1) Introduction: Beyond Ordinary DEXs As Layer 2 and modular chains proliferate, the tension in DeFi shifts from raw throughput to coordinated capital efficiency. Unichain, with its native support for Uniswap v4 Hooks, offers fertile soil for modular liquidity logic but missing is a protocol that unifies, coordinates, and governs it all. That’s where Catex steps in. Catex is not just a DEX it’s a MetaDEX and governance layer for Uniswap v4 on Unichain, integrating ve(3,3) tokenomics, hooks ar...