How to Bridge Funds OUT of Arbitrum back to Mainnet

This article will be the easiest tutorial on how to withdraw funds from Arbitrum and onto Ethereum mainnet.

Step 1. Make sure you have enough ETH on both Arbitrum and mainnet to pull out your funds. You should have at least $10 USD worth of ETH on Mainnet and about $5 USD worth on Arbitrum.

Bridging fees from Arbitrum to Mainnet

Step 2. Make sure the token you want to bridge actually exists on mainnet. You can not bridge obscure meme coin derivatives you bought on Arbitrum to mainnet if there is no liquidity… to keep things easy, simply sell such coins and convert to ETH.

Don’t try to bridge meme coins like PANA to Mainnet

Step 3. Now that you have enough ETH on both Arbitrum and mainnet for gas fees, you can initiate the transfer. Simply select the chain to be going From Arbitrum and Into Mainnet, then select the token you wish to bridge (USDC/ETH/etc)

From: Arbitrum — To: Mainnet

Step 4. Now you can choose if you want to do things the long and safe way, or the fast and not-so-safe way. I’ve only used the safe method so it’s what I’ll teach you, sadly this takes about 8–9 days to complete.

Not as safe, but fast.

Is safe, but slower.

Step 5. Now you just confirm the transactions in Metamask and let the blockchain do it’s thing!

8 days later..

Step 6. Hopefully by now your calendar’s notified you to check your withdrawal, switch back to Mainnet under your metamask chains.

Switch back to mainnet

Then, at the top right of the Arbitrum bridge you should see your funds waiting. This will be the final gas fee you pay to claim funds.

Claiming funds

And that’s it! You’ve successfully moved your Arbitrum funds over to Ethereum mainnet.

If you found this helpful or need more help, don’t hesitate to send me a DM on twitter or check out my Youtube for more tutorials :)