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Get Started

Welcome to Shade Protocol: We're Building the Most Secure and Inclusive On-Chain Economy.

Getting Started

1️⃣ Begin by connecting your wallet.

2️⃣ Create Viewing Key (at no charge)

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

4️⃣ Swap Assets for private wrapped assets

5️⃣ Use our app features 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 #ShadeGuide playlist 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 shadeprotocol.io/disclaimer before relying on any information herein.

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