How to Trade (Swaps)

Trading on Bankr is as simple as typing what you want in plain English. Bankr handles routing, gas, and execution across all supported chains.

Chat or the Trade Page

You can trade entirely in chat, or use the visual Trade page in the Bankr console at bankr.bot/terminal/trade. The Trade page is a single swap widget with two modes:

Instant — one-tap USD buys and sells at the current price.
Pro — token-to-token swaps plus advanced orders (limit, stop, trailing stop, TWAP, and DCA) alongside a live price chart, where you can place and drag orders directly on the chart.

It works with both your built-in Bankr wallet and an external wallet you connect, and replaces the older standalone swap mini-app.

When you pick a token, the picker lists what you hold first, then a Popular on <chain> section with that chain's native token, wrapped native, and dollar stablecoin — so you can switch chains and pick a target even if you hold nothing there yet. Those suggestions show a zero balance on purpose; they're tokens to swap into.

Basic Swaps

Just tell Bankr what you want to buy or sell:


"swap $50 of ETH to USDC on base"
"buy $10 of BNKR"
"sell all my DEGEN on base"

Bankr routes through Uniswap V2/V3/V4, Aerodrome (on Base), and Jupiter (on Solana) to find the best price.

What Trading Costs

Gas: sponsored by Bankr on most chains — you'll only pay your own gas on Ethereum and Arbitrum (Solana sponsorship is limited).
Pool fees: every swap goes through a DEX pool, and the pool's own swap fee is reflected in the quote you see before you confirm.
Bankr-launched tokens: pools for tokens launched through Bankr carry an all-in 1.75% swap fee — and that's everything, there are no other fees on those trades. Full breakdown in How Do I Launch a Token?. One caveat: buying within ~10 seconds of a launch hits the elevated anti-snipe fee — wait it out.
Thin pools cost more in practice: low-liquidity tokens can have significant price impact — the quote shows you the real number.

Specifying a Chain

Add the chain name to your prompt. If you don't, Bankr uses the chain where your balance is highest, defaulting to Base for EVM operations.


"buy $5 of BONK on solana"
"swap $20 of USDC to ETH on arbitrum"

Cross-Chain Swaps

Swap between chains using bridge aggregators:


"swap $50 USDC from polygon to ETH on base"

Tokenized Stocks

You can also trade tokenized stocks and ETFs — real-world equities issued as on-chain tokens — with the same commands:


"buy $100 of NVDA on robinhood"
"buy $100 of NVDA on base"
"buy $50 of AAPLx on solana"

Robinhood Chain hosts Robinhood-issued stocks and ETFs; trading them requires a one-time location verification (log in to the Bankr console — it's automatic, valid for 30 days, and not available in the US, UK, or sanctioned regions). Third-party issuer tokens like xStocks on Solana trade like any other token, no verification needed.

Robinhood Chain stock tokens have no AMM pool of their own, so Bankr prices and fills them through a request-for-quote venue (settling in USDG) instead of the usual pool route. This is automatic — you trade them with the same prompts as any other token.

Tokenized Equities on Base (B20)

Base also hosts Coinbase-issued B20 tokenized equities (AAPL, TSLA, NVDA, and more). Unlike the Robinhood listings these are ordinary ERC-20s — they trade through the normal Base venues in USDC, with no special routing.

Name the chain. Many of these tickers also exist on Robinhood Chain, and a bare "buy AAPL" still resolves to the Robinhood listing. Say on base to get the B20.
Same location check. B20 equities are geo-gated exactly like Robinhood tokenized stocks — the same one-time login, and the same US, UK, and sanctioned-region restrictions.
Liquidity is still building. These contracts are newer, so a no-liquidity or no-route error simply means no pool exists for that equity yet. It isn't a failure on your side, and retrying won't help until pools go live.

Base B20 equities can also anchor a stock-paired token launch — see How Do I Launch a Token?.

One-Tap Quick Buy

Quick buy — the one-tap buy button on Discover, the homepage top-tokens strip, and Radar — always spends your Bankr trading wallet, because instant buys are signed server-side. If you're in wallet mode with an external wallet connected, quick buy is blocked and you'll see a toast explaining why. Turn wallet mode off to use it, or place the trade from the Trade page, which supports both wallets.

Checking Prices


"what's the price of ETH?"
"prices of ETH, BTC, and SOL"

Common Issues

Insufficient balance — make sure you have enough tokens on the right chain.
Token not found — try including the chain name or the token's contract address.
High slippage — low-liquidity tokens may have large price impact.
Only some legs of a multi-token swap went through — when you ask Bankr to sell several tokens at once, any leg that gets refused (for example a tokenized stock without a passed location check) is reported back with its reason alongside the legs that succeeded, so you can see exactly what was skipped.

For the full list of trading capabilities, see Swaps on docs.bankr.bot.