# Story & Inspiration Our founders’ personal experiences helped a lot with understanding current limitations of DeFi projects. Here is a word from one of our co-founders: > “I have relied on centralized exchanges since getting into crypto. But one day the following thing happened: an exchange randomly suspended fund withdrawals for my account. I had to submit lots of documents describing my sourcing and usage of funds. Since then I started to research DEXs and use them. > Yet, I found that even on the largest DEXs - with the deepest liquidity pools - trading BTC for USDT often happens at a worse price than shown on CoinMarketCap. Moreover, the smaller chains with cheaper gas fees have even worse price slippage. > I started CEXISWAP so that users like me will keep full control of their funds, trading with CEX competitive prices even on smaller, less well-established blockchains.” --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.cexiswap.io/cexiswap/story-and-inspiration.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.