ClearTrace

About ClearTrace

ClearTrace benchmarks DEX aggregator execution quality using on-chain data rather than aggregator-reported figures. It measures slippage by comparing both legs of a fill against a minute-level off-chain reference price (Dune's prices.usd feed), tracks on-chain revert rates, detects sandwich attacks and the value sandwiched, and maps which liquidity pools aggregators route through. Coverage spans Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism, with data drawn from blockchain RPC nodes and Dune Analytics rather than aggregator APIs. A public dashboard, leaderboard, and API (including endpoints like GET /api/v1/protocols) expose the underlying dataset, which includes over 1,100 attributed contracts, along with head-to-head comparison pages between specific aggregators such as 1inch, CoWSwap, Uniswap, KyberSwap, and others.

The product also performs cross-frontend attribution, tracing on-chain volume back to its originating interface (including unlabeled contracts, proxy routers, and private frontends) to distinguish organic usage from wash trading, proxy activity, or bot volume. It is aimed at L2 foundations, grant programs, and protocol teams that need to verify whether incentive spending drove real usage, and at developers who want to integrate slippage baselines, MEV-protection alerts, or contract-labeling data into their own applications.

Paid offerings include a "Chain Integrity Read," a one-week engagement for a single named chain priced at $1,750, which reports the share of that chain's DEX volume attributable to a named origin versus an unattributed dollar residual, with each figure tied to a reproducible query and time window. Standing monthly monitoring is available as a separate, per-chain engagement quoted after an initial read; a free published example of the Chain Integrity Read format is available for the Base chain.

Key features

• Benchmarks DEX aggregators on slippage, revert rates, and MEV exposure using on-chain data
• Detects sandwich attacks via block-ordering analysis and reports value sandwiched separately
• Cross-frontend attribution unmasks hidden mobile apps, smart wallets, and private frontends
• Visualizes routing topology across liquidity pools like Uniswap, Curve, and Balancer
• Provides a public API with bulk attribution data covering 1,100+ labeled contracts
• Covers Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism

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