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Trading on a decentralized exchange for the first time can feel intimidating. If you’ve used a centralized exchange before, the flow looks different. There are no accounts, no balances held by a platform, and no customer support desk to reverse a trade. Everything happens directly onchain. This guide is here to make that feel less scary. It’s written for traders who are new to decentralized exchanges. Maybe you withdrew some SOL from a centralized exchange into a wallet and now want to swap it for another token. Maybe you’ve heard terms like “DEX,” “wallet,” or “slippage” and want to understand what’s actually happening before clicking confirm. The pages below walk through the basics, step by step, in plain language.

What Is a Crypto Wallet?

Understand what a wallet actually is, what it controls, and why it doesn’t hold your tokens.

What Is a Decentralized Exchange?

Learn how DEXs work, how prices are set, and how onchain trading differs from centralized exchanges.

How to Swap Tokens

A step-by-step guide to making your first swap using the DFlow trading interface.