Exactly one year ago, PancakeSwap Infinity launched and unlocked new possibilities for your DeFi journey.

With tools to customize your strategy, reduce costs, and optimize your returns — whether you're a trader, liquidity provider, or developer — Infinity offers the flexibility and scalability to help you achieve your goal.

Here's a look at what Infinity has delivered in year one.

A Year of Infinity in Numbers

When PancakeSwap Infinity launched in April 2025, it introduced a modular architecture built from the ground up: Hooks - customizable smart contracts that act as add-ons, Singleton contracts for gas efficiency, Flash Accounting for reduced transfer costs, and two purpose-built pool types — CLAMM (Concentrated Liquidity AMM) and LBAMM (Liquidity Book AMM).

Twelve months in, Infinity alone has processed over $113 billion in trading volume across more than 250 million transactions, serving over 5 million unique users. CLAMM pools account for 97.8% of that volume, with LBAMM handling the rest.

Source: PancakeSwap Infinity Dashboard on Dune Analytics

Key Benefits of Infinity

Infinity uses a modular design that allows for more customization and supports different types of trading pools and pricing models.

For LPs, PancakeSwap Infinity supports two main pool types: CLAMM (Concentrated Liquidity AMM) and LBAMM (Liquidity Book AMM). Each pool type is designed to offer distinct advantages, catering to different liquidity strategies.

Developers can build new features more easily using "hooks"—small bits of code that run at key actions in a pool’s lifecycle. These allow for use-cases like custom oracles, dynamic fee pools, advanced trading & liquidity management features, and more.

With the launch of Infinity, a feature called Hooks started reshaping how the platform works for everyone.

• For traders, hooks can enable adaptive fees and discounts on swaps
• For liquidity providers, hooks offer new ways to optimize their strategy - returns, minimizing risks, or automating management. Liquidity Providers can filter and choose pools based on the hooks that best match their goals.
• For developers, they mean an open-source, composable framework to build custom DeFi logic on top of a protocol already serving 5M+ users.

For LPs: More Than Just Hooks

Infinity's LP story goes beyond hooks. The upgrade introduced two pool types built for different LP strategies:

➤ CLAMM (Concentrated Liquidity AMM) — best for LPs who are comfortable with active liquidity management. Concentrate your capital within specific price ranges for higher capital efficiency and potentially higher yields.

➤ LBAMM (Liquidity Book AMM) — best for LPs who prefer a hands-off approach with lower-complexity strategies. Liquidity is organized into discrete price bins, making position management more straightforward.

On the hooks side, the Dynamic Fee Hook has been protecting LPs from impermanent loss since day one — charging proportionally higher fees during volatile conditions so your position bleeds less when markets move fast. Brevis is developing intelligent LP reward allocation hooks, and the modular architecture opens the door for third-party developers to build auto-rebalancing logic and MEV protection modules that attach to individual pools.

For Developers: Build on Infinity

PancakeSwap Infinity is fully open source, and hooks are the extension point. Any developer can build and deploy a custom hook - whether it's a dynamic fee model, a novel order type, a custom oracle integration, or something entirely new. The hooks template is available on GitHub (foundry-based), and each pool supports one hook that can serve many pools. If you're building DeFi tooling, Infinity's hook architecture gives you a composable foundation with built-in liquidity and 5 million+ traders to ship to.

Learn more: developer.pancakeswap.finance

What's Next

With Infinity live across BNB Chain and Base, the surface area for hook innovation keeps growing. The bottom line after year one: Hooks have delivered adaptive fees, automatic discounts, fee-earning limit orders, and a platform that shipped new capabilities.

PancakeSwap Infinity is here to unlock new possibilities and bring greater flexibility to your DeFi journey. With powerful tools to customize your strategy, reduce costs, and optimize your returns, you can innovate, grow, and succeed in a rapidly evolving market.

Whether you’re a trader, liquidity provider, or developer, PancakeSwap Infinity offers the flexibility and scalability to help you achieve your goals.

Explore more in the PancakeSwap Infinity Docs. or LP into Infinity pools here.

Disclaimer: This content is for general information and educational purposes only. It should not be construed as financial, legal, or other professional advice. Digital asset prices can be volatile. The value of your investment may go down or up.