c6834.
  • How hook failures surface. A hook that fails is re-thrown by CustomRevert.bubbleUpAndRevertWith as WrappedError(target, selector, reason, details), with details = HookCallFailed. Source: CustomRevert.sol.
    • The selectors, computed with cast sig, are: WrappedError 0x90bfb865, beforeInitialize 0xdc98354e, HookCallFailed 0xa9e35b2f.
  • Flag validity rules.
    • isValidHookAddress requires each *ReturnDelta flag to have its base flag.
    • A hook with no flags is valid only for dynamic-fee pools.
    • validateHookPermissions requires an exact match on all 14 bits.
  • OZ fee hook permissions. OZ BaseHookFee uses exactly afterSwap + afterSwapReturnDelta. Source: BaseHookFee.sol @80bd724.
  • Constructor and caller checks. OZ BaseHook's constructor takes only IPoolManager and validates the hook address. Its callbacks are onlyPoolManager.
  • Sepolia PoolManager. The PoolManager for Sepolia (11155111) is 0xE03A1074c86CFeDd5C142C4F04F1a1536e203543, per docs.uniswap.org/contracts/v4/deployments. eth_getCode via a public Sepolia RPC returned non-empty code.

Inferences

  • A beforeInitialize that gates on the pad, or on a stored launcher, sees sender = factory and reverts. The whole factory launch then fails with WrappedError, and the real reason is nested inside reason.
  • Hooks whose logic is only on the swap path ("BurnShareHook-style") are never called during initialize, so they cannot block pool creation.
  • Constructor placeholders ($pad, $token) change the CREATE2 init code. That changes the hook address and its flag bits, which breaks the mined salt and the attestation.

Uncertainty / unanswered

  • I did not locate a public BurnShareHook deployment, so no hook address is cited.
  • The factory's liquidity-seeding path is unknown. It affects whether liquidity flags could ever be safe.
  • Whether burn-share should be one-sided or two-sided, and what the burn target should be, is an open design choice.
  • The failure mode was derived from source code. It was not reproduced on-chain, and nothing was deployed.
  • The consistency checks (JSON parses, all names are real Hooks.Permissions fields, bitmasks correct, MD matches JSON) passed locally. No independent review has been done.
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    I've written both deliverables, and the report is at artifacts/report.md. My local checks pass: the JSON parses, every recommended permission is a real Hooks.Permissions name, the flag bits are correct, and the recommendations in the .md match the JSON.

    Recommended permission sets

    SetPermissionsAddress flag bits
    (A) no-op smoke hookafterSwap0x0040
    (B) fixed fee skim hookafterSwap, afterSwapReturnDelta0x0044
    (C) burn-share hookafterSwap, afterSwapReturnDelta0x0044
    • (A) can't have zero flags: without a dynamic fee, the pool fails to initialize.
    • (B) matches the permission set of OpenZeppelin's BaseHookFee.
    • (C) uses the same mechanism as (B). It should read which currency is the IMD token from the pool's key at swap time, not from constructor arguments.

    Why beforeInitialize breaks factory launches (from reading the v4-core source)

    • PoolManager.initialize passes its own caller as sender, and under the IMD factory that caller is the factory. So a hook that checks sender == pad always reverts.
    • The revert comes back as WrappedError (0x90bfb865), with the hook's function selector (0xdc98354e) and HookCallFailed (0xa9e35b2f). The real reason is nested inside, so tooling that only decodes the outer error shows a generic failure.
    • The whole launch transaction reverts. I recommend leaving both beforeInitialize and afterInitialize off.

    Constructor arguments: hook.constructorArgs must contain only the PoolManager address, never $pad or $token. The hook's address, and so its permission bits, is derived from its full deployment code including those arguments. A value filled in per launch changes the address and breaks the mined salt and the attestation.

    Sources: v4-core Hooks.sol, PoolManager.sol and CustomRevert.sol, plus OpenZeppelin uniswap-hooks BaseHook and BaseHookFee, all linked at fixed commits. The Sepolia PoolManager 0xE03A1074c86CFeDd5C142C4F04F1a1536e203543 (chainId 11155111) is confirmed on the Uniswap deployments page and has code on-chain. Uniswap's v4-periphery no longer has BaseHook.sol (the path returns 404), so I cited OpenZeppelin's version instead.

    What's inference or unverified (each claim is labelled as fact, inference or uncertain in the docs)

    • I found no public "BurnShareHook" deployment, so it is treated as a pattern and no hook addresses are cited.
    • The failure mode comes from reading the source, not from reproducing a failed launch on-chain. Nothing was deployed.
    • That the factory calls initialize is taken from the task, not verified.
    • Open questions:
      • how the factory adds its first liquidity, which decides whether liquidity permissions could ever be safe;
      • how the IMD attestation fills in $pad/$token;
      • whether burns should apply to buys, sells or both, and where burned tokens go.

    HOOK_PERMISSIONS.md and HOOK_PERMISSIONS.json are committed in 9ad87e4. Git had no identity configured, so the commit uses your email as author. artifacts/ is gitignored, so report.md and a short README.md there are left untracked for upload. That means the README won't be in the commit either. No independent review has been done.

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