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  • ⚡Get Started
    • 1️⃣Step 1: Connect Your Wallet
      • 💳Wallets: Best Web3 Options
      • 💰FOUR Ways to Get Funds onto the Shade App
      • 💰How to move tokens from a CEX to Shade
    • 2️⃣Step 2: Create a Viewing Key
    • 3️⃣Step 3a: Hit The Button -> Buy SHD in >30 seconds
    • 3️⃣Step 3b: Bridge
      • How to bridge to Secret Network
      • How to bridge assets from Secret Network to another chain
    • 4️⃣Step 4: Swap Assets
    • 5️⃣Step 5: Use our Features
      • 💲Bonds Feature
        • How to Claim Bond Rewards
        • How to Purchase a Bond
      • 🏦Borrow Feature
        • Borrow (Silk): How to take out and repay a loan
        • Borrow (Silk Earn): How to Deposit and Withdraw
        • Borrow FAQ
      • 📈Derivatives Feature
      • 📖History Feature
        • What is a transaction hash
        • How to view transaction history
      • 💧Pools Feature
        • How to Enter and Exit Liquidity Pools
        • How to Stake and Unstake
        • How to Claim Rewards
        • 'Mint LP Shares and Stake' vs. 'Mint LP Shares'
        • Liquidity Pool FAQ
      • 💹Portfolio Feature
      • ➡️Send Feature
      • 🔵SILK Feature
        • How to Buy Silk
        • SILK's Peg
        • SILK FAQ
      • 📍Stake Feature
        • How to Stake and Unstake
        • What is stkd-SCRT
      • ⚙️Utilities Feature
      • 🔁Wrap Feature
      • 💠NFTs
        • How to Purchase a Shade NFT
        • How to Verify NFT Ownership
        • How to Sell an NFT
        • How to Bid on an NFT
    • 6️⃣Step 6: Connect with Community
    • 📚Beginner Resources
      • What is SCRT
      • Convert SCRT <> sSCRT
      • ⛽Gas Fees
        • How to Increase Gas Fees:
  • 🌑Advanced Topics: Shade Metaengine
    • 🌑What is SHD
    • 🖥️Tech Stack
    • ✍️Principles
    • ⚕️Ethos
    • 🏛️Governance
    • 🏦ShadeDAO
    • 💰Tokenomics
    • 🌀SHD
    • ✔️Brand
    • 📜Tutorials
  • 🌑Advanced Topics: Apps
    • 🔵SILK
      • Minting & Redemption
        • Overcollateralized Minting
        • Collateral Redemptions
        • Bonds
      • Basket Composition
      • Peg Migration
      • Governance
      • Tutorials
    • 🌉Bridge
    • 💱ShadeSwap
      • Trading
      • Liquidity Providing
      • LP Staking
      • Asymmetric, Concentrated Liquidity
      • Shade Swap Contracts
    • 🦅Lend
      • Stability Mechanisms
      • Risks and Fees
    • 📓Bonds
      • Bond Types
      • Collateral Types
      • Illiquid Markets
      • Issuance Policy
      • Bond Tokenomics
      • Tutorials
    • ♟️stkd-SCRT
      • Feautures
      • User Stories
      • Governance & Validators
      • Tutorials
      • FAQ
    • 💱ShadeX - Money Market
      • Liquidations
      • Logs and Transparency
      • Risk Management
      • Configurations and Restrictions
      • Fees
      • Contracts
  • 💳Wallets
    • Keplr
      • Install Keplr
      • Create Keplr Wallet
      • Import a Keplr Account
      • Import a Ledger Account
    • Fina Mobile
  • Research
    • Audit Log
    • Stablecoins
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Welcome to Shade Protocol: We're Building the Most Secure and Inclusive On-Chain Economy.

Getting Started

1️⃣ Begin by .

2️⃣ Create (at no charge)

3️⃣🅐 Buy $SHD in 30 seconds - Hit "The Button" OR 3️⃣🅑 your tokens from a CEX or DEX

4️⃣ for private wrapped assets

5️⃣ like entering pools, derivatives, send and more.

What is Shade Protocol:

Simply put, Shade Protocol is private DeFi!

We are a collection of private DeFi applications built on Secret Network, providing privacy-preserving services like stablecoins, trading, lending, governance, bonds, staking derivatives, and insurance. Using Secret Network's technology, all applications come with built-in programmable privacy features.

Shade Protocol's Mission:

Shade believes every piece of the DeFi stack must be improved in order to bring trillions in assets on-chain. Our ecosystem of open-source applications includes unique decryption primitives to ensure privacy and auditability, novel stablecoin architectures ($SILK), powerful omnichain integrations, lending, trading, and much more.

What features does Shade have?

On the Shade app there are several features including:


If you're new to our app, check out our for additional tutorials to help you get familiar with the Shade app and become a pro user. We have videos that will walk you through all the features step-by-step.

Information provided in this post is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute formal investment advice. Please read the full disclaimer at before relying on any information herein.

connecting your wallet
Viewing Key
Bridge
Swap Assets
Use our app features
Bridge
Swap
Pools
Borrow
Silk
Stake
Bonds
Derivatives
Portfolio
Wrap
Send
History
Utilities
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