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# Onboarding

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**1. Download a Cardano wallet** 

:white\_small\_square:A Crypto wallet gives you 100% ownership of your crypto & NFTs. You must have your own wallet to buy & sell NFTs. \
:white\_small\_square:Make sure to securely save your seed phrase.\
:white\_small\_square:There are many wallets, these are the ones most widely used.

:white\_small\_square:Vespr: Mobile wallet, great UI: [https://vespr.xyz](https://vespr.xyz/)\
:white\_small\_square:**Gero** : Desktop & mobile wallet:  <https://gerowallet.io/>\
:white\_small\_square:Eternl: More robust, with advanced features: <https://eternl.io/app/mainnet/faq>

:white\_small\_square:Once you have Ada, set a 5₳ collateral in you wallet, found in your wallet settings.\
:white\_small\_square:This may be necessary when using some DEXs and other Dapps on Cardano.<br>

**2. Fund your wallet**

**Two most common ways**

1. Buy directly through your Cardano wallet with your credit card.
2. Through a Centralised exchange.

**Exchange**\
:white\_small\_square:Once you have created an account, passed KYC, you can buy Ada and send to your Cardano wallet. :white\_small\_square:We would advise you not to hold Crypto on a Centralised exchange, as who ever holds the keys (seed phrase) owns the Crypto. If something were to happen with an exchange, you may lose access to your Crypto.

**Centralised Exchange**\
:white\_small\_square:Gemini: <https://www.gemini.com/> \
:white\_small\_square:Binance: <https://www.binance.com/en> \
:white\_small\_square:Coinbase: <https://www.coinbase.com/> \
:white\_small\_square:Kraken: <https://www.kraken.com/en-gb>

**Decentralized Exchange**\
:white\_small\_square:Changelly: <https://changelly.com/> \
:white\_small\_square:FixedFloat: <https://fixedfloat.com/en/> \
:white\_small\_square:ChangeNOW: <https://changenow.io/>

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**Swap from other chains**\
:white\_small\_square:[**Simpleswap**](https://simpleswap.io/)\
This is a very easy way to move from one exchange to another, for example from Ada to Eth. We have found this to be among the cheapest to use.

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**3. SET COLLATERAL**

:white\_small\_square:Set a 5₳ collateral in you wallet, found in your wallet settings.\
:white\_small\_square:This may be necessary when using some DEXs and other Dapps on Cardano.\
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**NFT TOOLS**

**NFT Marketplace** \
:white\_small\_square:This is where you can buy & sell NFTs. \
:white\_small\_square:JPG is the main Cardano NFT marketplace: <https://www.jpg.store/>

**Cswap Dex** \
:white\_small\_square:The first Dex for NFTs on Cardano. Instant liquidity: <https://www.cswap.info/>

**NFT Ranking, Rarity & Roles**\
:white\_small\_square:CNFT.TOOLS The only site used by Cardano NFT projects for rarity: <https://cnft.tools/> :white\_small\_square:Most projects also use their services for Discord roles, which show authentic ownership of NFTs & Tokens. You will need to verify your wallet in their Discord. They have a lot of other great bots too.\
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**TOKEN TOOLS**

How to connect to a Dex or marketplace \
:white\_small\_square:There will be a wallet in the top right. \
:white\_small\_square:Click then connect and sign in.

**Cardono Dex** \
:white\_small\_square:Used for buying Cardano native Tokens like our own token $pugchip \
:white\_small\_square:Minswap is the most popular: <https://app.minswap.org/swap>

**Dex Aggregator**\
:white\_small\_square:A dex aggregator will find the best price from all Cardano Dexes. \
:white\_small\_square:Dexhunter: <https://dexhunter.io/>

**Token Charts**\
:white\_small\_square:Taptools: <https://www.taptools.io> \
:white\_small\_square:Used to track all Cardano Native Tokens (CNTS)\
:white\_small\_square:You can trade directly on TapTools with Dexhunter.\
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**HOW TO FIND YOUR STAKE KEY**\
[**Pool.pm**](https://pool.pm/)\
[**Cardanoscan.io**](https://cardanoscan.io/)

{% embed url="<https://youtu.be/LPy_4PqAFzM>" %}

**HOW TO FIND YOUR TX ID**\
[**Nami**](https://namiwallet.io/) & [**Eternl**](https://eternl.io/app/mainnet/faq)

{% embed url="<https://youtu.be/mSSJTPYZf58>" %}


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