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You finally get your coins onto a new chain. Then you try to move them. Zero gas. Now you're hunting for a faucet, or buying $3 of the gas token on an exchange to send one transaction. Pact swaps BTC straight into ETH, BNB or TRX. The coin you land with is the gas.

Your BTC sits on Bitcoin. Tron, where a big share of USDT moves, settled $2.21T in stablecoins in Q3 2026, about $24B a day, per its own report. The two chains have no native link. Pact swaps native BTC straight into USDT on Tron. One swap, from your own wallet.

$462. The average stablecoin payment in 2026, down from $544, per Allium's Q3 data. Total volume: $482B, up 45%. Smaller tickets, many more of them. Swaps have to work at that size. Pact's per-trade collateral keeps a $25 swap of native BTC, LTC or DOGE into USDT worth doing.

You hold BTC and want to make markets in LTC, ETH and BNB. Most venues make you split it three ways, or route through a stablecoin and eat the extra volatility. Pact's upcoming multi-asset order will let one BTC allocation quote all three markets at once, each at its own price.

Nearly 100 Bitcoin vaults opened in Zest's first mainnet weeks. Deposit native BTC on L1, borrow USDC on Ethereum. No wrapping, no bridging. BTCfi is building around native BTC. Pact applies the same rule to swaps. BTC goes in as BTC and settles straight into ETH, BNB or TRX.

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Every cross-chain degen knows the ritual. Send. Open the explorer. Refresh. Check Discord. Refresh again. Ask if anyone else is stuck. On Pact, your BTC settles directly into the asset you picked, native on both ends. Fewer tabs open.

This month, the Ethereum Economic Zone ran the first atomic L1-to-L2 transaction on mainnet. The goal: a cross-chain move that can't get stuck halfway. Pact covers that for BTC to ETH swaps. If an LP fails to settle, another completes it, or the protocol compensates you.

13 bridge hacks. $2B stolen in the first seven months of 2022, per Chainalysis. Route your users through a bridge and every swap passes through its pooled vault, the thing attackers aim for. On Pact, LPs post about 2x each swap in collateral, released once that trade settles.

0.4%. Pact's average swap fee, measured across pairs and ticket sizes. For an aggregator, that means routes won on price, with room left to layer your own margin on top. No validator rewards or standing collateral baked into the price.

Bitcoin got another wrapper last month, backed 1:1 by a major stablecoin issuer. For builders, each new wrapper is another custodian, redemption path and ticker to support. Pact swaps native BTC directly. One asset, and no issuer between your users and their coins.

Five compromised signing keys. Around $17M minted or drained across Fetch.ai, SingularityNET and NuNet infrastructure this month. Valid signatures, wrong hands. If your swaps settle on a signer, their key security is your users' risk. Pact settles through onchain data instead.

Building on top of a bridge usually means building your own reorg-handling logic too, in case the chain rewrites itself mid-settlement. Pact's contracts already re-evaluate against each chain's canonical state and settle to it. One less edge case for your team to own.

Most cross-chain systems settle by vote: enough validators agree, so it's final. Pact's contracts check swap outcomes directly against the source chain's own data, the same way you'd verify any onchain proof. No one to persuade. Just data that either matches or doesn't.

A bridge exploit hit The Sandbox recently. Hijacked permissions minted unbacked SAND across two chains, and exchanges froze transfers while the team worked out what was actually backed. Pact never mints a wrapped token. Nothing to mint unbacked, on any chain.

Most cross-chain systems need someone to decide what happens when a swap fails: a multisig, a support ticket, a delay. Pact slashes the LP's collateral automatically. Another LP steps in. If that fails too, the protocol compensates the user itself. No manual step, ever.

Most cross-chain infrastructure breaks down under $100. Fixed overhead eats the fee. Pact posts collateral per trade instead of pooling liquidity, so a $25 swap still pencils out at a reasonably low fee. That opens embedded flows inside wallets and payment apps, priced out of most cross-chain rails.

Every swap on Pact puts fees into an onchain pool. That revenue keeps growing whether BTC is at $60K or $120K, as long as people keep swapping, which is something most tokens can't claim. Burn $PACT to access them.

Bridges lock hundreds of millions in standing collateral, permanently, whether anyone is swapping or not. Pact locks collateral per trade, for the minute your swap takes, then releases it. That’s why our fees average 0.35%, ensuring you can swap across efficiently.