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Anyone can claim “fastest.” Few platforms let you check. Dequan records the timing of every stage of every trade you make — quote, build, sign, broadcast, confirmation — and exposes it to you in a panel you can audit at any time.

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What’s recorded per trade

Decision time

When you opened the chart vs. when you pressed the buy button. Useful for studying your own discipline (and where pre-execution warmup actually helps).

Quote staleness

How fresh the quote was at the moment of submission. Pre-execution warmup keeps this low; you can verify.

Build time

How long the transaction-build step took. With pre-warming, this should be essentially zero.

Signing latency

The signing step. On Lightning Wallet or Fast Mode, this is server-side and very fast. On main-wallet signing, this includes the user’s confirmation time (which is mostly you, not us).

Broadcast-to-confirmation

The most important number. From the moment the signed transaction was broadcast across the parallel-landing race to the moment a confirmation came back.

Winning landing path

Which submission path landed your transaction. Watching this distribution over many trades is a window into Dequan’s parallel-landing infrastructure earning its keep.

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Where you see it

The Latency Transparency panel is accessible from your trade history. Open any past trade and you’ll see the full timing breakdown. Aggregate views show your distribution over recent trades — median, p95, p99 — alongside platform aggregates so you can see how your experience compares.

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What this means

The honest claim Dequan can make: under normal network conditions, the broadcast-to-confirmation step on a Dequan trade is well under one second for most retail trades — often considerably less. Under congestion, the parallel-landing race shifts the distribution but still beats single-path submission by a meaningful margin. You don’t have to take our word for any of this. The numbers are recorded. You can see them.

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Why we publish them

Three reasons:

Accountability

If we ever start sliding on speed, you’ll see it in your own data before we’d ever admit it in marketing copy. That accountability keeps us sharp.

Education

Most traders have no idea where the time in their trades actually goes. Watching your own timing data is the fastest way to internalise where speed actually matters in this business.

Verifiability

“Fastest” is a meaningless claim without numbers. We give you the numbers. If our competition doesn’t, you can draw your own conclusion.

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What the data also reveals

Sometimes — honestly — it reveals that a particular trade was slow. Maybe a network hiccup, maybe a slow signing prompt on a hardware wallet, maybe a temporary upstream issue. We don’t hide this. The data shows what it shows. What we do:
  • Investigate slow outliers ourselves, automatically.
  • Surface known incidents on the health indicators.
  • Publish post-mortems for systemic issues on the changelog.
What we don’t:
  • Censor or massage individual trade timings.
  • Cherry-pick “best of” timings into marketing.
  • Withhold the data when it’s flattering and surface it only when it isn’t.
The data is there. Use it.

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How to use it well

If you want to evaluate Dequan against another tool:
  1. Make 50–100 trades on Dequan, capturing the timing data.
  2. Make 50–100 comparable trades on the other tool.
  3. Compare the distributions, not individual trades. Median, p95, p99.
  4. Compare failure rates — what fraction reverted, what fraction took absurdly long.
  5. Compare fees actually paid, not advertised rates.
The verdict will be evidence-based. We’re confident in what the evidence will show, which is why we expose it without hesitation.