Buying Crypto and Onboarding: From Fiat to First Trade
Onboarding is where most would-be traders stall. Padre Terminal shortens the path from fiat to a funded, trade-ready wallet so you can spend your attention on markets rather than plumbing.
Funding your wallet
Buy crypto directly and receive it in a wallet you control. Because Padre Terminal is non-custodial, funds arrive in your own address rather than a platform balance you would later have to withdraw.
Choosing a chain to start on
New traders usually begin on Solana for low fees and high launch volume. Ethereum and Base suit larger sizes where deeper liquidity matters more than transaction cost.
Keeping a gas buffer
Always leave native tokens unspent for fees. A wallet fully deployed into positions cannot exit them, which is a painful way to learn a simple rule.
Your first session
Configure execution defaults, save a discovery filter set, and take one small position with pre-set exits. Repeat that loop for a week before increasing size — process first, size later.
Ready to begin? Everything starts at Padre Terminal, where you can connect a wallet and trade immediately.
Ready to trade on Padre Terminal?
Connect a wallet and start trading memecoins across Solana, Ethereum, Base and BNB in seconds.