# Why our price sometimes looks lower — and why that is the honest one

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> Updated: 2026-07-28

Other apps show a hopeful price and quietly allow 2.5–5% slippage, so you often get less. We show the real block price at tiny slippage — and admit the one case (Curve stablecoin pools) where we are still behind.

Imagine two shops. One puts a big, tempting price in the window but, in tiny print, is allowed to charge you up to 5% more at the till. The other shows the exact price you will pay. The window price at the first shop looks better — right up until you pay. Swap apps work the same way, and the prettier number is often the worse deal.

The trick is a thing called slippage: how far the price you actually get is allowed to drift from the price you were shown, while the trade still counts as "worked".

## The number you see vs the number you get

Many apps show you an optimistic price and then quietly allow a wide slippage — often 2.5% or 5%. That means your real result can land well below the number that made you click, and nothing tells you it happened; the gap just vanishes into the buffer. The headline looks great; your wallet gets less.

We do it the other way. The price we show is the real price the blockchain will give you at this moment — the same calculation that carries out the trade — and we use a tiny slippage: around 0.2% for well-known and stable coins, about 0.5% for more unusual ones. So the number you see is basically the number you get, and if it comes out better, the extra goes to you.

That is why our price can look a little LOWER than someone else's and still leave you with more: theirs is a hopeful sticker with 5% of wiggle room; ours is the price at the till.

## The one time we are honestly behind

We will not pretend we win every time. For some coins — mostly stablecoins — the deepest pool of money sits on a place called Curve, and we do not use Curve yet. For those specific coins our price can be worse than elsewhere, simply because we are not reading that pool. We tell you this instead of hiding it, because a shop that admits where it is cheaper elsewhere is one you can trust on everything else.

So the honest advice: for a plain stablecoin-to-stablecoin swap, compare us against the others and use whoever is genuinely best today — sometimes that is not us, and we will support Curve in time. Everywhere else, the price at the till is the one that matters, and that is the one we show.

**Verify it yourself:** compare the price we show with what you actually receive — they match; then try a stablecoin-to-stablecoin swap against another app and see the gap we openly tell you about

Related: https://blazephoenix.xyz/learn/what-is-slippage · https://blazephoenix.xyz/learn/why-aggregator-quotes-differ