Tallow Markets fills every order at the cheapest route
“We stopped losing spread to stale quotes the week we switched.”
Owen Mercer
Head of Markets, Tallow Markets
Challenges they faced.
Stale quotes cost spread on every fill
Our own router cached prices for too long, and makers noticed before we did.
Listing a new chain took a full sprint
Every new chain meant a new bridge integration and a new set of edge cases.
Failed settlements were hard to trace
When a route failed, tracing which hop broke took an engineer half a day.
The solution, on Weir.
Replaced the internal router with Route API's live ranking
Listed new chains by adding a chain ID, not a new integration
Used Weir's full route trace to debug failures in minutes
Sponsored gas for market makers on thin routes
Why they chose Weir.
Live ranking closed the spread gap makers were exploiting
Adding a chain went from a sprint to an afternoon
Full route traces cut failure debugging from hours to minutes
Sponsorship kept makers active on routes that used to sit idle
One vendor replaced four separate bridge integrations