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confusing workflow for trading newish coins with already-existing markets

Open keone opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

I'm trying to trade a newish coin, SUNNY (mint=SUNNYWgPQmFxe9wTZzNK7iPnJ3vYDrkgnxJRJm1s3ag).

I can see it's trading quite a bit of volume, e.g. it appears on the top lists of https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/serum-dex/ and https://serumpulse.com/main/home

I can even do trades using symmetry.fi's swap interface (which says it just routes to Serum) so I know there's a market for it!

However, it doesn't show up in the market dropdown (the one that defaults to SOL/USDC). Nor is it searchable (either as SUNNY or as the mint address) in the search to the left of the environment selector.

If I try to "add market" it seems like I can do that, but it will charge me ~2 SOL to create the market (which I don't want to do, the market already exists).

keone avatar Sep 07 '21 00:09 keone

You must be hitting the wrong 'add market' button, you're not creating a market. You don't want the token mint, you want the existing market ID. That doesn't cost anything to add to the plus sign next to the drop down list.

dahifi avatar Sep 12 '21 01:09 dahifi

I agree that if I click the + button to the left of the dropdown it prompts me for a market id... but is there a way to look up the SUNNY/USDC market id?

I mean this is a UX ticket... pretend you are an average user, go to https://dex.projectserum.com/ and try to trade SUNNY/USDC... how do you do it?

keone avatar Sep 12 '21 05:09 keone