Swap BTC to ADA in three steps without creating an account. You see an estimated amount before you send, the exchange runs automatically once your deposit confirms, and the ADA goes straight to the wallet address you enter.
Enter the amount of Bitcoin you want to swap in the widget above. It shows an estimate of the Cardano you will receive on the Cardano network at the current floating rate, with the payout network fee already taken into account.
Paste your ADA wallet address and check it twice, because blockchain transfers cannot be reversed. If the coin needs a memo or destination tag, a field for it appears. xswap.to never asks for your private keys.
Confirm the order and send your BTC to the one-time deposit address on the Bitcoin network. Once the deposit confirms, the swap runs automatically and the ADA is sent to your wallet. The order page shows every stage.
Swapping Bitcoin (BTC) for Cardano (ADA) here takes one transfer from your wallet: no exchange account, no balance to deposit and no withdrawal queue. You choose the receiving address, and the ADA goes there once the swap completes.
Rates are floating, so the amount shown is an estimate that can shift slightly while your Bitcoin deposit confirms on Bitcoin. The payout is sent on Cardano, so check that your Cardano address belongs to that network before you confirm.
Refreshed hourly. The widget shows the live estimate.
1 BTC
≈
399485.203087 ADA
At the latest hourly update, 1 BTC converts to about 399485.203087 ADA. The figure comes from the floating rate and already allows for the payout network fee. Rates move, so the widget recalculates the estimate when you enter your own amount, and no account or registration is needed to swap.
Approximate exchange rates between these assets, refreshed hourly
Bitcoin (BTC) to Cardano (ADA) is a trade from a proof-of-work coin into a proof-of-stake one. You send native BTC on the Bitcoin network to a one-time deposit address, and ADA arrives on Cardano mainnet at the addr1 address you enter, with no account involved. A typical reason is delegation: ADA held in your own Cardano wallet can be delegated to a stake pool from that wallet, something BTC cannot do on its own chain.
Bitcoin targets one block about every 10 minutes and uses addresses starting with 1, 3 or bc1. Cardano runs the Ouroboros proof-of-stake protocol, and its Shelley-era addresses begin with addr1. The chains share nothing, so this is a cross-chain swap settled by receiving one coin and paying out the other. ADA is native on Cardano, which means no token contract, no memo and no separate gas coin to hold. The coin selector also lists a BEP-20 ADA on BNB Smart Chain, and the two are not interchangeable.
To convert BTC to ADA, type the amount and read the floating-rate estimate before sending. The Cardano fee for your payout is already deducted there, and you pay the Bitcoin miner fee from your wallet. A crowded Bitcoin mempool can slow the deposit, so a higher fee rate helps it confirm sooner. If BTC moves before confirmation, the ADA you get may differ slightly from the estimate. The order page tracks each stage, and once ADA is sent its payout hash opens in a block explorer.
From live exchange data, refreshed hourly.
| You send | You receive | |
|---|---|---|
| Asset | Bitcoin (BTC) | Cardano (ADA) |
| Network | Bitcoin | Cardano |
| Type | Native coin | Native coin |
| Memo / tag | Not needed | Not needed |
| Route | Cross-chain: Bitcoin to Cardano | |
| Rate | Floating, estimate shown before you send | |
| Minimum to send | 0.0000224 BTC | |
| Account / ID | Not needed to start a swap | |
A Cardano mainnet address, which normally starts with addr1. Copy it from the receive screen of your Cardano wallet rather than typing it. An address starting with 0x belongs to the BEP-20 ADA option on BNB Smart Chain, which is a different listing.
xswap.to has no staking, but ADA in your own Cardano wallet can be delegated to a stake pool from that wallet. Cardano delegation does not lock the coins, so they stay spendable. Follow your wallet's own steps for choosing a pool.
No memo is needed for ADA, and you do not need to hold any ADA beforehand. The estimate already has the Cardano payout fee taken out. When you later send ADA, your wallet charges a small fee in ADA.
Bitcoin confirms deposits block by block, and blocks arrive about every 10 minutes on average, sometimes slower. A low fee rate during a busy period can leave the transaction waiting in the mempool. You can follow it on any Bitcoin block explorer with the transaction hash from your wallet.
Close to it, but not always to the decimal. The rate is floating, so if BTC or ADA moves between creating the order and the deposit confirming, the payout adjusts. The estimate already reflects the exchange margin and the Cardano payout fee.
Each order gets its own one-time deposit address, the ADA goes straight to the address you typed, and xswap.to never asks for keys or a seed phrase. Nothing can fix a wrong address after the fact, so compare its first and last characters before you confirm. Bitcoin transfers cannot be reversed.
