So, if you've been tracking my stories a while back, I do quite a bit of coverage on the WAX blockchain. However, on this one we're going to cover how to get into the Solana Blockchain using what you've already built up in the Waxiverse.
Like a number who've spent time in WAX, I've built up quite a stock, a few hundred dollars actually, of WAX that I stake or play in liquidity pools to keep it growing. The key factor was, of course, getting in early on projects and riding the wave as they got popular, flipping and selling or taking in drops and freebies, as well as enjoying value increase on related tokens gaining in popularity. However, almost all my chain experience has been WAXP. Jumping over to Ethereum or other chains was, for the most part, prohibitive due to just the entry cost of getting started on anything there. Fortunately, thanks to WUFFI, there is now a viable bridge on which to build a beachhead into Solana, which isn't that low cost either.
WAX put together a functional bridge that you can use to swap WUFFI token from WAXP to WUFFI on Solana. It's really that simple. You pull up the page. Login with both your wax account and your Solana wallet, and you move the tokens. Once swapped, you then just need to confirm the claim on the Solana side on the site's claim page. It can take anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes.
I tried the bridge with my Solflare wallet at first, but it doesn't work well. For whatever reason, Solflare (which is really a handy Solana-only wallet) glitches. So, I switched over to Phantom. That works smoothly, and I've been using the bridge daily, sometimes twice a day without any problems. Occasionally a claim doesn't go through, and then I just need to claim it again. Almost always on the second try it works. I've only had it fail three times during serious congestion on the Solana network.
How much SOL or WUFFI or other Solana tokens you build up depends on how much you transfer over. I usually make a point of only swapping a minimum of 2 million WUFFI or more. Below that, and you start realizing costly bites in your cash flow due to Solana transaction fees and conversion costs. Also, make sure there is at least a dollar's worth of SOL in your receiving wallet to cover any network costs at all. Without it, you can't get the claim to go through completely.
Personally, I'm now up to $100 in SOL or Solana tokens like BONK and others, and that's only with 2 weeks of aggressive work and farming my WAX holdings religiously. It's really gotten into flexing hard efficiency on my WAX positions to increase output. Additionally, I now have viable token to play around in Solana effectively and start building inroads.
The bridge feature works the other way around too, providing Solana players the ability to get into WAX easily. Again, WUFFI token has been the easiest for liquidity and sheer ease of swapping.
There is also an NFT transfer feature in the bridge, but I'm not keen on that yet. While some folks have been able to move WAX NFTs to Polygon through the bridge, I couldn't get it to work right last night when I tried. Probably user error, but that feature still needs some UI work for dum-dum blockchain users like me prone to breaking things easily.
Most importantly, however, the swap two and from WAX and SOL is practically nothing in cost. Try finding that with other swaps like Cake, Uniswap and similar!
