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How does Zerion's exchange work?

Learn how Zerion optimizes single-transaction DeFi trades.

Updated over 2 years ago

We’ve integrated every major DeFi protocol and liquidity provider, which means your favourite portfolio tracker just became the easiest and cheapest place to invest in DeFi.

Zerion also includes Multichain support for 10+ networks including Solana, Polygon, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Binance Smart Chain, Optimism, Gnosis Chain and others.

How it works

Zerion lets you buy and sell DeFi tokens in a single transaction. On the backend, our execution engine will find the cheapest and fastest route for your trade. This process is powered by DeFi SDK, a library of smart contracts that acts as a universal adapter for every DeFi protocol.

Example #1: When investing in yearn.finance vaults through Zerion, we'll automatically route you between buying yTokens on Uniswap or minting them — whichever works out cheaper.

Example #2: You no longer need to hold all of the underlying tokens in a liquidity pool to become a liquidity provider. Zerion lets you buy LP tokens for Uniswap, Curve, Balancer and Sushi in a single-asset trade.

Liquidity sources

Zerion sources liquidity from every major decentralized exchange (DEX), DEX aggregator, and automated market maker (AMM), including:

  • Uniswap

  • Balancer

  • Curve

  • 1inch

  • 0x

  • DODO

  • Sushi

We do charge a 0.5% fee on trades. These fees go straight to "treasury-like" multisigs, where they will stay safe and secure until we come up with a way to involve the community in managing Zerion’s future.

Wallets that hold a Zerion Genesis NFT are exempt from paying these fees for extended periods of time.

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