Changelog

2025-05-22

FE

• Launched Degen Arena Season 2!

• Added support for Governance voting, including a new in-app UI.

• Improved referral UX – users visiting a referral link after already having been referred now see an informative message.

• Wallets are now saved immediately for a more reliable onboarding experience.

• Updated Dynamic SDK to version 4.18.0.

BE

• Enabled XP reward tracking for Perps liquidations.

• Expanded Degen profiles to include all XP types for better insights.

• Added backend support for upcoming reward campaigns, including XP multipliers, bonus distribution infrastructure, and more.

2025-05-13

FE

• Perps Order Form v2 – Refreshed layout and improved UX for Perps trading.

• Fixed an edge case causing "User does not exist" errors on Perps TOS submission.

• Fixed transfer math logic for Hyperliquid, ensuring correct handling of decimals.

BE

• Improved leaderboard performance.

• Reduced Perps XP rewards.

• Lowered Solana minimum transaction fees to $0.01.

• Added a secure Onramper signing endpoint to enhance transaction verification.

• Added a maximum timeout for all route providers to prevent indefinite hangs.

• Fixed an issue where some new users did not receive a welcome email.

2025-05-01

FE

• Launched perps trading! Trade perpetuals directly from the app with a brand new interface, powered by Hyperliquid.

• Introduced the Perps XP Claim Card – see and claim your earned XP from perps trading.

• Improved error handling in the perps deposit flow to catch and surface issues more clearly.

• Improved the look and feel of the app: removed the background gradient for a cleaner look, revamped toast styles for improved visibility and responsiveness, and added animated chevrons to the perps transfer flow for deposits and withdrawals.

BE

• Increased the maximum supported accounts for Jupiter routing from 50 to 64.

• Fixed a bug causing incorrect "failed route" statuses during swaps.

• Added endpoints to view and claim Perps XP.

• Added a list of LiFi-restricted assets to block unsupported transfers.

• Improved referral code endpoint performance.

2025-04-22

FE

• Launched a new and improved deposit flow!

• Included provider fees in total transaction cost within transaction history.

• Made maintenance overlay visibility configurable via environment variable.

• Addressed various UI bugs and feedback related to perps.

• Updated minimum and maximum slippage configuration.

BE

• Reduced the Solana fee charged for Jito transactions.

• Removed 1inch Limit Order Protocol for Ethereum.

• Disabled Arbitrum Balancer V3 as a 1inch liquidity provider.

2025-04-07

FE

• Integrated Hyperliquid perps (currently behind a feature flag while in alpha).

• Enhanced empty state card on the asset details page for users with no transaction history.

• Improved UI for swap warnings, including high cost, price impact, and mainnet alerts.

BE

• Improved accuracy of cross-chain transfer balance tracking.

• Enabled retries for EVM paymaster validation requests.

• Corrected asset decimals for Rings scBTC.

• Integrated Galxe campaign API.

• Optimized Degen Arena API queries.

• Removed referral code limit for GRANNYS campaign.

• Made user referral code creation case-insensitive.

2025-03-25

FE

• Added "Reserve Gas for EOA" feature – we now estimate and reserve gas when swapping your full balance to help ensure the transaction succeeds.

• Introduced a content security policy to restrict the loading of non-whitelisted resources for improved security.

• Swap module is now available on the Arena page.

• Added quick amount presets (25% / 50% / 75% / Max) and "quick asset select" to the swap module.

• Added a detailed XP breakdown tooltip on the Arena page, showing swaps, referrals, and holding bonuses when hovering over XP earned.

• Bonus XP UI added – if you're holding an asset with a bonus multiplier, you’ll see a gold XP badge displaying your bonus breakdown.

BE

• Implemented per-asset TVL calculation – users can now see how much TVL XP they are earning per asset.

• Released an API for TVL XP multipliers – lists assets with special treatment (e.g. those earning yield when staked outside defi.app), along with their associated multipliers.

• Faction owner points are now displayed on the Degen Arena leaderboard.

