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🚨 BREAKING: The SEC issues a temporary, conditional exemption allowing onchain trading of tokenized US stocks. This is only the start. 24/7 markets, global access, faster settlement, programmable assets. The future is onchain.
1inch Aqua just passed $1B in total volume. Six weeks from launch to ten figures. The shared liquidity model is doing what it was built to do.
~$89M drained from hardware wallets this weekend. Cold storage was supposed to be the safest place in crypto. But the truth is, no single device can carry your whole security model. What protects funds over time is a process: independent audits, bug bounties, revocable approvals, verifiable code. We hold ourselves to that standard. Your assets stay in your wallet until a swap settles, approvals stay revocable, and our contracts go through independent audits before they ship.
Shared liquidity, explained: how one wallet balance can back multiple LP positions Shared liquidity, explained: how one wallet balance can back multiple LP positions Providing liquidity in DeFi has always started with a deposit. You pick a pool, send your tokens into a contract and hope the trading volume shows up where you parked them. If it doesn't, your capital sits there anyway. 1inch Aqua launched this week with a different starting point. The model is called shared liquidity: one wallet balance backs multiple liquidity positions at once, and your tokens stay in your wallet until a swap actually uses them. Here's how it works and what it changes. Why pool deposits hold LPs back AMMs made permissionless market-making possible: deposit tokens into a pool, traders swap against it, you collect fees. The trade-off is rigidity. Each deposit is tied to one pool, one pair and one price range. Want to cover several markets? You split your balance into pieces and commit each piece in advance, before you know where demand lands. Some positions see heavy trading. Others sit untouched. A protocol can report high TVL while only a fraction of that capital supports actual trades. The result is fragmentation: capital spread thin, locked in place and often idle. What shared liquidity is Shared liquidity, pioneered by 1inch Aqua, lets the same token balance supportons simultaneously, without depositing assets into a pool. Instead of transferring tokens into pool contracts, you approve your wallet baion. Multiple positions can reference that same approved balance. The assetsstay in your wallet until one of those positions fills a swap. That reverses a core assumption of DeFi market-making. You no longer decide in advance exactly where your capital should sit. One balance stays available across several opportunities at the same time. How it works, step by step 1. You approve your wallet balance for liquidity provision. No tokens move. 2. You create positions on top of it: token pair, price range, fee settings. Positions define trading terms, they don't hold the tokens. 3. A swap matches one of your positions: the trader's input tokens land in youokens go to the trader, atomically, wallet to wallet. 4. No swap, no movement: nothing leaves your wallet, and the approval can be updated or revoked. What actually changes Better capital utilization comes first. In pool-based LPing one balance ends up fragmented across positions, each backed by only part of your capital regardless of where demand appears. With shared liquidity the full balance stays available to every positity can cover more markets without being pre-split. Self-custody is the second shift. In traditional pools your tokens leave the wontract. Here settlement happens wallet to wallet at the moment of the swap,and until that moment you hold your assets. For many LPs this feels closer to the wallet-native experience that brought them to DeFi in the first place. For developers, the same model opens the door to liquidity infrastructure that doesn't depend on an isolated pool for every new application. The JIT problem gets smaller Pooled liquidity exposes LPs to more than inefficiency. Just-in-time bots add liquidity right before a large swap and pull it out right after, capturing fees that would otherwise go to long-term LPs. Research estimates JIT attacks can cut LP fee income by as much as 44%. Shared liquidity positions aren't pool deposits, which shrinks the surface for this kind of fee sniping. In 1inch Aqua, JIT is substantially reduced by design. Shared liquidity positions aren't pool deposits, which shrinks the surface for In 1inch Aqua, JIT is substantially reduced by design. Where this goes DeFi is moving past measuring liquidity by how much capital is locked. The quemuch of that capital actually works when demand appears. Shared liquidity isone answer: a single balance available across several positions, with self-custody intact. Aqua is the first protocol built around the model. As with any form of liquidity provision, positions remain exposed to market risk and fees are not guaranteed. What bites harder for you as an LP right now – fragmented capital or JIT fee sniping? Explore 1inch Aqua and discover how shared liquidity is reshaping DeFi liquidity provision. Disclaimer: This content is provided for informational purposes only. Nothing in this material constitutes financial, investment, legal, or tax advice, or a recommendation to enter into any transaction. Interacting with Aqua involves risk, including the possible loss of all funds involved.
