Privacy & Advanced Funding Routes

SharkBetX's default deposit path (CEX → withdraw to Polygon → deposit to vault) is simple and cheap, but it leaves a fully traceable trail on-chain that links your exchange account directly to your betting activity.

If that's acceptable — for example, you already have nothing to hide from the exchange you're using — the Getting Started guide covers everything you need. This page is for users who want to either break that link or who already hold crypto on another chain.

The mental model: bridge vs. swap

For privacy purposes, always prefer a swap over a straight bridge.

Best for users who already hold crypto on Ethereum, Arbitrum, BSC, Base, or any other EVM chain.

1. Open Rango Exchange and connect your wallet.
2. Set the source to whatever you already hold (e.g., USDC on Ethereum, ETH on Arbitrum, USDT on BSC).
3. Set the destination to USDC (PoS) on Polygon — the one with contract address ending ...4174. Do not select native USDC (...3359).
4. Review the route. Rango will usually combine a swap with a bridge; this combination is the privacy-preserving part.
5. Confirm in your wallet.

Funds arrive as USDC.e on Polygon, ready to deposit into the SharkBetX vault.

Hyperliquid processes account-to-account transfers on its own L1 (HyperCore) — these happen inside Hyperliquid's own ledger and don't touch the Arbitrum EVM bridge. They are not visible on standard chain explorers like Arbiscan. This is the strongest on-chain privacy currently available through mainstream tooling.

Flow:

1. Fund your Hyperliquid account. Starting from BTC? Use HyperUnit for cheap native BTC deposits into Hyperliquid.
2. Inside Hyperliquid, move balances between accounts via on-L1 transfers — no EVM trace.
3. Withdraw as USDC to Arbitrum. Hyperliquid charges a flat 1 USDC fee and covers the Arbitrum gas for you.
4. Swap USDC.arb → USDC.e on Polygon via Rango.
5. Deposit to SharkBetX as normal.

The extra hop (Arbitrum → Polygon) is the cost. The benefit is that the on-chain link between your original funding source and your SharkBetX wallet is effectively severed.

Rabby Gas Account

Multi-chain setups mean needing native gas tokens on every chain you touch: POL on Polygon, ETH on Ethereum and Arbitrum, BNB on BSC, and so on. Keeping dust balances on five chains is annoying.

Rabby's Gas Account solves this: prepay a balance once with stablecoins, and Rabby covers gas across chains. For anyone moving funds across multiple networks during setup, this removes a meaningful amount of friction.

Reverse: privacy-preserving withdrawal

The same logic applies when cashing out. The default path (vault → wallet → KYC'd exchange on Polygon) creates a direct on-chain link from your betting activity to your identity.

To break the link on withdrawal:

• Swap USDC.e on Polygon to a different token and/or chain via Rango before sending anywhere traceable.
• Or route through Hyperliquid in reverse: Polygon → Arbitrum → Hyperliquid on-L1 transfer → your final destination.

When this is overkill

These routes add steps and a small amount of fees. They're worth it when:

• You want to separate betting activity from your main on-chain footprint.
• You're aggregating funds from multiple wallets and don't want them visibly clustered.
• You just prefer better operational hygiene as a default.

They add little value if you only ever fund from one KYC'd exchange and cash back out to the same one — that exchange already has the full picture regardless of what happens on-chain in between.

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