DEX and bridge aggregator
A service, consisting of router smart contracts and an off-chain routing engine, that finds the best price or path for a swap or a cross-chain transfer and executes it across several DEXs, liquidity pools or bridges in a single user transaction (e.g., 1inch or Jupiter for swaps, LI.FI for cross-chain routes).
On-chain, the funds pass briefly through the aggregator’s router and are split across multiple venues before reaching the recipient, who may be an address other than the sender. The aggregator is an intermediary, not the counterparty: tracing must follow the internal transactions and events through the router to the actual output, and in cross-chain routes match the legs on each chain.