CoinVast lets you convert AVAX to BTC without creating an account or handing over your identity. Select the AVAX to BTC pair, paste your Bitcoin wallet address, send a minimum of 0.2 AVAX on the Avalanche C-Chain, and receive BTC directly to your wallet once 1 confirmation clears. The rate carries a flat 2% spread, locked the moment you create the swap and displayed upfront before you send anything. Pre screening checks the coins (not your face) before the swap begins. No KYC. No passport photos. No explaining to a compliance officer why you'd like to move your money from one blockchain to another.
1 AVAX ≈ 0.00013517 BTC right now, our flat 2% spread already included.
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≈ $302.67
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Your rate locks the moment you create the swap and holds for the full 30-minute deposit window.
No account · Deposits screened before exchange, never frozen after
Avalanche is fast. Avalanche is cheap. Avalanche finalizes transactions so quickly that you could start a swap, blink, and miss the confirmation animation. The C-Chain ecosystem is packed with DeFi protocols, subnet experiments, and enough liquidity pools to keep a yield farmer busy through retirement. None of that changes the fact that every so often, you look at your portfolio and think: "What if I put some of this into the one asset that doesn't need a pitch deck?"
That asset is Bitcoin, and it's been sitting there since 2009, not asking for your attention, not launching a new subnet, and not competing with Solana for developer mindshare at a conference in Lisbon. It just exists, does its job, and quietly appreciates while everything else fights for relevance. Converting some AVAX to BTC isn't a rejection of Avalanche. It's an acknowledgment that the best portfolios don't live on a single chain, no matter how many transactions per second that chain can process.
The usual path to making this swap involves logging into a centralized exchange, selling AVAX for USDT, buying BTC with the USDT, requesting a withdrawal, entering seventeen authentication codes, and waiting while some compliance algorithm decides whether your face matches the photo you uploaded in 2021. By the time the bitcoin arrives, you've donated your entire transaction history to a company that stores it on servers you'll never audit. It works. It's also exhausting and unnecessarily intimate.
CoinVast skips all of that. No account. No identity check. No compliance team reviewing your selfie at 2 AM. You send AVAX on the Avalanche C-Chain network, CoinVast waits for 1 confirmation, and your BTC gets sent to the wallet address you provided. The whole process from start to bitcoin landing in your wallet takes roughly 15 to 30 minutes, depending on how chatty the Bitcoin mempool is feeling. That's faster than most exchanges process a support ticket, let alone a withdrawal.
Here's the practical walkthrough. Go to CoinVast, select the AVAX to BTC pair, enter how much AVAX you want to swap (minimum 0.2 AVAX), paste your Bitcoin receiving address, and send your AVAX to the deposit address provided. Make absolutely sure you're sending on the Avalanche C-Chain network. CoinVast waits for 1 confirmation, which takes a few seconds given Avalanche's block speed. Then your BTC gets broadcast, and after Bitcoin network confirmations, it shows up in your wallet. The rate carries a flat 2% spread, locked when you create the swap and shown before you commit. Pre screening runs on the incoming coins before the swap starts, so nothing gets frozen halfway through. Simple, private, done.
Confirmation counts and minimums above are the live values our exchange engine uses, not marketing copy. Block times are network averages and can vary.
Choose how much AVAX you are sending. The card quotes your BTC payout with the spread and network fee already counted in. Paste the Bitcoin address the payout should land at, plus an optional AVAX refund address in case the swap cannot complete.
You get a deposit address on the Avalanche C-Chain network. Send your AVAX to it from any wallet, in one payment of at least 0.2 AVAX. No account, no email, nothing to install.
Your deposit needs 1 confirmation on Avalanche C-Chain, about 1 minute. We screen it before the exchange starts, then send BTC to your address and post the transaction hash on your order page.
Let's start with what AVAX actually is. It's the native token of the Avalanche ecosystem, which includes the C-Chain (where all the DeFi and smart contracts live), the P-Chain (where validators stake), and the X-Chain (where asset transfers happen). The whole system is designed around speed and customization. Subnets let anyone spin up their own blockchain with custom rules, custom virtual machines, and custom fee structures, all anchored to Avalanche's consensus. It's genuinely impressive technology. But technology risk and monetary risk are two different animals, and AVAX carries both.
AVAX's value is tied to the adoption of its ecosystem. If developers build on the C-Chain, if subnets attract enterprise clients, if DeFi protocols on Avalanche keep growing, AVAX goes up. If a competitor launches a faster chain with better tooling, or if subnet adoption stalls, or if the next wave of developers decides to build somewhere else, AVAX struggles. That's the nature of platform tokens. They thrive when their ecosystem thrives and suffer when it doesn't. Bitcoin doesn't have this problem because Bitcoin isn't a platform. It's a protocol with one job: be money that nobody controls. It doesn't need developers to build DeFi on top of it (though they do anyway). It doesn't need enterprise partnerships or subnet launches. It needs nodes to stay running, and they've been running without interruption since January 2009.
The decentralization angle matters more than most people realize. Avalanche's consensus is fast because it uses a relatively small validator set compared to Bitcoin's mining network. The C-Chain processes transactions quickly because the system was designed to prioritize throughput. That's a legitimate engineering tradeoff. But Bitcoin's network is secured by more hash power than any computing system in human history, distributed across every continent, and controlled by no single entity. If you're holding crypto because you believe money shouldn't depend on the decisions of a handful of validators or a foundation's roadmap, then concentrating everything in AVAX is a philosophical contradiction wrapped in a fast finality wrapper.
