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BTC Bridge
how the NEAR -BTC bridge works at HERE Wallet
- 1.Most services that accept cryptocurrencies accept bitcoin. If you want to use NEAR for real-world purchases, you need to be able to convert it to BTC. And it should be not a wBTC, but a real bitcoin, which you can send to the seller
- 2.Bitcoin is also the most popular cryptocurrency. If you want to buy NEAR today, you probably already have bitcoin. At the same time, buying NEAR for BTC requires no intermediaries and no KYC. This is the easiest and safest way to buy your first NEAR
In fact, today there is already a way to get BTC for your NEAR. To do this you need to:
- 1.buy wBTC in NEAR via ref.finance (0.3- 0.6% fee) (5c)
- 2.send them to ethereum over the Rainbow bridge (18h + 20-300$ fee)
- 3.unwrap wBTC and get BTC (20-40$, 10min)
- 4.send BTC to the seller
It will take a lot of time, spend 0.3% + ~50$ commission and require the use of 4 services
- 1.buy wBTC in NEAR via tonic (0.1% fee)
- 2.send wBTC to smart contract indicating the
target addressfor the transfer - 3.we will immediately send our BTC to the
target address - 4.when oracles will confirm the transfer, wBTC will be transferred from the smart contract to our account
- 5.
For the user, this process takes about a few minutes and only requires a fee for sending bitcoin. All transactions are processed in the background. You just scan the QR code and you can immediately pay in BTC by spending your NEAR!
This method of purchase is absolutely safe. We use oracles to confirm payments. This is a set of independent validators that vote to confirm the payment. If the validators do not detect the transfer to
target address at the bitcoin network within an hour, the request will be canceled and the wWBTC will be returned to the user account. Only if validators will confirm BTC transfer, wBTC will be transferred to HERE account.
Last modified 5mo ago