# Overview
## Introduction
Solarflare is a decentralized exchange, providing liquidity and enabling peer-to-peer transactions on the Moonbeam Network.
The goal is to provide a comprehensive and convenient, one-stop platform for the cryptocurrency community.
## What Does This Mean?
Solarflare allows users to trade directly from their wallets, rather than trading through a third party – tokens never leaving your custody means it is 100% owned by **you**.
Lower trading fees make Solarflare an attractive platform to trade with.
Higher liquidity also helps provide a broad range of support to various facets of the crypto community, and to continuously adapt to the market by continuing to provide value to both token holders and the community.
## Why Solarflare?
### Peer-to-Peer transactions
Trade directly from wallet to wallet, without any third party account or releasing custody of your tokens.
### Earn $FLARE with Yield Farming and Staking $GLMR
Stake your tokens in our single asset pools, or paired in our liquidity pools to earn more $FLARE.
### Earn Trading Fees via Liquidity Pools
Provide liquidity to earn part of the protocol's trading fees.
## Why Moonbeam?
Moonbeam is an EVM compatible network on the Polkadot ecosystem.
In addition to basic EVM compatibility, Moonbeam also extends it further:
> ### Unified Accounts, Addresses, and Signatures
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> Use your existing Ethereum-like H160 accounts & ECDSA signatures to interact with Moonbeam.
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> ### Use Existing Tools and DApp Front-Ends
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> Connect popular tools like MetaMask, Hardhat, Waffle, Remix, and Truffle via a complete set of Web3 RPC endpoints. Use well-known JavaScript libraries, such as Web3.Js or Ethers.Js.
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> ### Deploy with Minimal Changes
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> If you have an existing contract, it will work right away with no need to rewrite or reconfigure.
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> ### Use Familiar Programming Languages
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> Write smart contracts in Solidity or anything that compiles to Solidity bytecode.
Please [click here](https://moonbeam.network/networks/moonriver/) for more information.
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