Buying and Selling a Token on Uniswap with MetaMask

So far you’ve set up your MetaMask wallet, purchased some Ethereum and now you’re ready to make your first trade on Uniswap! Uniswap is a decentralized exchange (DEX) and you can swap any digital asset for another with the push of a button.

When you make a trade on Uniswap, you are trading directly from the safety of your MetaMask wallet. 

• Open your MetaMask mobile wallet.
  • Click the menu button on the top left of the application.
  • Click browser in the slide out menu.
  • Click the blue ➕ icon to create a new tab.
  • In the search bar type app.uniswap.org.

• Click the pink “Select a token” drop down.
  • Search for the token that you would like to buy, or copy paste the token contract code from a website like Coin Gecko or Coin Market Cap.
  • In this example; we’ll be buying AAVE.

• First we’ll visit Coin Gecko. In the search bar at the top right of the website, search for AAVE.
  • Select AAVE in the drop down.
  • Under AAVE you will see a “Contract.” To copy the contract code press the paper icon.
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• Now let’s go back to Uniswap and paste the contract code into the “TO” field. 
  • You’ll see “AAVE” appear. Click the pink import button to save AAVE so you do not have to copy paste the AAVE contract code again.
  • Read the Uniswap warning and then click “I understand” and then the pink import button to continue.

• Select the amount of ETH you want to convert to AAVE.
  • Press the pink swap button, the pink confirm swap button, and lastly the blue confirm button to complete the swap.

Congratulations, you just completed your first Uniswap token swap!