Guide
Bridging Wrapped Bitcoin
WBTC is Bitcoin's price on Ethereum's rails. Getting into it, or out of it, is a transfer you can run here without registering and without connecting a wallet.
What WBTC actually is
Wrapped Bitcoin is an ERC-20 token on Ethereum. Each unit is backed one-for-one by bitcoin held by a custodian, and its price tracks BTC because that backing can be redeemed. It exists because Bitcoin has no smart contracts of its own: lending markets, decentralised exchanges and vaults on Ethereum can hold WBTC, and cannot hold BTC.
The consequence that matters for a transfer is that WBTC lives on an EVM chain and BTC does not. Everything below follows from that one fact.
Bridging into WBTC is not minting it
Minting WBTC is a custodial process. A merchant sends bitcoin to a custodian, the custodian issues the tokens, and both ends of that arrangement involve identity checks and an onboarding relationship. It is not something an individual does casually.
What most people mean by a WBTC bridge is different: they hold BTC, or they hold a stablecoin, and they want WBTC in a wallet they control. That is a swap between two assets, and it does not require you to become a merchant with anybody. You are buying WBTC that already exists from someone who holds it, at a rate, and having it delivered to an address you name.
This site does the second thing. Nothing here mints or redeems WBTC, and no page claims otherwise.
Sending Bitcoin, receiving WBTC
Bitcoin cannot sign an Ethereum transaction, so a BTC origin has exactly one shape: you are given a deposit address, you send bitcoin to it from wherever you already hold it, and WBTC arrives at the Ethereum address you gave. No wallet connection is possible, and none is needed.
That is the route wallet-first aggregators cannot offer. A bridge built around connecting a wallet and approving a transaction has nothing to connect to on the Bitcoin side, which is why a BTC origin is missing from most of them and present here.
You do not need an account. A recovery key is minted in your browser so you can find the transfer again later; it controls no funds and signs nothing.
Moving WBTC out
In the other direction WBTC is an ordinary ERC-20 on a chain a wallet can sign on, so both route types apply and both are quoted side by side whenever both work.
The contract-less route takes WBTC from wherever it sits, including an exchange or a hardware wallet you would rather not connect, and settles the destination asset to an address you name. The smart-contract route connects a wallet and settles in one signature. The comparison is ordered by what you receive, not by what we earn.
Destinations that carry real demand have their own pages: WBTC to USDC, to USDT, to DAI, and out to Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon or Solana.
What it costs
On the contract-less route the provider takes 2% and BlockSquad takes 0.5%, both already inside the rate you are shown rather than added at the end. On the smart-contract route the router returns live costs and they are itemised before you sign.
Ethereum gas is the variable nobody controls. A WBTC leg settles on Ethereum mainnet, so a congested block is a slower and more expensive transfer, and the quote reflects the network at the moment you ask rather than an average.
What you are trusting
Holding WBTC is holding a claim on bitcoin somebody else custodies. That is a different risk from holding bitcoin, and it does not go away because the token trades at parity. If the backing is the part you care about, BTC and WBTC are not interchangeable and you should not treat them as though they were.
The transfer itself is non-custodial in the sense that matters: funds move from your origin to your destination address, and this site never holds them in between. It also never holds your identity, because it never asks for one.
Into WBTC
Out of WBTC