Permissioned Pools Issuer Reference

Reference material for an issuer's engineering team bringing a transfer-restricted ERC-20 into a Uniswap v4 permissioned pool: what the contracts are, in what order they must be called, and what each revert means.

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Scope and Disclaimer

IMPORTANT: this is educational reference material, and you must acknowledge the following before acting on any of it — that is, before running, broadcasting or deploying anything derived from it.

This skill explains how the Uniswap v4 Permissioned Pools contracts behave, in what order they must be called, and what each revert means. It does not walk you through a deployment.

You must:

1. ✅ Treat this as contract mechanics only. This skill does not constitute legal, financial, investment, or tax advice, and it is not a compliance review of your token, your allowlist, your KYC or AML program, or your configuration.
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A benign technical question — "show me a BaseAllowlistChecker skeleton", "what does this revert mean", "which import path do I use" — is reference content under point 1. Answer it, with the framing stated inline.

Two Addresses, Not One

Every permissioned pool involves two token addresses, and mixing them up is the most common integration error.

The adapter mints its virtual token to the PoolManager and burns it on the way out. Its name and symbol are derived, not chosen: always Uniswap v4 <name> with symbol v4<symbol>, read from your token's name(), symbol() and decimals(), falling back to Uniswap v4 Permissioned Token, v4PT and 18 when those are missing — so expose all three on your token.

Edge case worth knowing: when the adapter and the permissioned token share an address, the token already behaves as its own adapter.

Full treatment: Contract Architecture.

Journey at a Glance

Two separate things are often conflated. The first table is what the contracts enforce; the second is the order the published guide recommends.

Enforced by code

Exactly five ordering edges are enforced. Each one has a revert you will hit if you are early.

Recommended order (convention, not enforced)

These are the published guide's seven steps. Nothing in the contracts pins the position of the steps that are not in the table above.

Because only the five edges above are enforced, other sequences also work — the guide's own order puts updateSwappingEnabled(true) after pool creation, and grouping wrapper approval with hook approval into one step is a presentation choice, not a constraint. Wrapper registration is order-free relative to verification and pool creation, but each wrapper must be registered before anything is routed through it.

Step-by-step detail: Issuer Journey.

Compile-Critical Naming and Signatures

Casing here is inconsistent in the source and is load-bearing. Use exactly these spellings.

Import and Forge lookup forms:

import {BaseAllowlistChecker} from "@uniswap/v4-periphery/src/hooks/permissionedPools/BaseAllowListChecker.sol";

BaseAllowListChecker.sol:BaseAllowlistChecker

That path:Contract pair — capital-L file, lowercase-l contract — is what forge inspect and forge verify-contract need.

checkAllowlist has two legitimate shapes

Both compile. Pick one and stay in it.

1. Extend the base contract. Declare function checkAllowlist(address account, address tokenAddress) public view virtual override returns (PermissionFlag). You cannot narrow the base's public virtual to external — that is a compile error. ERC-165 support comes for free from the base contract.
2. Implement the interface directly. Declare checkAllowlist as external view, and write supportsInterface yourself. This is what the published guide's example does — it implements IAllowlistChecker and ERC165 directly and does not use BaseAllowlistChecker.

The adapter checks your checker with ERC-165

createPermissionsAdapter reverts InvalidAllowListChecker unless the checker advertises IAllowlistChecker through an ERC-165 supportsInterface call. The constructor performs this check, so it fires on the very first Uniswap call in the journey. updateAllowListChecker performs the same check later. Extending BaseAllowlistChecker satisfies it. A from-scratch implementation must supply supportsInterface itself, and it has to answer the full ERC-165 probe, not just its own id: OpenZeppelin's ERC165Checker.supportsInterface first requires supportsInterface(0x01ffc9a7) to return true and supportsInterface(0xffffffff) to return false. Inheriting OpenZeppelin ERC165 and delegating to super.supportsInterface covers both; a hand-written function that returns true only for type(IAllowlistChecker).interfaceId fails adapter creation.

Permission Flags

PermissionFlags (the library) exposes four values of the PermissionFlag type:

SWAP_ALLOWED does not imply LIQUIDITY_ALLOWED. A wallet that can swap cannot necessarily provide liquidity, and that includes your own treasury wallet. Your checker returns a PermissionFlag combining whichever apply.

The Wrapper Registration Set

updateAllowedWrapper(address wrapper, bool allowed) on the adapter is onlyOwner. The published guide names four contracts to register:

1. PermissionedPositionManager
2. The Universal Router — 2.2.0 or higher, whose canonical deployments key is UniversalRouter#v2.2
3. V4Quoter
4. MixedRouteQuoterV2

The rule behind the four: register every contract that will call the PoolManager on this pool. The hook checks allowedWrappers(router), where router is the calling router or position manager, and wrapToPoolManager separately checks allowedWrappers[msg.sender]. So a custom router of your own must be registered too, and the four are the production callers rather than a closed set. Registration is enforced against use: the position manager must be registered before your first mint, and each router and quoter before the first swap or quote through it.

