BCH to SOL: Swap Bitcoin Cash to Solana, No KYC

The two halves of this swap run at very different speeds. Bitcoin Cash targets a block every 10 minutes, so the deposit takes about 10 to 20 minutes to be confirmed. Solana settles the payout in under a minute.

So the status page will sit on the deposit step for a while, and that is normal. You can watch the BCH transaction on Blockchair by its hash. Once the deposit is confirmed, most swaps finish within minutes.

The longer wait has one practical effect: the rate floats with the market until the deposit confirms, so on a volatile day the SOL figure can move a little between the quote and the final payout. The box shows the SOL after fees for the current rate, priced from aggregated liquidity from leading crypto markets. If you need a precise result, send when you are ready to wait it out rather than hours after creating the swap.

The sender address you enter must be a Bitcoin Cash address. In CashAddr format it starts with bitcoincash:q or simply q; older wallets may still show a legacy address starting with 1. Electron Cash and Cashonize give you a CashAddr address by default.

Only BCH belongs in the deposit address. Bitcoin and Bitcoin SV share the early history of Bitcoin Cash, and some wallets hold all three side by side with similar icons, but they are separate coins on separate chains. Sending BTC or BSV to a BCH deposit address does not count toward this swap.

The network fee is paid in BCH and is usually small. Still, leave a little in the wallet rather than sending the full balance, so the transaction has room for its fee.

A Solana address is 32 to 44 letters and numbers with no 0x prefix. Phantom, Solflare and a Ledger all give you one. Ethereum-style 0x addresses and Bitcoin Cash addresses will be rejected by the form.

A fresh Solana address can receive this payout directly. Every Solana account must keep a small rent-exempt minimum, and the SOL you receive covers that along with the fees for your next transactions. You do not need to fund the address first.

The payout shows up on Солскан seconds after it is sent. If the wallet does not show it right away, search your address on Solscan; the balance there is what counts. When a Ledger is the receiving wallet, open the Solana app on the device and confirm the address on its screen before pasting it.

Both coins pay their own fees, so this pair has no separate gas token to worry about on either side. The SOL you receive is native SOL, which means it can pay for SPL token transfers and app interactions on Solana straight away. There is no bridge or wrapped Bitcoin Cash involved anywhere; the BCH is sent on its own chain and the SOL is paid on its own chain. The only thing the two sides share is the swap ID, which links your BCH deposit to your SOL payout on the status page.

Bitcoin Cash is built for simple payments with Bitcoin-style blocks. Solana is where many apps, tokens and wallets like Phantom live, with very low fees and fast settlement. People holding BCH from payments or from earlier years often want to use those apps, and native SOL is what pays for everything there.

Some also want to move between two networks with very different designs instead of holding just one. That is a choice about market exposure; both coins move with the market.

The whole process needs no account, email or ID. If you would rather have a stablecoin on Solana, BCH в USDT СОЛНЦЕ pays Tether to the same kind of address. To go back the other way, use SOL в BCH.

The Bitcoin Cash address you type as sender is the refund address. If a swap cannot be completed, the coins are refunded to the sender address you entered, so BCH goes back to that address.

Use an address from a wallet you control, such as Electron Cash or Cashonize. BCH withdrawn directly from an exchange account is sent from the exchange's wallet, and a refund to it may not reach you.

Because the deposit takes 10 to 20 minutes, give it time before worrying. If Blockchair shows the BCH confirmed and the status page has not moved for a long while after that, email support@ghostswap.io with the swap ID and the transaction hash, and do not send the BCH again.