Moving liquidity across DeFi pools has hidden costs.

Transaction fees, slippage, impermanent loss crystallization, approval overhead - each reallocation step adds friction. For active LPs, these costs compound quickly.

The root cause: liquidity is fragmented across pools and protocols. Every move means closing one position before opening another.

We broke down the mechanics of reallocation friction and how shared liquidity layers can reduce it:

You're swapping $10,000 USDC for ETH.

You expect: 5.10 ETH

You receive: 4.98 ETH

Missing: $235 😬

Yummy for the bot. Dummy tax for you. That's how sandwich attacks work 🤷‍♂️

1inch detects MEV risk and routes through protected mempools.

You approved a transaction six months ago.

Today your wallet was drained.

Token approvals don't expire. Malicious contracts can drain funds weeks or months later – even after you've withdrawn from the platform.

That’s just one of the scam vectors that Phishfort help 1inch protect you from.

We partnered with Phishfort to break down 17 attack vectors like this. Each one includes practical defense.

Read the guide:

Hot wallets are convenient until they're not.

One malicious signature and everything's gone.

1inch Wallet scans for malicious tokens and flags them before you sign. Scam protection built in – you still control what happens, and you know what you're looking at.

DeFi is changing fast. The question is whether your tools can keep up.

Today, we're launching the upgraded 1inch dApp - built around three things our users asked for most: speed, simplicity, and control.

What's new:

▪️ Swaps now execute up to 2x faster, on and across 13 chains
▪️Limit Orders are easier to place and manage at scale
▪️Full control over gas, slippage, and routing preview in the Trade interface


All with the same security and rates 1inch is known for.

1inch started as a hackathon project. The spirit hasn't changed - ship, listen, optimize, repeat. We launched the new Swap interface in October, collected feedback, and spent months improving it based on what we heard.

This is the result. But it's not the final version - we're already listening for what comes next.

Try it at 1inch.com and let us know what you think.

They promised us flying cars.

Instead, we got cross-chain swaps - with instant delivery to any address.

Asset transfer and fund management, in a single transaction.

Which is better? Depends on your priorities.

US Treasury published a report to Congress on combating illicit finance through digital assets - highlighting AI, blockchain analytics, and digital identity as key tools.

Here's a case where those tools actually delivered results.

David, an experienced crypto developer with strong security practices, lost millions after installing what appeared to be a routine Zoom update. The attack was later linked to DPRK-associated operators - part of an estimated 15,000-person global network targeting high-value individuals.

Through blockchain monitoring and risk management coordination between investigators, exchanges, and law enforcement, $240,000 has been recovered so far. A fraction of the total loss, but proof that these systems can work - even against state-sponsored actors.

We covered the full story with zeroShadow: how the attack happened, how partial recovery was achieved, and what operational security lessons apply to everyone in crypto.

👉 blog.1inch.com/zoom-hack/

Liquidity providers face a hidden cost: just-in-time liquidity attacks.

JIT works by adding liquidity right before a large swap executes, capturing fees, then removing it immediately after. Passive LPs provide liquidity over time but earn less because fee distribution favors the fastest liquidity, not the most consistent.

Research shows JIT can erode passive LP profits by up to 44% per trade in concentrated liquidity pools.

We broke down how JIT attacks work, why they exist, and how Aqua's architecture eliminates the structural incentive.

Your cross-chain swap should feel as easy - and secure - as any other

1inch. Just click swap.

So you want to trade with limit orders, but you’re not sure how?

Jordan explains how to set up to 100 per chain in 1inch Trade mode - it’s an easy way to take control of your execution price, and get ready for changing market conditions.

See how he’s even prepared to lose money to show you…
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The next billion DeFi users won't be human.

30% of Polymarket's trading volume is now generated by AI agents. Over 500 AI agent projects are already tracked on CoinGecko. $1B moves daily through agentic trading strategies.

These systems don't use frontends. They don't click buttons. They need non-custodial infrastructure they can call directly.

1inch Business is optimized to meet their needs.

Automate complete trading flows, from goal to execution, with direct access to 1inch routing and swap execution.

Or integrate a wider range of 1inch APIs - for data, RPC access and more - in minutes.

The 1inch Business MCP is a hosted MCP server that connects trading agents with intent-based or aggregator swaps.

And it searches docs, pulls runnable SDK examples and debugs errors in context, right inside your IDE.

It works with Cursor, Claude, Codex, Windsurf, JetBrains, Gemini and more. And it’s also available as a Claude Code skill.

The future of DeFi is agentic.
It’s time to catch up.

https://business.1inch.com/1inch-mcp

We've decided to pivot to Web3 gaming. Apparently it's the future

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Traditional finance doesn't need to be replaced - it needs new infrastructure.

The system is roughly 100 years old. Tokenized assets are here. But between them - layers of intermediaries that slow everything down and cut into liquidity.

DeFi removes those layers. Not as a replacement, but as the infrastructure the existing system was never built to have.

1inch CLO Orest Gavryliak making the case at Penn Blockchain Conference in Philadelphia.

Scammers are impersonating recruiters from well-known crypto and Web3 companies - 1inch included.

The profiles look credible. The conversations feel real. Then comes a "test task" - clone this repo, run this code locally. By that point, the attack is already in motion.

We wrote about how these scams work and what to watch for. If you're active in Web3, worth a read.

https://blog.1inch.com/fake-1inch-recruiters/

DeFi gave you control over your money. But control comes with overhead - monitoring positions, finding routes, managing gas across chains.

Agentic DeFi changes that. You set the objective. The agent handles the execution.
Not bots with fixed logic. Systems that can process context, adjust strategies and coordinate across protocols.

We put together a full breakdown of what agentic DeFi is, why it's emerging now and what the risks actually look like.

TVL measures capital that sits idle.

TVU measures capital that actually works.

1inch co-founder Sergej Kunz on fixing DeFI liquidity

Calling all ETH lenders locked on Aave. We have built a way to exit to any token.

While Fluid provides redemption to wstETH/weETH, via our Pathfinder algorithm, you can swap aEthWETH directly into the asset of your choice.

aWETH → any token on https://1inch.com/swap in one click if you're still stuck.

1inch was not directly impacted by the KelpDAO hack or the resulting fallout. However, we take financial freedom seriously and, as members of the community, believe DeFi is stronger when we work together.