NovaSwap in 5 Minutes: The Quick-Swap Walkthrough

NovaSwap is the simple one in our app family: a quick-swap tool for turning one token into another without an exchange account. Non-custodial — you connect your own wallet, you sign the transaction, and Nova never holds your funds or your keys.

The walkthrough

1. Connect your wallet. Phantom on Solana, or a WalletConnect-compatible wallet on Ethereum/Base. No account to create, no deposit to make — your funds stay in your wallet the entire time.
2. Pick the pair. Choose the token you're spending and the token you want. The curated list covers the tokens people actually reach for on each chain.
3. Read the quote. NovaSwap pulls a live route — Jupiter Lite on Solana, the 0x swap API (v2) on Ethereum and Base — and shows the expected output with the 0.3% fee already baked in. Crypto is volatile; quotes move and transactions are irreversible, so read the numbers before you sign.
4. Sign in your wallet. The swap executes from your wallet directly. On Solana, fees route to our fee account via Jupiter's platform fee; on EVM chains, the 0x fee flow does the same job.

No crypto yet? There's an on-ramp

The Buy crypto button opens a fiat on-ramp powered by MoonPay — MoonPay handles the KYC and compliance on their side. A full embedded MoonPay widget ships once our publishable key is live; until then, direct links get you there. (Nova Exchange is the bigger sibling with 4,500+ tokens if you outgrow the quick-swap list.)

One honest limitation

Swaps for USDC and USDT on Solana are currently unquotable through Jupiter Lite (Jupiter returns TOKEN_NOT_TRADABLE on their side). Rather than faking a quote, NovaSwap shows you the honest error. It works for other Solana pairs, and the EVM side quotes normally — we flag the gap here because hiding it would be the scammy thing to do.