The path from BTC on an exchange to a position on the Bitok Arena leaderboard is two steps. First: withdraw from the exchange to a personal wallet you control. Second: send from that wallet to the competition's master wallet. Neither step is technically difficult. The details that matter are the ones that prevent mistakes — and the most consequential of those is network selection.
Two steps is the correct number. You cannot skip the first one and go directly from an exchange to the competition. The address that enters Bitok Arena must be yours — and an exchange address is not yours. The withdrawal to a personal wallet is not a detour. It is the step that makes the rest of the process real.
Step One — Withdrawing From the Exchange to Your Personal Wallet
On any major exchange — Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, Bybit, OKX, or others — the withdrawal process starts in the same place: the withdrawal or send section, usually found under your wallet or funds area. Select Bitcoin as the asset. The next screen is where the critical decision happens.
Every exchange that supports Bitcoin offers multiple network options. You will see Bitcoin (BTC) — which is the Bitcoin mainnet — alongside options like ERC-20 (Ethereum), BEP-20 (BNB Chain), or others. Bitok Arena operates exclusively on the Bitcoin mainnet via Native SegWit. Select Bitcoin (BTC) as the network. Do not select any other chain. Sending Bitcoin over the wrong network results in lost funds that cannot be recovered — this is not an edge case, it is the most common costly mistake in crypto transfers.
Enter your personal wallet's Bitcoin receive address as the destination. This is the address from your self-custody wallet — Exodus, Trust Wallet, Ledger, Trezor, Electrum, or whichever wallet holds your private key. This is not the Bitok Arena master wallet address. The exchange withdrawal goes to your wallet first. From there, you control the next step.
Set the withdrawal amount, accounting for the exchange's withdrawal fee — typically between 0.0001 and 0.0005 BTC depending on the platform and current network conditions. Confirm the transaction. Depending on the exchange, the withdrawal processes immediately or within 30 to 60 minutes after internal compliance checks. When the transaction confirms on the Bitcoin network, your personal wallet shows the received BTC.
Step Two — Sending From Your Wallet to Bitok Arena
With BTC in your personal wallet, open the send function. The destination address is the Bitok Arena master wallet address, displayed on the competition's leaderboard page. Copy it directly — do not retype it manually. Paste it into the destination field. Verify the first and last four characters match what is shown on the leaderboard before confirming.
Select your send amount and confirm the transaction. Your wallet broadcasts it to the Bitcoin network. Bitok Arena waits for three on-chain confirmations before registering your address on the leaderboard — this typically takes between 30 and 60 minutes under normal network conditions. Once confirmed, your address appears in the leaderboard, ranked by total BTC committed from that address during the current round.
From this point, you are in the competition. The address on the leaderboard is yours. You can add more BTC from the same address at any point during the round to strengthen your position. When the round closes, if your position is in the top three, the prize is sent on-chain to your address — the same address that entered, now receiving the result.
The two-step process is the difference between a position that belongs to you and one that belongs to an exchange. The withdrawal takes minutes. The send takes seconds. What it produces is an address on a public leaderboard that answers to nobody but the holder of the private key — which, after those two steps, is you.
Every exchange handles the interface differently, but the underlying sequence is identical: withdraw Bitcoin on the Bitcoin network to your personal wallet, then send from your wallet to the master wallet. The terminology changes. The steps do not.
Two steps from the exchange to the leaderboard. One of them creates an intermediary. The other eliminates it. The withdrawal is the step that makes everything that follows yours — the position, the round, and whatever the leaderboard assigns to your address when it closes.