What is a DEX aggregator?

A DEX aggregator routes your swap across many decentralised exchanges simultaneously to find the best rate and lowest slippage. Instead of trading on a single venue like Uniswap, the aggregator splits your order across pools and chains for the best output. Steyble's aggregator covers 250+ liquidity sources.

How can I get the best price when swapping crypto?

Use a DEX aggregator (not a single exchange). Trade during low-volatility periods. Avoid swapping illiquid tokens directly — bridge to an L2 or Solana first if the cost is lower. For large trades, split across multiple transactions to reduce price impact.

What is slippage in a crypto swap?

Slippage is the difference between the expected price and the executed price of a swap. It happens because prices move while your transaction is being mined. Setting a slippage tolerance (e.g. 0.5%) protects you from large unfavourable price moves but may cause failed transactions in volatile markets.

Reputable DEXes and aggregators are safe in normal use. The main risks are token approval exploits (revoke unused approvals at sites like revoke.cash), front-running (use MEV protection), and trading scam tokens (verify contract addresses). Steyble includes MEV protection and verifies token authenticity.

What is a DeFi aggregator?

A DeFi aggregator is a platform that routes your crypto swaps across hundreds of decentralised exchanges (DEXes) simultaneously to find the best rate and lowest slippage. Instead of trading on a single DEX like Uniswap, an aggregator like Steyble splits your trade across multiple pools and chains to maximise your output.

What is a crypto super app?

A crypto super app is a single non-custodial platform that combines every DeFi service — token swapping, staking, perpetuals trading, prediction markets, copy trading, cross-chain bridging, and crypto cards — in one interface. Steyble is a crypto super app, meaning you never need to switch between multiple DeFi applications.

Is Steyble self-custodial?

Yes. Steyble is entirely non-custodial and self-custodial. You hold your private keys at all times. Steyble provides the interface and smart contract routing, but never holds, controls, or has access to your assets. Every transaction requires your explicit wallet signature.

How do prediction markets work in crypto?

Crypto prediction markets let you buy or sell shares in the outcome of real-world events using on-chain smart contracts. If you buy a 'Yes' share at $0.35, you receive $1 if the event occurs (a $0.65 profit) or lose $0.35 if it does not. Markets cover crypto prices, elections, sports results, and macro events. Steyble's prediction markets are non-custodial — your funds remain in your wallet until settlement.

What are perpetual futures in crypto?

Perpetual futures (perps) are leveraged crypto trading contracts with no expiry date. Unlike traditional futures that expire monthly, perps let you hold long or short positions indefinitely. A periodic funding rate keeps the perp price aligned with spot. Steyble perpetuals run on decentralised smart contracts — you trade directly from your own wallet with full transparency into liquidation parameters.

How does copy trading work on Steyble?

Copy trading on Steyble automatically mirrors the on-chain trades of verified top-performing wallet strategies. You choose the wallets you want to copy, set your position sizing and risk limits, and Steyble replicates their trades in real time. Unlike centralised copy trading, Steyble is non-custodial — you never give up control of your funds.

What is the best way to earn passive income with crypto in 2026?

The best methods for passive crypto income in 2026 are: (1) liquid staking ETH or SOL at 3.5–8% APY, (2) lending stablecoins on lending protocols at 5–9% APY, (3) non-custodial copy trading to mirror proven wallet strategies, (4) providing liquidity to stablecoin pools at 3–6% APY, and (5) on-chain prediction markets for event-driven returns. Steyble provides access to all five methods in a single platform.

What is the best DEX aggregator in 2026?

The best DEX aggregators in 2026 route across 15+ blockchains and 100+ liquidity sources with MEV protection. Steyble's swap aggregator covers 250+ liquidity sources across Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, Base, and more — consistently delivering better rates than going directly to any single DEX. For large swaps, using an aggregator saves 0.5–2% per transaction.

How a Crypto Swap Routes Through 250+ Liquidity Sources

Walk through a real $50,000 USDC-to-ETH swap as it is split, routed, and settled across 7 different venues by a modern DEX aggregator.

To make routing tangible, follow a single hypothetical $50,000 USDC-to-ETH swap from quote request to final settlement on Ethereum mainnet. The aggregator quotes 287 venues across 6 chains in under 800 milliseconds, builds a graph, runs a path-finding optimisation, and returns a single transaction the user signs once. The intermediate steps are where the value is created or destroyed.

Quote Request

User taps 'swap $50,000 USDC for ETH'. The aggregator pings every venue's price function in parallel: Uniswap V3 0.05%, V3 0.30%, V4 hooks, Curve tricrypto, Balancer 80/20, Maverick boosted, Sushi V3, and dozens of long-tail pools. Each returns a quoted output amount for the requested input. Slow venues (>800ms) are excluded from this round so the user does not wait.

The Path Construction Phase

Single-hop direct: Uniswap V3 0.05% USDC/ETH — quotes 16.452 ETH (this is the baseline)
Single-hop direct on V3 0.30%: quotes 16.434 ETH (lower fee tier wins this pair)
Two-hop USDC → DAI → ETH via Curve + Uniswap: 16.428 ETH (worse — extra fee and hop)
Two-hop USDC → wBTC → ETH: 16.401 ETH (worse — wBTC liquidity is shallow)
Split path: 60% on Uniswap V3 0.05% + 30% on Curve tricrypto + 10% on Maverick — 16.469 ETH (this wins)

Why the Split Beats the Single Venue

Price impact on AMMs is convex in size: a $30k swap on Uniswap V3 0.05% has 8bps impact, but a $50k swap has 21bps impact (not 13bps). By splitting the order across three venues, the aggregator avoids walking up the price curve on any single pool, lowering the average price impact to ~7bps overall. The user receives 0.017 more ETH — about $55 at $3,200 — than they would have on the single best venue.

Execution and MEV Protection

The router contract bundles the three swap legs into a single atomic transaction
Slippage tolerance set to 0.30% — execution must produce at least 16.420 ETH or revert
Transaction submitted via Flashbots Protect RPC — bypasses the public mempool
Block builder includes the bundle 6 seconds later — no sandwich attack possible because no searcher saw the pending tx
User receives 16.467 ETH (slight under-fill from real-time price drift) — confirmation in wallet feed within 12 seconds

What the User Did Not See

The user clicked one button. Behind it: 287 quote requests, a graph search, a 3-way split optimisation, atomic execution across three pools, MEV protection through a private mempool, and on-chain settlement — all in under 15 seconds for a per-transaction cost of around $4 in gas. This is what 'best execution' means in practice in 2026, and it is the default Steyble routing behaviour for every swap.