<aside> ☝🏼 Let’s fund your relay wallet with some USDT. This is a recommended but optional step for those of us wanting to have a “balanced” starting balance of both USDT and WETH.

If you already have WETH on the Polygon blockchain, there’s no need to proceed further.

Feel free to skim through this guide to upgrade your blockchain knowledge at your leisure.

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USDT (also known as “Tether” or “Tether USD”) is the stable component of our WETH-USDT trading pair. Contrast this with WETH (wrapped Ether), which is the volatile component of our WETH-USDT pair.

USDT is a stablecoin currency that is:

• pegged to the USD (reference: How Tether works)
• the largest stablecoin by market capitalization and trading volume (reference: Coingecko)
• is compatible within the smart contract world (for Polygon, the specific technical definition is “ERC20-compatible”)
• can be traded easily on most centralized exchanges, which can be redeemed to USD to your fiat bank account

Specific to Sidestepr, we want USDT that is on the Polygon (MATIC) blockchain.

Thankfully, Binance makes this super easy. 😊

Let’s summarize the high level steps needed:

1. Get USDT on Binance
2. Withdraw USDT from Binance to your Relay Wallet on the Polygon blockchain directly
3. … There is no step 3 😄