How to bridge from Avalanche?
Everything you need to know about bridging from Avalanche
The native chain “gas” token on Avalanche is AVAX. All transactions on Avalanche are paid in AVAX. This includes bridging “cross-chain” transactions to the other chains “networks”.
How to Bridge “native” USDC stable coins from Avalanche to other chains?
When you bridge native USDC from Avalanche to another chain you will get the native USDC on the destination chain. You can verify the contracts on the other chains. Currently the following bridges are supported for bridging native USDC:
- Avalanche to Polygon Bridge
- Avalanche to Ethereum Bridge
- Avalanche to Binance Smart Chain bridge (BSC)
What is Avalanche?
Avalanche is the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, as measured by time-to-finality, and has the most validators securing its activity of any proof-of-stake protocol.
How to configure MetaMask for Avalanche?
You have 2 options to configure MetaMask for using the Avalanche chain “network”:
- Automatic by selecting the Avalanche chain in the RelayChain bridge app. This will import the network settings into metamask.
- Manually by adding the following Avalanche network settings to Metamask:
Network Name: Avalanche Network
New RPC URL: https://api.avax.network/ext/bc/C/rpc
Chain ID: 43114
Currency Symbol: AVAX
Block Explorer URL: https://snowtrace.io/
Bridge-able tokens per destination chain
Destination chains | Tokens | Contracts on Avalanche | Partners with liquidity |
Polygon | Moonriver | Shiden | Harmony | Cronos | wAVAX | 0xB31f66AA3C1e785363F0875A1B74E27b85FD66c7 | Trader Joe | Canary Exchange |
Polygon | Moonriver | Shiden | Cronos | MAI | 0x3B55E45fD6bd7d4724F5c47E0d1bCaEdd059263e | Trader Joe |
All Chains | RELAY | 0x78c42324016cd91D1827924711563fb66E33A83A | Trader Joe |
Moonriver | Shiden | MOVR | 0xF873633DF9D5cDd62BB1f402499CC470a72A02D7 | Canary Exchange |
Moonriver | Shiden | USDT.e | 0xc7198437980c041c805A1EDcbA50c1Ce5db95118 | Trader Joe | Canary Exchange |
Moonriver | Shiden | USDC.e | 0xA7D7079b0FEaD91F3e65f86E8915Cb59c1a4C664 | Trader Joe | Canary Exchange |
Moonriver | Shiden | DAI.e | 0xd586E7F844cEa2F87f50152665BCbc2C279D8d70 | Trader Joe | Canary Exchange |
Polygon | BSC | Ethereum | Native USDC.e | 0xA7D7079b0FEaD91F3e65f86E8915Cb59c1a4C664 | Trader Joe | Canary Exchange |
Metis | Ethereum | Polygon | Fantom | wBTC | 0x50b7545627a5162f82a992c33b87adc75187b218 | |
How to cross-chain from Avalanche to other chains?
Avalanche Specific
Tutorials with video
How to bridge Avax tokens from Avalanche to Harmony.
How to bridge USDT.e tokens from Avalanche to Shiden.
How to buy Relay tokens by using Coinbase and the Avalanche network.
How to bridge Avax from Trader Joe on Avalanche to Moonriver with Solarbeam.