🧵 Why most DEXs "choke" during market volatility – and why Decibel ($APT) doesn't? During strong dump/pump phases, on-chain traders often face 3 nightmares: - Orders get stuck and don't match - Gas fees spike irrationally - Inability to cut losses at the right moment This issue doesn't lie in the UI or liquidity. 👉 It lies in the transaction processing architecture. 1️⃣ Root of the problem: Blockchains process transactions in a queue Most blockchains today still process transactions sequentially: - All transactions line up together - NFT mints, games, airdrops... share the same blockspace as trading - Just one FOMO event somewhere → the entire network slows down. - Traders pay the price in real money. 2️⃣ Decibel takes a different path: parallelization from the ground up Decibel is built on Aptos Block-STM – a parallel execution mechanism at the protocol level. Instead of: "Every transaction goes through one door" Aptos allows: "Multiple transaction streams to run simultaneously if they don't conflict in state" ➡️ Your trades are no longer affected by NFTs or games spamming the network. ➡️ Congestion is isolated and doesn't spread. 3️⃣ Orderless Transactions: saving traders in moments of panic On many chains: - Transactions must follow a nonce order - One failed order can block all subsequent orders Decibel is different: - No need to queue in order - Send multiple orders at once - Valid orders → match - Failed orders → automatically discarded 👉 Stop-loss no longer depends on "lucky nonces." 4️⃣ Gas fees are calculated based on actual resource usage Aptos implements Multidimensional Gas: - Compute, storage, bandwidth are calculated separately - One part of the network being congested ≠ the whole network increasing fees Result: - More stable gas fees - No more situations where "fees spike for reasons unrelated to you" 5️⃣ Throughput at a level of redundancy Decibel aims for: - ~1 million TPS - Latency <20ms - Not just to show off benchmarks, but to ensure: 👉 Even in the worst-case scenarios, the system still has room to handle transactions. 🎯 Conclusion Decibel doesn't "fight congestion" with tricks. They redesigned the entire transaction path: - Parallel execution - Eliminate nonce queues - Smart gas fees - Industrial-grade throughput When the market is highly volatile – when every system reveals its weaknesses – that's exactly when Decibel's architecture shines the most. 🚀 Trading shouldn't die because of traffic jams. @DecibelTrade