PancakeSwap Infinity Adds Hooks to Power Smarter DEX Trading

PancakeSwap Infinity introduces Hooks, allowing custom logic and real-time swap fee adjustments in liquidity pools.PancakeSwap achieved record-breaking volumes and major upgrades with Infinity, including gas efficiency and multichain support.PancakeSwap doesn’t seem to want to stop being in the spotlight. After CNF previously reported the launch of PancakeSwap Infinity—an upgraded version that brings cross-chain support, flexible AMM, and massive improvements to gas efficiency—now they’ve added a new feature that’s quite head-turning: Hooks.Imagine if you could “install your own plugin” to the liquidity pool according to your personal strategy. That’s more or less the concept of the newly implemented Hooks. More Hooks, more features More Hooks now deployed on PancakeSwap Infinity: Dynamic Fees – Smarter, market-based fee changes @PancakeSwap VIP Discounts – Lower fees for high-volume traders @brevis_zk Token Holder Perks – Hold tokens, pay less ​​@brevis_zk Read... pic.twitter.com/IeqR42wXPt— PancakeSwap (@PancakeSwap) May 12, 2025Making Liquidity Pools Smarter and More PersonalHooks allow external smart contracts to be linked directly to the liquidity pool and can be run at important moments, such as before a swap occurs or after someone adds liquidity.So if usually all pools on DEX feel the same, now they can be transformed into something more dynamic. Some hooks can even provide fee discounts for CAKE token holders or run automatic limit orders when the price is right. There are also those that can work around market volatility by adjusting swap fees in real time.Interestingly, not all hooks run on their own. Some require user permission, for example when you want to execute based on a certain target price. It’s like setting a buy alarm at a specific price, but directly in the DEX.This mechanism is made easier by the collaboration between PancakeSwap and Brevis—a platform that uses zero-knowledge technology so that complex calculations can be done off-chain but verified on-chain. The result? You can get swap fee discounts based on your token ownership history or previous trading volume. It’s cool when you think about it: the more active, the cheaper.PancakeSwap Keeps Breaking Records and ExpectationsIf you think this is just a patch feature, look at the numbers. On March 23, 2025, PancakeSwap successfully beat Uniswap in weekly trading volume—breaking $14 billion. Then on May 10, they made another surprise by recording a daily trading volume of $2.2 billion. They managed to take over the position as the DEX with the highest activity at that time.Previously, they also launched Tokenomics 3.0, opened staking for CAKE, and refreshed the pool structure ahead of the BSC hard fork. This movement is like preparation for the big competition season between DEXs. And yes, in terms of liquidity and volume, they are getting harder to catch.Although CAKE has dropped 5.87% in the last 24 hours and is now trading at about $2.32, the weekly performance still shows a 16.28% increase. So, maybe the price correction is actually a temporary discount.On the other hand, PancakeSwap Infinity also offers extraordinary gas efficiency through its Singleton Contract architecture and Flash Accounting system. The effect can cut costs by up to 99%. In the DeFi ecosystem full of cost and liquidity wars, this is clearly not a small offer.Furthermore, multichain support such as BNB Chain, Ethereum, and Aptos makes PancakeSwap Infinity more flexible and does not depend on just one ecosystem.