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#847 Add cross-pool token swap routing to the AMM contract
#612 Fix XDR decoding edge case in indexer ingestion pipeline
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#409 Typo in README install snippet
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#158 Surface validation errors in the transaction builder UI
#847 Add cross-pool token swap routing to the AMM contract
Today the AMM only supports single-pool swaps. To compete with other DEXs on Soroban, we need a router that finds the best path across two or three pools and atomically executes the trade in a single transaction.
Implementation should live alongside the existing pool contract under contracts/router/, with TypeScript bindings regenerated so the frontend can
call it through our existing SDK without ceremony.
Scope
- A Rust router contract supporting up to 3-hop paths between SAC pairs.
- Slippage protection (min-out parameter) with a clear revert reason.
- A test harness covering happy path, deep slippage, and price-impact edge cases.
Bonus points for benchmarking against a single-pool swap to confirm the routing overhead is acceptable, and updating the docs with a short trader-facing walkthrough.
horizon42 Done a few similar things in side projects. Should be doable within the Wave.
mira-codes Strong Rust + Soroban background. Will follow up on slippage design first.
kovri-h Have written 3-hop routers on EVM. The Soroban version should be similar in shape.
orbit-jay Could do this over the weekend. I have a working slippage-protected router locally.
meridian-dev Shipped a similar Soroban router last Wave with full test coverage. Can wrap this in 2 days — slippage math sketched out already.
pasta-stream First time touching Soroban but built a Uniswap V2 router clone in Rust last year.
horizon42 Familiar with the AMM space — wrote a fee-on-transfer router fork last quarter.
kovri-h I can pair on this with my colleague — we’d split research and implementation cleanly.
mira-codes I’ve audited two Soroban DEXs already. Would prefer to start with the test harness.
mira-codes meridian-dev horizon42 kovri-h orbit-jay pasta-stream 
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