First, you need to decide on which of the supported blockchains you want to use Curve Finance, and you will then need to send a sufficient amount of digital assets to your MetaMask. We chose the Avalanche blockchain for our analysis.

You can send your first assets from a centralized exchange (CEX) such as Binance. On the Avalanche blockchain, fees are paid in $AVAX, so the easiest way is to send enough $AVAX from Binance via the AVAX C-Chain network to your MetaMask address. The moment the $AVAX arrives at your MetaMask, new options will open up in DeFi on Curve Finance.

If you don't know how to get your digital assets on MetaMask, add networks, or bridge between blockchains, check out our DeFi guide where you can learn everything step by step.

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• Ethereum $CRV contract address: 0xD533a949740bb3306d119CC777fa900bA034cd52
• Arbitrum $CRV contract address: 0x11cDb42B0EB46D95f990BeDD4695A6e3fA034978
• Avalanche $CRV contract address: 0x47536F17F4fF30e64A96a7555826b8f9e66ec468
• Celo $CRV contract address: 0x0a7432cF27F1aE3825c313F3C81e7D3efD7639aB
• Fantom $CRV contract address: 0x1E4F97b9f9F913c46F1632781732927B9019C68b
• Gnosis $CRV contract address: 0x712b3d230F3C1c19db860d80619288b1F0BDd0Bd
• Optimism $CRV contract address: 0x0994206dfE8De6Ec6920FF4D779B0d950605Fb53
• Polygon $CRV contract address: 0x172370d5Cd63279eFa6d502DAB29171933a610AF

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To search for transactions, token addresses and other necessary information, use the explorers of your chosen blockchain:

• ‍Ethereum
• ‍Arbitrum
• ‍Aurora
• ‍Avalanche‍
• Celo‍
• Fantom‍
• Kava‍
• Gnosis‍
• Moonbeam‍
• Optimism‍
• Polygon

Swap: here, you swap assets with each other as you need, whether it is for trading purposes or to compose an LP

Pools: in pools, you can provide liquidity, for which you will receive rewards from fees set by the protocol for executed merchant swaps

Dashboard: an overview of your active investments on Curve Finance

Governance: the place for $CRV holders collectively discuss, propose and vote on updates and the future direction of Curve Finance

Blockchain selection: this enables you to switch between the blockchains through which you can use the platform

Connect wallet: this is where you connect your supported wallet, choosing from the ones mentioned above

Before we create an LP, we need to know what cryptocurrencies we want to provide liquidity for, as well as considering the opportunities and risks associated with providing liquidity. We have written more about opportunities and risks in the article, Curve Finance - Opportunities & Risks. Liquidity pools on Curve Finance consist of 2 to 5 different cryptocurrencies.

We will then be able to swap the cryptocurrencies we need to compose an LP in the "SWAP" interface of the platform.  We have chosen the USDC coin pool on the Avalanche blockchain, so we will swap half of the $USDC.e to $USDC. If you are going to swap for the first time, you will need to click on "Approve Spending," then execute the transaction by clicking on "Swap" as shown in the screenshot. We also need to confirm both of these actions in our MetaMask wallet.

Once we have prepared the cryptocurrencies for the composition of a specific LP, we will go to the "POOLS" section of the platform, where we will select the specific LP, for which we want to provide liquidity, from the list. We will earn passive income for doing this, which comes from the fees paid by people trading the pair for which we are providing liquidity. We have chosen the $USDC pool on the Avalanche blockchain and we create the LP by entering the amount of cryptocurrencies we want to provide. As with the swap, we need to click on "Approve Spending," then execute the transaction by clicking on "Deposit" as shown in the image below. We also need to confirm both of these actions in our MetaMask wallet.

At this point, we can select "DASHBOARD" in the menu, and we can then see our current LP positions and their detailed information.

We can then stake our LPs to get extra rewards. You will only get extra rewards if the liquidity pool also offers tAPR. Our $USDC pool doesn't offer them, so we won't get any extra rewards for staking, but we can at least show you how to do it, as the process is the same for all liquidity pools.

In "POOLS," select the appropriate liquidity pool from the list, then click on stake. As with the previous steps, we then select the amount of LP tokens we want to stake (preferably all of them), then we need to click on "Approve Spending" and execute the transaction by clicking on "Stake" as shown in the image below. Again, we will need to confirm both of these actions in our MetaMask wallet.

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