How It Works

Four steps, from quote to settled swap.

1. Compare

Cloak routes your quote through the Uniswap Trading API, which finds the best price for your pair across Uniswap v2, v3, and v4 pools on Robinhood Chain — in either direction (ETH → token or token → ETH), including tokens you paste in by contract address.

2. Shield

Robinhood Chain's sequencer orders trades by arrival time, not gas price — so being first matters more than being willing to pay more. Cloak submits your transaction through low-latency infrastructure built to reach the sequencer ahead of bots watching the public sequencer feed, so it lands before they have time to react.

3. Review

Before you sign, you see:

The quoted price, rate, and expected output
Slippage tolerance — automatic by default, or set your own
The protection fee that will apply — currently always 0%, since Shield hasn't shipped yet (see Fee Policy)

4. Sign

If you're swapping from a token other than ETH, your wallet may first ask you to approve it for spending — a one-time step per token. Then you sign the swap itself, same as any on-chain swap. Cloak does not custody funds — your wallet submits every transaction, and it executes through Uniswap's own Universal Router.

Protected relay availability can vary by network conditions once Shield ships. If the protected path isn't available for a trade, Cloak falls back to standard routing and does not charge the protection fee for that swap.