1inch's Smart Trading Strategy Outperforms Single DEXes in Price and Cost Efficiency

Why does 1inch offer better prices than any single DEX? And how can you save money by avoiding naive approaches. If you're still swapping directly through Uniswap or SushiSwap, it's time to move on and embrace the 2025 strategy. Today, we'll explore why 1inch is more than just "another platform"—it's a smart machine for saving. What does an ordinary DEX do? Simple process: You come in → choose tokens → swap → leave. But! Your trade goes through just one liquidity pool, risking slippage and high fees if trading large amounts. Enter Pathfinder, 1inch's proprietary algorithm, which operates much smarter: - Instantly analyzes over 70 protocols and DEXes, - Breaks your trade into multiple parts, - Routes each part through the optimal path, - Executes all this in less than a second. Imagine wanting to buy groceries. Instead of buying everything from one store at average prices, you send in Pathfinder, which swiftly sources each item from the cheapest place. Clever, right? Here's a real example: ETH to DAI Scenario: swapping 1 ETH for DAI - On Uniswap: you get about 1800 DAI with a gas fee at 100% of the network's standard load. - On 1inch: you get about 1830 DAI (+1.7%), with gas reduced by 10.3%, saving roughly 30 DAI and gas costs. How does Pathfinder achieve this? It could split the trade as follows: - 40% through Uniswap v3 (0.05% low fee), - 35% through SushiSwap, - 25% through Curve. Each segment executes at the best exchange rate, resulting in a better overall price than any single DEX. Additional benefits of 1inch include: - Protection against MEV and front-running, - Up to 40% gas savings using the Chi token, - Real-time smart contract checks to minimize scams. Have you compared prices on 1inch versus direct DEX trades?