• Integrated Obric V2 as a liquidity provider on Solana.

• Introduced actions – interactions with smart contracts that can be prepended or appended to swaps or bridges.

• Enabled support for overly optimistic 1inch quotes.

• LiFi routes are now re-priced using CoinGecko prices to improve accuracy.

• Referral codes now support any case format.

• Added Stats API endpoints for DefiLlama to track swap volume.

• Expanded Stats API to include Daily Active Users (DAUs).

• Granted API access to the Dune dashboard.

• Optimized portfolio API by separating TVL and PNL into individual endpoints.

• Added pagination to the Factions API.

2025-02-28

FE

• Exporting PK updates - this is all housed inside the Wallets tab now, you can click on your embedded wallet and export the recovery phrase easily!

• Piggy bank animation on the degen arena banner! As you swap, the piggy fills up in real time!

• Updated react-toastify to ^11.0.3 & improved styles on the toast notifications.

• Swap flying coin animation improvements - If using an EOA, the animation plays once you have completed all the signatures.

• Improved warning UI so the user understands what's going when price impact or fees are high, for example.

BE

• Tweaks to the Solana priority fee estimation in order to make it more accurate.

• Renzo staked SOL added to the Liquid Staked SOL correlated assets set.

• Introduced a stats endpoint to track volume, which shall be utilized by DefiLlama.

Other

• Switched out the deprecated dynamic API for the new API.

• Adjusted twitter name in kol-bonus-xp to be case insensitive.

• E2E testing suite.

• Added a swap event system in the codebase, this allows us to simplify reacting to swaps occurring.

2025-02-19

FE

• Quote fetching improvements - we now only allow 10 quote refetches before the user has to press refresh on the swap button, to take pressure off the API.

• Update Bonus XP on the degen arena leaderboard to XP points, rather than a percentage.

• Now using BigJs for math calculations in swap/withdraw/deposit flow - which also fixed an issue with the USD toggle.

• Improved error handling & styling when entering an invalid referral code error.

• Improved UI for when swaps are refunded, which clearly explains the asset & amount which was returned to you in the swap drawer.

• Implemented a card which reminds user to join the degen arena if not in a faction and performing swaps.

• Addressed a significant amount of misc. user feedback, tweaking styles, placements etc.

• Rename Trade to Perps and Dashboard to Trade.

BE

• Decrease quote validity from 30s to 15s to ensure have the most up to date and accurate quote pricing.

• Integrated Relay directly for cross-chain swaps.

• Limit user's EOA transaction history to 24hrs prior to reduce load on the API.

• Excluded Obric V2 and Obric dexes.

• Switched to using /quote endpoint instead of /price for Relay integration, preventing quotes which are too optimistic and causing some swaps to fail.

• Increased Solana priority fee which helps transactions go through more frequently in times of high congestion.

Other

• Quotes now use output USD value instead of calculating it from Coingecko.

• Fixed degen arena XP issues.

• Fixed TV chart volume issues.

• Updated production referral codes to GRANNY and DEGENS.

• Updated dynamic access list to account for emails.

• Preloaded coin animation sound on page load.

• Updated degen arena banner copy.

• Faction script updates.

• Updated profanity list.

• Hide Defi App Early Testers faction.

• Caching prioFee.

• Providing an average prioFee via endpoint.

• Security header improvements.

2025-02-11

FE

• Optimistic swaps! We now immediately show the balance in a "pending" state until its landed and we can perform multiple swaps at once, aswell as the coin animation and points increase instantly.

• Onramper widget implementation so users can now buy crypto with fiat.

• New quote card, detailing the fee breakdown, with price impact and slippage rows.

• We now allow quotes if you don't have the available balance so you can see what you would get, instead we disable the swap button if you have an insufficient balance.

• Improved swap error handling, we now show the full error message rather than Swap failed so the user can know exactly what has happened.

• Removed lots of old bloat code from the swap widget.

• Mobile deposit & withdraw flow UI improvements, better colors, improved padding, completion step, etc.

