In Q1 2026, 1inch's trading volumes declined across all three single-chain protocols as the broader crypto market contracted. Fusion volume fell 26.5% QoQ from $82.8 million to $60.8 million, the smallest decline among 1inch's three single-chain protocols. Fusion's gasless execution and Dutch auction MEV protection likely led to its relative outperformance, as users shifted toward cost-efficient execution during the broader crypto market downturn. The Limit Order Protocol’s daily average volume on BNB Chain grew 52.7% QoQ to $24.0 million from $15.8 million in Q4 2025, driven by tokenized stock and ETF swaps routed through the Dec. 5, 2025, Ondo Finance partnership.
On March 3, 1inch launched Trade Mode and reduced the median Fusion execution time from 26s to 14s. On March 9, the DAO approved a $400,000 Revenue Stream Incubator (1IP-93) to fund external teams building strategies on Aqua, with participating teams expected to share revenue with the 1inch DAO treasury. 1inch's share of select DEX aggregator volume on networks it has deployed to fell 9.2 percentage points QoQ from 27.8% in Q4 2025 to 18.7% in Q1 2026, moving the protocol’s share from first to fourth among tracked aggregators.
The Ondo partnership routed over $2.5 billion in cumulative tokenized stock volume through 1inch by March 5. That track record positions 1inch to attract additional RWA issuers seeking onchain execution infrastructure. If the Aqua incubator converts funded teams into revenue-generating strategies that share proceeds with the treasury, the DAO will enter Q2 2026 with two new sources of operating income: Aqua revenue sharing and annual yield from the $2.0 million of USDC deployed on Aave V3 under 1IP-92.
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State of 1inch Q1 2026
- Published:
22 May 2026 -
Author:
Austin Weiler -
Pages:
21 -
In Q1 2026, 1inch's trading volumes declined across all three single-chain protocols as the broader crypto market contracted. Fusion volume fell 26.5% QoQ from $82.8 million to $60.8 million, the smallest decline among 1inch's three single-chain protocols. Fusion's gasless execution and Dutch auction MEV protection likely led to its relative outperformance, as users shifted toward cost-efficient execution during the broader crypto market downturn. The Limit Order Protocol’s daily average volume on BNB Chain grew 52.7% QoQ to $24.0 million from $15.8 million in Q4 2025, driven by tokenized stock and ETF swaps routed through the Dec. 5, 2025, Ondo Finance partnership.
On March 3, 1inch launched Trade Mode and reduced the median Fusion execution time from 26s to 14s. On March 9, the DAO approved a $400,000 Revenue Stream Incubator (1IP-93) to fund external teams building strategies on Aqua, with participating teams expected to share revenue with the 1inch DAO treasury. 1inch's share of select DEX aggregator volume on networks it has deployed to fell 9.2 percentage points QoQ from 27.8% in Q4 2025 to 18.7% in Q1 2026, moving the protocol’s share from first to fourth among tracked aggregators.
The Ondo partnership routed over $2.5 billion in cumulative tokenized stock volume through 1inch by March 5. That track record positions 1inch to attract additional RWA issuers seeking onchain execution infrastructure. If the Aqua incubator converts funded teams into revenue-generating strategies that share proceeds with the treasury, the DAO will enter Q2 2026 with two new sources of operating income: Aqua revenue sharing and annual yield from the $2.0 million of USDC deployed on Aave V3 under 1IP-92.