Manual Withdrawals

As a trustless bridge, Hop allows users to force exit their tokens in the rare event where Bonders (market makers) don’t bond a user’s transfer fast enough. This can happen because: 1) A Bonder fee was set too low (e.g if sent via a third-party app which miscalculates the Bonder fee) 2) Bonder is offline or misses on-chain events ( e.g because of RPC node issues) 3) Bonder is out of liquidity to bond Transfers or Transfer Roots. When this happens Hop offers users a fallback option to withdraw their tokens manually at the destination chain albeit not as fast as it would arrive in a normal transfer involving a fully functioning Bonder. In order to withdraw, the Transfer Root bundle containing the proof of your transaction must be propagated to the destination, and this could take a few hours or days depending on the asset and route, so withdrawing immediately after sending won't work. Step 1: Paste your transaction hash Go to the withdraw page UI and paste the transaction hash of your transfer on the origin chain into the TransferID field.

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Step 2: Withdraw your transfer

If the Transfer Root containing your transaction has reached the destination chain you will see a pop-up. Click the “withdraw” button and confirm the transaction in your wallet.

Step 3: Swap your hTokens for native tokens

Upon showing your valid transfer proof the Hop bridge will mint hTokens for you (e.g hUSDC or hETH). So if you want native $USDC or $ETH you’ll need to manually convert your hTokens in the Hop AMM. Head to the “Convert” section in the Hop app, select the network and asset and choose the “via AMM” option to do the swap from hTokens into native tokens. NOTE: this final swap is only necessary if you sent to a Layer-2 network. If you sent to Ethereum you will directly receive native tokens, so no swap needed.