How routes are compared
The Recommended route is the one you receive the most from, after every fee.
Sources
- Uniswap: the best route from Uniswap’s router across v2, v3 and v4 pools, including hooked pools and routes split across several pools.
- Uniswap pools, one by one: each standard pool for the pair, quoted on-chain, so you can see each fee tier on its own.
- KyberSwap: an aggregator that also reaches other Arc DEXes.
- Two-step routes: for pairs without a pool of their own, through USDC, EURC, WETH or cirBTC.
Recommended
Routes are re-quoted every 10 seconds. Tap any other row to use it instead; the swap panel shows how much less it pays.
Thin pools
A route with price impact above 3% is marked Thin pool: shown, never recommended or selectable. Pools holding under $1,000 are hidden and counted in a note under the table.
Liquidity and price impact
Liquidity is what a pool really holds, in US dollars. Price impact compares your order’s rate with a very small order on the same route, so it shows how much your own size moves the price.
Every row can be swapped. The Uniswap and KyberSwap rows are built by those aggregators; single pools and two-step routes are built by Kata through the Uniswap Universal Router, quoted again on-chain right before you sign, with the Kata fee taken from the output and your minimum enforced by the router.