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# Routes and steps

With default router settings your swap splits into up to 4 different routes and 2 steps in each route.

{% hint style="info" %}
If you wish to make a direct swap, involving only one pool, choose maximum 1 route and 1 step in it.
{% endhint %}

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The more routes and steps you allow, the more efficient your swaps will be. But it increases [slippage](/en/trade/advanced/slippage.md) probability on any of the steps, and you may get some intermediate tokens instead of expected ones.

{% hint style="info" %}
Currently each of the four separate routes executes multi-step trade within pools of the same protocol. Technically, [CPMM v2](/en/liquidity/pools/types.md#claimable-fees-pool-cpmm-v2) and [Classic](/en/liquidity/pools/types.md#classic-pool-cpmm-v1) pools (or [Stable-swap](/en/liquidity/pools/types.md#stable-swap-pools)) are also two "different" protocols, which can't be involved together within one single route.
{% endhint %}

{% hint style="success" %}
If you need to swap, for example, **TON —> BOOM**, while:

* BOOM token's liquidity is paired with USDT only, specifically in CPMM v2 pool, and
* there's poor liquidity in TON/USDT pools of CPMM v2 type (unlike in Classic TON/USDT pool), but
* there are liquid CPMM v2 pools DUST/TON and DUST/USDT, that can be involved for efficient swap,

consider allowing 3-step route: **TON —> DUST —> USDT —> BOOM**, insted of 2 steps allowed by default.
{% endhint %}