1inch Network has added 10M 1INCH tokens in incentives for LPs on 1inch Aqua, with a further 500k USDC boost from the 1inch DAO. And we’re launching with @BNBCHAIN as our first co-incentive partner. The 1inch Network incentives run for 3 months through @merkl_xyz: 5M 1INCH in volume rewards and 5M 1INCH in partner co-incentives. Every swap your positions fill earns you swap fees, plus a share of the 1INCH campaign rewards based on the volume you handle. More volume, more rewards. Available across 80+ 1INCH markets.
THE BLOCK: 1inch launched Aqua to the public, a liquidity layer letting providers back multiple positions from one wallet balance. 1inch said the rollout lets users keep tokens in their wallet until a swap fills, with exposure capped at the assets actually held.
🚨 Breaking News 🚨 Underutilized liquidity will soon be utilized 🌊
The largest IPO in history, tokenized on day one. @RobinhoodCrypto launching its own chain. All in under a month. DeFi isn't replacing finance. It's upgrading it. The world is coming onchain. 1inch is the infrastructure powering the shift.
1inch X @RobinhoodCrypto Global markets are moving onchain, and we're a launch partner from day one. You can now trade Stock Tokens on the Robinhood Chain through 1inch Swap. Wallet. API.
71% of SPCXon trading routed through 1inch in first week SpaceX RWAs attracted substantial interest when they were launched earlier this month. And a large share of Ondo’s SPCXon trading has been routed through 1inch. Access is only part of the RWA story. Tokenized assets need markets. They need liquidity. And when liquidity is fragmented, they need execution infrastructure that can connect traders to the best available routes. That is already visible with SPCXon, the SpaceX RWA issued by Ondo. In the first week since trading went live on June 12, 71% of SPCXon’s total trading volume of $9.87 mln was routed through 1inch, according to Ondo. SpaceX RWAs moved from launch to liquidity Earlier, 1inch explained how eligible users can trade SpaceX RWAs, including SPCXon, issued by Ondo. SpaceX RWAs are tokenized instruments that provide exposure through issuer-specific structures, with their own terms, restrictions and eligibility requirements. The initial market activity involving SPCXon proves that RWAs are no longer just being issued on-chain. They are being traded through DeFi infrastructure. Why routing matters for RWAs RWA markets can be fragmented. Liquidity may sit across different venues, chains and pools. For traders, that can mean worse prices, higher price impact or more manual steps. 1inch helps solve this execution problem by finding efficient routes across available liquidity. Instead of checking separate venues manually, eligible users can access SPCXon through a familiar swap flow. For new RWA markets, this matters. Better routing can help make tokenized assets easier to access and trade, while keeping the experience closer to standard DeFi swaps. SPCXon shows the role of 1inch in tokenized markets The fact that a large proportion of SPCXon trading has been routed through 1inch shows how important execution infrastructure is becoming for RWAs. Issuers bring assets on-chain. But traders still need a practical way to reach liquidity. That is where aggregation matters. 1inch connects users to available liquidity and helps route trades efficiently across DeFi. As more real-world assets become tokenized, this layer can become even more important. RWAs need more than issuance The RWA market is often discussed through the lens of tokenization. But issuance alone is not enough. For tokenized assets to become useful, people need to be able to find them, evaluate them and trade them with clear execution conditions. SPCXon is an early example of that next phase. It shows how tokenized exposure, issuer infrastructure and DeFi routing can work together in a live market. A new market structure is taking shape SpaceX RWAs have brought attention to tokenized private-market exposure. But the broader trend is larger than one asset. More traditional assets are moving on-chain. As that happens, liquidity, routing and execution will become central to the user experience. 1inch is already helping power that layer. Explore available DeFi opportunities on 1inch! Disclaimer 1: This content is for general information purposes only and does not constitute financial, investment, tax, or legal advice and is not a recommendation to buy or sell any particular digital asset or to employ any specific investment strategy. Disclaimer 2: Not available in the US, EU, UK and other restricted jurisdictions.
1inch is now part of OPSeC. A security coalition built by @fund_defi, @_SEAL_Org and @asymmetric_re to strengthen cybersecurity across blockchain ecosystems and onchain software. Together, helping coordinate the crypto industry’s proactive security efforts. Read the pledge 👇 https://www.defieducationfund.org/opsecpledge/
You found a token you want to buy. You have dollars. Your wallet has nothing yet. So now: find an exchange, complete KYC, fund the account, copy your wallet address, send, wait, hope you got it right. In 1inch Wallet, you buy crypto directly through @moonpay provider – card or bank transfer, depending on your region. No switching apps, no copy-pasting addresses. Fiat in. Crypto in your wallet. That's it.
