In the US, crypto can be difficult to access. Here's a guide on various on-ramp and off-ramp options for US citizens.
That’s why, we will take a look at USDC on-ramp and off-ramp options in the US.
On-ramping and off-ramping in crypto is something we all need. Here’s what it means:
However, there are a few factors to look out for. For instance:
For our purpose, we don’t include CEXes, but concentrate on noncustodial wallets. Furthermore, we are not going to compare the cheapest chains in this article. So, let’s take a look at some available options.
MoonPay has 15 million users all over the world. We show you options on two different chains.
1) Ethereum
2) Polygon
The costs consist of network fees and processing fees. See the picture below.
Source: X
For this, we first look at on-ramping on Ethereum with Instant ACH on MetaMask.
On Polygon we would see these numbers.
Now let’s take a look at their off-ramping options. Here we noticed that you can only off-ramp ETH through MoonPay or Transak. They offer either a bank transfer or debit. So, in this case, 0.04278 ETH (approx ~100 USDC) would be ~ $94. However, actual prices may vary, since we didn’t click the provided links.
With Ramp Network, we will compare Ethereum and Avalanche.
On ETH:
On AVAX:
With Transak, we look once more to Ethereum and Avalanche.
On Ethereum:
On AVAX:
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Beam supports 6 chains. These are:
The platform will create a Beam address for you on these chains. You can send the following assets to these addresses, ETH, SOL, MATIC, AVAX, and USDC. Beam converts these to USD and will send it to your bank account or debit card. Beam also offers low fees. For example,
To sum up. This seems to make Beam the cheapest option that we covered in this article. Ramp comes into second place on Avalanche for both on-ramping and off-ramping. Respectively, $100 USD for $96.1 USDC and $100 USDC for $98.1 USD. However, with Coinbase Pay, we noticed that they already offer free on-ramping. However, wallets, like MetaMask, appear to charge the mentioned fees.
This article was inspired by this X thread.
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