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Learn how to trade coins effectively on Zapzy with our comprehensive trading features designed to optimize your experience and protect your transactions.

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How to Buy Coins

Trading on Zapzy is straightforward and user-friendly. Simply navigate to any coin’s page and use the buy interface to enter your desired amount and execute trades. Zapzy trading interface showing buy/sell options, balance, and quick amount buttons

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Managing Slippage

Slippage occurs when the actual execution price differs from the expected price due to market movements during transaction processing.
  • What is Slippage?
  • Setting Slippage
Slippage is the difference between the expected price of a trade and the price at which the trade is actually executed. This happens due to:
  • Market volatility
  • Trade size relative to available liquidity
  • Time between order placement and execution
Higher slippage tolerance allows trades to complete in volatile conditions but may result in less favorable prices.

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Transaction Speed Options

Choose your transaction priority based on how quickly you need your trade to execute: Trade settings modal showing transaction speed options, slippage tolerance, and front-running protection toggle

Fast

Standard transaction speed with moderate network fees. Good for most trading situations.

Turbo

Higher priority execution with increased network fees. Ideal for time-sensitive trades.

Ultra

Maximum priority execution with the highest network fees. Best for urgent trades in volatile markets.
Important: Higher transaction speeds (Turbo and Ultra) increase your network fees. The faster execution comes at a premium cost, so choose based on your trading urgency and fee tolerance.

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Front-Running Protection

Zapzy offers advanced front-running protection to secure your trades from MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) attacks.

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What is Front-Running?

Front-running occurs when malicious actors observe pending transactions and place their own orders ahead of yours to profit from the price movement your trade will cause.

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Jito Protection

Our front-running protection uses Jito, a leading MEV protection service that:
Jito bundles transactions together and processes them in a way that prevents other traders from seeing and front-running your orders before they’re executed on the blockchain.
  • Large trades: Bigger orders are more likely to be targeted
  • Volatile markets: Higher price movements attract more MEV activity
  • New coin launches: Fresh tokens often see aggressive front-running
  • Important trades: When precise execution price matters most
You can enable or disable front-running protection based on your needs:
  • Enabled: Maximum protection against MEV attacks, slightly longer execution time
  • Disabled: Standard execution speed, no additional MEV protection
We recommend keeping front-running protection enabled for most trades, especially when trading significant amounts or during high volatility periods.

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Trading Best Practices

1

Check Market Conditions

Review recent price action and volume before placing large orders
2

Set Appropriate Slippage

Adjust slippage based on coin volatility and market conditions
3

Choose Transaction Speed

Select Fast for normal conditions, Turbo/Ultra for urgent trades
4

Enable Protection

Keep front-running protection on for optimal security
5

Monitor Execution

Watch your transaction status and be prepared to adjust settings if needed
Understanding these trading features helps you execute trades more effectively while protecting yourself from common pitfalls and attacks in the DeFi space.