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The Architecture of Nexroute Capture

Nexroute Team April 28, 2026 2 min read
The Architecture of Nexroute Capture

MEV extraction has historically been adversarial—searchers competing to frontrun users, creating a toxic environment where everyday traders pay an invisible tax on every swap. Nexroute Capture inverts this dynamic entirely.

From Adversarial to Cooperative MEV

Capture is our proprietary backrun engine. Rather than competing against users, it works with integrators to extract positive slippage that would otherwise leak to validators or be lost entirely.

Here’s how it works:

  1. Transaction Observation — When a user submits a swap through a Nexroute-powered integrator, our infrastructure observes the pending transaction
  2. Opportunity Detection — Within the same block, we identify arbitrage opportunities created by the user’s price impact
  3. Atomic Bundling — The backrun transaction is bundled atomically with the user’s swap, ensuring the user’s execution is never degraded

Revenue Sharing

The revenue generated by Capture is shared transparently:

  • 80% goes to the integrator
  • 20% is retained by Nexroute as infrastructure fee

This model aligns incentives perfectly. Integrators earn passive revenue on every swap their users make, while Nexroute sustains its infrastructure through a fair share of the value it creates.

Performance on BSC

On BSC, where block times are 3 seconds and validator selection is predictable, Capture achieves remarkable efficiency:

  • 94.2% capture rate on eligible transactions
  • $0.42 average revenue per captured transaction
  • Zero user-facing latency impact (backruns are appended, never prepended)
{
  "capture_event": {
    "user_tx": "0xabc...123",
    "backrun_tx": "0xdef...456",
    "revenue_usd": 0.87,
    "integrator_share": 0.696,
    "nexroute_share": 0.174,
    "block": 38291045
  }
}

Why Integrators Choose Capture

Traditional DEX aggregators leave money on the table. Every swap creates a ripple in the liquidity pool—a temporary arbitrage opportunity that someone will capture. The question is: who benefits?

Without Capture, that value flows to MEV searchers and validators. With Capture, it flows back to the integrator and their users.

For wallets like Trust Wallet, aggregators like LI.FI, and protocols like CowSwap, this represents a new revenue stream with zero additional integration effort. Enable Capture via a single API parameter, and start earning from day one.

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