BEAMX to AVAX: Swap ERC-20 BEAM for X-Chain AVAX, No KYC

The name BEAM covers more than one asset, so start here. The token on this pair is BEAMX, the token of the Beam gaming ecosystem, in its ERC-20 form on Ethereum. It replaced the Merit Circle (MC) token in 2023. Beam also runs its own chain as an Avalanche L1, and BEAM held on that network is a different asset from the ERC-20 one, despite the shared name.

An older privacy coin is also called Beam. It is unrelated and has its own wallets. Neither that coin nor BEAM on the Beam network can be sent to this pair's deposit address; only ERC-20 BEAM from an Ethereum wallet such as MetaMask, Rabby or a Ledger counts.

Unsure which one you hold? Open your address on Etherscan and look for BEAM in the token list. If it is there, it is the right asset for this swap.

Sending a token on Ethereum costs gas in ETH, not in the token. A wallet that holds BEAM but no ETH cannot submit the deposit at all; the send either fails or never gets signed. Check your ETH balance before you set up the swap, and top it up if it is close to zero.

Gas on Ethereum rises and falls with demand, and a token transfer uses more of it than a plain ETH send. Picking a quiet time helps, and the Leitfaden zu den Gasgebühren explains how. Expect the deposit to confirm in about 2 to 5 minutes.

Send the BEAM from the same Ethereum address you enter as the sender address in the box. BEAM comes back to that address if a refund is ever needed, so use your own wallet rather than an exchange withdrawal.

Avalanche is made of several chains. The C-Chain is the EVM one with 0x addresses, the one MetaMask uses. The X-Chain is where this pair pays, and its addresses start with X-avax1. A 0x address is rejected in the payout field here on purpose: it belongs to another chain.

Core is the wallet to use. Open the account details and copy the X-Chain address, which is listed apart from the C-Chain one. Paste it whole, X- prefix included.

Would you rather have the AVAX on the C-Chain for apps? Pick AVAX C-Chain as the coin you receive, or take this X-Chain payout and shift it later with Core's cross-chain transfer, an export and an import that are each signed on their own. Either path ends with AVAX at a 0x address, and the choice depends only on where you plan to use it.

Read it column by column and the swap is mostly about the left side. The BEAM deposit is the slow, fee-heavy part, because it rides on Ethereum and needs ETH for gas. The right side is quick: the X-Chain settles the AVAX in seconds, and AVAX pays its own fees, so nothing else has to sit next to it. The two address rows never look alike, which makes a paste mix-up easy to catch on this pair.

BEAM's ecosystem is built on Avalanche, and some holders want the network's own coin rather than a game token. Others simply prefer to hold AVAX, which pays fees on Avalanche and can be staked. This pair gets there from Ethereum in one step, with no bridge and no account.

The box quotes the AVAX amount after fees for the BEAM you enter. Rates come from aggregated liquidity from leading crypto markets and float until the Ethereum deposit confirms. From then on, most swaps finish within minutes, and the X-Chain payout itself takes seconds. The box lists this pair's minimum and maximum ahead of the deposit.

GhostSwap is a no-KYC crypto exchange, so no email, sign-up or ID is part of the process. To go the other way later, the AVAX zu BEAMX page covers that direction.

If a swap cannot be completed, the coins are refunded to the sender address you entered. For this pair that is the Ethereum address you sent BEAM from, so the BEAM returns there as an ERC-20 token.

The status page shows each step under your swap ID. Check the deposit on Etherscan and the payout on Avascan with your X-avax1 address. Problems tend to come from three things: an amount different from the one shown, BEAM sent from another address, or a deposit that ran short of gas and never left the wallet.

If Etherscan lists the BEAM transfer as successful and the status page has stopped moving for a long time, contact support@ghostswap.io with the swap ID and the Ethereum transaction hash. Do not repeat the deposit while the first one is being looked at.