USDC on Arbitrum: swap limits and where it goes
Arbitrum gives you Ethereum-style addresses at a fraction of the sending cost, which is the reason to keep a balance here. The catch is acceptance rather than cost: not every destination that takes USDC takes it on this network, and a cheap transfer to a place that cannot use it is not a saving.
- Assets
- USDC (Arbitrum)
- Network
- Arbitrum
- The wait before a swap starts
- 1 confirmations
- Cheapest way in
- $100.00
Where USDC (Arbitrum) 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 |
|---|---|
| NEAR near | 63.9858164 USDC (Arbitrum) |
| DASH dash | 65.66939609 USDC (Arbitrum) |
| DOGE dogecoin | 65.66939609 USDC (Arbitrum) |
| LTC litecoin | 65.66939609 USDC (Arbitrum) |
| BTC bitcoin | 99.890121 USDC (Arbitrum) |
| ETH arbitrum | 99.890121 USDC (Arbitrum) |
| USDT arbitrum | 99.890121 USDC (Arbitrum) |
| USDT bsc | 99.890121 USDC (Arbitrum) |
| ETH ethereum | 99.9001 USDC (Arbitrum) |
| ETH optimism | 99.9001 USDC (Arbitrum) |
| SOL solana | 99.9001 USDC (Arbitrum) |
| USDT optimism | 99.9001 USDC (Arbitrum) |
| USDT polygon | 99.9001 USDC (Arbitrum) |
| USDT solana | 99.9001 USDC (Arbitrum) |
| USDT tron | 99.9001 USDC (Arbitrum) |
| XMR monero | 99.9001 USDC (Arbitrum) |
Same address, several networks
An Arbitrum address is shaped exactly like an Ethereum one, and like Optimism, Polygon, BNB Chain and Avalanche. A wallet will happily send on whichever of them it currently has selected, and the transfer will succeed. Reading the network beside the address is the only check that catches this.
Check the floor before assuming the network is the cheap one
The cost of a transfer and the minimum a swap will accept are two different numbers set by two different things. A network can be cheap to send on and still carry a high floor into a particular destination, which is why the table above is worth reading rather than assuming.