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Your first swap

Your first Quick swap, from a funded wallet to a transaction you can verify. Seven steps, with what to review at each one.

Before you begin

You need three things. None of them involves creating an account with opcode.

  • A Solana wallet: Phantom, Solflare or Backpack, as a browser extension or the wallet's own in-app browser.
  • USDC or SOL on Solana to trade with.
  • A little SOL, around 0.01, for network fees and for the one-time rent of a new token account.

The seven steps

  1. Open Markets

    Go to Markets. Prices, charts and every market are visible straight away; you do not need a wallet to look.

  2. Pick a market

    Search by ticker or name, or choose a row in the list. Start with a liquid name such as NVDAx or SPYx. Its page shows the price per share and its 24-hour change, how far the token sits from its share, and the session the underlying market is in, with how long until that changes.

  3. Enter what you want to pay

    On the ticket beside the chart (on a phone, Buy at the bottom opens it), leave Buy selected, choose USDC or SOL beside the amount, and type how much to pay under You pay. Under You get, the ticket estimates what that amount gets and the price per share, before you connect a wallet. Below it the two routes are listed with the one that takes the order marked: Quick here. A quote then fixes the minimum received and the fee.

  4. Connect and sign in

    Choose Connect wallet to swap. A dialog lists the wallets it found. Pick one and approve the message it shows you. The message reads: Sign in to Opcode. This request does not authorize a transaction or transfer any assets. That is all it does. Your session lasts seven days on this browser.

  5. Read the disclosures and confirm your country, once

    Before your first quote the ticket shows five short disclosures about these tokens and trading with real funds. Read them, choose your country of residence, tick the acknowledgement and choose Accept and get quote, which saves your answer and requests the quote. You will not be asked again for this wallet unless the terms change.

  6. Review the quote

    The review shows what you receive for what you pay, the price per share, the minimum received, the slippage tolerance (0.50%), the route's fee, opcode's fee (0%), and the estimated network fee and account rent. The output is an estimate; the minimum received is the limit to review. A quote is valid for at most 60 seconds, and the seconds left sit on the sign button. If it runs out, choose Refresh quote for the same order at current terms, or Edit order to change it. Nothing has moved yet.

  7. Confirm in your wallet

    Choose Sign and swap and review the transaction in your wallet before approving. Follow its saved status until it confirms or fails, then follow Transaction to see it on Solscan. If the outcome is still unknown, choose Check status and wait for the result before requesting another quote.

What just happened

A successful Quick swap spends your chosen input and receives stock tokens, never fewer than the minimum received. Your saved order records the result and links to the Solana transaction, where you can check the amounts that actually moved.

Go deeperHow OPmode differs

On NVDAx, SPYx, QQQx, GLDx, TSLAx, AAPLx, MSFTx, METAx, COINx and CRCLx, the ticket also offers OPmode: a firm quote from opcode's own pool with exact input, output, fee and an expiry of up to 10 seconds. You receive exactly what is shown, or nothing moves. Orders are limited to 100 USDC on NVDAx and 20 USDC on the other nine, and OPmode quotes only while a US market session is open, not at weekends or on exchange holidays. While the pool can quote, the ticket picks OPmode on those markets for an order paid in USDC within its limit; choose Quick on the ticket if you prefer the Jupiter route.

See Placing a swap for the different quote guarantees.

Next

  • To sell, switch the ticket to Sell and enter a quantity of the token. Everything else is the same. See Placing a swap.
  • To find the order again, open your wallet (your address in the bar) and find it under Activity. See Receipts and history.
  • To understand why the price was what it was, read How a quote is built.