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TLDR:
  • Demonstrates how to collect Uniswap v4 ETH-USDC trading data on Unichain using a multi-threaded Python approach with Chainstack nodes.
  • Monitors the Uniswap v4 Pool Manager contract for swap events and filters trades originating from the Universal Router.
  • Includes production-ready features like persistence with resume capability, error handling with exponential backoff, and parallel block processing.
  • Shows how to parse Uniswap v4 swap events from the singleton architecture and save comprehensive trading data to CSV files for analytics or LLM training.

Overview

There are different use cases for why you may want to collect the Uniswap v4 ETH-USDC trades on the Unichain mainnet, and data analytics and synthetic data generation for LLM fine-tuning is one of them. Uniswap v4, however, with its singleton architecture, despite the name, can be tricky. This tutorial will guide you through setting up a multi-threaded persistent Python script to quickly and without failure collect the precious trading data off Uniswap v4. We are going to do this Python.

Prerequisites

Implementation

We will be collecting Uniswap v4 ETH-USDC swap events by monitoring the Uniswap v4 Pool Manager contract on Unichain. The script uses a multi-threaded approach to efficiently collect trading data while handling network issues gracefully. Here’s how the implementation works:
  • Event monitoring — We monitor the Swap event from the Uniswap v4 Pool Manager contract.
  • Router filtering — We only collect trades that originate from the Universal Router.
  • Multi-threading — The script uses parallel processing to handle multiple block ranges simultaneously.
  • Persistence — Data is saved to CSV files with resume capability if the script is interrupted.
  • Error Handling — Comprehensive retry mechanisms handle network issues and connection failures.
Key parameters in our example: The script:

Conclusion

This tutorial demonstrated how to build a robust Uniswap v4 data collection system for ETH-USDC trades on Unichain using Python and Chainstack’s Unichain nodes. This event-based monitoring approach provides reliable and fast trade data collection from the Uniswap v4 singleton architecture. This pattern can be easily adapted for other Uniswap v4 pools by simply changing the pool ID parameter, or extended to monitor multiple pools simultaneously. The collected data is perfect for analytics, research, or synthetic data generation for LLM fine-tuning purposes.

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Last modified on April 13, 2026