Ever looked at a token trading at $1.00, made a swap, and wondered why your actual execution was noticeably worse?
The answer usually isn't that the DEX “changed the price.”
It comes down to how much liquidity is available and how your trade interacts with it.
A DEX doesn't guarantee the market price you see on a chart. Your trade is executed against available liquidity, so trade size + pool depth + pool imbalance can create price impact.
There’s also an important distinction between Price Impact and Slippage.
🔹 Price Impact is the effect your own trade has on the pool's price.
🔹 Slippage is the difference between the expected execution and what actually happens when the market or route changes before execution.
This is why two swaps of the same token can produce very different results.
Before confirming a swap, don't look only at the token's displayed price.
Check:
→ Estimated Amount
→ Price Impact
→ Minimum Received
→ Slippage tolerance
→ Available liquidity
→ Route being used
Minimum Received is particularly important because it defines the minimum amount you're willing to accept for a same-chain swap. If the execution can't meet that threshold, the swap should fail rather than settle below your accepted amount.
This is also where liquidity aggregation becomes useful.
Instead of manually checking different liquidity sources, Omniston can query connected sources and help find an available route across fragmented TON liquidity.
The bigger lesson?
The price on the screen is not the same thing as the price you can actually execute.
Always evaluate the executable amount, not just the ticker price.
Explore @ston_fi pools and understand the liquidity behind your swaps→https://app.ston.fi/pools
Learn more about DeFi mechanics→https://blog.ston.fi/
$ZEC #Meme Alpha# #Meme Alpha#
The answer usually isn't that the DEX “changed the price.”
It comes down to how much liquidity is available and how your trade interacts with it.
A DEX doesn't guarantee the market price you see on a chart. Your trade is executed against available liquidity, so trade size + pool depth + pool imbalance can create price impact.
There’s also an important distinction between Price Impact and Slippage.
🔹 Price Impact is the effect your own trade has on the pool's price.
🔹 Slippage is the difference between the expected execution and what actually happens when the market or route changes before execution.
This is why two swaps of the same token can produce very different results.
Before confirming a swap, don't look only at the token's displayed price.
Check:
→ Estimated Amount
→ Price Impact
→ Minimum Received
→ Slippage tolerance
→ Available liquidity
→ Route being used
Minimum Received is particularly important because it defines the minimum amount you're willing to accept for a same-chain swap. If the execution can't meet that threshold, the swap should fail rather than settle below your accepted amount.
This is also where liquidity aggregation becomes useful.
Instead of manually checking different liquidity sources, Omniston can query connected sources and help find an available route across fragmented TON liquidity.
The bigger lesson?
The price on the screen is not the same thing as the price you can actually execute.
Always evaluate the executable amount, not just the ticker price.
Explore @ston_fi pools and understand the liquidity behind your swaps→https://app.ston.fi/pools
Learn more about DeFi mechanics→https://blog.ston.fi/
$ZEC #Meme Alpha# #Meme Alpha#
