everyone is talking about jupiter vs titan but what the heck is a dex aggregator? quick story for years on solana, jupiter was the default swap router this fall, titan showed up with a meta-aggregator pitch, zero fees, and fresh funding traders started posting side-by-sides, teams debated quotes, and the timeline got spicy jupiter answered with an “ultra v3” engine upgrade result: aggregator wars, and users get better prices ok, so what is a dex aggregator? - think flight search for tokens - liquidity lives across many pools and dexes an aggregator scans them all, simulates paths, and builds one transaction that gets you the best net result after fees, price impact, and slippage smart routing can split your order across multiple pools, hop through stable tokens, and send privately to reduce mev how to read a route in plain english - path: A → USDC → B means two hops to reach the best depth - min received: your safety floor if the market moves - slippage: your tolerance, keep it tight in volatile pairs - fees: include dex fees, any platform fee, and network costs - privacy: some routers offer private or mev-resistant sends takeaway try both, pick the one that nets you more after everything competition is good, your swaps get cheaper and tighter set slippage, check “min received,” and you’re golden notes for context titan’s “meta-aggregator” stacks multiple routers under one roof and launched with zero fees while raising a seed round jupiter rolled out ultra v3 with faster routing, better sandwich protection, and lower execution costs the back-and-forth you saw on the timeline was mostly about quote panels and which router wins more often on price sources: recent coverage of the “aggregator wars” and product launches on solana.