Guides

Plain-language explanations of how cross-chain crypto actually works — written to be useful whether or not you use CoinXchange. No jargon without a definition, and no assumed prior knowledge beyond having used a crypto wallet once.

• What is a cross-chain swap?

  6 min read

  The concept explained from first principles: what makes moving value between blockchains hard, how a cross-chain swap differs from an ordinary DEX trade and from bridging, and what the trade-offs and risks are.

• How to swap tokens across blockchains

  5 min read

  A step-by-step walkthrough: connecting a wallet, choosing the source and destination chains, reading the route breakdown, understanding slippage and gas, and confirming the transaction.

• How to bridge crypto between chains

  6 min read

  What bridging actually does, how to move assets such as ETH or USDT from one chain to another, what the fees and timings look like in practice, and the security considerations worth knowing first.

• What are perpetual futures?

  7 min read

  How a contract with no expiry stays anchored to spot via funding rates, what leverage and liquidation actually mean for a position, and how non-custodial on-chain perp trading differs from a centralised exchange.

• What are prediction markets?

  6 min read

  How YES/NO outcome shares work, why a share price reads as a probability, why you can exit before the event resolves, and how markets are settled.

Product explainers

Each CoinXchange product page carries its own explanation and FAQ: cross-chain swap, yield vaults and prediction markets. For the games, how provably-fair outcomes work documents the Chainlink VRF mechanism and the on-chain contracts you can verify for yourself.