Two ways in. One address that matters.
You can buy LANDING on a centralised exchange or swap for it from your own wallet. The routes behave differently and the wrong one costs you money, so here is the comparison before the buttons.
Which route is yours.
Neither one is better. They are better at different things, and which fits depends on what you already have.
| Poloniex | Jupiter / Orca | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A centralised exchange | On-chain swap from your own wallet |
| You need | An account and a deposit | A Solana wallet and some SOL |
| Holds your keys | The exchange does | You do |
| Pair | LANDING / USDT | LANDING / SOL |
| Wrong-token risk | Low. The listing is the listing. | Real. Anyone can make a lookalike token. |
| Best for | First purchase, no wallet yet | Anyone already on Solana |
The only mint that is LANDING.
On a decentralised exchange the token you receive is whatever address you pasted. Nothing stops someone deploying a token called LANDING with our logo on it.
Paste the address into the swap yourself rather than picking LANDING from a search result. A search list is populated by whoever registered a name first, and that is not a security check.
What thin liquidity actually feels like.
A small pool means your own order moves the price. Buying more does not get you a better average, it gets you a worse one.
An exchange price and a pool price drift apart constantly. Neither is the real one. They are two different markets.
Liquidity is not locked. The pool you looked at this morning is not guaranteed to be the same size tonight.
Pick a route, read it properly.
Both walkthroughs are written for someone who has not done this before, and both end with the same verification step.