How to Swap APENFT on SunSwap, Step by Step

APENFT Asia editorial team · Fact-checked against official sources

What is SunSwap?

SunSwap is a decentralized exchange (DEX) on the TRON network. Instead of an order book, it uses liquidity pools: pairs of tokens deposited by liquidity providers, with prices set by a formula based on the ratio of the two tokens in the pool. When you swap, you trade against the pool, not against another person.

For APENFT holders, SunSwap matters because it is the most direct on-chain route to swap APENFT without opening an exchange account. CoinGecko lists SunSwap V2 among the active markets for NFT, with pools against USDT and against WTRX (wrapped TRX). It sits in the same DeFi stack as SUN.io and alongside JustLend; our TRON ecosystem overview shows how they relate.

Type

Automated market maker DEX

Network

TRON

NFT pools tracked by CoinGecko

NFT/USDT, NFT/WTRX (SunSwap V2)

Wallet needed

Any TRON wallet that connects to dApps, e.g. TronLink

Account or KYC

None, you trade from your own wallet

Fees

Pool trading fee plus TRON Energy and Bandwidth

The NFT token rebranded to AINFT in October 2025. The ticker stays NFT and the contract did not change, so you may see either name in token lists. Our AINFT rebrand explainer covers the details.

Before you start: what you need

You need three things before your first swap.

• A TRON wallet that connects to dApps. TronLink is the official TRON wallet and works both as a browser extension and in its mobile app’s dApp browser. Our TronLink setup guide shows installation and backup.
• TRX. It is both the asset you swap from and the fuel for fees. If you have none, buy it on a regulated, licensed exchange and withdraw it to your wallet on the TRON network. The how to buy APENFT guide compares that route with buying NFT directly.
• A fee buffer. Leave at least several TRX unspent after the swap so you can still move or sell your tokens later.

How to swap TRX for APENFT on SunSwap

Here is the full flow for buying NFT with TRX. Swapping from USDT works the same way, with one extra approval step for USDT.

To sell, reverse the pair: NFT in, TRX or USDT out. The difference is an approval step before the first sale, explained further down.

Slippage and price impact, explained simply

These two numbers protect you from bad fills, and they are often confused.

Price impact is how much your own trade moves the pool price. In an AMM, buying NFT removes NFT from the pool and adds TRX, so each additional unit gets slightly more expensive. Large trades in small pools have high price impact.

Slippage tolerance is the maximum extra price movement you accept between the moment you click and the moment the transaction executes. If the price moves more than that, the transaction fails instead of filling at a worse rate.

We do not publish pool depth here because it changes constantly. Check the pool’s liquidity on SunSwap itself, or compare the SunSwap quote with prices on CoinGecko and our live APENFT price page. If the DEX quote is far off the market price, the pool is probably thin.

Approvals: why selling NFT needs an extra step

TRX is TRON’s native coin, so swapping from TRX normally does not need an approval. NFT and USDT are TRC-20 tokens. Before the SunSwap router contract can move them out of your wallet, you must sign an approval, which is a separate on-chain transaction that consumes Energy.

Many interfaces default to an unlimited approval so that you do not need to approve again. That is convenient, but it means the approved contract can move all of that token from your wallet at any time in the future. With a legitimate DEX that is normally fine; with a fake site it is how wallets get drained.

SunSwap fees and Energy costs

A swap on SunSwap has two cost layers.

• The pool fee. A percentage of your trade goes to liquidity providers. The interface shows it before you confirm; we do not quote a fixed figure because it depends on the pool version and can change.
• TRON resources. The swap is a smart-contract call, so it uses Energy and Bandwidth. If you have not staked TRX, the network burns TRX to cover them at 100 sun per Energy unit at the time of writing.

How much Energy does a swap need? We have not measured SunSwap swaps directly, so we will not invent a number. What we can say is that a swap is a heavier operation than a plain NFT transfer, which measured about 14,309 Energy to an existing holder and about 29,309 Energy to a first-time holder. Your wallet shows the estimate before you sign; use that figure.

To compare burning TRX with staking for Energy, open our TRON energy calculator and enter the Energy figure your wallet shows. If you swap regularly, staking can bring the cost of each swap down significantly; the TRON staking guide explains how Stake 2.0 works and how much TRX covers a daily transaction.

Liquidity, and what SunSwap is not

SunSwap also lets you become a liquidity provider: deposit NFT and USDT, or NFT and TRX, in equal value and earn a share of pool fees. That is a different activity from swapping and comes with its own risk, called impermanent loss. If the price of NFT moves sharply against the other token, your share of the pool can be worth less than if you had simply held both tokens.

Old APENFT mining campaigns that paid extra rewards on SunSwap, JustLend and SUN.io have ended, according to the AINFT white paper. Any yield today comes from trading fees alone and is variable. For a fuller comparison of ways to earn on NFT, see our APENFT staking options.

How to sell APENFT on SunSwap

Selling follows the same screen in reverse, with one extra transaction the first time.

1. Connect your wallet and set NFT as the token you pay with, again checking the contract address.
2. Choose USDT or TRX as the token you receive. USDT is useful if you plan to cash out through an exchange later; TRX is useful if you want to keep using TRON apps.
3. Enter the amount. If the interface shows an “Approve NFT” button, sign that first and wait for it to confirm.
4. Review price impact, slippage and the minimum received, then confirm the swap itself.

If you intend to move the proceeds to an exchange, check which network the exchange accepts for deposits and send a small test first. Our how to sell APENFT guide walks through cash-out routes and withdrawal networks.

Reading your swap on Tronscan

Every swap leaves a public record, and reading it takes a minute. Open the transaction hash from your wallet on Tronscan and look at three things.

• Status. “Success” means the swap executed. A failed or reverted status means it did not, even if TRX was burned for Energy.
• Token transfers. You should see TRX or USDT leaving your address and NFT arriving from the pool contract. If the incoming token’s contract is not TFczxz…cPNq, you received something else.
• Resources consumed. Tronscan lists the Energy and Bandwidth used and how much TRX was burned. That is your real swap cost, and it is the number to feed into the calculator if you are weighing staking.

Saving the hash of each swap is also good record keeping. Many tax authorities treat token swaps as disposals, and an on-chain record with time, amounts and fees is the easiest evidence you can keep.

Common mistakes and how to avoid them

If something does go wrong, a failed swap on TRON can still burn Energy, because the network charges for computation even when a transaction reverts. That is one more reason to start with small test amounts.

SunSwap versus other ways to get NFT

SunSwap is not the only route. Many exchanges list NFT against USDT, and some list it against TRX. The trade-off is roughly this: an exchange is easier for beginners and lets you pay by card, while SunSwap keeps everything in your own wallet and skips the account. If you plan to hold NFT long term in self-custody anyway, buying TRX on an exchange and then swapping on SunSwap avoids one withdrawal of a low-priced token. Once you hold NFT on chain, you can also put it to work on JustLend’s jNFT market, keeping in mind that supply rates there are variable and have been very low.