• When you select a chain on the chain picker (when using EOA), the route will always go to that chain now.

• Implemented TradingView charting on asset details page, with buy/sell events included.

• Degen Arena faction drilldown - allowing the user to click into a faction and see specific information about it, such the degen leaderboard.

• Mobile Web UI improvements on dashboard, deposit, withdraw, transaction history & arena pages.

• Swap drawer UI tweaks - bigger font, spacing, slide in animation.

• PnL implemented onto the asset detail page.

• Optimised dashboard polling to cut API requests in half.

• Added heavy load mode so we can slow down requests in times of heavy load on the app.

• Refresh button (for refetching the cache).

• Swap widget button animation.

• Refreshing the cache when an account loads.

BE

• Amplitude adjustments for reporting cadence and new endpoint for login reporting via backend.

• Gainer/Loser API added, so we can now show top gainers and losers on the frontend via the API.

• DeBank calls optimisation (blockscanner service integration for EVM balances, and advanced caching for EVM tx history).

• Token Sniffer integration - scanning new unverified tokens and rejecting scams and spams on EVM chains with caching & fallbacks.

• Portfolio chart improvements and bug fixes.

• Transfer support for solana 2022 tokens.

• Improved cost estimations for Solana -> EVM swaps.

• Enable Relay via LiFi and set it to be the preferred bridge (instead of Across).

• Optimized QuickNode balance fetching.

• Optimized Codex chart data fetching.

• Optimized Solana chart data processing.

• Added structured error logging for LiFi and Deswap.

• Solana Blockscanner integration for balances caching.

• Added public user count API.

• Implemented the ability to track destination TX hashes.

• Improved Codex stability in fetching portfolio chart data.

• Fixed amplitutde snapshot TVL.

• Updated DeBridge cross-chain endpoint.

• Skipping dust routes via threshold.

• Moved CORS middleware first so we don't get CORS errors when rate limiting users.

• Increased default limit to 300/m for IP based rate limiting.

• Adjust quote validity to 15s.

Other

• Linting and minor refactoring.

• Structured logging.

• Lambda deploy upgrade.

• Updated Sentry.

• Added multi-key fetches for Redis.

• Fixed invalid TTL error when getting chart data.

• Fixed faction drilldown query.

• Decreased tvl multiplier from 1 to 0.5.

• Fixed ETH and WETH transfers.

• Added list of token multipliers for swaps in the Arena.

• Added correlated assets for BNB and WBTC.

• Lifi tracking redundancy to fix Across outage.

• Lots of misc ui fixes which were found during dev testing.

• Updated degen arena twitter share copy.

• Updated multiple dependencies to resolve security notice errors.

• Fixed a react-spring animation bug on then swap drawer.

• Implemented the ability to override an SVM address for debugging/testing.

2025-01-28

FE

• Improved support widget placement.

• Adjusted toast positioning so it doesn't overlap support widget.

• Price change now shows a dash instead of the infinity sign if the price change hasn't fully loaded.

• Quote card hover area on the cost was expanded.

• Increased portfolio chart padding on the top and bottom.

• Faction dialog UI improvements: positioning across multiple device sizes, color scheme matches Figma.

• Portfolio prefetching for the asset select now, so assets don't jump around when you click the asset select on the swap widget.

• Catch routeStatus objects in sentry that cannot be cloned, for better error handling on sentry.

• Fix failed swap tracking running on every render, previously a failed swap would be tracked on every render, now we only do it once on load.

• Fixed MFA backup codes not appearing due to a race condition in the codebase.

BE

• Minor Solana fee adjustment, we have decreased the fee which we charge.

• Increased the fee when swapping with different BTC tokens to avoid slippage errors, such as tBTC, etc.

• Increased slippage fee from 5% to 10%.

• Optimistic swap endpoint, which allows us to quickly request asset details in optimistic swaps.

• Infrastructure and workflow improvements.

Other

Paymaster

• Fixed paymaster code build.

• Removed the Opsgenie service (no longer used).

• Sentry integration.