How to use Jupiter for a Solana swap, and how the same swap works on ripr

On ripr, the swap you would open Jupiter for happens on the coin's own page: find the coin, set an amount, read the warnings, sign. Jupiter is the best-known swap aggregator on Solana, and ripr does that routing work for you the moment you tap buy. Here is the whole flow, from an empty wallet to selling back.

What Jupiter is, and what a swap actually does

A swap exchanges one Solana token for another. An aggregator like Jupiter looks across Solana's liquidity pools, works out which route your swap should take, and sends it. You connect a Solana wallet, choose what you are spending and what you want, read the quote, decide how much price movement you will accept, and approve the transaction.

The help centre calls a swap "the in-app action to exchange SOL and tokens": you pick the amount, check the estimate and the fees, then confirm. ripr can trade coins across 13 families of Solana venue, from bonding curves to the main pool types, and it can start a trade from a stablecoin as well. Its server prepares the transaction for the venue your coin actually trades on, so picking a pool is never a step you do by hand.

Step 1: fund a ripr wallet

Signing up on ripr creates a Solana wallet for your account. There is no separate wallet app to install and no recovery phrase to write down before your first trade. Google, email and passkey sign-in work everywhere, and Apple sign-in works on iOS and the web.

Then put money in it. Two ways:

1. Send SOL to your deposit address from a wallet or an exchange you already use.
2. Add money by card or Apple Pay, or by UPI and bank transfer in India. The payment providers set their own fees and show them at checkout, and the methods you see depend on your region.

Leave a little SOL unspent. Solana charges a small network fee on every transaction, and your first buy of a coin opens a token account for it with a small deposit that is refundable when the account closes.

Step 2: find the coin you want to swap into

Plenty of swaps start with a token address a friend pasted into a chat. ripr takes the same input: search by name, ticker or full contract address. The contract address, also called the mint, is a coin's unique ID on Solana. Two coins can share a name and a ticker, so paste the address in full instead of trusting the first match.

Browsing works too. Explore lists trending coins and new launches, along with the ones scheduled to go live, and it keeps your watchlists. The screener sorts and filters the market, and a market-cap sort leaves out coins under $5,000 of liquidity or 100 holders unless you set those limits yourself.

Step 3: read the coin's warnings before you swap

This is the step people skip when they are in a hurry, and it is where beginners lose money. Before you buy, ripr shows rule-based warnings for known rug patterns: a creator holding unlocked liquidity, liquidity that has already been pulled, a hand-made pool, a coordinated launch.

On iOS and Android, coin pages also say when a coin is under review, has thin liquidity, has paused prices or is still being checked. No coin is ever labelled safe, and the absence of a warning never means it is.

The holder panel is worth a look as well. You get the share of supply held by the top 10 and the top 50 holders, and what the creator holds, with pools and vaults left out.

Open an established meme coin and the figures are usually settled. ripr's own data on one shows around 60,000 holders, the biggest of them sitting near a tenth of the supply, with mint and freeze authority switched off so nobody can print more tokens or freeze yours. The warning checks on a coin like that come back with nothing elevated, which is comforting rather than conclusive. Run the same checks on something that launched an hour ago and they often read very differently.

ripr also lists the other coins a creator has launched, which is the quickest way to tell a one-off from a serial launcher. If you would rather keep flagged coins out of your lists, turn on Hide warnings in Explore. There is more in how to spot a risky meme coin.

Step 4: set the amount and the slippage, then sign

Open the coin and tap the trade button at the bottom of the screen. Enter the SOL you want to spend or the tokens you want to end up with, and ripr quotes what you should receive. On desktop web you can buy from the chart in one click at a pre-filled amount, which is your last buy size or $10 the first time. On iOS, the quick-trade bar buys at your usual size in one tap.

Slippage is the maximum price change you will accept while the swap executes. Too tight on a fast coin and the trade keeps failing. Very wide, and you can fill some way from the quote you read. ripr's Auto slippage is on by default and takes the limit from how much the coin moved in the last five minutes, between 3% and 15%, and you can set your own number instead. The help-centre advice on slippage is to start with Auto and only widen it if your swaps keep failing.

When a trade goes to a pool, the transaction carries a minimum-output limit taken from your slippage, so a fill below it cannot go through. If the price moves while you are deciding, you are asked to accept the new price instead of signing the old one.

Signing itself is worth understanding, because it is the part most people never look at. ripr prepares the transaction on its server. The app then checks that transaction on your device against the amount and slippage you chose, refuses it if anything differs, and your own wallet signs it. That check is about the transaction, not about whether the coin is any good. On iOS and Android, the trade sheet lists the network fee, ripr's router fee and the refundable account deposit before you confirm.

Step 5: swap back to SOL when you are done

Selling runs the same way in reverse. Open your holding, tap Sell, enter an amount or pick a percentage, and confirm. The SOL lands in your ripr balance. Converting tokens back to SOL in parts rather than all at once is the calmer habit while a coin is still moving.

A full sell can close the coin's account and hand back its deposit, and ripr can close your other empty token accounts and return that SOL too. Prefer not to watch a chart all evening? Drag take-profit and stop-loss lines onto it and they sell for you while the app or the coin page is open.

Start small on your first swap, paste the address rather than trusting a name, and keep enough SOL for fees. Then open a coin on ripr and run the five steps in order: fund, find, check, sign, sell. The help centre's walkthrough for buying a coin is there if you want it open beside you.

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Last verified 2 November 2026. This article is published by ripr, which builds an app for trading Solana coins. Nothing here is financial advice.