Surprising stat to start: routing the same trade through a well-designed aggregator can shave tenths of a percent off slippage and gas compared with a single DEX route — and for large or frequent trades that adds up faster than most people expect. That’s the practical promise behind 1inch: not a single exchange, but an optimizer that slices orders across pools, balances on-chain and off-chain quotes, and pushes toward the best effective rate after fees and price impact. For US-based DeFi users w […]