Bitcoin: swap limits, timing and where it goes
Bitcoin is the slowest common asset to move and one of the more expensive to move in small amounts, and both of those are properties of the network rather than of any service on top of it. That is why the floor to swap out of BTC sits higher than for most assets here, and why the wait before a swap starts is measured in confirmations rather than in minutes of our time.
- Assets
- Bitcoin
- Network
- Bitcoin
- The wait before a swap starts
- 3 confirmations~30 min
- Cheapest way in
- $99.91
Where Bitcoin goes, and from how little
The minimum for each destination, in the unit you are sending. Read live, because it moves with the price and a figure written down goes stale quickly.
| Destination | Minimum |
|---|---|
| LTC litecoin | 0.00077079 Bitcoin |
| NEAR near | 0.00077218 Bitcoin |
| DASH dash | 0.00077694 Bitcoin |
| DOGE dogecoin | 0.00077694 Bitcoin |
| ETH ethereum | 0.0012432349 Bitcoin |
| ETH arbitrum | 0.0012432349 Bitcoin |
| ETH optimism | 0.0012432349 Bitcoin |
| SOL solana | 0.0012432349 Bitcoin |
| TRX tron | 0.0012432349 Bitcoin |
| USDC arbitrum | 0.0012432349 Bitcoin |
| USDC bsc | 0.0012432349 Bitcoin |
| USDC ethereum | 0.0012432349 Bitcoin |
| USDC optimism | 0.0012432349 Bitcoin |
| USDC polygon | 0.0012432349 Bitcoin |
| USDC solana | 0.0012432349 Bitcoin |
| USDT arbitrum | 0.0012432349 Bitcoin |
| USDT bsc | 0.0012432349 Bitcoin |
| USDT ethereum | 0.0012432349 Bitcoin |
| USDT optimism | 0.0012432349 Bitcoin |
| USDT polygon | 0.0012432349 Bitcoin |
| USDT solana | 0.0012432349 Bitcoin |
| USDT tron | 0.0012432349 Bitcoin |
| XMR monero | 0.0012432349 Bitcoin |
The fee you pay is not the fee we set
The cost of sending BTC is chosen by your wallet from the current state of the mempool, not by the receiver. Underpaying it is the usual reason a deposit arrives after an order window has closed, which stops the order rather than executing it at a price you never saw.
One network, no wrong-chain risk
Unlike the stablecoins, BTC on Bitcoin has no siblings on other chains to confuse it with. Wrapped versions elsewhere are different assets with different names, so the mistake that dominates support cases for USDT barely exists here.