Imagine a #DEX that accepts any of your favorite wallets, including good old stone age Metamask, any chain, any token. Now imagine you can pay gas in any token at this DEX and that it will always guarantee you the best price.

This DEX will also allow you to use limit orders, DCA and utilize LST fees in the smartest way to increase liquidity, thus benefiting liquid stakers, liquidity providers and traders. And it will also do all this SEAMLESSLY. Yes, user experience will be second to none. One of the biggest obstacles, if not the biggest, to mainstream adoption of crypto and especially #defi , always was its complexity, requirements for multiple wallets, chains, tokens, deposits, bridges… all that will be gone. ONE single DEX to do it all, coming to you this summer.

You will be able to use one single wallet, with all of most widely used wallets integrated, to connect to any chain, be it EVM, IBC, roll ups, Solana or SVM. And with a few clicks you’ll be good to go swapping assets cross chain without having to spend time and money with bridges, different wallets, etc. Moreover, you’ll be able to do all this with deep liquidity and without having to host liquidity on both ends of a cross chain transaction. For example:

Most commonly used bridges like Stargate, #LayerZero or Portal, need to host pools on both sides. If you are bridging ETH from ERC20 to Solana, you’ll have an $ETH pool on the ERC20 side receiving your tokens and another pool on Solana delivering ETH to your wallet. If you decide to receive $SOL instead, they will basically swap some of that ETH for SOL at a DEX on #solana .

This makes fragments liquidity, limiting the amount available to bridge and increasing price impact. Stride Swap will eliminate the need for the two pools and host liquidity at Cosmos Hub, which will act as one single liquidity pool for all bridging transactions. Deeper liquidity, better efficiency and easier, thus safer, to use.

Another distinctive features will be the fact that it will be decentralized, permissionless and chain agnostic. While avoiding the perils of centralization, all these will also make onboarding new chains a much easier and quicker process.

But there’s a lot more to it: liquid staking. Yes, because Stride Zone has always been at the frontline of liquid staking in the Cosmos. Therefore, and this will also help increase liquidity overall, Stride’s LSTs will be prioritized and fees generated will contribute to ecosystem, the same way swap fees will. Speaking of the latter, they will be used to buy back and burn both $STRD and $ATOM , on a 80% and 20% proportion, respectively. After all, this is a collaboration between Stride Zone and Interchain Labs, so fees will be shared, from LSTs and their pools, in order to maximize liquidity and rewards. And if your LP is out of range, it will then be converted to LSTs or lent to a money market in order to continue earning rewards. It’s all about automated efficiency.

Now, these are just some of the unveiled features Stride Swap will bring you this summer but what about the timeline? The DEX will go live during the summer, integrating Eureka, with a multichain UX and allowing you to pay gas with any token (utilizing hooks that will then allow the Cosmos Hub to perform intrachain swaps using ATOM as gas). Limit orders, DCA and full integration of the above LST features should be released during Q3 2025 and Solana integration in Q4 2025. 2026 will be a year of frank expansion, to multiple other chains.