Overview

Overview of Tycho, its components and mission.

What is Tycho?

Tycho makes it easy for solvers to discover liquidity – and for DEXs to integrate with solvers.

Tycho is an indexing infrastructure, with DEX extractors, a DEX simulation library and contracts for executing swaps.

Who is Tycho for?

• For Solvers: Tycho makes it easy to simulate and execute over onchain liquidity sources – without needing to understand protocol internals, run nodes or do RPC calls.

• For DEXs: With Tycho DEXs can integrate with all defi orderflow (and all solvers) through a single integration. -> Integrate yourself with the Tycho Protocol SDK.

Getting started

For Solvers: Start streaming liquidity

Tycho streaming service is in private beta. Contact us on telegram to get access today.

To set up, go to the Tycho Indexer quickstart and start your liquidty stream.

For DEXs: Integrate your DEX

To integrate your DEX, just submit a PR to Tycho Protocol Integrations on GitHub.

To get started, check the Protocol SDK docs.

Or contact our team so we can help integrate.

Components of Tycho

Tycho has three components for solvers:

• Tycho Indexer: Infrastructure to parse, store and stream protocol state deltas. Also comes with clients in Python and Rust, and a hosted webstream, if you don't want to run your own version of the Indexer. -> Indexer docs.

• Tycho Protocol Simulation: A simulation library with a unified interface to query swaps and prices. Optimized for speed, running on compiled contracts in REVM with in-memory storage. -> Protocol Simulation docs.

• Tycho Execution (coming soon): Audited and gas-efficient router and DEX executor contracts for safe, simple, and competitive execution of swaps.

And one integration SDK for DEXs:

• Tycho Protocol Integration: An SDK for any DEX (or Stable Coin, LRT, etc.) to integrate their liquidity and receive flow from solvers.

Tycho's Mission

Large barriers to entry, especially from integrations between solvers and DEXs, make it harder and harder for new DEXs and solvers.

Tycho replaces unnecessary work with a single integration – so that innovative DEXs and solvers have a chance to win flow.

FAQ

How does Tycho compare to just parsing logs myself?

While you can parse logs directly, Tycho provides parsed, and structured data, offers a unified interface across protocols, manages reorgs automatically, can handle protocols that don't emit logs and saves you the infrastructure cost of running a node.

Does this add gas to my swaps?

No it does not. Tycho contracts make it easy to simulate a DEX correctly for your swaps. But you can still execute the swaps directly with the DEX – as gas efficient as possible.

How do you handle reorgs?

Reorgs are handled automatically through our delta system. The client maintains the correct state without you having to worry about block reorganizations.

How does latency compare to other solutions?

Tycho processes updates in under 100ms (plus network latency). While an additional hop compared to running your own nodes, geographically distributed nodes race to provide data, which can be faster than relying on a single node.

Can I still use my own UniV2/V3 implementations?

Yes! Many teams use Tycho VM for newer/complex protocols while keeping their analytical implementations for simpler pools.

What about UniV4 hooks?

We aim to support as many hooks variants as possible through our VM implementation.

What's the difference between Native and VM implementations?

Native implementations provide protocol-specific state variables directly, letting you implement your own math and optimizations. VM implementations provide a unified interface through REVM, making integration easier but with less low-level control. Choose based on your needs. Native for maximum control, VM for easier integration.

How reliable is the state data?

The system handles reorgs automatically, keeps track of TVL changes, and maintains consistency across state updates. The data is synced against on-chain state and continuously validated.