Bridging DefiDollar DAO — $DFD to Binance Smart Chain using Multichain.xyz

How to easily bridge an ERC-20 token from Ethereum to BSC using Multichain.xyz

Siddharth Jain
DefiDollar
4 min readApr 12, 2021

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DefiDollar DAO Token — $DFD can now be bridged over from Ethereum to Binance Smart Chain via the Multichain.xyz cross chain bridge.

The DefiDollar community will be able to leverage $DFD on Binance Smart Chain in a variety of ways including interactions with the soon to be live DefiDollar product suite on BSC.

In this article we give a step by step instructions on how to swap $DFD (Or any ERC-20 listed on Multichain.xyz) from Ethereum to the Binance Smart Chain.

Useful Links

Swap DFD on Ethereum(ERC20) to Binance Smart Chain(BEP20) :

Visit the Multichain.XYZ bridge

DefiDollar DAO(DFD) Token Tracker | BscScan

Tutorial on how to swap DFD From ETH to Binance Smart Chain

1. Connect Metamask to Binance Smart Chain

Method 1 — Via GUI

You can do it via Chainlist.org

Search for BSC and add click “Add to Metamask” for the card with ChainID — 56.

You will get a pop up , Click on “Switch Network” and you are done!

Method 2 — Manually

  • Open Metamask in your browser and Go to Settings
  • Choose “Add Network”
  • Enter the following details:

Network Name: Binance Smart Chain Mainnet

New RPC URL: https://bsc-dataseed.binance.org/

ChainID: 56

Symbol: BNB

URL: https://bscscan.com/

  • Then click “Save

2. Add $DFD Token to Metamask

  • Switch the network from Ethereum Mainnet to BSC Mainnet
  • Click on Add Token
  • Switch to the the Custom Token tab and enter the DFD token contract address. Metamask itself will update the token symbol and Decimals of Precision. Once populated click on “Next

Token Contract Address:
0x9899a98b222fcb2f3dbee7df45d943093a4ff9ff

  • Click “Add Tokens” to finish.

Done! Your wallet will now reflect your DFD balance once you swap your DFD tokens from Ethereum to BSC.

3. Swap $DFD Tokens From Ethereum to BSC

Enter the amount of $DFD Tokens you want to transfer from Ethereum to BSC.

Click on “Transfer”.

It will prompt asking you to confirm the transcation. Once the transaction gets minted on chain, switch your Network on Metamask to Binance Smart Chain to view the tokens.

Do note that BNB is used to pay gas fees on BSC, if you do not have BNB already you can withdraw some from your Binance account to your BSC address.

We want to thank the community for being a part of our mission — Ever more exciting now that we transition to a Multichain journey. DefiDollar on BSC will help unlock a variety of use cases for and having DFD available on Binance Smart Chain is step forward to enable the same.

In case of any doubts with respect to the tutorial please reach out to the team and community on Telegram or Discord.

About Multichain.xyz

Built by the prolific Andre Cronje, Multichain.xyz is a critical piece of infra that allows users to transfer assets across chains in a Decentralized fashion with ease. We highly recommend projects looking to have a multichain presence to explore using Multichain.xyz for their inter chain token bridging needs.

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