Swap USDC on Ethereum to USDT on Arbitrum. Better.

Tell the AI what you want, send one deposit, receive USDT on Arbitrum. No bridge, no stored balances, and the comparison table runs on every quote.

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EXCHANGE

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USDC → USDT

Live rate
You sendEthereum
Min 5 · Max 15000 USDC
You getArbitrum
1 USDC = 0.9952989999999999 USDT
Destination
AIDo the same swap by just saying it: “Swap 100 USDC to USDT”
How it works

Swap USDC to USDT in three steps.

No accounts, no waiting. Tell Cambio what you want, send your USDC, and the USDT lands in your wallet in under a minute.

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01
Type the swap in plain words

Type "swap 100 USDC to USDT on Arbitrum" into the composer. The AI parses your intent, confirms Ethereum as the source and Arbitrum as the destination, and returns a live quote with the full competitor comparison alongside it.

A painted vessel pouring a single coin — the moment your deposit confirms.
02
Make one Ethereum deposit

Cambio generates a one-time deposit address on Ethereum. Send your USDC there — Ethereum confirms in well under a minute, and the card tracks every confirmation in real time.

A painted receiving bowl with a settled coin — the moment your swap completes.
03
Receive USDT on Arbitrum

Once your deposit confirms, the payout goes out to your Arbitrum address directly — Arbitrum confirms in seconds. No bridge hop, no wrapped assets, no waiting on a second protocol.

Live comparison

On 100 USDC you get 0.771 USDT more with Cambio.

Live quotes from every exchange that answered, at exactly this size: USDC → USDT on ARBITRUM

Send 100 USDC → Receive USDT (ARBITRUM)
Rates observed 2026-09-11 15:18 UTC · at 100 USDC · Exchanges quoting 6/9
Minimum 5 USDC · maximum 15000 USDC per swap
Cambio Best

Cambio delivers the most here — 0.78% more than ChangeHero, and it stated its network fee, so this figure is after that fee rather than before it. It is also the fastest, at about 5 minutes.

You receive99.5299 USDTNetwork fee0.1 USDTID checkKYC rareTime~5 min
#ExchangeYou receiveNetwork feeAll-in cost, to scalevs best
1 CambioBest
KYC rare~5 min
99.5299 USDT0.1 USDT0.47%Best
2 ChangeHero
KYC possible
98.7589 USDT0.25 USDT1.24%−0.7710-0.77%
3 SimpleSwap
KYC rare
98.5800 USDTincluded1.42%−0.9499-0.95%
4 StealthEX
KYC rare
98.5400 USDTincluded1.46%−0.9899-0.99%
5 ChangeNOW
KYC rare
98.5259 USDTnot stated1.47%−1.0040-1.01%
6 Quickex
KYC possible
98.5100 USDT1.0000 USDT1.49%−1.0199-1.02%
7 SideShift.ai
KYC possible
97.9875 USDTnot stated2.01%−1.5424-1.55%

Network fee — a stated amount is what the exchange returned, and the figure shown is after it. “included” means the exchange’s own price already contains its network fee, not itemised. “not stated” means its API returned no fee, so that amount is a ceiling rather than a promise.

Every row is what that exchange would pay for this exact size, quoted live from its own API at the time shown and ranked by what lands in your wallet. The bar is each row’s all-in cost against the market rate at that moment, drawn to one scale — ours included.

+78 bps
advantage over the next-best aggregator.
Every row is a live quote from that exchange’s own API at the time shown, for this exact size, as it would pay out through Cambio. Exchange names belong to their owners.
THIS CORRIDOR, IN NUMBERS

USDC on Ethereum → USDT on Arbitrum

What USDC → USDT actually costs

  • You send 100 USDC on Ethereum.
  • You receive 99.5299 USDT.
  • The smallest swap this corridor accepts is 109.978 USDC.

Why this pair behaves the way it does

Ethereum confirms in seconds per block, and 4 confirmations is enough to make a reorganisation impractical without leaving your USDC sitting there.

USDT on Arbitrum is a token, so sending it also needs Arbitrum's own coin for gas. Cambio funds that separately, which is why the USDT side is capped by what the wallet holds rather than by a policy number.

Floor on Arbitrum: 0.35%. Below that the corridor stops covering settlement.

USDT on Arbitrum carries 6 decimals, so every amount on this page is quoted to that precision and no further.

USDC on Ethereum and USDT on Arbitrum

USDC and USDT both track the dollar, but they are separate tokens on separate chains — USDC issued on Ethereum, USDT issued on Arbitrum.

