Mint Position

Similar to Uniswap v3, liquidity positions are minted as ERC-721 tokens and depend on a periphery contract. v4's PositionManager contract will facilitate liquidity management

Context

Please note that PositionManager is a command-based contract, where integrators will be encoding commands and their corresponding parameters.

Setup

See the setup guide

Guide

Below is a step-by-step guide for minting a v4 liquidity position, in solidity

1. Import and define IPositionManager

import {IPositionManager} from "v4-periphery/src/interfaces/IPositionManager.sol";

// inside a contract, test, or foundry script:
IPositionManager posm = IPositionManager(<address>);

2. Encode Actions

To mint a position, two actions are required:

• mint operation - the creation of the liquidity position
• settle pair - the two tokens to be paid by msg.sender

import {Actions} from "v4-periphery/src/libraries/Actions.sol";

bytes memory actions = abi.encodePacked(Actions.MINT_POSITION, Actions.SETTLE_PAIR);

3. Encode Parameters

bytes[] memory params = new bytes[](2);

The MINT_POSITION action requires the following parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
poolKey	PoolKey	where the liquidity will be added to
tickLower	int24	the lower tick boundary of the position
tickUpper	int24	the upper tick boundary of the position
liquidity	uint256	the amount of liquidity units to mint
amount0Max	uint128	the maximum amount of currency0 msg.sender is willing to pay
amount1Max	uint128	the maximum amount of currency1 msg.sender is willing to pay
recipient	address	the address that will receive the liquidity position (ERC-721)
hookData	bytes	arbitrary data that will be forwarded to hook functions

params[0] = abi.encode(poolKey, tickLower, tickUpper, liquidity, amount0Max, amount1Max, recipient, hookData);

The SETTLE_PAIR action requires the following parameters:

• currency0 - Currency, one of the tokens to be paid by msg.sender
• currency1 - Currency, the other token to be paid by msg.sender

params[1] = abi.encode(currency0, currency1);

4. Submit Call

The entrypoint for all liquidity operations is modifyLiquidities()

uint256 deadline = block.timestamp + 60;

posm.modifyLiquidities(
    abi.encode(actions, params),
    deadline
);

Additional notes:

• To obtain balance changes, callers should read token balances before and after the .modifyLiquidities() call