Bridge BNB to Solana: BSC USDT, Binance-Peg SOL and Fees

How to bridge BNB or BSC USDT to Solana with Jupiter

For BNB or BEP-20 USDT sitting in MetaMask, Trust Wallet or any other BNB Chain wallet, I’d start with Jupiter. It puts several bridges’ quotes side by side and ranks them by what actually lands in your wallet. Jupiter adds no fee of its own. Each route’s fee is already in the delivered amount, and you pay BNB gas when you sign. New to Jupiter? Our Jupiter Exchange guide covers the rest of the app.

1. Open Bridge & Swap and connect your Solana wallet.
2. Set BNB Chain as the source, then pick your token (BNB or USDT) and the amount.
3. Pick what you want on Solana. SOL or USDC are the practical picks, and you get native Solana tokens, not wrapped copies.
4. Compare routes by estimated delivered amount. Some routes also show their fees, ETA and price impact.
5. Connect the wallet that holds your BNB Chain funds (MetaMask, Trust Wallet or similar).
6. Confirm and sign on BNB Chain.

On step 3: take SOL if you’re going to trade or LP. Most Meteora memecoin pools pair with SOL, so landing as SOL saves a swap and covers your fees. If that’s the plan, start with how DLMM pools work, and I post my LP results on X, losses included. Take USDC if you’re parking it for yield.

Whatever you pick, don’t land with zero SOL. Every Solana transaction needs a little SOL for fees, so a wallet holding only USDC can’t do anything. Take part of the transfer as SOL, or buy a little SOL to go with it.

Step 4 is the one that matters. The estimated delivered amount is the real price, so hold every other quote up against Jupiter’s number before you sign. The same page works from Ethereum (our ETH walkthrough).

Keep some BNB for gas (and what to do if you have none)

Every wallet route signs a transaction on BNB Chain, and that gas is paid in BNB. Send your entire BNB balance and the transaction fails, so leave a little behind.

USDT in your wallet but no BNB at all? Most wallets can’t sign anything, so you have two fixes:

• Withdraw a few dollars of BNB to that wallet from an exchange on BEP20, then bridge as above.
• In Trust Wallet, gas is sponsored on up to 4 BNB Chain swaps a day when your BNB balance is 0. Swap a few dollars of USDT to BNB, then bridge.

USDT on an exchange that withdraws on BEP20 but not on Solana? Withdraw it straight to Jupiter’s deposit address and the exchange pays the gas. Open the deposit page with your Solana wallet connected and pick BNB Chain. You get a BNB Chain address tied to your Solana wallet.

• It always lands as USDC. Want SOL? Swap it on Solana afterwards.
• Cost: the higher of $0.30 or 0.02% on stablecoins, 0.1% on other tokens.
• Minimum: $3. Smaller deposits wait until they add up to it.
• Only send on BNB Chain, and only tokens the selector lists. Binance-Peg USDT is the default, and an unsupported token can be lost. Apart from topping up gas, this is the only time picking BEP20 on an exchange withdrawal is right.

You can’t send BNB or BEP-20 USDT straight to a Solana address

On BNB Chain, USDT and USDC are Binance-Peg BEP-20 tokens: copies Binance issues and backs 1:1 with the original held in reserve. Solana apps use the native Tether and Circle tokens, which are SPL tokens (Solana’s token standard). BNB and BEP-20 tokens live on BNB Chain, so they have to cross through a bridge or an exchange.

Every route on this page delivers the native versions. If you specifically need native USDT rather than USDC, the Binance withdrawal below gets you it directly. For checking the mint (the token’s address on Solana) once it lands, and for USDT coming from Tron or Ethereum, see our USDT bridging guide.

Still on Binance? Don’t bridge, just pick Solana when you withdraw

Binance withdraws SOL and USDT on the Solana network, so you skip the bridge and don’t need any BNB.

1. Convert BNB to SOL with Binance Convert, or leave USDT as it is. Convert has no fee and the quote is what you get, so the cost sits in the rate. Glance at the spot price before you accept.
2. Withdraw SOL or USDT and pick Solana as the network.
3. Paste your Solana address and check the network again before you confirm.

Withdrawal fees change, so go by the number on the withdrawal screen. The mistake that costs real money is picking BNB Smart Chain (BEP20). That’s how people end up holding Binance-Peg SOL. Never withdrawn to a wallet before? It’s the same pick-the-network steps as Coinbase.

Bridge SOL from BNB Chain (Binance-Peg SOL) to Solana

Deposit it to Binance on BEP20 and withdraw on the Solana network, or bridge it if a route quotes it. Binance-Peg SOL is a BEP-20 token on BNB Chain that tracks SOL, and nothing on Solana uses it.

• Through Binance: open the SOL deposit screen. If it offers BNB Smart Chain (BEP20), deposit there, then withdraw on Solana as above. If BEP20 isn’t listed for SOL, don’t send it.
• Through a bridge: on Jupiter or deBridge, set BNB Chain as the source, pick Binance-Peg SOL if it’s listed and choose SOL on Solana as the output. If nothing quotes it, swap it to BNB or USDT on BNB Chain first.

Other BNB to Solana routes: Mayan, deBridge, Trust Wallet and Phantom

On small amounts avoid flat fees; on big amounts take whichever quote delivers the most.

Mayan’s swap app has a gas drop: it adds 0.01 SOL to your transfer by default, up to 0.1 SOL, and switches on by itself when your Solana wallet doesn’t hold enough SOL. Jupiter’s comparison doesn’t include Mayan, so it’s worth a second quote, and I’d check it first on small amounts. If you’ve not used it, here’s what Mayan is and how it works.

Orders on deBridge created on BNB Chain pay 0.005 BNB flat (about $3.85 at 8 October’s BNB price) plus 0.04%, and the solver’s margin and costs are built into the quote. On a $20 send the flat part alone is close to a fifth, so I wouldn’t send $20 this way. The upside is points: 100 per $1 you pay in fees, not per $1 you bridge. Here’s whether farming deBridge points pays off.

Trust Wallet’s cross-chain swap takes BNB Chain tokens straight to Solana. In Swap, set BNB Chain and your token under From, then Solana and SOL or USDC under To. Trust Wallet doesn’t add its own fee, but hold its quote up against Jupiter’s delivered amount anyway.

Phantom added BNB Chain on 1 October 2026 and takes 0.85% on most swaps, so $8.50 on $1,000 before the bridge takes its cut. Connect Phantom to Jupiter as your BNB Chain wallet instead and you skip that fee. One trap: sending BNB to your Phantom wallet keeps it on BNB Chain. It hasn’t reached Solana until you swap or bridge it.

FAQ

How much SOL will I get for 1 BNB?

There’s no fixed figure. It’s the live BNB to SOL rate minus fees. Enter your exact amount in Jupiter’s Bridge & Swap and read the estimated delivered amount, or read the Convert quote on Binance.

How long does a BNB to Solana bridge take?

Anywhere from seconds upward: Mayan’s quickest route can settle in as little as 2 seconds, and every quote shows an ETA before you sign. If nothing has arrived well past it, look the transaction up on an explorer, then follow the stuck-transfer steps in the main bridging guide linked at the top.