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Documentation Index

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Overview

8DX is a production-grade execution and aggregation layer built for teams that cannot afford execution failure. The system is designed around three principles: best execution, infrastructure determinism, and transparent economics. It is live on Ethereum mainnet, operating in real trading environments, and not an experimental or testnet deployment. 8DX consistently outperforms individual DEXs and existing aggregators on effective price — across both retail swap sizes and institutional order volumes. This is not a marketing claim: execution quality is benchmarked and independently verifiable.

Aggregation & Routing

8DX operates its own aggregation and swap engine built around a custom multi-path convex routing algorithm. The algorithm was developed to cover the full liquidity surface of the relevant DEX landscape while eliminating fragmentation noise and suboptimal allocation that typical greedy routers produce. The routing layer evaluates a large combinatorial space of candidate paths and performs deep simulation before any execution commitment. Parallel computation and purpose-built indexing structures keep this process low-latency even under sustained high load — routing does not degrade as order size or complexity increases. Quoted prices exhibit lower short-term volatility than comparable aggregators and centralized venues. This stability is a structural property of the allocation logic, not artificial smoothing. There are no hidden fees, no artificial spreads, and no execution manipulation. Routing is fully transparent: integrators and users can inspect order construction, venue allocation, and liquidity routing at any granularity.
The routing and allocation algorithm is formally described in the technical whitepaper: View technical whitepaper →

Advanced Order Types

Beyond spot swaps, 8DX supports limit orders filled through the same best-execution routing engine — with no additional markup and no preferential treatment of platform-side flow. TWAP execution is actively being rolled out. This allows large institutional orders to be executed gradually with controlled market impact — a capability absent from most DEX aggregators today. Stop-loss and conditional execution types are on the near-term roadmap. Any positive execution difference — slippage improvement, better-than-quoted fill — remains entirely with the integrator or end user. 8DX does not extract execution upside.

MEV & Security Model

MEV resistance is a first-class design constraint, not a retrofit. Routing decisions are computed off-chain with full simulation. On-chain contracts are minimal, deterministic, and intentionally simple — there is no opaque middleware between the user and the execution contract. All critical logic is auditable.
The core smart contract is verified on Ethereum mainnet: 0xEEe3fdCc5b9D7821570294b26070B2f45cFd8aEc
Security is a baseline requirement. The architecture is designed so that the failure modes are simple, auditable, and recoverable — not so that complexity obscures risk.