The most obvious way to get the address for a pair is to call getPair on the factory. If the pair exists, this function will return its address, else address(0) (0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000).

• The "canonical" way to determine whether or not a pair exists.
• Requires an on-chain lookup.

CREATE2

Thanks to some fancy footwork in the factory, we can also compute pair addresses without any on-chain lookups because of CREATE2. The following values are required for this technique:

address	The factory address
salt	keccak256(abi.encodePacked(token0, token1))
keccak256(init_code)	0x96e8ac4277198ff8b6f785478aa9a39f403cb768dd02cbee326c3e7da348845f

• token0 must be strictly less than token1 by sort order.

• Can be computed offline.
• Requires the ability to perform keccak256.

Examples

Solidity

address factory = 0x5C69bEe701ef814a2B6a3EDD4B1652CB9cc5aA6f;

address token0 = 0xCAFE000000000000000000000000000000000000; // change me!

address token1 = 0xF00D000000000000000000000000000000000000; // change me!

address pair = address(uint(keccak256(abi.encodePacked(

hex'ff',

factory,

keccak256(abi.encodePacked(token0, token1)),

hex'96e8ac4277198ff8b6f785478aa9a39f403cb768dd02cbee326c3e7da348845f'

))));