Bot Tutorial: Bridging
How to bridge to the Solana chain using the Soltrader bot
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How to bridge to the Solana chain using the Soltrader bot
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For a full audiovisual tutorial on how to trade with our bot, please refer to our official Youtube channel: . To get started with the Soltrader Telegram bot navigate to: After pressing 'start' users view the main menu of the bot, which should look like the below, and in which users can find the official links of our platform and get started with the options. Before being able to bridge, one has to create or import a Solana wallet. Simply press the 'Wallet' option in the main menu to get started. From the wallet menu, either follow the steps to import an existing wallet, or create a new fresh wallet to get started with the Soltrader bot. Once you have a wallet imported or created, your wallet menu should look like the below. From this menu, you can delete your wallet, update your balance or transfer tokens to another wallet. The options and ways to transfer SOL or other tokens are highlighted in the chapter 'Bot Tutorial: Transferring'. Now that your wallet is set up, you can start bridging tokens into your wallet and onto the Solana chain, ready to trade. To get started, navigate back to the main menu by prompting /start. Once back in the Main Menu, press the 'Bridge' button, which brings you to the following menu.
From the above menu, users can choose two Bridging providers - FixedFloat or SideShift. Please note that as of 3 January 2023, FixedFloat Bridging is not available. Once a user select a Bridging provider, you will be navigated to the below menu.
This is the main Bridge menu and will be your starting point in getting funds to the Solana chain in your in-bot wallet. For example, to bridge from Ethereum to Solana, select the 'Ethereum (ERC20) option and type the amount of ETH you want to bridge over. For this example, we want to bridge 0.1ETH over to Solana in the wallet we just created. Once an amount is selected, you will see below message. Simply transfer the funds (in this Example ERC-20 ETH) to the stated wallet address and your funds will be bridged and transfered to your in-bot Solana wallet. Please be very careful to only transfer the right chain and right currency to the address - your funds will be lost otherwise. Following the steps above, you have now succesfully bridged tokens to the Solana chain and have funded your wallet with SOL to start trading using the Soltrader bot. The next chapters of this Whitepaper highlight the other functionalities of the bot.
