Your first ten minutes

This is the short path from an empty wallet to one completed swap. It assumes nothing except a browser wallet.

Connect a wallet#

Open the app and connect. Kaleido runs on five networks — Sepolia, Base Sepolia, BNB Smart Chain Testnet, Robinhood Chain Testnet and Arc Testnet — and the network selector only offers the ones that have a deployment, so you cannot land on a chain where half the app is missing.

Pick one and stay on it for the rest of this page. Positions are per chain: a loan opened on Base Sepolia is not visible from Sepolia, because it is a different contract on a different ledger.

Gas comes first, and it has to come from outside#

Every action below is a transaction, so the first thing you need is the chain's own gas token. On four of the five networks that is ether or tBNB; on Arc it is USDC, which is unusual enough to be worth knowing before you wonder why your ETH balance is empty.

Kaleido's own faucet cannot solve this for you, and the reason is structural rather than an omission: claiming from the faucet is itself a transaction, so a wallet with zero gas cannot pay for the claim that would give it gas. Get a small amount from the network's public faucet first — that is the one step that happens off Kaleido.

You do not have to go looking for it. The /faucet page names the operator that runs the public faucet for whichever chain you are on and links straight to it, and it says so more loudly once it can see your wallet is at zero. Come back afterwards and everything else on the page is claimable in one go.

Claim everything else from the faucet#

With gas in hand, the faucet page at /faucet hands out the tokens the protocol actually uses: USDC, USDT, USDe and the wrapped native. It is a contract, not a server, so everything the page shows you is read from it — the amount per claim, how much is left, how long until you can claim again, and how many addresses have claimed already.

Native gas is listed first there anyway, so if you skipped the paragraph above the page will make the ordering obvious.

Make one swap#

Go to /trade/swap, pick a pair, and type an amount. Three things happen before you sign anything:

• The output is quoted by reading the pool. That is a call, not a transaction, so it costs nothing and needs no signature. It also re-runs as you type.
• Slippage defaults to 0.5%, which becomes a minimum-output figure the pool will enforce. If the price moves past it, the swap reverts rather than filling badly.
• A deadline of twenty minutes goes into the same call, so a transaction that sits unmined does not execute an hour later at an unrelated price.

Then there are two signatures, and they are deliberately not merged into one.

The first lets the router move the token you are spending. The second is the swap. Once an allowance is in place it is not asked for again, so the next swap on that pair is a single prompt. Output lands in your wallet directly — there is no Kaleido balance to withdraw from afterwards.

Then pick a direction#

You now have a funded wallet on a working chain, and everything else branches from here:

• Earn on the pair you just traded. Providing liquidity — put both tokens into a price range and collect the fees the swaps pay.
• Borrow against what you hold, or lend it out. The lending book — you set the rate and the term, not a curve.
• Mint a dollar against your stablecoins. kfUSD and kafUSD.
• Do all of it by asking. Saying it instead of clicking it.