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Introducing 3Route - A Next-gen Tezos DEX Aggregator for More Efficient Trading

3Route automatically identifies the best trading routes across multiple Tezos-supported DEXs to deliver the best exchange rates, all in one swap.

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DEX aggregators thus help to pull disbursed liquidity together in various ways, allowing users to find better trade values and making the experience of DEX hoping more convenient.

Consider you want to make a trade between token A and token B. Whether conducted manually or through using some other kind of swap router, the paths to an efficient trade from A to B would typically be executed by finding either 1), the most liquid pair between A and B, or 2), the best route through making multiple consecutive trades between different DEXs.

If conducted manually, option 1) might prove to be sufficient, provided the liquidity for your trade is deep enough, but it’s always possible that there was a multi-step trade that might have saved you some costs. This is when option 2), which finds a single route of consecutive trades becomes a favorable choice. Option 2) is how Temple wallet’s built-in swap router works. In their blog post, the 3Route team notes some subtle shortcomings of this option.

Even if you use some advantageous route for your swap, it immediately creates some arbitrage opportunities in some other routes. So, if the size of your swap is sufficient, arbitrage bots immediately find some route that can extract some money from DEXes after your swap. So, you actually pay them, because you can’t use all DEXes liquidity at once. - 3Route blog

3Route DEX aggregator, on the other hand, uses a third option - it introduces “autorouting” - utilizing smart contracts, 3Route automatically builds the routes to find the best exchange rates across multiple DEXs with low slippage, all in one swap. The result is a more efficient trade, helping you save up to 50% of the cost that you would otherwise incur due to price impact from using a single DEX to perform an exchange.

It’s quite an essential thing when you try to execute a number of parallel and consecutive swaps in one transaction. So it means that your slippage could be quite small and the swap will still have good chances to be included in the block. - 3Route.io blog

The 3Route DEX aggregator has a 0% service fee, and it currently supports liquidity from over 200 liquidity pools on 8 different platforms:

For a more in depth review of the 3Route DEX aggregator, check out the team’s blog post.