You send from your own wallet straight to the exchanger — nothing to connect,
no account, and you stay on this page throughout. Rates are indicative until
a swap is opened.
The swap is carried out by an independent exchanger and the deposit address
above is theirs. loomprotocol.xyz never holds, receives or controls
your funds, has no key to that address, and earns a referral commission.
Opening a swap sends your receiving address, IP, browser and timezone to the
exchanger for their compliance checks; we store none of it. Check their terms,
fees and country restrictions before sending anything.
A cross-chain swap service does not wait for both blockchains to confirm at the same time. Instead, it uses a mechanism that treats each chain's confirmation independently, then reconciles the trade after both sides have settled.
You use a non-custodial cross-chain swap service that accepts ETH on Ethereum and sends SOL directly to your Solana wallet. This works without you ever creating an account, depositing funds to an exchange, or trusting a third party to hold your coins.
Liquidity pools allow cross-chain swaps by pre-positioning assets on multiple blockchains so that a user's deposit on one chain can be matched with a payout from a separate pool on another chain, without any single token ever needing to be locked in a bridge contract. Instead of
You want to move ETH from Ethereum to SOL on Solana. The usual answer is a bridge: a smart contract that locks your ETH on one side and mints a wrapped version on the other. That works until the bridge gets exploited, or the wrapped token loses its peg, or the team behind it disa
You lose them. The tokens arrive on the correct blockchain but are sent to a contract address that does not recognize them, so they become permanently stuck.
A destination tag is a numeric label attached to a transaction on certain blockchains to identify which user or account the funds are intended for. Cross-chain swaps require one when the receiving blockchain uses a shared deposit address rather than giving each user a unique addr
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Crypto prices right now
Bitcoin (BTC)
$78,624
▼ -0.51% down24h
Ethereum (ETH)
$2,464
▼ -1.95% down24h
Solana (SOL)
$102.57
▼ -3.72% down24h
How to convert crypto: on-chain vs off-chain
Off-chain (on an exchange)
Your trade happens inside the exchange's own ledger. Nothing
touches the blockchain until you withdraw.
Cheapest and fastest for common pairs
Needs an account and usually ID verification
The exchange holds the coins until you withdraw them
Best for converting to and from cash
On-chain (a DEX or swap)
You swap from your own wallet. The transaction settles on the
chain and you pay its fee.
No account, no custodian — you keep the keys
You pay network fees, which vary a lot by chain
Small or new tokens often only trade here
Slippage and thin liquidity are real costs on low-volume pairs
Before any on-chain swap: check the token's contract address
against a block explorer, start with a small test amount, and review what you
are approving — an unlimited token approval to an unknown contract is how most
wallet drains actually happen.
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