Worth checking before you send: on Ethereum the token is 0xA0b86991c6218b36c1d19D4a2e9Eb0cE3606eB48, and the USDT you receive on Arbitrum is 0xFd086bC7CD5C481DCC9C85ebE478A1C0b69FCbb9.

Ethereum needs 4 confirmations before Cambio releases your USDT; that wait, not the Arbitrum payout, is what you spend time on.

People move a dollar token between chains to reach something only one side has: a protocol, an exchange deposit, or a cheaper onward transfer. Cambio does it as a swap — send USDC on Ethereum, receive USDT on Arbitrum, no account.

How long USDC on Ethereum takes to clear

Cambio waits 4 confirmations on Ethereum, then sends the payout immediately. End to end this corridor typically takes ~5 min.

USDC on Ethereum → USDT on Arbitrum, in numbers

Minimum109.978 USDC
Maximum15000 USDC
Commission floor0.35%
Confirmations4 on Ethereum
Typical time~5 min
USDT precision6 (USDT)
USDC contract on Ethereum0xA0b86991c6218b36c1d19D4a2e9Eb0cE3606eB48
USDT contract on Arbitrum0xFd086bC7CD5C481DCC9C85ebE478A1C0b69FCbb9
USDC precision6 (USDC)
For 1 USDC on Ethereum0.995299 USDT
For 1 USDT on Arbitrum1.0047232 USDC
Smallest payout109.461 USDT
Largest payout14,929.48 USDT

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The two coins

What you’re actually swapping.

Two different assets, two different on-chain stories. Here’s the minimum you should know before you send anything.

USDC
Ethereum ERC20

USDC on Ethereum is the canonical, issuer-native USDC. The network confirms in well under a minute, with gas is the price of L1 — it rises when the chain is busy — and this is the issuer-native home of USDC.

  • NetworkEthereum
  • Confirmations needed4
  • Average block time~12-second blocks
USDT
Arbitrum ERC20 (Arbitrum)

USDT on Arbitrum is dollar-pegged USDT in the Ethereum ecosystem at rollup fees. The network confirms in seconds, with L2 fees — a fraction of Ethereum L1 gas — and you get Ethereum-ecosystem USDT without paying L1 gas.

  • NetworkArbitrum
  • Confirmations needed20
  • Typical payout confirmationconfirms in seconds
What you need to know

Before you swap USDC to USDT on Arbitrum.

Numbers to check before you send — every one of them belongs to this corridor and was read off the panel, not written for the page.

Smallest swap this corridor accepts5 USDC
Largest swap this corridor accepts15000 USDC
Exchanges quoting this route, by size6 of 9 at 100 USDC
Best-to-worst gap, by size0.78% at 100 USDC
Our place, by size1 of 7 at 100 USDC
Confirmations we wait for on Ethereum4
Typical time, deposit to payout~5 min
USDT contract on Arbitrum0xFd086bC7CD5C481DCC9C85ebE478A1C0b69FCbb9
Questions

USDC to USDT on Arbitrum — frequently asked.

Is this a bridge swap?

No. Your USDC goes to a Cambio deposit address on Ethereum as an ordinary transfer, and you receive USDT on Arbitrum as an ordinary Arbitrum transaction. No bridge contract, no wrapped assets, no cross-chain messages.

How long does the swap take?

The deposit side on Ethereum confirms in well under a minute; the payout on Arbitrum confirms in seconds. The status card tracks every stage live — detection, confirmation, payout — so you are never guessing which side you are waiting on.

Do I need to verify my identity?

No account or sign-up is needed. Every swap is screened against sanctions and on-chain risk lists before a deposit address is issued; in line with applicable law and our risk-based AML policy, identity verification may be requested where screening flags elevated risk.

What is the maximum I can swap?

There is no fixed per-swap cap. The most you can send on this pair is shown in the table above and recalculated on every quote, so it always reflects what we can settle right now.

Can I receive the USDT into an exchange account?

Yes — on the exchange’s deposit screen pick USDT and make sure the network is Arbitrum (ERC20 (Arbitrum)), then paste that deposit address into the Cambio composer as your destination. If the network on the exchange side doesn’t match, don’t send — ask the AI and it will walk you through it.

Why use Cambio for this pair?

Every quote ships with a live comparison against the biggest instant exchanges — including when we lose — and the number on the card is the number that settles. Pricing is chain-aware, the route has no bridge exposure, and screening happens before your deposit, never after.