Privacy is another reason people make this move. Avalanche's C-Chain is an EVM compatible chain, which means every transaction is fully visible on a public ledger that chain analysis firms have been mapping since the network launched. When your AVAX sits on a centralized exchange, that platform logs every trade, every withdrawal, and every deposit with your verified identity attached. Moving value into bitcoin and holding it in a self custodial wallet doesn't make you invisible, but it does separate your identity from your wealth in a way that keeping everything on a KYC exchange simply cannot. CoinVast's no KYC model means the swap itself doesn't create a new identity link. You're a wallet address on the Avalanche side and a different wallet address on the Bitcoin side. That's the entire relationship.
Bitcoin's utility also extends far beyond what AVAX offers outside the Avalanche bubble. BTC is accepted as collateral on lending platforms worldwide, it's the base trading pair on virtually every exchange, institutions hold it on their balance sheets, multiple countries have added it to national reserves, and spot ETFs managing hundreds of billions in assets track its price. AVAX is useful inside Avalanche's ecosystem. Outside of it, acceptance drops off sharply. If you ever need to sell, borrow against, or use your crypto in a context that doesn't involve Trader Joe or Benqi, Bitcoin is the asset that opens every door. AVAX opens the doors Ava Labs built. That's a meaningful difference when you're planning beyond next month.
Then there's the supply argument. AVAX has a capped supply of 720 million tokens, which is good. But the distribution, staking rewards, and vesting schedules are governed by protocol parameters that the Avalanche Foundation and its validators influence. Bitcoin's supply is capped at 21 million, and the issuance schedule was set in the genesis block and hasn't changed since. No foundation can propose a supply adjustment. No governance vote can alter the emission curve. Scarcity you can verify by running your own node hits differently from scarcity that depends on a protocol's governance remaining unchanged. For people who got into crypto specifically to avoid trusting institutions with their monetary policy, converting some AVAX to BTC is less of a trade and more of a return to first principles.
And finally, there's the cycle rotation logic that experienced traders know well. AVAX is a higher beta asset than Bitcoin. In bull markets, it tends to outperform BTC as capital flows into altcoins and ecosystem tokens. In bear markets or periods of uncertainty, it tends to underperform as capital consolidates back into Bitcoin. Converting some AVAX to BTC after a strong Avalanche run is a way to lock in gains denominated in the one asset that the entire crypto market prices itself against. You're not selling crypto. You're promoting it to the senior asset class.
The Avalanche C-Chain side requires 1 confirmation, which typically takes a few seconds given Avalanche's sub-second finality and fast block production. After that, CoinVast broadcasts your BTC, and Bitcoin's own network needs confirmations to finalize, usually adding another 10 to 20 minutes. Total realistic time from sending your AVAX to seeing bitcoin in your wallet: roughly 15 to 30 minutes under normal conditions. If Bitcoin's mempool is congested, it could stretch longer, but you can track the swap status in real time on CoinVast. Go reorganize your wallet labels. You've been putting that off.
CoinVast charges a flat 2% spread, locked the moment you create the swap. No hidden platform fees, no withdrawal charges, no surprise surcharges that appear after you've already sent your coins. The rate you see before you start is the rate you get. You'll also pay the standard Bitcoin network fee for the outgoing transaction, which fluctuates with congestion but is typically a few dollars. Compared to the stack of trading fees, withdrawal fees, and spread that centralized exchanges pile on, this is refreshingly straightforward.
No to both. CoinVast is a non custodial swap service. There's no account to create, no email to verify, no ID to upload, and no requirement to hold a piece of paper next to your face while a webcam judges whether you look enough like your 2019 passport photo. You select AVAX to BTC, paste your Bitcoin address, send your AVAX on the Avalanche C-Chain, and that's the entire interaction. CoinVast does run pre screening on incoming funds (see below), but that's checking the coins, not checking your identity.
Most swap services accept your crypto first and ask questions later. If their compliance system flags something, your funds get frozen mid transaction and you're stuck refreshing your inbox hoping someone at the help desk just finished their lunch break. CoinVast does this differently. They screen your incoming AVAX before the swap begins. If there's an issue with the funds (for example, they've been linked to a flagged address), you find out upfront before you've committed anything. Once the swap starts, it completes. Your money never sits in digital limbo while an automated system decides your fate. It's a small design choice that makes a massive difference when it's your money on the line.
The minimum AVAX you can send is 0.2 AVAX. There's no strict maximum listed, though extremely large swaps may take slightly longer due to liquidity matching. For most people converting anywhere from 0.2 AVAX to several hundred AVAX, the process is identical and takes the same amount of time. Whether you're testing the waters with a small amount or rotating a meaningful position from the C-Chain ecosystem into bitcoin, the experience doesn't change.
Fixed. CoinVast quotes one rate, a flat 2% spread over the mid-market price, and it locks the moment you create the swap. There's no floating option to choose and no separate fixed tier to pay extra for: the exchange rate is set the instant you create the swap, so you know exactly how much BTC you'll receive regardless of what the market does during those few seconds of AVAX confirmation. The number you see is the number you get.
Send your AVAX on the Avalanche C-Chain network. This is the default network for most AVAX transactions if you're using wallets like MetaMask or Core Wallet configured for Avalanche. Do not send AVAX on the X-Chain or P-Chain, as those are used for different functions within the Avalanche ecosystem and your funds will not arrive at the correct deposit address. Double check the network selection in your wallet before hitting send. This is one of those mistakes that's much easier to prevent than to fix, and significantly less fun to explain in a support message.
Setting it up takes under a minute. The blockchain handles the rest.