The team behind the Cardano-based decentralized exchange MuesliSwap has made a decision to refund users that have been hit with high slippage over the past year.
On Aug. 8, the MuseliSwap team said it “fell short in providing adequate clarity” on the slippage feature within its protocol.
Slippage is the price difference between when a transaction is submitted and when the transaction is confirmed on the blockchain.
MuesliSwap users have been paying high slippage for at least a year due to the way the decentralized matchmaker was set up, the team explained.
Important Announcement! At MuesliSwap, transparency and user education are paramount. We recognize that we fell short in providing adequate clarity on the slippage feature within the MuesliSwap Pool DEX protocol. Our decentralized matchmaker setup allowed each matchmaker to…
— MuesliSwap Team (@MuesliSwapTeam) August 7, 2023
Matchmakers — who scan for buy and sell orders to match up and fulfill — were able to “fill the limit order and choose whether to return the additional slippage amount or retain the difference at their discretion,” MuesliSwap noted.
The slippage difference was an incentive for decentralized matchmakers, it added, but this caused confusion for users.
“To make amends, we will be refunding affected users who encountered high slippage on the MuesliSwap…
