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# Garuda Swap

## What is Garuda Swap?

Garuda Swap is AMM (Automated Market Maker) Spot trading product, allowing users to exchange one token for another instantly on LUNC with the best all-around execution that balances best price, speed, success rate, and more. &#x20;

### Constant Product Market Maker

Garuda DeFi Swap using **Constant Product Market Maker**. It maintains a constant product of the quantities of two tokens in a liquidity pool. The formula is:

> **x \* y = k**

where x and y are the quantities of the two tokens, and k is a constant. As users trade tokens, the quantities x and y change, but the product k remains constant.

This ensures that prices adjust automatically based on supply and demand.

### Trading Fees <a href="#trading-fees" id="trading-fees"></a>

In Garuda DeFI, standard trading fees are set to 0.5%\* for each trade which will be deducted from the transaction of the asset received by the trader.

| Item                | Percentage |
| ------------------- | ---------- |
| Trading Fees        | 0.5%       |
| Liquidity Providers | 0.2%       |
| GDEX shares         | 0.3%       |

{% hint style="info" %}
*\*Trading fess are change-able with governance protocols*
{% endhint %}

## How to Swap?

There are 2 type of swap in Garuda DeFi :

1. Direct Swap - Swap tokens directly through a single liquidity pool for a simple and efficient trading experience.&#x20;
2. Multi-hop Swap - Swap tokens through multiple liquidity pools to find the best available trading route and optimize your swap output.

<div><figure><img src="https://1287123956-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FtxjjcjzH1UYRlroVNUWJ%2Fuploads%2Fwb3mBpnL3nRgpgRIRboc%2Fphoto_2026-10-09_09-13-28.jpg?alt=media&amp;token=bba4d350-6a49-4054-9304-4ea7c3e9fc91" alt=""><figcaption><p>Multi-Hop Swap</p></figcaption></figure> <figure><img src="https://1287123956-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FtxjjcjzH1UYRlroVNUWJ%2Fuploads%2FLOkN0xDoKADs3L4kYso4%2Fphoto_2026-10-09_09-17-25.jpg?alt=media&amp;token=e4e7d804-8415-4172-b9a8-be40958d77cd" alt=""><figcaption><p>Direct Swap</p></figcaption></figure></div>
