# OpenOcean

> Best swap returns for decentralized crypto trading

OpenOcean is a decentralized exchange aggregator. It sources liquidity from over 1,000 providers across more than 40 blockchains, routing trades non-custodially for the best prices with no protocol fees.

OpenOcean is a decentralized exchange aggregator that gives crypto traders access to liquidity across a wide range of blockchains. It routes swap orders through a pathfinding engine that compares many possible paths to find the best available price. The service is aimed at retail traders, decentralized finance protocols, trading bots, wallet providers, and other applications that need reliable swap execution.

The platform aggregates liquidity from more than a thousand sources, including automated market makers, request-for-quote providers, and staking vaults, and splits large orders across multiple venues when doing so improves execution. Swaps settle directly between a user's wallet and the destination address, so the protocol never takes custody of funds, and it charges no protocol fee. Its smart contracts are open source and have undergone third-party security audits.

Beyond its core swap aggregator, OpenOcean offers an API, developer SDK, and embeddable widget, along with a limit order tool, a dollar-cost-averaging tool, and a liquidity zap tool for depositing into pools and vaults. It also provides an MCP server and agent skills that let autonomous AI agents fetch quotes and build swap transactions programmatically. The platform is used by decentralized finance protocols, trading bots, portfolio managers, wallet providers, and AI agents seeking multi-chain swap execution.

- Type: Protocol
- Sector: DeFi
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2021-12-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/openocean

## Products

- [OpenOcean DEX Aggregator](https://thegrid.id/profiles/openocean): OpenOcean DEX Aggregator is a decentralized exchange aggregator that routes trades across a wide range of liquidity sources spanning many blockchains. It scans automated market makers, RFQ systems, and other liquidity venues to compute optimal swap paths and return the best available price with minimal slippage. Traders, DeFi protocols, wallets, and AI agents use it to execute swaps directly from self-custodied wallets without paying protocol fees. The same interface also exposes modes for trading tokenized real-world assets and pre-listing tokens, alongside utility tools such as multi-token sweeps, approval revocation, and gas tracking. (DEX Aggregator, Live, Main Product)
- [OpenOcean Cross-chain Swaps](https://thegrid.id/profiles/openocean): OpenOcean Cross-chain Swaps is a bridge aggregator that enables one-click asset transfers between different blockchain networks. It compares routes across multiple underlying bridge protocols to select paths that minimize cost and transfer time for users moving tokens across chains. The service runs on its own dedicated interface separate from the main trading application. (Bridge Aggregator, Live)
- [OpenOcean Perpetual Trading](https://thegrid.id/profiles/openocean): OpenOcean Perpetual Trading is a decentralized derivatives interface for opening long or short leveraged positions on tokens and prediction-market outcomes. It routes orders to underlying decentralized perpetual venues and event-outcome markets rather than matching trades itself, giving users a single access point for margin trading and event speculation. The product runs on its own dedicated subdomain separate from the spot swap application. (Decentralized Derivative Exchange, Live)
- [OpenOcean Gasless Limit Orders](https://thegrid.id/profiles/openocean): OpenOcean Gasless Limit Orders lets users place limit orders that execute automatically at a target price without requiring the user to pay gas at order placement. Orders are recorded and filled via a dedicated onchain limit order protocol deployed across multiple chains. The tool sits within the main trading app but relies on its own smart contract system distinct from the swap router. (Decentralised Exchange, Live)
- [OpenOcean Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/openocean): OpenOcean DCA is a recurring-purchase tool that automates scheduled token buys to reduce timing risk over an investment horizon. Users configure an amount, frequency, and duration, and the underlying smart contracts execute the purchases on-chain without further manual input. The feature has its own dedicated contract deployments and API alongside the main trading application. (Trading Terminal, Live)
- [OpenOcean Yield Aggregator](https://thegrid.id/profiles/openocean): OpenOcean Yield Aggregator gives users one-click access to yield opportunities across multiple chains, automatically routing deposits toward farms, vaults, and stablecoin yield strategies. The platform also surfaces fixed and variable yield token trading on a partner yield-splitting protocol, letting users take positions on future yield rates. Liquidity providers can stake OOE-paired pool tokens to earn additional rewards through the same interface. (Yield Aggregator, Live)
- [OpenOcean API/SDK](https://thegrid.id/profiles/openocean): OpenOcean API/SDK is a developer tooling suite that lets external applications, wallets, and trading bots embed OpenOcean's swap aggregation, quoting, and transaction-building capabilities. It ships as a REST API, a type-safe SDK, an embeddable widget, an MCP server exposing swap tools to AI assistants, and packaged instruction sets for AI coding agents. Developers use these interfaces to fetch quotes, build calldata, and execute swaps across many chains without building their own routing engine. (Developer Tooling, Live)
- [OpenOcean Campaigns](https://thegrid.id/profiles/openocean): OpenOcean Campaigns is a questing platform where users complete trading and engagement tasks to earn on-chain rewards. It runs on its own dedicated subdomain, tracking task completion and distributing rewards separately from the core trading application. The product is used to drive user engagement and incentivize activity across OpenOcean's other offerings. (Questing Platform, Live)

## Assets

- [OpenOcean (OOE)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/openocean): OOE is the governance and utility token of OpenOcean, a multi-chain DEX aggregator. Holders use it to pay fees on derivative products, vote on DAO proposals, and provide liquidity for rewards. Locking OOE mints xOOE, which boosts voting weight, grants gas rebates, and shares in protocol revenue. (Utility)

## Links

- [Main](https://openocean.finance)
- [Documentation](https://docs.openocean.finance)
- [Governance](https://snapshot.org/#/s:openoceandao.eth)
- [Media Kit/branding](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1d9BlEDpOJawTlWt43LO0NNHrv5RToTaE)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl3zFV5FLVpaufkPiAbUZfg)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/openocean-finance)
- [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/QkQCNjtJXW)
- [Telegram](https://t.me/De1_Exchange)

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