Vortex Swap
Best safe execution
Every Aqua quote is benchmarked against the Uniswap Trading API. Aqua executes only when it wins on net output.
Programmable market making
Quote like a market maker.
Trust like a contract.
Makers price actively. The spread, inventory limits and profit floor are enforced onchain.
See how it works- 1inch Aqua
- Liquidity without custody.
- SwapVM
- Strategy enforced onchain.
- Uniswap v4 & Trading API
- The benchmark every quote must beat.
- Pull-oracle-ready reference price
- Checked fresh on every swap.
The problem
Every time a pool price goes stale, someone profits.
A passive pool waits to be corrected by an arbitrageur, and pays for the correction.
The trade-off nobody wants to make
Better prices, or no trusted operator. Pick one.
Passive AMM
Proprietary AMM
Vortex
- Who sets the price
- A formula, not a person
- The operator
- The maker's own strategy
- Who can change the spread
- Nobody
- The operator, at will
- The maker, within an immutable floor
- What stops abuse
- Nothing to abuse
- Reputation
- The contract reverts
Vortex takes both. The maker’s strategy quotes. The chain decides whether the quote is allowed.
Offchain systems find opportunities. Onchain contracts guarantee the outcome.
Execution proposes
Offchain
- Aqua
- Liquidity without custody: assets stay in the maker’s wallet.
- Uniswap and the Trading API
- Deep liquidity and v4 hooks.
Enforcement disposes
Onchain
- SwapVM
- Enforces spreads, inventory behaviour and the curve.
- The comparator
- Improves the quote only while the maker profits.
The quote signer cannot cross these lines.
Real checks, each named by the error it reverts with.
A signed rebate can never price below the safety floor.
The floor is immutable: safety fee plus minimum commercial fee.
immutable floor
Every swap requires a fresh reference price.
Stale, future-dated and implausibly wide feeds all revert.
VortexStaleOracle
Trade size is capped by the maker, onchain.
A quote larger than the maker allowed cannot settle.
VortexMaxTradeExceeded
Grow is atomic.
Below the profit floor the whole cycle reverts and balances are untouched.
all or nothing
Pull-oracle-ready: bid, mid, ask and a timestamp. This build runs a mock feed; the freshness checks around it are real.
Choose an outcome, not a venue.
Vortex Grow
Compounding, or nothing
An atomic cycle that settles only if the maker ends with more of the same asset.
Start with WBTC. Finish with more WBTC.
SwapVM proposes the route. The Compounder checks the final balance onchain, or the whole transaction reverts.
No profit, no execution.
Illustrative values, not a live quote.
Step 1 of 11
Step 1 of 11. Maker authorises WBTC. Assets stay in the maker's wallet.
Backend
Offchain. Discovers, prepares and simulates. Proposes only.
Finds the opportunity, builds the route and simulates it before anything is signed. It cannot make the cycle settle.
onchain from here
Contracts
Onchain. Authorisation, limits, atomicity, the final check.
Aqua maker
Authorisation and virtual balance
1.00000000WBTC
Assets stay in the maker’s wallet.
Vortex Compounder
Atomic coordinator, not a source of yield
0.00000000WBTC
Vortex PermAMM
First leg, WBTC to USDC
A Vortex-operated Uniswap v4 pool.
External venue
Second leg, USDC back to WBTC
The demo runs a deterministic simulated venue. The route format supports a Uniswap API-built call.
Profit gate
Checked onchain, after both legs
final ≥ principal + minimum profit
Evaluated once both legs have returned.
Fee
20% of profit, never principal
1.00300000 gross. The 0.00060000 fee comes out of the profit, leaving 1.00240000 to the maker.
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Maker authorises WBTC. Assets stay in the maker's wallet.
Permissionless market-making capital that earns spread, manages inventory, and compounds itself.
Without handing pricing power to a centralized operator.