How I Learned to Love Low-Slippage Cross-Chain Swaps (and Why Voting-Escrow Matters)

Whoa! I still get a chill when a trade slips past expectations. Seriously? You can route stablecoins across chains with almost no slippage now. Initially I thought cross-chain swaps would always be messy and expensive, but then I started testing concentrated stable pools, AMM invariants, and voting-escrowed incentive layers in practice and realized that with thoughtful liquidity placement and proper routing the numbers change dramatically. It opened a set of trade opportunities I didn’t expect. Wow! On one hand cross-chain bridges add aggregated liquidity and instant access across ecosystems. On…

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