How to buy AVAX on BSC and bridge to AVAX C-Chain [EASY]

4 min readAug 25, 2021

We just discovered a very simple way of buying AVAX we want to show you! Perhaps you tried buying it on pancakeswap and found out you could not — tha’t because there is no pancakeswap liquidity pool for it — BUT! There is an apeswap liquidity pool!

In short:

Buy with BNB/BUSD on APESWAP
Bridge with BSC Bridge to the X-Chain (get X-Chain address for your metamask private key on the AVAX online wallet)
Bridge in AVAX wallet from X-Chain to C-Chain
Set up metamask on AVAX C-chain
Ready to use on Pangolin/Trader joe

So we have to go to APE swap, select BNB to AVAX (or if you use a stable coin, make sure to approve it first!)

ApeSwap

Like pancakeswap but a bit different app.apeswap.finance

Then, go to the BSC bridge and input your X-Chain address. To get your corresponding X-Chain address, see bellow.

Link to bridge: Bridge

From there you will later need to bridge it over to the C-Chain on the AVAX website.

You can use the same private key you use for your metamask wallet to log into you avax wallet that it assigned to your private key.

The BEP20 address is the same address as for the C-Chain.

First open up your metamask, and export the private key.

Then go here to log in to your AVAX wallets (X, P and C-chain) https://wallet.avax.network/

Make sure to have the private key saved offline and to never share it with everyone! But you probably already know that!

From there, copy your X-Chain address and put it into the Destination field in the BSC bridge — I have already transferred AVAX into my wallet.

After you have received the AVAX into your X-Chain wallet from the Binance Bridge, we need to do a cross chain transfer to the C-Chain on the already mentioned website!

If you have any problems with the funds showing up on the C-Chain address, go to the “Advanced” menu and choose “Import C”.

Then, set up you metamask for the C-Chain.

Go to the metamask settings -> networks and input the details found below. Those can also be fund on the official support website: https://support.avax.network/en/articles/4626956-how-do-i-set-up-metamask-on-avalanche

Network Name: Avalanche Mainnet C-ChainNew RPC URL: https://api.avax.network/ext/bc/C/rpc
ChainID: 43114Symbol: AVAXExplorer: https://cchain.explorer.avax.network/

Then you simply switch the networks and your AVAX should be there!