With a volume and count of $ 500 billion, 1 inch sat down with crypto.news to explain how interoperability is used to offer non-guardianship solutions to everything, from real-world assets to cryptocurrency.
Decentralized Exchange (DEX) aggregators today seem to be all anger in Defi, with platforms aimed at finding the liquidity of multiple DEXs to optimize trade conditions, which in turn strengthen better prices of consumers by reducing reimbursements and reducing the slip. According to Defidotapp, the total commercial value of DEX -Aggreators from February 2025 was more than $ 2.03 billion, which reflects a remarkable growth process within the sector. One of these DEXAggregators, 1 inch, sat down with crypto.news on the sidelines of the Paris Blockchain Week to discuss the challenges and opportunities for DEX aggregators in the current crypto cycle.
1 Inch, a leading decentralized exchange (DEX) -Aaggregator, was founded in May 2019 by Sergej Kunz and Anton Bukov, two Russian developers who met at a hackathon and reversed their talent for optimizing crypto transactions in a Defi -force patters. The platform optimizes transactions in 400+ liquidity sources on 12 blockchains, from today process more than $ 500 billion in volume, with zero recording costs and no gas costs offered by its native Chi -token.
Mede-oprichter van 1inch, Sergej Kunz, vertelde Crypto.News hoe het bedrijf ernaar streeft om de sprong te maken van de gedecentraliseerde financieringssector in de crypto-ruimte door gebruikers een naadloze cross-chain-ervaring te bieden die rivals die van gecentraliseerde uitwisselingen, met een sterke focus in het volgende kwartaal op het volgende kwartaal en backcoLin en Sola, beter Aggregated media in a seamless technological umbrella under 1 inch.
“It is getting better and better. I think we will see a seamless experience in a few years, such as in centralized fairs with the benefits of non-approval and atomary performance,” Kunz told Crypto.news in a café in Paris on April 16.
In the wild west of Defi, atomic execution refers to the process where a transaction is carried out in its entirety or not at all, so that no partial completion is guaranteed. This guarantees that all parts of a trade, such as the exchange of tokens over multiple DEXs, take place at the same time and are only completed if all conditions (eg price and liquidity) are met, so that losses are prevented by failed or partial transactions that Sandwich transactions and extract costs extract from crypto -users.
With 1 inch, Kunz explained, new functions can now act through multiple DEXs to optimize the prices, where atomary version ensures that the entire swap completes a single, indivisible transaction on the blockchain. If a part fails (for example insufficient liquidity), the transaction will return and no funds are exchanged.
As DEX -Aaggregator Sources 1inch (1 inch) Liquidity of several DEXs to find the most favorable rates for a single transaction. The company uses a cleverly contract -based system with which users can exchange between tokens and set their desired price.
“We came up with the idea that we have this set -up protocol to simply say what they want and how it will be done is the bread of market makers and market traders,” Kunz said.
“We have expanded this functionality with swaps from Cross-Chain. And now we are a cross-chain marketplace for all users,” he continued.
The total commercial value of DEX -Aaggregators was more than $ 2.03 billion from February 2025, as a result of their growing role in Defi, while the market capitalization of DEX Aggregator -Mouten was $ 2.5 billion on January of this year. Top coins include Jupiter, 1inch and Cetus Protocol, but others tie the heels of these competitors, given the potential for enormous growth such as assets such as effects in the chain can be traded.
To this end, Kunz says that he has launched a striking Fusion+, an advanced upgrade to the swap -engine of 1 inch. The idea with Fusion+ is to create more efficient swaps for cross-chain to get better rates through generated architecture and less technology. The technology is intended to connect the user with extensive more Web3 liquidity, but also to protect against attacks of front running attacks such as MEV with more security functions that get the best price for Chi users.
So far, Fusion+ has facilitated more than $ 200 million in cross-chain trade volume, says Kunz, and notes that since the beta launch last September, integrations such as ZKSYNC have stimulated overall performance and security.
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Nowadays he says that 1inch priority gives cross-chain integration in Bitcoin (BTC) and Solana (SOL), with the idea of giving users more interoperability in popular cryptocurrency options. At the moment there are now EVM-compatible solutions for bridging Bitcoin to Ethereum without packing the BTC, and this is various important obstacles for those who want to use Capital Cross Chain. Integrating these coins, which work on their own non-EVM blockchain, still offers various technical challenges due to differences in blockchain architecture.
These obstacles limit the Bitcoin utility in the Ethereum Defi Ecosystem, where more than $ 100 billion in TVL (from April 2025) is concentrated in EVM chains. Bitcoin holders are confronted with friction when they try to use BTC in yields, loans or trade on platforms such as Aave, compound or 1 inch. And the dependence on packed tokens means that BTC remains a secondary active in Defi, with most activity aimed at Ethereum-Native tokens or stablecoins, with developers who build cross-chain Dapps (eg 1inch, as discussed earlier), several BTC variants (WBTC, tbtc) must.
Nevertheless, 1inch has also set their sights on conquering the traditional financing sector by collaborating with banks and other financial institutions to use Defi technology and bringing more players to the chain. The idea according to Kunz is to open the locks for institutional acceptance of cryptocurrency, but in a way that is Defi.
“Self -guardianship is both our value proposition and atomic implementation. We are planning to extend to Tradefi. From our point of view, Tradefi must adapt for us. We are not who must adapt to Tradefi, in terms of technology because our technology is unique,” Kunz said.
Kunz also regards security as a major obstacle. He explained how the 1-inch team strives for security problems by integrating anti-money laundering procedures and knowledge of your customer procedures that can open the doors for a greater institutional interest.
“We have a service that collects other security services that follow all portfolios that finance money, money laundering funds. And that move funds of central portfolios, and we refuse the interaction for APIs on 1 -inch Lab for such portfolios,” Kunz said about current security architecture 1 inch.
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Will 1 inch car in real-world assets-tokenization?
With the rise of Real-World Activa-Tokenization, Sergej Kunz sees the sector as a natural second step in the route map of 1 inch for expansion.
In the next five to ten years, he predicts that people will be able to trade traditional shares and other conventional effects on the chain. Soon, Kunz, traders are able to maintain non-suitability on these assets in a way that transcends regional boundaries and builds on atomic implementation.
According to a recently published joint report from Ripple and BCG, the market size for asset-tokenization has the potential to reach $ 18.9 trillion in 2033. Currently, the market size for Tokenized assets is $ 600 billion, with large expansion predicted by experts, tradable shares.
In the light of this potential for large growth, Kunz is concerned about a lack of secondary markets for tokenization of real-world assets, despite the fact that Defi is a fast-growing sector of the crypto ecosystem, not many advanced secondary markets exist for niche-and-tradable asset.
“There is no place where you can wait for the best performance, and that is where 1 inch comes in. That is what we build. The potential is huge.”
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