Why the “best price” myth about DEX routing is misleading — and how 1inch’s aggregator actually negotiates that trade-off
Many DeFi users believe the aggregator that returns the “best price” has solved the swap problem once and for all: you plug in two tokens, it finds the lowest slippage path, and you walk away with the optimal outcome. That’s a useful shorthand, but it hides a web of mechanisms, trade-offs, and boundary conditions that …