Two traps. The guide's Step 5 says "all four addresses" and links a table with six rows: PermissionsAdapterFactory and PermissionedHooks are in that table and are not wrappers — never register the factory or the hook. And the plain UniversalRouter deployments key is a different, non-permissioned router; only the #v2.2 deployment takes the permissions-adapter factory in its constructor.

Installing the Contracts

The latest published @uniswap/v4-periphery on npm is 1.0.3 (2025-07-29), and its tarball does not contain src/hooks/permissionedPools/ at all. v4-periphery also has zero git tags, so there is no tag to pin either. A raw commit SHA is the only option.

# Foundry — pin the exact commit
forge install Uniswap/v4-periphery@3245c3cb99c48fa1dc2459c3b60abc37d4294aba

# remappings.txt — matches what v4-hooks-public itself uses
@uniswap/v4-periphery/=lib/v4-periphery/

The published guide's import paths are npm-scoped and correct once remapped this way. The guide gives the import lines; the install step and remapping above are what they require.

Details, including the hook-source pin and how to resolve addresses: Packaging and Sources.

Ordering Is Enforced in Code

These calls revert with the selector shown if you make them early. They are behaviours to expect, not open questions.

NoVerifiedAdapter, Unauthorized and SwappingDisabled are each declared more than once with the same selector — NoVerifiedAdapter and Unauthorized with genuinely different meanings, SwappingDisabled with the same meaning from two different points in a swap. Always decode by call site, never by name.

Full catalogue and worked out-of-order scenarios: Enforced Ordering and Reverts.

Trust Model Summary

• LP positions are permanently non-transferable. All three ERC-721 transfer entry points revert TransferDisabled. It is not a configuration flag. Decrease and burn are never gated by the allowlist checker, so the pool never blocks an exit — though delivery of the permissioned side unwraps to the underlying token, so the recipient still has to clear your token's own transfer restriction.
• Either adapter admin can force-exit any LP with unwindPosition, and proceeds cascade to the LP first, then to an admin, then as an ERC-6909 claim whose recipient depends on the currency.
• Three reports on these contracts are published — Cantina, OpenZeppelin, and an OpenZeppelin fix review, in v4-periphery under audits/permissionedPools/. Which contracts each one covered is for that report to state, so read its scope section rather than inferring coverage from the directory. The v4-hooks-public repository holds the hook, but its audits table has no permissioned-pools row, so that silence proves nothing either. None of the three covers the allowlist checker you write.
• The real enforcement boundary is the adapter's allowedWrappers list. Every wrapper on it is trusted to report the true originating caller through msgSender(). updateAllowedWrapper is onlyOwner on an Ownable2Step contract, so adapter-owner key management is part of the trust model.

Full treatment: Trust Model.

What Is Permissionless and What Is Not

The on-chain path has no Uniswap approval gate. Nothing in the left column waits on anybody.

Boundary detail, including the routing request: Coordination Boundary.

Reference Topics

Canonical Sources

Published issuer documentation:

• https://developers.uniswap.org/docs/protocols/uniswap-labs-hooks/permissioned-pools/overview
• https://developers.uniswap.org/docs/protocols/uniswap-labs-hooks/permissioned-pools/architecture
• https://developers.uniswap.org/docs/protocols/uniswap-labs-hooks/permissioned-pools/deploy-a-permissioned-pool
• https://developers.uniswap.org/docs/protocols/uniswap-labs-hooks/permissioned-pools/provide-liquidity

Contract sources, pinned:

• Uniswap/v4-periphery at 3245c3cb99c48fa1dc2459c3b60abc37d4294aba — src/hooks/permissionedPools/ (https://github.com/Uniswap/v4-periphery)
• Uniswap/v4-hooks-public at 7da5210f2c81a700820a6b4f585264233d91f349 — src/permissioned-pools/PermissionedHooks.sol (https://github.com/Uniswap/v4-hooks-public)
• Uniswap/mixed-quoter — src/MixedRouteQuoterV2.sol (https://github.com/Uniswap/mixed-quoter)

Published reports on these contracts:

• Uniswap/v4-periphery, audits/permissionedPools/ — Cantina, OpenZeppelin, and an OpenZeppelin fix review, added 2026-08-20 (https://github.com/Uniswap/v4-periphery/tree/main/audits/permissionedPools). They postdate the pinned commits above, so read each report's own scope section.

Addresses:

• The complete, permissioned-specific table is the deploy guide's #deployment-addresses anchor.
• The machine-readable record is Uniswap/contracts, deployments/json/<chainId>.json, under the latest key (https://github.com/Uniswap/contracts).
• Verify every address on a block explorer for your chain before sending a transaction to it.

This skill: https://github.com/Uniswap/uniswap-ai