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PancakeSwap Infinity Goes Live, Introduces Hooks and Flash Accounting

Simon Simba
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Simon is a writer with five years experience in crypto and iGaming. He currently works as a freelance writer at BanklessTimes where he focuses on simplifying daily crypto developments for readers. He discovered crypto in 2022 while writing news about NFTs for a news website in the US, and has since written for two other international NFT projects, and a Web3 gaming agency.
April 28th, 2025
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After months of anticipation, PancakeSwap has formally launched PancakeSwap Infinity, aiming to revolutionize the way consumers, developers, and liquidity providers interact with automated market makers (AMMs) and decentralized trading.

This comes after the platform recorded growth in trading activities and adoption. It recently reported a record $205.3 billion in trading volume for Q1 2025, a startling 921% rise from Q1 2023, making it the strongest quarter ever.

PancakeSwap also boasts over 5.8 million unique traders and more than $1.6 billion in total value locked, solidifying its dominance across BNB Chain, Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Base.

https://twitter.com/PancakeSwap/status/1916799581351993441

What’s Unique about PancakeSwap Infinity?

PancakeSwap Infinity introduces a modular, three-tiered architecture separating accounting logic from AMM logic, consisting of Vaults, Pool Managers, and Hooks. This enables it to seamlessly integrate new AMM models without requiring an overhaul of the entire protocol, making it future-proof and highly adaptable. 

It incorporates four key innovations: multiple pool types, hooks, flash accounting, gas efficiency, and customizable fees.

Multiple pool types support both Concentrated Liquidity AMMs (CLAMM) and the innovative Liquidity Book AMM (LBAMM). Hooks attached to pools customize their behavior, implement dynamic fees, custom oracles, liquidity mining rewards, on-chain limit orders, and even entirely new swap logic, all without requiring a redeployment of the core protocol.

Infinity’s Singleton contract design and the Flash Accounting system consolidate transaction settlements for both new pool deployments and complex, multi-hop trades. Finally, pools can be launched with either static or dynamic fees.

Empowering Developers and the Community 

By decoupling pool logic and enabling hooks, the platform facilitates community-driven innovation. The change facilitates community-driven innovation by enabling developers to rapidly deploy new DeFi primitives and providing liquidity providers with more tools to optimize returns and manage risk.

It also means PancakeSwap can quickly adapt to emerging trends and integrate future AMM paradigms without disruptive migrations.

The launch could be a potential catalyst for PancakeSwap’s native token, CAKE. The technical leap driven by Infinity and user-centric features could be key drivers for future growth, positioning PancakeSwap at the forefront of the next DeFi wave.

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Simon Simba
Simon is a writer with five years experience in crypto and iGaming. He currently works as a freelance writer at BanklessTimes where he focuses on simplifying daily crypto developments for readers. He discovered crypto in 2022 while writing news about NFTs for a news website in the US, and has since written for two other international NFT projects, and a Web3 gaming agency.