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Wall Street is coming onchain. The SEC is reportedly preparing an "innovation exemption" for tokenized stocks. Nasdaq has a framework live. DTCC starts production trades in July. NYSE is building. The venues that run global equity markets are moving to blockchain rails and they are moving fast. This isn't DeFi projects competing for supremacy anymore. Major institutions are entering with deep pockets, millions of customers and hundreds of years of market history. They bring legitimacy but they also bring complexity. More players means more venues. More venues means more fragmentation. Different asset classes, regulatory models and geographies each creating their own liquidity silos. Regulatory clarity doesn't automatically solve that. The open, efficient, borderless promise of on-chain finance only gets realised if someone can operate fluently across all of it. Without experienced on-chain operators in the infrastructure the efficiency stays theoretical. The access never reaches the end user. You end up with a blockchain based system but with the same fragmented liquidity limitations. As the market develops the demand for aggregation doesn't shrink, it compounds. Someone needs to dig through every platform, every model and every jurisdiction to find the best price and most efficient execution route. 1inch has been building for exactly this. Direct access to tokenized securities for whitelisted users is already in progress. The more venues that come online, the more that matters.
$4B in RWA volume processed via the 1inch API since September 2025, through our partners @OndoFinance and @xStocksFi. Banks had 500 years. DeFi had 5. We’re winning.
AI + DeFi: there are three steps between you and safety Most DeFi teams are still using AI to do small things faster. First drafts, research, shorter paths to a working code snippet. But marginal productivity gains aren’t enough to make it. The teams that pull through in the next cycle will be the ones who cross three thresholds in time. They’ll redesign their fundamental models around AI. They'll meet enterprise standards, not just developer convenience. And they'll have the full stack of capabilities in place to build use cases that don't exist yet, rather than running existing workflows with AI in the loop. Most teams have dealt with one or two of these. Very few are close to all three. Threshold 1: Redesign your process We all have some kind of AI workflows in place. Some of us are experimenting with agents. But who’s really ready to entrust them with business-critical actions? In DeFi, actions happen on-chain. They might include fetching live pricing data, routing an order, submitting a transaction, checking a position. Most teams currently have AI tooling that handles the first three stages and nothing for the fourth. The research layer is AI-enabled. The execution layer is still manual. That gap is where most of the theoretical value of AI in this industry is currently sitting, unrealised. The coordination required to close that gap is harder than installing better tools. It requires your AI infrastructure to speak to your execution infrastructure. It requires governance around how and when agents can act. It requires decisions about what falls inside an automated workflow and what needs a human gate. That's a process redesign question, not a tooling question. George Sivulka wrote recently about the historical parallel with electrification. Factories that bolted electric motors onto steam-era layouts saw no gains for decades, until they redesigned operations from the ground up around the technology. The teams treating AI as a better way to run existing workflows are at the motor-bolting stage. Threshold 2: Build for enterprise No-one is treating enterprise requirements as friction anymore. Auditability, governance, certification: these are all table stakes now Enterprise-ready tooling is what gives AI workflows organisational legitimacy at scale. Without it, AI stays at the individual layer: each team member using their own tools, in their own way, with no integration into how the organisation actually makes decisions or acts. That's the productivity illusion. Individually useful, institutionally invisible. The decisions product teams make carry financial and regulatory consequences that don't apply in the same way to a marketing team writing faster with AI. A workflow that can route an order needs governance. An agent that can act on a price signal needs audit trails. These aren't bureaucratic additions to an otherwise clean system. They're what make autonomous operation defensible, internally and externally. The teams building AI infrastructure with auditability and governance baked in aren't moving slower. They're building something that can actually be deployed at scale without requiring a senior decision-maker to sign off on every output. Threshold 3: Prepare for what you haven’t thought of yet The depth of your stack is still a moat. Go back and AI-optimize it all. You have no idea what someone might build with it. Autonomous agents that monitor on-chain conditions and execute intent-based orders within defined parameters. Multi-agent coordination across protocols that surfaces arbitrage opportunities, compliance signals, or liquidity changes without human prompting. Compliance-aware execution routing that adapts to regulatory jurisdiction in real time. These new workflows are achievable faster if your agent can work inside the execution infrastructure. Back to Sivulka, who talks about "unprompted" action as the most advanced pillar of institutional AI: systems that detect risks and opportunities humans never think to ask about. What's interesting from a DeFi perspective is that parts of this infrastructure already exist on-chain: intent-based execution, autonomous order routing, MEV-protected settlement. The gap, for most teams, isn't the on-chain execution layer. It's the AI layer that can connect to it intelligently and act within organisational constraints. The gap is already opening The divide between AI-enabled crypto teams and AI-integrated ones is in its early stages. The first group is larger and growing. The second is small. That won't last. The teams that use this window to build complete processes will have structural advantages that keep compounding over time. Network effects, data advantages, and institutional credibility all accrue faster to teams that have built the factory right than to teams that have simply upgraded the tools. That’s why we’ve optimized 1inch Business around our new MCP. You can use it to speed up your integrations, or run complete agentic trading flows. We think it’s the best combination of API diversity, agentic efficiency and enterprise-grade reliability you’ll find.
