The Smart Order Router sits behind every trade on Vant8. It scores your connected venues per order, normalizes fees across cost-quoted and base-asset conventions, and routes for best total cost after fees, slippage estimate, and gas. Six routing strategies. AI-assisted venue selection trained on your outcomes. Post-trade slippage tracking that feeds back into future routing.
Routing strategies are configurable per trade, per user, or per strategy bot — and any of the six can be pinned as the default for an account or a symbol.
Picks the venue with the lowest total cost after price, fees, and slippage estimate. The default routing mode.
Picks the venue with the lowest fee, regardless of price.
Picks the venue with the lowest expected execution time.
Rotates through your available venues per symbol. Useful for spreading order flow across exchanges.
Asks the venue model for a per-order pick, drawing on your trade outcomes and recent execution quality. Falls back to best-price when the model is below its confidence threshold.
Uses the AI-assisted pick when it clears the confidence threshold; otherwise routes to best price. One setting, no per-order tuning.
Your platform-funded balance and your own connected accounts on every major centralized exchange — Binance, Bybit, Bitget, OKX, MEXC, Gate, KuCoin, HTX. The router compares both.
Six chains — BSC, Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche — across the leading AMMs. Gas is folded into the cost calculation before scoring, so a cheap quote is not cheap once gas eats it.
Hyperliquid plus your connected CEX futures accounts. Perp orders use deterministic routing across the connected perp venues, honoring per-venue and per-symbol constraints.
When you choose AI-assisted (or Auto), the router calls the venue model for a per-order pick. The model weighs venue success rate, recent slippage, fees, execution speed, and time-of-day patterns — all derived from your real fills, not generic market data. Confidence is thresholded per order; below the threshold, the router falls through to best-price routing.
Every executed order updates the model. Venues that consistently slip on your trade sizes lose ranking for your next order on that symbol.
For new venues, new symbols, or any order where the model's confidence sits below the threshold, the router uses best-price routing until it has enough signal to add value.
When you place a limit order, the router estimates how likely it is to fill and roughly how long it will take. The estimate surfaces on the order ticket before you submit, so you can see whether your price is realistic against current book conditions.
A percentage estimate and a rough time-to-fill window based on current book depth, recent spread, and the distance of your price from the current mid.
You (or your strategy) decide whether to submit, adjust, or cancel based on the estimate. The order stays as you placed it until you or your strategy changes it.
Different venues charge fees in different currencies and different conventions. Without normalization, cheapest is meaningless. The router converts everything to one currency before scoring.
Most exchanges deduct spot-buy fees in the base asset, not the quote — and some do not even report which currency the fee was taken in. The router infers the right currency, deducts the right amount, and stores the net position size. No fee dust drift between your books and the exchange wallet.
Some exchanges expect a market-buy to be quoted as a dollar amount, not a coin amount. The router detects which exchanges require this and uses the right call automatically — you specify buy $500 of ETH and it works on all of them.
A DEX quote that looks 0.1% cheaper is not cheaper if $5 of gas eats it. Gas cost is fetched per chain per route and folded into the comparison before the router decides.
Every order is measured against its expected price. The realized slippage is persisted to your analytics — and it also feeds back into the venue model, so venues that slip on your trade sizes get downweighted on future routes.
Expected price (pre-trade quote) vs. executed price (post-trade fill). Recorded with venue, symbol, side, and size for every trade.
Warnings when slippage crosses your configured thresholds. You see them on the order detail and in the activity feed the moment they cross.
The slippage feature in the venue model is populated from these measurements — bad venues for your size lose ranking on your next order.
The Smart Order Router runs on every plan, including the free tier. Connect a venue, place an order, and let the router pick where it lands.