How to get $STARFISH

First, the honest part: you don't need any of this. The Tide works completely without it. This page is only here for people who want to hold some.

$STARFISH has not launched, so there is nothing to buy yet. Any token calling itself $STARFISH today is not ours. Fake tokens copy our name, our starfish and our story — please don't buy one. The official contract address will be published here and on the Transparency page the day it exists, and that address is the only thing that can't be faked.

Step 1

Download a wallet app

MetaMask is free and works with Base. A wallet is just a place to hold digital things you own.

Step 2

Create your wallet

Follow the setup. It takes about two minutes.

Step 3

Write down your recovery phrase

On paper. Not in your photos, not in a note, not in an email to yourself.

Step 4

Never share that phrase

Nobody legitimate will ever ask for it. Not us. Not support. Not ever.

Step 5

Add some ETH on Base

Your wallet app shows you the supported ways to buy ETH in your country. Make sure it arrives on the Base network.

Step 6

Come back to The Tide

Open this page again when your ETH has arrived.

Step 7

Open the official $STARFISH swap

Use the button on this page and nothing else.

Step 8

Check the contract address

Compare it to the official one, character by character.

Step 9

Make your first swap

Start small. There's no prize for hurrying.

Words you might see, in plain English

Wallet —: an app that holds what you own.
ETH —: the currency used on Base, for buying and for tiny network fees.
Swap —: trading one digital thing for another.
Recovery phrase —: the words that get your wallet back. Guard them like house keys.

There is nothing to swap yet.

When $STARFISH launches we will publish the official address and the official place to trade it, right here. Until then, please don't buy anything using this name.

You never need $STARFISH to take part in The Tide.

Show the advanced explanation

$STARFISH trades against ETH in a Uniswap pool on the Base network. Large orders relative to pool depth move the price, and the difference between the quoted and executed price is slippage; your wallet lets you cap it. Routing may split an order across pools, and Uniswap may add a small fee of its own on top. A new token can show as unverified in some apps at first — check the official address. You can also buy through the Coinbase app, except in New York. None of this affects using The Tide.

Or skip all of it and go do something kind. That's the actual point.