ETH pegged asset thanks to Bitswift

01 July 2020

Beth to Ardor

Guide for using the BETH asset on the Ardor platform

Bitswift, one of the first companies that launched a child chain in Ardor back in 2018, has developed a solution to easily export the BETH asset (Asset ID: 12672395106465140536). It implies that the BETH asset can be traded using the asset exchange feature of the Ardor platform. Hence, thanks to Bitswift, the Ardor ecosystem is enriched with the possibility of trading tokens to Ethereum with a very high degree of decentralization, avoiding centralized exchanges, and costly fees.

Open an account in https://bitswift.cash/login. Afterward, you must provide a mobile phone number for being authenticated, and it is highly recommended to set up 2FA authentication. Once logged in, you can navigate to the "Holdings" page, which has several tokens plus Import, Export, and History buttons. Let's explain what means:

Import: it refers to the action of transferring tokens from either ETH (Ethereum network) or BETH (Ardor) to the Bitswift web application. It is also commonly known as "Deposit" in other exchanges.
Export: it refers to the action of transferring tokens from the Bitswifth web application to either ETH (Ethereum network) or BETH (Ardor). It is also commonly known as "Withdraw" in other exchanges.
History: it shows all the import and exports executed with your Bitswift account for a determined token.

ETH to BETH asset

First, you should start getting familiar with the Ardor platform. As an introduction, you can follow the Getting Started of the official documentation and buy some tokens (Ignis, BITS).

Once you have an Ardor account, open the User Interface and populate the “Assets” section, click on the Asset Exchange and add the ETH asset id 12672395106465140536:

BETH Add Asset Bits

^{Screen 1: Asset Exchange}

The BETH Asset will appear in the UI, available to be bought or sold, using the Ardor asset exchange

BETH Asset Exchange 1

^{Screen 2: BETH Asset}

Bitswift holdings

^{Screen 3: Bitswift.cash holdings page}

We have to generate an Ethereum import address by clicking on the import button:

Import Address ETH

^{Screen 4: Bitswift.cash holdings page}

and then generate the deposit address:

ETH Address

^{Screen 5: Bitswift.cash import ETH}

We can send ETH tokens to the import address provided. In this case we have used the hardware wallet Ledger Nano to send the ETH tokens, it is also compatible with the Ardor wallet as well

BETH Send ETH Ledger

^{Screen 6: Ledger wallet Live, send ETH}

After 10 confirmations it will appear in the holdings page:

ETH holdings page

^{Screen 7: Bitswift.cash, ETH/BETH holdings}

At this point, we can send the ETH tokens to our Ardor account using the "Export" button:

BETH Export

^{Screen 8: Bitswift.cash, Export BETH to Ardor}

Click on next, and then you will get the confirmation modal. It is important to remind that this transaction requires a fee of 1.01 BITS that must be in the Bitswift app:

BETH Confirm export

^{Screen 9: Bitswift.cash, Confirm Export BETH to Ardor}

Confirming the export will show the exporting details:

BETH Export confirmation

^{Screen 10: Bitswift.cash, Successfully Exported BETH to Ardor}

After 5 minutes, we will have the BETH asset available:

BETH Asset Exchange

^{Screen 11: Asset Exchange, BETH buy/sell orders}

As you can see, the BETH asset has a lot of trading activity on the BITS chain. Now that the BETH token is inside the Ardor ecosystem, you can trade it for any of the child chain coins that are available or transfer to other Ardor accounts.

BETH asset to ETH

It is also possible to convert BETH asset to ETH using Bitswift as well. In this example, we will send the 0.012 BETH back to its original address.

Open the Bitswift holdings page, click on import BETH and generate an Ardor import address as follows:

BETH Import Beth

^{Screen 12: Bitswift.cash, import BETH}

This is the address and the message that is required to be sent to transfer BETH assets to the bitswift.cash application. Next step, send the BETH assets from the Ardor user interface. Click on My Assets, and then click on the transfer button as shown in the following figure:

BETH Transfer BETH

^{Screen 13: My Assets; BETH}

Fill the transfer asset details and be aware of attaching the message shown in the bitswift web.

Shortly after 5 minutes, the BETH will be available in bitswitft.cash in the holdings page. Sending the tokens to an Ethereum address is straight-forward:

Click on the Export button. Fill the address and the amount. In this case, the fee is paid in ETH:

BETH Export ETH