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TokenPrice (TP) Oracle

To ensure accurate, trustless calculations during the burning process, the Ktv2 contract needs to know the live market price of its token relative to ETH. This TokenPrice oracle contract is a dedicated, on-chain utility that serves this exact purpose. It fetches price data directly from Uniswap liquidity pools.

Core Concept: On-Chain Price Feeds​

This contract acts as a specialized price feed. Instead of relying on off-chain sources that can be manipulated, it queries the state of a Uniswap liquidity pool directly. This provides a decentralized and tamper-resistant price based on the pool's current reserves and liquidity state. The contract supports both Uniswap V3 and V2 pools.

Functions Explained​

The contract has two distinct functions to handle the different architectures of Uniswap V2 and V3.

price(address poolAddr) - For Uniswap V3​

This function calculates the price from a Uniswap V3 pool. V3's architecture is more complex, as it relies on concentrated liquidity and a value called sqrtPriceX96.

function price(address poolAddr) external view returns (uint256)

Execution Breakdown:

  1. Get slot0: The function first calls pool.slot0() on the given V3 pool address. This returns several values about the pool's current state, but the most important one is sqrtPriceX96.
  2. sqrtPriceX96: This is the square root of the pool's price, represented as a Q64.96 fixed-point number. This format is highly precise but requires mathematical conversion to be human-readable.
  3. Squaring the Price: The contract squares sqrtPriceX96 to get the raw price ratio, which is now scaled up by 2^192.
  4. Scaling for Decimals: Finally, it uses FullMath.mulDiv to perform a safe multiplication and division. It multiplies the raw price ratio by 10^18 (to represent the price in a standard 18-decimal format) and divides by 2^192 to remove the Q64.96 scaling. The result is the price of token0 in terms of token1.

priceV2(address pairAddr) - For Uniswap V2​

This function calculates the price from a simpler Uniswap V2 pair.

function priceV2(address pairAddr) external view returns (uint256)

Execution Breakdown:

  1. Get Reserves: The function calls pair.getReserves() on the V2 pair address. This returns the total amount of token0 and token1 held in the liquidity pool (reserve0 and reserve1).
  2. Calculate Price: The price in a V2 pool is a straightforward ratio of the reserves. The price of token0 in terms of token1 is reserve1 / reserve0.
  3. Scaling for Decimals: To ensure precision and handle tokens with different decimal counts, the function uses FullMath.mulDiv to calculate (reserve1 * 10^18) / reserve0. This returns the price scaled to 18 decimals.

Important Assumptions​

  • 18 Decimals: Both functions assume that the base currency in the pair (e.g., WETH) has 18 decimals. The 10 ** ASSUMED_DECIMALS term hard-codes this assumption.
  • Token Order: The functions calculate the price of token0 in terms of token1. For the oracle to return the price of the project token in ETH, the liquidity pool must be created with the project token as token0 and WETH (or another 18-decimal base token) as token1.