Fidelity asked the SEC for on-chain settlement clarity. Here's the harder question. Fidelity manages $5 trillion in assets. When they submit a formal letter to the SEC Crypto Task Force, the ask is specific: regulatory clarity on on-chain settlement. That's worth paying attention to. It's a signal about where serious capital is heading - and what infrastructure it needs to get there. Their March 20 submission asked for one thing: regulatory clarity on on-chain settlement. Specifically, "bright-line" standards so broker-dealers can support on-chain settlement activity without triggering redundant compliance burdens. That's a technical ask. But read it again. A firm with $5 trillion under management is telling a federal regulator: we are already building on-chain infrastructure. We just need you to stop making it legally ambiguous. This isn't a crypto company asking for permission The firms usually pushing for crypto clarity are crypto-native. Exchanges, protocols, wallet providers. The regulatory ask is often framed as "let us exist." Fidelity's ask is different. They're not asking to enter the space. Fidelity is already in it - spot Bitcoin ETF, digital asset custody, tokenized fund exploration. The submission is about removing friction from something they're actively building. That distinction matters. The industry has moved past debating whether this should exist. The question now is how to make it work at scale. The infrastructure problem they're not naming On-chain settlement sounds straightforward. Assets move on a blockchain instead of through DTCC's T+1 system. Faster, cheaper, more transparent. But there's a problem nobody in the submission talks about: liquidity. Traditional settlement works because liquidity is centralized. When Fidelity executes a large trade, it routes through deep, consolidated order books. Settlement happens against that liquidity. On-chain, liquidity is fragmented. It lives across dozens of protocols, chains, and pools. A $10M swap on-chain without proper routing doesn't get the same price as a $10M swap through a consolidated book. It gets slippage, partial fills, and worse execution than a retail trader using an aggregator on their phone. This isn't a hypothetical. It's what DeFi users have been dealing with since 2020. Where aggregation fits The solution already exists. It just wasn't built for institutional scale - yet. Liquidity aggregation routes orders across fragmented sources to find the best available execution. For retail users, that means getting more ETH for their USDC. For an institutional participant settling on-chain, it means the difference between a price that works and one that doesn't. 1inch currently handles roughly $300B in annual swap volume across chains - routing across enough liquidity sources that fragmentation stops being a problem for the end user. That scale didn't come from institutional mandates. It came from retail users who needed better execution and found it. The infrastructure Fidelity needs to make on-chain settlement work at institutional scale is the same infrastructure that already powers on-chain execution for millions of retail users. The underlying problem - fragmented liquidity, optimal routing, execution efficiency - doesn't change with the size of the participant. What the timeline actually looks like Regulatory clarity doesn't arrive overnight. Fidelity's submission goes into a process. The SEC responds, or doesn't. Rulemaking takes months, sometimes years. What matters is that a $5 trillion asset manager has now formally told regulators that on-chain settlement is part of their roadmap - and the rules need to catch up. That's a different world than three years ago, when the same firms were issuing cautious statements about "monitoring the space." The infrastructure is being built regardless of what the SEC decides next month. The capital is moving on-chain regardless of what Congress does with the CLARITY Act. Regulatory clarity accelerates it. The absence of clarity just means more legal overhead for the firms doing it anyway. The takeaway Fidelity isn't asking to join DeFi. They're asking for the rules that let them build the on-chain version of what they already do. What stands between where they are and where they're going is infrastructure. And a significant part of that infrastructure - routing, aggregation, execution across fragmented liquidity - already exists. The institutions are catching up to the infrastructure that was built without them.
🔁@OndoFinance RWAs on 1inch surpassed $2.5 billion in volume since September 2025. Tokenized stocks (Nvidia, Tesla, Google) and commodity-linked tokens (Silver) now traded on-chain through DeFi infrastructure. BNB Chain leads in volume, transactions, and active users.
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