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About Orca (ORCA)

Orca runs Solana’s concentrated-liquidity pools, which is where the tightest spreads on blue-chip pairs tend to sit. ORCA is its governance token and trades on Photon like any other SPL asset.

Trading Orca on Photon

Paste the ORCA mint into Photon's search and the terminal opens the token with a chart, the pool it routes through and a buy panel already primed with your preset. Photon takes a flat 1% of the transaction on the buy and again on the sell, the same rate whether you trade once or a thousand times. Everything else you pay goes to the network: the Solana base fee, the priority fee that decides your place in the block, and an optional Jito tip. Limit and DCA orders work on ORCA the same as on anything else Photon lists, so you do not have to sit at the screen to get an entry.

How is buying ORCA on Photon different from a centralized exchange?

Buying ORCA on a centralized exchange means the exchange holds the token and shows you a balance, and you get it out by passing a withdrawal check. Buying it on Photon means the swap happens on a Solana DEX pool and the token lands in a wallet whose private key only you hold, seconds later and with no account to approve it. The trade-off runs both ways. A centralized order book gives you a single price and a fee often measured in basis points, while Photon charges a flat 1% and your real cost also includes slippage against pool depth plus whatever priority fee you set to get included. In exchange you are not asking anyone for permission, you can trade ORCA at any hour, and nothing sits between you and the token except the network itself.

What should you check before buying ORCA?

The number that decides your fill is pool liquidity, not the headline price. ORCA quotes here come from the pool shown in the specs table below, and a buy large relative to that pool moves the price against you before it fills, which is slippage rather than a fee. Photon's 1% is charged on both the buy and the sell, so a round trip costs 2% before the market has moved at all. On top of that you pay the Solana base fee and whatever priority fee or Jito tip you set, which is what actually decides whether your transaction lands in a busy block. Set slippage tolerance deliberately: too tight and the trade fails and you pay the network fee anyway, too loose and a sandwich bot has room to work. Check the FDV against the circulating market cap too, since a wide gap means tokens are still unlocking into the same pool you are buying from.

How to Buy Orca on Photon in 4 Steps

1. 1Open Photon and save your key. Go to photon-sol.tinyastro.io, connect or let Photon generate a wallet, and write down the private key it shows you once. See getting started.
2. 2Fund it with SOL. Send SOL to the wallet address. It is both what you buy ORCA with and what pays network and priority fees, so leave a little spare.
3. 3Search the ORCA mint. Paste orcaEK…kektZE rather than the ticker. Tickers are not unique on Solana; mint addresses are.
4. 4Set slippage, then buy. Pick a preset (S1/S2/S3), check the slippage tolerance and priority fee against how deep the pool is, and send it. Photon takes 1% on the way in and 1% on the way out.

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