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Documentation Index

Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.raydium.io/llms.txt

Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

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Who this chapter is for

End users — people who want to use Raydium to swap, farm, or provide liquidity, not build on top of it. If you’ve never used a Solana app before, start here. If you have, skip to user-flows. This chapter is parallel to solana-fundamentals, which targets developers. Both cover prerequisites, but from different angles: this one is about setting up a wallet and making your first trade; that one is about account models and program invocation.

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Chapter contents

What you need

The shortest possible prerequisites checklist: a wallet, some SOL, and a browser. Five minutes.

Choosing a wallet

Features that matter when picking a Solana wallet for Raydium, security baselines, and the hot/cold wallet pattern.

Funding your wallet

Fiat on-ramps (Moonpay, Stripe), cross-chain bridges (Wormhole, deBridge), and exchange withdrawals. Tradeoffs.

Your first swap

Walk-through of a single SOL → USDC swap on raydium.io/swap. Screenshots plus the exact numbers to expect.

Trust & safety

Rug pulls, fake tokens, phishing sites, seed-phrase scams. The specific things that get Solana users drained.

FAQ

Consolidated answers to the questions new users actually ask: fees, failed transactions, LP tokens, unwrapping SOL.

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The 30-second overview

Raydium is a DEX on Solana. It lets you swap one token for another without using a centralized exchange. To use it you need:
  1. A Solana wallet (browser extension or mobile app) — holds your private key and signs transactions.
  2. Some SOL in that wallet — pays for transaction fees (~$0.0005 per swap) and any tokens you want to buy.
  3. A browser at raydium.io — the official UI.
Everything else — choosing a wallet, funding it, picking your first trade — is covered on the pages above.

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Red flags to watch for from day one

Before you deposit any money, internalise these rules:
  • Never share your seed phrase. Not with support, not with a “verify your wallet” site, not over DMs. The only place a seed phrase is typed is during initial wallet setup.
  • Only use raydium.io. Phishing copies the UI pixel-perfectly. Bookmark the real URL.
  • Trust the token address, not the token name. Anyone can create a token called “USDC”. The real USDC mint is EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v. The UI shows a verified badge next to curated mints.
  • A dApp should never ask you to “approve” your whole wallet. Normal transactions sign specific instructions. A blanket approval is a drain.
More detail in getting-started/trust-and-safety.

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What this chapter is not

  • Not a trading tutorial. Picking tokens and managing risk are your own responsibility; this chapter only covers the Raydium mechanics of executing trades.
  • Not financial advice. “Should I provide liquidity?” is a strategy question; see user-flows/choosing-a-pool-type for the mechanics of that decision.
  • Not a Solana deep-dive. For that, see solana-fundamentals.

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Where to go next