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By the end of this guide you will have moved funds from the chain they sit on to the chain your next trade needs, read the quote before sending, and confirmed that the transfer finished. A bridge moves value from one blockchain to another. OpenFinance routes bridges and cross-chain swaps through Relay. The agent picks the route for you: a swap between two Solana tokens goes through Jupiter, and a send on one chain with no token change is a plain transfer. See Bridge and swap for how it works.

What you need

  • Funds on the chain you are leaving, plus a little of that chain’s native coin for gas.
  • A clear destination: which chain and which token your next trade needs. The table in Fund each venue lists them.

Steps

1

Find what you hold and where

2

Ask for a quote, not a transfer

Name the source chain, the token, the amount and the destination:
A good quote shows what leaves, what is expected to arrive and the route. A quote is free and sends nothing.
OpenFinance chat showing a bridge quote for 5 USDC from Solana to Arbitrum with the amount that arrives, the minimum received, the recipient and the rate

A bridge quote in chat: what leaves, what arrives and the route

3

Check the quote

Before you say yes, check three things:
  • The destination is your own wallet. Bridges from an agent can only go to your own addresses; the server refuses anything else.
  • The amount that arrives is what your trade needs.
  • The token on arrival is the one the venue accepts, for example USDC on Arbitrum for Hyperliquid.
4

Confirm the bridge (moves money)

Reply yes, or ask for a fresh quote if you waited a while or changed the amount. Quotes expire.The agent signs each step with your wallet and waits for a final result for up to about five minutes.
5

Track it to the end

A transfer ends as success, refunded or failure. While it is in progress you may see waiting, pending or submitted.
6

Continue to the trade (moves money)

Bridging and depositing can be chained, with a confirmation at each step:
Every bridge and swap needs your confirmation, and nothing here is financial advice.

Useful combinations

Most trips follow one of a few patterns, and you can paste the Ask column as it is:

Check it worked

When the status reads success, look at where the funds landed:
The amount should match the quote, give or take a small difference.

Common mistakes

  • No gas on the starting chain. The first transaction is paid on the chain you leave.
  • No native coin at the destination on Solana routes. On routes that touch Solana, the automatic gas top-up is switched off.
  • Trying to bridge to a friend. Agent bridges go to your own wallets only. To pay someone else, use the Wallet page.
  • Panicking at “refunded”. Refunded means the route could not complete and funds were returned. Ask for the status details and a new quote.
  • A 412 on a route from Solana. Your Solana wallet is not yet enabled for agent trading. Follow the instructions in the error.

Next guides

Hyperliquid perp with take-profit and stop-loss

Use the funds you just moved.

Relay tools

Quote and execute parameters for your own code.