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5. Swap across Cardano DEXes

Make a manual swap with live quotes, full charts, transparent fees and smart order splitting.

Swap is for trading by hand. You can trade any Cardano native token paired with ADA, from your connected wallet or any hot wallet, on Minswap, SundaeSwap, WingRiders or Splash.

What you'll learn

  • Finding tokens and reading the chart

  • Choosing the paying wallet and the DEX

  • Checking your minimum receive, price impact and fees before you sign

  • Using the aggregator for large orders

  • Tracking and recovering orders

Make a swap

  1. Open Swap and search for a token. The check badge marks tokens verified in the Minswap token registry.

  2. Choose which wallet pays: your connected wallet or a hot wallet.

  3. Choose the DEX, or turn on Aggregator.

  4. Enter an amount, or click 25%, 50%, 75% or Max.

  5. Set your slippage: 0.5%, 1% or 3%.

  6. Review the details, click Buy or Sell, and sign once in your wallet.

What you see before you sign

Detail
Meaning

Minimum receive

The least you'll get at your slippage setting. If the price moves further, the order doesn't fill

Price impact

How much your order moves the pool price

Network fee

The Cardano transaction fee

Batcher fee

What the DEX's batcher charges to execute your order

Pool fee

The liquidity pool's trading fee

Service fee

Surge's fee, reduced by your staking tier

The chart

  • Timeframes from 1 minute to 1 day

  • Moving-average crossovers and RSI from every DEX

  • Drawing tools for trend lines and levels

  • Price, 24h change, liquidity and volume at the top

Aggregator

Turn on Aggregator and Surge splits a large order across DEXes to get you more tokens. It shows the savings against the single best DEX. You can exclude any DEX you don't want to route through.

Track your orders

My Orders follows each swap from on-chain to filled. If an order gets stuck because the price moved past your minimum receive, use Recover or Cancel to return your funds.

Good to know

  • Big order on a small pool? Check the price impact first. Consider the aggregator, or a Cadence strategy to spread the trade out over time.

  • Watch for look-alike tokens. Stick to tokens with the verified badge unless you know the policy ID.

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