We have tested the bridge for nearly a week. Our secret dev has been watching the back end, making sure all is good to go. So far, the bridge has been sturdy enough for everyone we've shared it with to go across.
The Avalanche (Avax) Network. We had contemplated bridging to Ethereum first; however, the gas fees are astronomical on Ethereum and a bridge to Avax gets us access to all the same benefits. Avax transactions have gas fees that have been a few cents in all the transactions I've made. We expect to see their fees remain low, which is also a plus. So other than lower fees, why Avax?
Rather than quote large swaths of other people's works, I'll link to this:
CoinTelegraph's article on Avax where they cover the origin, the benefits, etc. Let's put it this way...it is super fast, fairly inexpensive, and they love games as much as the rest of us. Opening the bridge to Avax was the first of many bridges we expect to use to expand the reach of Psyber-X.
Many of us have already posted funds to start the Liquidity Pools. We have a LVL:Avax liquidity pool on all the major Avax LP sites.
You'll need an Avalanche wallet: https://wallet.avax.network/
I highly recommend a Metamask wallet. https://metamask.io/ You'll download an extension, much like the Hive Keychain for Hive. Metamask will hold on to your wallet for you. When you make transactions on the Avax side, you'll need some liquid Avax already in your wallet. Every transaction will cost some Avax. I bought mine on Bittrex.
This brings us to an important point. While Hive has a first layer (Hive) and a 2nd layer (Swap.Hive), Avax has 3 layers. C, P, and X. They literally call them the C-Chain, P-Chain, and X-Chain. When I bought Avax through Bittrex, it was on the X-Chain. I then transferred it to my Avax wallet at https://wallet.avax.network where I then used a cross-chain function to move my Avax from the X-Chain to the C-Chain. From there, I was solid!
Once you have Avax in your wallet, you'll connect your Avax wallet to your Metamask wallet. It will have an option on the upper-right corner to connect to Metamask or it will automatically recognize it when you get to the site if you have Metamask already set up as an extension (
Granted, you may not need all of that above to move LVL to the other side of the bridge, but if you don't plan on using LVL on the other side, you probably should keep it where it is. There is a fee for using the bridge. It is currently set at a minimal 1%. We didn't want to gouge people for moving their funds over, yet we have to have enough charged to cover the fees of keeping this service available.
Notice also that it says you're moving LVL to the Avalanche C-Chain. See? I got you all prepped!
I know I haven't given you the site address yet...I have just a little more to tell you...like how it works.
When you send LVL through the bridge to convert it to LVL on the Avalanche C-Chain, your 2nd Layer Hive's LVL will go to 
If you'd like to use the bridge, keep in mind this is one of the first bridges ever built from Hive to another blockchain. I understand Leo and Splinterlands have done it. We are now the third that I am aware of. There may be issues. It is new. We've been building it since February and testing it the whole time. We've gone across the bridge back and forth many times and swapped LVL for AVAX with over $1000 worth of crossings to test all the variabilities we could conjure. You could lose your LVL. It's possible. It's code, after all...and while we trust in our dev to the highest degree, there could be flaws none of us were able to see. If you find an issue or need a hand to walk you through it all, reach out on our discord as seen in our Social Links below.
Thank you 
When you've wrapped your LVL by crossing the bridge, there will be a couple ways for you to see LVL in your new AVAX wallet. If you're using MetaMask, you will click on this (Add to Wallet):
Now, I've already done it, so your prompt will look slightly different compared to my prompt; however MetaMask will ask you if you want to import your LVL token into your wallet, something like this:
If you click, "Add Token" your LVL balance will show up here:
I found the above image by clicking on my Extensions on my Chrome browser. Ta-Da! You have LVL in your MetaMask wallet on the Avalanche blockchain, the C-Chain.
If you did not use MetaMask or set it up beforehand, and you used http://wallet.avax.network instead, you'll see something like this:
In order to add LVL to your wallet, where you can see your newly added wrapped LVL tokens, you'll need to follow some steps:
Click on this:
Then you'll get a pop up like this:
In order to see your wrapped LVL (it's there, you just can't see it yet), enter this address:
0x33c7CA334A963e9C8c8b105AA097a7E392a286C7
That is the contract that mints wrapped LVL when it comes across the bridge and burns it when it leaves AVAX to go back to Hive. Here's the contract on Snowtrace:
https://snowtrace.io/address/0x33c7ca334a963e9c8c8b105aa097a7e392a286c7
Once I copied and pasted the address above (0x33c...), and pressed <ENTER>, it filled itself out the rest of the way:
Click Add Token. Once you do, you'll see your wrapped LVL tokens in your AVAX wallet like this:
Crates hold 5 NFTs. Common crates are $20 worth of Hive/HBD. If you hold 200K LVL at the time of purchasing a common crate, you will automatically get a 30% discount.
