Pay for liquidity to be waiting before price arrives.

Bonded frontier-liquidity epochs on a V4 hook. Stake at a pre-declared price band, bond WFIR, and earn WETH for depth that held. Abandonment burns the bond.

The idea

Liquidity always shows up after the move. Watchfire pays for it to be there before.

Every week the hook fixes two price frontiers from a manipulation-resistant pre-open tick anchor — one below the market, one above. Providers station WFIR/WETH liquidity inside a band ahead of demand and lock a WFIR bond against it. During a 72-hour watch, only depth that stays stationed earns. Everything else earns nothing.

The weekly epoch

01 · anchor

Fix the frontiers

A pre-open cumulative-tick anchor sets two bands — [q−1200,q−600) and [q+600,q+1200) — 600 ticks wide, spacing-aligned. A swap at open cannot move the anchor.

02 · station

Post & bond

Deposit WFIR/WETH into a band and lock a WFIR bond equal to 20% of the principal actually deployed at anchor value (100 WFIR floor). The vault owns the position.

03 · watch

Hold for 72 hours

Occupancy accrues only while the last post-swap tick sits inside your band. Momentary crossings, self-attributed activity, and early exits earn nothing.

04 · settle

Earn or burn

Completed service returns your bond and pays immutable WETH bounties, pro-rata to bonded liquidity-seconds. Abandon early and the entire bond burns to dead.

Why hold WFIR

Reusable working capital for frontier-readiness.

Bonded, not staked

You buy and immobilize WFIR to compete for posted WETH readiness jobs. Bond size scales with the principal you actually deploy — even a WETH-heavy position creates deterministic WFIR demand.

Earned, not emitted

Rewards are WETH bounties for depth that was stationed before price arrived — not ownership, volume, fees paid, a tax rebate, or a momentary crossing. Bonds return on completed service.

Forfeiture makes demand

Abandoned bonds burn to the dead address. The demand mechanism is bounded and non-extractive — replacement demand comes from the market itself, not from a treasury.

No admin, no oracle

A hook-native cumulative-tick oracle and a fixed 4bps WETH-input levy fund the jobs. No discretionary payout, no operator, no upgrade path — an oracle-free market for ex-ante liquidity.

Live position (preview)

canonical poolWFIR / WETH · fee 0.30% · spacing 60

frontier hook0x35fD…80c8

epoche14 · serving · 41h 12m left

anchor tick218 640

lower band occupancy1 947 s · qualified

upper band occupancy812 s · not yet

bonded WFIR204 118 WFIR

WETH bounty this epoch3.42 WETH

Illustrative values — static preview. Real state is read on-chain from the canonical pool and the immutable frontier contracts.