Swaps, bridges and launchpads
How live trades are routed, the swap venues and launchpads a strategy or workflow can use, and bridges between chains.
How a live swap is routed#
A live trade on an EVM chain buys or sells through the token's deepest Uniswap pool with WETH on that chain, or through its Metric pool when Metric's quote pays more (or when Uniswap has none). On Solana, trades route through Jupiter. Every fill says which pool it went through.
Swap venues#
| Venue | Chains |
|---|---|
| Uniswap V2, V3, V4 | Robinhood Chain, Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Unichain |
| Metric | Where deployed |
| Aerodrome | Base |
| KyberSwap, CoW Swap | EVM aggregators |
| Jupiter | Solana |
Launchpads#
| Launchpad | Chain | What you can do |
|---|---|---|
| Pons, Flap, Virtuals | Robinhood Chain | Launch, snipe, trade the curve |
| pump.fun, PumpSwap, Raydium LaunchLab | Solana | Launch (pump.fun), snipe, trade the curve and the graduated pool |
| Zora, Clanker | Base | Trade the curve |
The launches, graduations and curves streams send every new launch, graduation and curve move, so sources, workflows and snipers act on them as they happen. See Snipers and launches.
Bridges#
Moving funds between chains is an intent: from, to, token and amount. Every bridge that can carry it is quoted at once and ranked by what lands and how soon.
- Relay carries most tokens across 50+ chains, Solana and the perps ledgers in seconds.
- Circle CCTP carries USDC between Circle's chains: fast (about 20 seconds, about a basis point) or standard (no protocol fee, about 15 minutes).
See Move between chains.