# Exchange

SideSwap is an Automated Market Maker (AMM), and the Exchange is at the heart of SideSwap. SideSwap is the leading AMM on the Opside.

The SideSwap Exchange offers several features that support decentralized trading:

### Swapping/Trading

SideSwap lets users trade without the need to go through a Centralized Exchange. Everything you do on SideSwap is routed directly through your own wallet—no need to trust someone else with your coins!

### Liquidity Pools

You can only swap tokens on SideSwap if there is enough liquidity for those tokens. If nobody has added much liquidity for the token or tokens you want to swap, it will be difficult, expensive, or impossible to do so.

Providing liquidity will earn you rewards in the form of trading fees for making sure there's always liquidity for the exchange to use.
