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# How to Buy $SPIN

How to buy $SPIN, in the presale with crypto or card, or on Uniswap after listing, plus the contract address and how to add the token to your wallet.

There are two ways to get $SPIN, and which one applies depends on when you are reading this.

**Right now, the presale is live.** You buy through your Chainspin account, at a fixed stage price, and your tokens start staking before the token has even listed.

**After listing**, $SPIN trades on the open market and you buy it through an exchange.

The presale is the cheaper of the two by design. Every stage costs more than the last, and the listing price sits above all of them.

## Buying in the Presale

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#### Create your Chainspin account

Sign up at [dashboard.chainspin.com](https://dashboard.chainspin.com/register) with your name, email and a password. This account is your presale dashboard: it is where you buy, where you choose your unlock speed, where your tokens stake, and where you claim them later.
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#### Choose your amount and your unlock speed

Before you pay, you pick how quickly you want your tokens released: **Flexible**, **Committed**, or **Diamond Lock**. The slower you choose, the more bonus tokens you get for the same money, up to 25% extra. This choice is made once, at purchase. The full schedule is in [Vesting](/spin-token/vesting.md).
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#### Pay

Pay in crypto or by card, whichever suits you:

**Crypto:** Ethereum, Tether (USDT), BNB, Bitcoin, Solana, Tron

**Card and mobile:** Visa, Mastercard, Google Pay, Apple Pay

You do not need to already hold a specific coin to take part.
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#### Start earning immediately

Your presale tokens stake from the dashboard straight away, before listing, earning from the Player Rewards pool. They also set your VIP tier, and locked tokens count in full towards it. So the ladder from Shrimp to Whale starts climbing on day one rather than at listing. See [Rewards](/rewards/overview.md).
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## The Price Rises in Stages

The presale runs across **twelve stages**. Each stage has a fixed price in USDT, and when a stage sells out or its timer runs down, the price steps up to the next one. It never steps back.

The live stage, the current price and the countdown to the next increase are shown on the presale widget at [chainspin.com](https://chainspin.com), which is always the accurate source.

What is fixed is the other end: **$SPIN lists at $0.12**. Every presale stage is priced below that.

## What Happens After You Buy

Your tokens are yours from the moment you pay, but they are not all liquid at once. That is deliberate, and it applies to everyone including the team:

* **At listing**, 10% of your tokens unlock immediately.
* **Days 1 to 21** are the Earning Period. Nothing new unlocks for anyone, but your locked tokens are staked and earning throughout. The house completes its first three weekly buybacks and burns in this window.
* **Want them sooner?** Play. Every $1 you wager unlocks 2 locked $SPIN early, up to half your locked balance.
* **From day 22**, daily claims begin and run on the schedule you picked, with no cliff dates.

The reasoning behind that shape, and the worked example, is in [Vesting](/spin-token/vesting.md).

## Buying After Listing

After the token generation event, $SPIN trades on the open market. The presale is complete at that point, so you buy through an exchange instead, starting with Uniswap on Ethereum.

1. Fund a Web3 wallet with ETH on the Ethereum network, enough for the purchase plus gas.
2. Go to Uniswap and paste the official contract address below. Always paste the address rather than searching by name, because anyone can name a token "SPIN".
3. Swap, confirm in your wallet, and the tokens land in it.

Centralised exchange listings follow as they are secured. Any that go live will be listed on the [Links](/links.md) page.

## Adding $SPIN to Your Wallet

If your wallet does not display the token automatically, add it manually with these details:

| Field            | Value                                        |
| ---------------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| Contract address | `0xF70Ee4A01d25Dd7e1a7fe92dF5b47eFf8F36f32B` |
| Network          | Ethereum                                     |
| Symbol           | SPIN                                         |
| Decimals         | 18                                           |

The contract is published and audited. You can read it yourself on [Etherscan](https://etherscan.io/address/0xf70ee4a01d25dd7e1a7fe92df5b47eff8f36f32b), and the audit report is on the [Audit](/spin-token/audit.md) page.

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**Check before you send.** Chainspin will never message you first asking you to send funds, connect a wallet, or share a seed phrase. Nobody from our team will ever ask for your recovery phrase, for any reason.

Buy only through [chainspin.com](https://chainspin.com) or [dashboard.chainspin.com](https://dashboard.chainspin.com/register), and verify any contract address against the one on this page. Every official channel we run is listed on the [Links](/links.md) page. If it did not come from there, treat it as fake.
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## If Something Goes Wrong

If a payment does not show up in your dashboard, or a purchase fails partway, contact <presale@chainspin.com> with the transaction hash or payment reference. For anything else, <support@chainspin.com> or the [Help Center](https://chainspin.com/help-center).