You send from your own wallet straight to the exchanger — nothing to connect,
no account, and you stay on this page throughout. Rates are indicative until
a swap is opened.
The swap is carried out by an independent exchanger and the deposit address
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your funds, has no key to that address, and earns a referral commission.
Opening a swap sends your receiving address, IP, browser and timezone to the
exchanger for their compliance checks; we store none of it. Check their terms,
fees and country restrictions before sending anything.
Phantom wallet and Solscan show different balances because they query different data sources at different times, and each handles token account state, rent exemptions, and pending transactions in its own way. The difference is almost always temporary and resolves on its own, but knowing why it happe
Turbine is Solana's block propagation protocol. It splits each validator's produced block into small data packets and distributes them across the network using a tree-like structure, so that every validator receives the full block quickly without overwhelming any single node. Instead of sending the
When a Solana validator falls behind the network's current slot, it enters a state called "delinquency." The validator stops participating in consensus, cannot produce blocks, and must catch up to the latest confirmed slot before it can rejoin active validation. The network automatically detects and
Proof of History (PoH) is not a consensus mechanism. It is a clock. Specifically, it is a cryptographic way to prove that time has passed between two events, without needing to ask a network participant when those events happened. The trick is a sequential hash function that encodes a continuous, ve
A Solana transaction expires because it includes a blockhash that becomes invalid once the block it references is more than 151 blocks old, which at typical network speed means about 60 seconds. If the transaction hasn't been included in a confirmed block by then, the network rejects it and you must
You confirm a swap deposit address is genuine by checking it against the official source you navigated to yourself, never from a link someone sent you. Scammers create near-identical websites and change the deposit address to steal your funds.
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The Austin and Kyoto hard forks, deployed quietly on the Bor and Heimdall clients before public disclosure, closed denial-of-service and consensus-hardening flaws that Polygon says were never exploited.
Li says the attacker manipulated the price of Tectonic's illiquid TONIC token before borrowing against the inflated collateral, a Mango Markets-style hack.
The lawsuit asks a federal court to block the $95 million TRM contract and require ICE to conduct a full and open competition.
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Crypto prices right now
Bitcoin (BTC)
$78,624
▼ -0.51% down24h
Ethereum (ETH)
$2,464
▼ -1.95% down24h
Solana (SOL)
$102.57
▼ -3.72% down24h
How to convert crypto: on-chain vs off-chain
Off-chain (on an exchange)
Your trade happens inside the exchange's own ledger. Nothing
touches the blockchain until you withdraw.
Cheapest and fastest for common pairs
Needs an account and usually ID verification
The exchange holds the coins until you withdraw them
Best for converting to and from cash
On-chain (a DEX or swap)
You swap from your own wallet. The transaction settles on the
chain and you pay its fee.
No account, no custodian — you keep the keys
You pay network fees, which vary a lot by chain
Small or new tokens often only trade here
Slippage and thin liquidity are real costs on low-volume pairs
Before any on-chain swap: check the token's contract address
against a block explorer, start with a small test amount, and review what you
are approving — an unlimited token approval to an unknown contract is how most
wallet drains actually happen.
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