Provision record
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DEX Aggregator May Retain Price Improvement

High severity High confidence Explicit document language Common · 124 of 352 platforms

Key Facts

What may DEX aggregators that route a user's trade retain as a fee?
DEX aggregators that route a user's trade may retain any price improvement over the quoted price as a fee.
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ConductAtlas Analysis

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

Users trading via DEX aggregators may not benefit from favorable price movements beyond the quoted price; those gains may be retained entirely by the aggregator.

Recent Activity

This document changed recently

Medium Jun 16, 2026

The updated fee schedule removes the pre-published 1% fee for instant unstaking and instead discloses the fee only at the moment a user requests to unstake. This means users can no longer review the exact cost before initiating a transaction through the published schedule. The revision also explicitly includes converting a pending standard unstake to an instant unstake as a fee-triggering action. No fee continues to apply if a user waits for the full unbonding period.

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Clause Stability Stable

0
Changes
5
Months Monitored
Jul 10, 2026
First Seen
Jul 10, 2026
Last Seen
This clause type exists across 394 other provisions on other platforms.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

If your trade executes at a better price than quoted, the DEX aggregator routing your trade may keep that price improvement rather than passing it to you.

How other platforms handle this

Netflix Medium

all subscription plans may contain limited commercial content, such as branded content or sponsorship messaging, promotions for Netflix content or information about other Netflix products or services.

Bumble Medium

Your ability to use Virtual Items you have access to in this manner may terminate at the end of each of your subscription periods and your access to Virtual Items may not "roll over" or accumulate through additional subscription periods.

ClickUp Medium

You hereby agree that we may place such advertising and promotions on the Service or on, about, or in conjunction with your Content.

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the DEX aggregators that route your trade may retain any price improvement over the quoted price as a fee.

Excerpt from Coinbase's Fee Schedule

Applicable regulations

FTC Act Section 5
United States Federal

Provision details

Document information
Document
Coinbase Fee Schedule
Entity
Coinbase
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
July 9, 2026
Last verified
July 9, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-020336
Document ID
CA-D-00049
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
89ca126094c98e1370eb4e2ea79e673081dcd220d7d329a21d3d6bb58d52c3ec
Analysis generated
July 9, 2026 14:24 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: Coinbase
Document: Coinbase Fee Schedule
Record ID: CA-P-020336
Captured: 2026-07-09 14:24:03 UTC
SHA-256: 89ca126094c98e13…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/coinbase/coinbase-fee-schedule/provision/CA-P-020336/dex-aggregator-may-retain-price-improvement/
Accessed: Aug. 18, 2026
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Coinbase's DEX Aggregator May Retain Price Improvement clause do?

Users trading via DEX aggregators may not benefit from favorable price movements beyond the quoted price; those gains may be retained entirely by the aggregator.

How does this clause affect you?

If your trade executes at a better price than quoted, the DEX aggregator routing your trade may keep that price improvement rather than passing it to you.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 124 platforms. See the full comparison.

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