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 |
|---|---|
| DASH dash | 0.00080053 Bitcoin |
| NEAR near | 0.00080086 Bitcoin |
| DOGE dogecoin | 0.00080464 Bitcoin |
| LTC litecoin | 0.00080472 Bitcoin |
| ETH ethereum | 0.001242633 Bitcoin |
| ETH arbitrum | 0.001242633 Bitcoin |
| ETH optimism | 0.001242633 Bitcoin |
| SOL solana | 0.001242633 Bitcoin |
| TRX tron | 0.001242633 Bitcoin |
| USDC arbitrum | 0.001242633 Bitcoin |
| USDC bsc | 0.001242633 Bitcoin |
| USDC ethereum | 0.001242633 Bitcoin |
| USDC optimism | 0.001242633 Bitcoin |
| USDC polygon | 0.001242633 Bitcoin |
| USDC solana | 0.001242633 Bitcoin |
| USDT arbitrum | 0.001242633 Bitcoin |
| USDT bsc | 0.001242633 Bitcoin |
| USDT ethereum | 0.001242633 Bitcoin |
| USDT optimism | 0.001242633 Bitcoin |
| USDT polygon | 0.001242633 Bitcoin |
| USDT solana | 0.001242633 Bitcoin |
| USDT tron | 0.001242633 Bitcoin |
| XMR monero | 0.001242633 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.