ETH Bridge (qETH)

Bridge ETH from Base mainnet to RougeChain as qETH, and back.

Deposit (ETH → qETH)

Step 1: Send ETH to the Bridge

Connect your MetaMask (or other EVM wallet) to Base and call depositETH(rougechainPubkey) on the RougeBridge contract (the Bridge page does this for you), passing your RougeChain public key. This emits a BridgeDepositETH event carrying your recipient key.

Step 2: Automatic claim

The relayer's deposit watcher sees the event and claims it for you — qETH is minted to the RougeChain key you encoded in the deposit, usually within a couple of Base confirmations. No manual claim step is needed.

The node verifies before minting:

• The transaction exists on Base and was sent to the correct contract
• The amount and sender match the deposit
• The transaction has sufficient confirmations
• It hasn't been claimed before (auto-claim and manual claim share one dedup store)

Manual fallback: if the watcher is disabled, use the Bridge In tab — paste the EVM tx hash, sign the claim message with your EVM wallet, and click Claim.

Conversion Rate

1 ETH = 1,000,000 qETH units (6 decimal precision)

For example, depositing 0.01 ETH gives you 10,000 qETH units.

Withdraw (qETH → ETH)

1. Go to the Bridge page and select the Bridge Out tab
2. Select ETH as the token
3. Enter the amount of qETH to bridge out
4. Enter the Base address to receive ETH
5. Click Bridge Out

The transaction is signed client-side (your private key never leaves the browser), then:

• qETH is burned on RougeChain
• A pending withdrawal is created
• The bridge relayer picks it up and sends ETH to your EVM address
• Release status (pending / failed / refunded) shows on the Bridge page. If the relayer can't complete the release after repeated attempts, your qETH is automatically refunded back to your RougeChain wallet.

A 0.1 XRGE fee is charged for the withdrawal transaction.

Fees