Bridging is moving assets from one blockchain to another. Nothing physically travels: a bridge holds or burns your tokens on the source chain, then releases the matching amount to your address on the destination chain. It is how most people first fund a wallet on Robinhood Chain.
The mechanism has one consequence people meet the hard way. The asset you receive is issued by the bridge on the destination side, so its liquidity, its contract address and its risks are those of that specific bridged asset — not the original. Two bridges can deliver two different contracts representing the same underlying token, and the two do not trade as one. Check the contract address you end up holding, not just the ticker.
The second consequence is gas. Robinhood Chain is a layer 2 that charges gas in ETH, so bridging a token without bridging any ETH leaves you with a balance you cannot move, swap or sell until you fund the wallet again.
Bridging is the first step for most arrivals, so it sits at the front of the trade lane: get money onto Robinhood Chain covers the routes from exchanges, other chains and cards, best wallets for Robinhood Chain covers where the funds land, and common failures are answered in buying and bridging. To move funds now, bridge to Robinhood Chain.
Frequently asked questions
Is bridging the same as swapping?
No. A swap exchanges one token for another on a single chain, through a pool, and settles in one transaction on that chain. Bridging keeps you in the same asset but changes which chain holds it, and it settles across two chains, so it involves two networks, two fees and a wait for the destination side to confirm.
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