1inch upgrades swap interface to offer higher speed and better user experience

A major upgrade is here: a brand-new Advanced Trading Form, 1inch Terminal for experienced traders (replacing Pro Mode) and a major boost in swap speed across the entire 1inch infrastructure.

At 1inch, our goal is simple: deliver the best crypto swap experience in DeFi. That means never standing still.

Our latest upgrade raises the bar. We’re launching a new Advanced Trade Form with a cleaner, more structured interface, introducing 1inch Terminal for experienced traders (replacing Pro Mode) and accelerating swap speeds across our entire infrastructure and APIs.

Last year’s rebrand saw a major redesign of the 1inch dApp. In the months that have passed, we’ve thoroughly analyzed user data and community feedback. Now, we’re releasing a number of refinements to optimize performance and usability.

Meanwhile, 1inch has continued to prioritize infrastructure-wide improvements. Refining the user interface and experience goes without saying. In addition, we’ve significantly reduced swap execution times to deliver faster, more efficient performance across the platform.

Trade Mode delivers clarity and control 

The 1inch.com new Trade Mode reintroduces proven professional trading workflows within a cleaner, more structured interface designed for clarity and control. It emphasizes explicit execution settings and transparent trade visibility. As a result, users can now execute classic swaps with configurable parameters, place and manage limit orders with full lifecycle tracking and customize gas and slippage on a per-trade basis.

Users can also view integrated price charts and market context, inspect routing and liquidity paths before execution, monitor transaction history and order status with clarity. Additionally, they can access all features through a dedicated entry point built specifically for advanced trading.

1inch Pro becomes Terminal 

1inch Pro was introduced in October as an advanced interface designed to deliver more granular execution options, greater flexibility than Simple Swap and access to advanced order functionality. 

Today, Pro mode will transition to Terminal following significant enhancements. What’s new? Custom gas and slippage settings, improved trade history with full visibility of all limit orders, upgraded Pair Picker sorting with a favourites feature for each pair and a dedicated network selector integrated into the header. 

Swap speed boost

Outside of 1inch.com improvements, today’s changes to swap speed make the experience materially faster and noticeably improved in real-world usage. Intent-based swap execution is now nearly twice as fast, with median execution time reduced from 26 seconds to 14 seconds and 25% of swaps settling in under 9 seconds. These gains come from ongoing execution optimization, with the non-custodial model and trust assumptions unchanged.

Cross-chain swaps have also been significantly accelerated, with execution now taking seconds rather than minutes on optimised routes. Performance is competitive with leading bridges, while maintaining 1inch’s routing efficiency and transparency advantages. Reduced finality and validation phases minimise idle waiting time, and execution timing is now tuned per network rather than relying on conservative, one-size-fits-all parameters. Importantly, cross-chain swaps remain fully non-custodial, secure and transparent.

Striking a balance

“When building any technology, an innovation feedback loop is essential. However, a careful balance must be struck between giving users exactly what they ask for and offering them new possibilities they haven’t considered,” said Sergej Kunz, 1inch co-founder. 

“At 1inch, we have been innovating in the DeFi space since introducing DEX aggregation to the market in 2019, and our success is predicated on our ability to maintain that balance,” he added. “Today’s raft of user-centric enhancements is designed to deliver greater clarity, control and performance. We heard you, we built, and today we ship.”

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