What is 1inch Exchange? Beginner's Guide
1inch is a DEX aggregator that picks and chooses the cheapest crypto prices across decentralized exchanges. Here's how it works.
Market Cap (Mcap)
Rank
#235Mcap
$143.54MFully Diluted Mcap
$153.19MSupply
Circulating
1,405,573,966Total
1,500,000,000Created On
N/AAll Time High (ATH)
ATH
$8.65ATH Change
-98.82%ATH Date
Oct 27th, 2021Total Value Locked (TVL)
TVL
$3.49MMCap to TVL Ratio
40.85FDV to TVL Ratio
43.61INCH Chart
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1INCH News
Jul 28, 2026
DeFi
1inch's Shared Liquidity Layer Aqua Goes Live
1inch has opened Aqua, its shared DeFi liquidity layer, to all users, eight months after releasing it to developers only. "he protocol went live on Tuesday across 13 EVM chains, among them Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, BNB Chain and Robinhood Chain. A front end had originally been slated for the first quarter. Billed as "the foundation for scalable, capital-efficient DeFi," Aqua works as a registry rather than a pool. A provider approves a token balance and creates positions that draw on it. Tokens...
May 7, 2026
DeFi
DeFi Platform TrustedVolumes Hit by $6.7M Exploit
TrustedVolumes, a liquidity provider used by multiple DeFi protocols, was hit by an exploit that has so far drained around $6.7 million in funds. Blockchain analytics firm Blockaid's exploit detection system identified the victim contract as TrustedVolumes' resolver on Ethereum, with the attacker extracting approximately 1,291 WETH, 206,282 USDT, 16.93 WBTC, and 1.26 million USDC. The firm flagged the exploiter as the same operator behind the March 2025 1inch Fusion V1 incident, leveraging a di...
Nov 19, 2025
DeFi
1inch Gives Developers Early Access to New Shared Liquidity Protocol Aqua
DeFi ecosystem 1inch has unveiled a new shared liquidity protocol—with developers given early access. Billed as "the foundation for scalable, capital-efficient DeFi," Aqua aims to eliminate some of the main pain points facing liquidity providers, by enabling different strategies to access the same tokens. Executives say this eliminates the need to split or lock funds across pools, all while ensuring smaller projects can reliably support larger and more efficient transactions. We’ve just release...
Oct 3, 2025
Business
1inch Unveils New Look as Coinbase Integrates API
DeFi ecosystem 1inch has rolled out a fresh visual identity and a new 1inch.com domain, as it pursues a strategic direction focused on user experience and enhanced security for institutions. Executives say the revamped image reflects the company's extensive influence in decentralized finance, with its infrastructure now relied on by the likes of Binance, MetaMask and Ledger. "Soon, DeFi will be indistinguishable from traditional finance,” co-founder Sergej Kunz said in a statement shared with De...
Oct 27, 2021
Coins
1inch Surges Over 100% to New All-Time High
1inch, a DEX aggregator that picks out cheap crypto prices across decentralized exchanges , has seen its governance token (1INCH) surge over 100% this morning. The brief but major spike in price resulted in a new all-time high for the token of $8.65. The spike also came after a relatively dormant week for the token, which has spent the last week hovering between a high of $4.53 and a low of $3.72. At approximately 7:00am BST, 1INCH spiked from $4.18 to almost $6 in half an hour. The token then...
Jun 23, 2021
The Projects
What is 1inch Exchange? Beginner's Guide
Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) are cryptocurrency exchanges that don't require a third party to govern it all. The clue’s in the name, after all: on a decentralized exchange, there is no single company maintaining the order books, custodying funds or calling the shots. (Hypothetically, in principle, and often with some major caveats). Anyone can trade on a decentralized exchange; traders need only connect their wallets, never giving up access to their funds or personal information to companies....
Feb 12, 2021
Business
1inch Exchange Airdrops $84 Million to Crypto Community
Just in time for Lunar New Year, decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch Exchange is once again distributing free crypto in another seasonal marketing drive. The latest drop will distribute 6 million 1INCH tokens to Uniswap users and $9 million to its community. At today’s prices of about $5.6, the airdrop is worth about $84 million. The 1inch Foundation, the nonprofit that oversees the project, said it will distribute 6 million 1INCH tokens to people to Uniswap traders—those who have neither u...
Dec 26, 2020
DeFi
Major DeFi Exchange Gifts Users Millions in Free Crypto on Christmas Day
Spend the entire year giving and you might get a lil’ something in return on Christmas Day. That hope rang true for early adopters of decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch, whom 1inch this Christmas gifted tens of millions in free cryptocurrency. One lucky trader got $27 million in their stocking. The exchange aggregator, which combines order books from several decentralized exchanges to reduce price slippage, launched its own cryptocurrency, 1inch token, on Christmas Day. 1inch then distri...