HydraSwap: Native Swap Platform in the Radix DLT Ecosystem
HydraSwap is a decentralized application (dApp) for token swapping built natively for the Radix DLT platform, part of the HYDRA ecosystem – a community project associated with the $HYDR memecoin. Designed to facilitate accessible and efficient digital-asset exchanges, HydraSwap routes trades through the Astrolescent DEX aggregator, which optimizes swap routes across liquidity pools from multiple protocols (such as Astro_Multi and OciSimple) to minimize price impact and fees.
Technical Integration with the Astrolescent API
Integrating the Astrolescent aggregator API lets HydraSwap calculate optimal swap routes, accepting parameters such as inputToken, outputToken, inputAmount, and fromAddress via POST requests and generating executable manifests for the Radix Engine. The API returns data such as estimated outputTokens, priceImpact, and detailed routes with specific pools, ensuring permissionless execution compatible with Scrypto, the Radix smart-contract language focused on digital assets.
The $HYDR Token
The HYDRA ecosystem's native token, $HYDR, is a Radix-native memecoin described on-ledger as symbolizing "Radix's rebirth and its shift toward community-led ownership." Minting is permanently denied and the rule is locked, so no more $HYDR can ever be created; burning, by contrast, is open to every holder, which makes the supply a figure that only falls. It does: 966.8 million on 26 July 2026, 965,821,366 on 6 August and 965,199,999 on 16 September (epoch 341331, state version 558418248). Almost all of that is one account. account_rdx12yvhjq…qdu made the 1,000,000 burn on 2 August, and the 621,367 burned since 6 August is seven transactions from the same account: 100,000 HYDR on 9, 16, 23 and 30 August and on 12 and 14 September, and 21,367 on 14 August. The two-week gap after 30 August is the network halt. Both the authorities and the live total are readable on the Radix Dashboard.
Main Features and Benefits
• Optimized swaps: liquidity aggregation across Radix DEXs for better rates and lower slippage, with manifest support for transactions via the Radix Wallet or dApp Toolkit.
• Native asset security: built on Radix's asset-oriented model, in which tokens are ledger-level resources rather than balances in a contract, reducing a class of custody and approval bugs common on account-based chains.
• Accessibility: an intuitive interface for buying and selling native Radix tokens (e.g., $XRD, $HYDR), promoting community adoption across the HYDRA ecosystem.