Buy with a wallet

Five steps. You hold the tokens yourself. About twenty minutes.

This site sells nothing and holds no money. It never asks you to connect a wallet. This walkthrough uses MetaMask because most apps support it. Other wallets work the same way. Nobody paid to be the example, and that slot is not for sale.

Tick each step as you finish it. Ticks save in this browser only. Nothing leaves your device.

Get a wallet

A wallet is a free app. It keeps your tokens and signs your transactions. There is no sign-up form and no bank. The wallet is the account.

A new wallet shows you a recovery phrase of 12 or 24 words. Write the words on paper. Keep the paper safe.

What you should see. The wallet shows the phrase once, on one screen, then asks you to confirm some of the words. After that it shows an address that starts with 0x.

Stop if any website asks you to type your recovery phrase. No honest site asks. Every person who asks for it wants to take your money.

See wallet apps →

Get on the chain

Stock tokens are on Robinhood Chain. Add this network to your wallet. Then put a small amount of ETH in the wallet. The chain uses it to pay network fees. A fee is normally less than one cent.

NetworkRobinhood Chain
Chain ID4663
RPC endpointhttps://rpc.mainnet.chain.robinhood.com
Fee currencyETH
Explorer Blockscout

To move ETH to this chain is to bridge. A few dollars is enough to start.

What you should see. The wallet shows Robinhood Chain in its network list, and a balance above zero after you bridge.

Stop if an "add network" screen asks you to approve a payment. To add a network costs nothing.

Find the real token

Any person can make a token and call it CRCL. The symbol proves nothing. Only the contract address proves which token is real.

This site checks every address against Robinhood's beacon contract at each refresh. A copy fails that check, even when its name, symbol and logo look correct.

The real CRCL token

0xfee9BEe35Fa54BF037EA3B49a6c791b989172dd0

$82.03 · CRCL page →

All contract addresses →

What you should see. The address at the venue matches the verified list. Compare the first six and the last four characters.

Stop if the name and logo match but the address does not. Only the address is proof.

Buy it

Connect your wallet to a swap app. Choose what you pay and what you get. The swap apps people use are listed below.

You can also buy on an exchange and send the tokens to your wallet. The walkthrough uses a swap because it needs no second account.

Before you sign, check three things on the screen:

  1. The token address is the address from step 3.
  2. The amount you get is near the amount you expect.
  3. You approve this trade only, and not your full balance.

Stop if the approval asks for an unlimited amount or your full balance. Approve this trade only. To reject costs at most a small fee. To approve everything can cost the wallet.

This site is not a venue. It never asks you to connect a wallet. It holds no money. It shows the data and points to the places that trade.

Check what you own

Every balance on this chain is public. Put your wallet address into the Blockscout explorer . It shows the tokens in your wallet. This is the chain, not an app screen.

Your token count and your share count can differ. When the issuer pays a dividend, it changes one number in the contract. Your token count stays the same, but each token is worth more shares. The page for each stock records every one of those changes, with its transaction.

What you should see. The explorer page for your address lists the token and a balance.

Stop if a page that looks like an explorer asks you to connect a wallet. An explorer only reads. It never connects.

Wallets and places

All venues & wallets →

Sponsored places are marked. The other places are here because people use them. This site sells nothing and holds no money.

This site sells nothing and holds no money. These places are not recommendations. Sponsored places are marked, and a payment buys position only. Each issuer states who may buy its tokens. Read that before you trade.

The other way is to let a company hold the tokens for you, inside its app. Three steps, no wallet. See the app route →