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Ultimate Guide to PancakeSwap

January 13, 2024 by Mc_OWOBLOW Leave a Comment

Ultimate Guide to PancakeSwap

Table of Interests

  • Ultimate Guide to PancakeSwap
    • Introduction
    • What is PancakeSwap?
      • The exchange
      • Farming and staking
    • Using PancakeSwap
      • Adding liquidity
      • Farming
      • Staking
      • Upcoming features
    • Is PancakeSwap safe?
    • Closing thoughts

Guide to PancakeSwap

Looking for how to use pancake swap?, then “Ultimate Guide to PancakeSwap” is for you.

Another food-themed DeFi protocol? You know it. PancakeSwap is a Binance Smart Chain-based DEX launched by anonymous devs with a penchant for breakfast foods and rabbits.

It looks a bit like Ethereum’s SushiSwap (community governance, the ability to farm liquidity provider tokens), but also incorporates some kind of staking mechanism.

Introduction

The food-based farming craze has captivated participants in the crypto space for months. In the latest wave of DeFi protocols, we’ve seen numerous platforms emerge that allow users to stake their funds in return for the protocol’s tokens.

The bulk of this activity has been concentrated on the Ethereum blockchain. As one of the earliest blockchains supporting smart contracts, it has a sprawling community of users, developers, and tools for building powerful decentralized applications.

In this article, we’ll take a look at PancakeSwap – a newly-launched decentralized exchange built on Binance Smart Chain.

What is PancakeSwap?

PancakeSwap is a decentralized exchange for swapping BEP20 tokens. Familiar with SushiSwap? Then you’ll have no issue grasping PancakeSwap. Both are incredibly similar in design.

The exchange

PancakeSwap uses an automated market maker (AMM) model. That means that while you can trade digital assets on the platform, there isn’t an order book where you’re matched with someone else. Instead, you trade against a liquidity pool.

Those pools are filled with other users’ funds. They deposit them into the pool, receiving liquidity provider (or LP) tokens in return. They can use those tokens to reclaim their share, plus a portion of the trading fees.

In line with the pancake aesthetic, the LP tokens are called FLIP tokens. You’ll find these in several flavors – if you added, say, BUSD and BNB to the pool, you’d receive BNB-USDT FLIP tokens in return. BAND and BNB? You’d get BAND-BNB FLIP tokens.

Farming and staking

But wait, there’s more! PancakeSwap also allows you to farm a secondary token – CAKE.

Yum.

On the farm, you can deposit your LP tokens, locking them up in a process that rewards you with CAKE. So far, there appear to be twelve different kinds of tokens you can deposit:

  • CAKE-BNB FLIP
  • BUSD-BNB FLIP
  • ADA-BNB FLIP
  • BAND-BNB FLIP
  • DOT-BNB FLIP
  • EOS-BNB FLIP
  • LINK-BNB FLIP
  • BAKE-BNB Bakery LP
  • BURGER-BNB FLIP

Now, you’re probably thinking this protocol doesn’t have enough tokens. Good news! There’s one more – the SYRUP token.

So you’ve deposited some funds to receive LP tokens, and you’ve used them to farm CAKE. From there, you can stake your CAKE tokens to receive SYRUP, which will have further functionality as governance tokens (and as tickets in an upcoming lottery mechanism).

According to the site, newly-minted CAKE is issued in the following manner:

  • 75% is allocated to token farmers

  • 25% is allocated to SYRUP holders

Using PancakeSwap

You’ll notice, if you visit pancakeswap.finance, that many features are inaccessible until you Unlock Wallet. Click on a button prompting you to do so, and you’ll be met with two options: MetaMask, and WalletConnect. But wait, we hear you say, isn’t MetaMask an Ethereum wallet?

Yes it is, but the architecture of Binance Smart Chain is such that you can use MetaMask to interact with BSC-based DApps. If you choose to use MetaMask, we suggest you check out the How to Use MetaMask guide, then follow the steps in the Binance Chain Docs to hook it up with Binance Smart Chain.

Once you’ve got that set up, you can unlock your wallet to reveal additional information.

 

Different LP tokens promise different returns.

Adding liquidity

Again, if you’ve used SushiSwap previously, then you know the drill. To farm CAKE, you need to first add liquidity to the exchange.

 

Simply hit Add Liquidity, then select the pair you want to deposit.

Farming

Okay, so you’ve got your FLIP tokens. Navigate back to the Farm display, and select the option that matches your LP tokens.

 

When we click Approve BUSD-BNB FLIP, a MetaMask popup will ask us to confirm the transaction, and display a fee.

Once that transaction confirms, simply select the amount you want to stake and confirm it. You can navigate away from the page and come back at any time to check how much CAKE you’ve earned – if you want to harvest it at any point, click on Harvest and confirm the transaction.

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Staking

Once you’ve got your CAKE, you can stake that to earn SYRUP. Hit Staking at the top of the page, and you’ll be presented with the display below.

 

We have no idea what firemen have to do with pancakes, either.

Once again, you need to approve the withdrawal of your tokens. Hit Approve Cake to do so.

When that has been approved, you’ll need to select the amount of CAKE you want to stake.

Now that the CAKE has been staked, you’ll now have an equal amount of SYRUP and will now be earning CAKE passively.

Upcoming features

The PancakeSwap webpage teases at two new features coming to the protocol – Staking and Lottery. The details of these have not been released, but from the looks of the documentation, the Lottery will utilize the SYRUP tokens received from staking CAKE.

This section will be updated as more information becomes available.

Is PancakeSwap safe?

 PancakeSwap has been audited. Depositing funds into a smart contract always carries the risk of bugs, even for audited and highly reputable projects. Never deposit more than you can afford to lose.

Closing thoughts

The developers of PancakeSwap cite high fees and slower speeds of the Ethereum blockchain as a driving factor in building on Binance Smart Chain. Ethereum may have kick-started the DeFi trend, but initiatives like PancakeSwap suggest that the wave of innovation is destined to spread to other chains. The PancakeSwap contract has not yet been audited

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