Metric: the protocol, the people, the plan
You already know Metric as the dark, minimal swap screen. This page is about what sits behind it — why the team built it, how the routing works, and where the project is heading next.
Our mission
Trading on-chain should not cost you an extra toll. Most swap front ends quietly add a fee on top of the protocol's own fee, and many users never notice it in the confirmation screen. Metric was built to remove that layer entirely.
The mission is simple: give you the best executable price across ERC-20 liquidity and take nothing for ourselves at the interface level. The protocol charges no front end fees — that line under the swap button is a promise, not a slogan.
The technology behind the swap
Under the hood, Metric's protocol is a quote aggregator. When you type an amount, the router scans pools across networks — Ethereum mainnet first, with Layer 2 support expanding steadily — and returns the route that nets you the most output after gas.
Quotes refresh in real time. The animated shimmer you see while a price loads is the router working, not decoration. Routes are compared against direct pool swaps, multi-hop paths, and split fills before the best one is shown to you.
Every contract the interface touches follows patterns popularized by Uniswap and is built on libraries maintained by OpenZeppelin, so the code paths you interact with have been battle-tested for years.
A different approach to fees
Here is a blunt question worth asking any swap site: where does their revenue come from? If the answer is a percentage of your trade, you are paying for the interface whether you see it or not.
Metric takes a different stance. The interface is thin by design — no order flow resale, no hidden spread, no token of our own dumped on users. The bet is that a fast, honest tool earns loyalty that a fee never could.
Design philosophy
Look at the swap screen again. Two panes, one button, one number that matters. That restraint is deliberate. Trading interfaces tend to accumulate clutter — banners, charts nobody reads, popups competing for attention. The Metric platform strips all of that away.
Typography does the heavy lifting instead. Numbers render in a tabular mono cut so figures align cleanly while you compare amounts, and the cyan accent is reserved for actions that move you forward.
The team
Metric is built by a small group of engineers and designers who have shipped DeFi tooling since 2021. No giant org chart, no marketing department writing the roadmap. The people who design the interface are the same people who read the audit reports and watch the mempool.
That size is a feature. It keeps decisions fast and keeps the product honest — there is nobody to hide behind when something ships broken.
What comes next
The roadmap focuses on deeper pool coverage and sharper routing, not feature sprawl. You can read common answers on the questions page or jump straight into the swap interface and see the quotes for yourself.