# How To Buy $GEAR - The Native Token Of Meteor

## **What is $GEAR?**

$GEAR is the currency of the Tinkers.

### **What supports the value of $GEAR?**

50% of the Tinker secondary sales will be used to support the value of $GEAR.

A percentage of the revenue generated from Meteor Wallet will be used towards buying/burning $GEAR

Use-cases for $GEAR such as raffles increase the demand/value of it. And more coming!

### **How To Get $GEAR**

There are three ways you can get $GEAR: buying, swapping in Meteor or earning from staking your NTU NFTs.

1️. Buy/Sell $GEAR at <https://app.perk.money/>

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️2. Swap in-wallet at <https://wallet.meteorwallet.app/wallet/swap>

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See detailed instructions below.

3\. Stake your Tinker and earn $GEAR at <https://tinkerunion.com/stake/>

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The amount of $GEAR you will earn depends on the rarity of your Tinker NFT.

For $GEAR emission rate, you can refer to this [link](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/4/d/1FFV7no3o2y5ZRFCS4mzwTAk5zR6aioZZ7-PMDY5Wfqg/edit?usp=sharing).

### **Rarity**

Understand that the rank of your Tinker will effect how much $GEAR token it will earn from staking.

The difference between Rank 1 & Rank 3333 will be 5x.

For exact emission references, go to this google sheet <https://bit.ly/3M67WvF>

### **How To Swap for $GEAR in Meteor**

Head over to the swap section of the wallet.

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Select the token and how much you want to swap to $GEAR for.

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You'll see how much $GEAR you will receive, along with price impact.

At Meteor we do not charge any swap fees.

Please note there will be only be one available swap route, $GEAR is only available at Ref Finance currently.

Proceed to Review Swap if all looks good.

You'll be presented with a screen that summarises the swap.

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You can confirm swap and you'll see a swap successful screen. Congratulations! You're now the proud owner of $GEAR.

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