Bybit: what happens to a deposit on the wrong network

Two separate paths. If the unsupported asset shows on your Pending Asset page you withdraw it yourself; if it does not, you file a manual request, which costs a flat $200 and is only accepted for assets worth over $500. Recovery is best-effort and Bybit states 100% recovery is not guaranteed — if it fails, the deposit is a permanent loss. Requests for transactions older than 180 days, or from before 22 January 2024, are not processed.

Recovery: Self-service tool
Timeline: Varies by case, see below

What it costs

Quoted exactly as Bybit states it.

Case	Fee	Timeline
missing or wrong tagSelf-service appeal. Deducted from the refund, which goes back to the source address. If the estimated refund is below the coin's minimum withdrawal limit, the request is not processed.	five times the standard withdrawal fee for that coin	—
unsupported tokenSelf-service, available only when the asset appears on the Pending Asset page. The user withdraws it to an external non-Bybit wallet supporting that coin and chain.	varies by asset, shown in USDT on the Pending Asset page	depends on blockchain confirmation
unsupported token manual recoveryManual procedure, used when the asset is NOT on the Pending Asset page. Only assets worth more than $500 are eligible — anything below is rejected outright. The fee is non-refundable once charged, even if recovery fails.Only accepted for deposits worth more than $500	200 USD	3-5 working days review, 7-14 business days overall

Stated as unrecoverable

Bybit says funds are lost in these cases. Anyone offering to recover them for a fee is running a scam.

Funds losterroneous coin deposits on KCC
Funds losterroneous coin deposits on OEC
Funds losterroneous coin deposits on Ronin
Funds losterroneous coin deposits on Cronos

What they will not help with

Different from the list above: the funds may still exist, but Bybit will not act on these.

No helpmanual recovery requests for assets valued at $500 or less
No helprefunds smaller than the coin's minimum withdrawal limit
No helptransactions older than 180 days or dated before 22 January 2024
No helpsmart contract deposits of any coin other than ETH — TRC-20 USDT, BSC, Polygon and others must be sent by direct transfer; detectable on-chain from the sender

Assets that need a memo or tag

Sending these without the memo is one of the cheapest mistakes to fix — often just a network fee. Check this list before you send.

XRP

What you will need

txid
asset
network
external wallet address
amount

Open Bybit's official page

Networks Bybit credits

Deposits on any other network reach their address and are not credited to your account. That is the case their recovery process exists for.

Asset	Credited on
USDT	arbitrum, avalanche, bsc, ethereum, mantle, optimism, polygon, solana, tron
USDC	arbitrum, avalanche, base, bsc, ethereum, mantle, optimism, polygon, solana, sonic
ETH	arbitrum, base, bsc, ethereum, linea, mantle, optimism, zksync
XRP	xrp
SOL	solana
TRX	tron
LINK	ethereum

Read from Bybit's own published deposit list on Aug 31, 2026.

Assets that need a tag or memo

Bybit gives every customer the same deposit address for these, and tells them apart by a destination tag or memo: XRP. Sent without one, the funds arrive and are credited to nobody — contact their support with the transaction hash rather than sending again.

Bybit deposit not credited — the checks worth doing first

Is this actually your case?

Most missing deposits are not lost — they are waiting on confirmations or sitting in a wallet you can still reach. Paste the hash and find out which.

Check a transaction

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Same problem, a different exchange

Or compare all 11 side by side: the recovery matrix, what each charges and how long each takes. The full entry for Bybit, with its sources and the date each was read, is on its own page.

No wallet connection. No seed phrase. Read-only — we never ask for one, and no legitimate service ever will.