> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Buy, sell, hold

> Hold assets across multiple chain types with accounts supporting EVM, SVM, and Spark wallets

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**Accounts enable users to buy, sell, and hold any asset across any chain type, with streamlined management of balances across chains.**

### Why use accounts?

Accounts can be configured to include wallets of multiple chain types (EVM, SVM, Spark, etc.) to access assets across these chain types. As a result, accounts bypass inherent restrictions when operating with wallets alone:

* No single wallet can hold both ETH and SOL
* Custodial wallets typically cannot hold non-stable assets
* No single wallet can hold both custodial and non-custodial funds

By aggregating multiple wallet types, **a single account can simultaneously hold ETH, SOL, BTC, HYPE, USDC**, and any other token on any chain that accounts support.

Funds can be orchestrated between the constituent wallets of the account to present the account as a **single, chain-abstracted unit of balance** to the end customer.

A common setup is to configure the account to:

* Hold balances at rest as a stablecoin in a wallet of one chain type
* Execute just-in-time transfers via bridges to wallets of other chain types to access exposure to assets on those chains

Accounts can also hold wrapper tokens, like wBTC, to get cross-chain exposure to assets like EVM.

Get started with trading with accounts below:

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  Trade on onchain exchanges like Uniswap.
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