| Cryptocurrency | Price (USDT) |
|---|---|
| BTC | $107943.7900000000 |
| ETH | $2456.1630000000 |
| BNB | $650.3025400000 |
| XRP | $2.1925250000 |
| ADA | $0.5654621000 |
| SOL | $151.6779000000 |
| DOGE | $N/A |
| DOT | $3.4303900000 |
| LTC | $86.9039000000 |
| LINK | $13.4917500000 |
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The post 1inch Co-Founder on DEX Evolution, Cross-Chain, and Bitcoin appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Fragmented liquidity and soaring user demands are pushing DeFi innovators to deliver powerful, intuitive, and secure solutions. As cross-chain functionality and regulatory scrutiny intensify, the race to unify digital and traditional finance has never been more urgent. Sergej Kunz, Co-Founder of 1inch, shares his insight with BeInCrypto on evolving DEX aggregation, user empowerment, and the company’s next leaps—including Solana and Bitcoin integration. Evolving DEX Aggregation and the Multi-Chain Future Liquidity right now is highly fragmented. It’s not just concentrated in DeFi or decentralized finance—it exists across various networks like Ethereum and Layer 2s such as Base, which is currently very popular. Liquidity also resides on other chains, such as Sui and Solana. If you zoom out beyond DeFi and look at the broader crypto landscape, there’s substantial liquidity in Bitcoin. While some of this liquidity is on centralized exchanges, a large portion is simply being held—without generating any passive income. However, earning passively on Bitcoin is now very feasible through DeFi. Recognizing this, we shaped our strategy to expand outward, starting from within DeFi, moving into the broader crypto space, and eventually reaching into traditional finance. Traditional finance encompasses a wide range of financial products that can be tokenized, and this is exactly the direction we’re heading in. We’re integrating one chain after another. Today, we support cross-chain swaps across 13 chains, and we’re adding yet another. The 1inch Approach So we started out with just simple swaps among these different liquidity sources. Users had to create their own transactions and take on all the risks. You mentioned MEV – Maximal Extractable Value. This is when someone else can see your transaction, manipulate the liquidity pools, and extract value from it. We recognized that this became very well-known and widespread, and many people started exploiting it to extract value. If…
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