How to use Orbit.
It is a wallet, not a blockchain.
Plenty of people arrive here looking for "the Orbit blockchain". There isn't one, and the correction is the most useful thing this page can tell you first: Orbit is software on your device that holds the keys to accounts on chains that already exist. Once that is clear, using it is four steps and about two minutes.
There is no Orbit chain and no Orbit token.
This is worth stating plainly rather than leaving you to infer it, because almost every wrong expectation about Orbit follows from the same mistake.
Orbit is a wallet
It runs on your machine, generates a recovery phrase locally, and signs transactions for networks it did not create. That is the entire product.
The chains are other people’s
Your bitcoin sits on Bitcoin and your SOL sits on Solana. Orbit holds the key; the network holds the ledger. Delete Orbit and the coins do not move.
Nothing to buy
No Orbit coin, no presale, no staking of an Orbit asset, no airdrop. If you have been offered one of those, it did not come from us.
So "how do I use the Orbit blockchain" does not have an answer, but the question underneath it does: how do you use Orbit to hold and move assets on 13 real networks. That is the rest of this page.
Four steps, and one of them has no undo.
There is no email step, no confirmation link and no identity check anywhere in this, because there is no account to create:
Pick where it runs
The browser app needs no install at all. Android is a direct APK. Windows is the full desktop build — take that one if you intend to send, for the reason in the next section.
Generate a wallet
A recovery phrase is produced on your device using your platform's own cryptographic randomness. It is not requested from a server and not derived from anything we know about you.
Set a password — it encrypts, it does not log you in
The password is stretched with PBKDF2-SHA256 at 600,000 iterations and the result encrypts the vault with AES-GCM-256. Only the encrypted blob is stored, on your device.
Write the phrase down, on paper
This is the step with no undo. Orbit shows the phrase once. Because the password is an encryption key rather than a login, there is no reset link behind it and no support desk that can recover it. Lose the phrase and the wallet is gone.
After that you are holding a wallet. The mechanical version of all four steps goes into enough detail to check the claims rather than take them.
Every build receives. One build sends.
This is not discoverable from the outside today — you find it by trying to send — so it belongs on the page that teaches you to use the thing.
Signing and broadcasting an outgoing transaction happens in Orbit Desktop only. The browser and Android builds will let you build a send and then stop, on purpose, rather than pretending and failing at the final confirm. Receiving is not gated on any surface — money arrives at the address whether Orbit is open or not. The same split applies to swaps: quotes work everywhere, signing does not. If you plan to move funds rather than just hold them, install the Windows build first →
8 networks you can create on, 13 you can hold.
One recovery phrase covers every row. This table is generated from the app's own supported-chain list, so it cannot drift ahead of the product.
Create means Orbit derives a fresh wallet for that network from a recovery phrase you generate on your own device. Track means you paste an address you already control and Orbit follows it. All 13 can be tracked; 8 can be created in the app today. Nothing here is custodial either way — what self-custody means, concretely.
A valid address is not a correct network.
Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum and Polygon share the derivation path m/44'/60'/0'/0/0, so one key produces one address that is valid on all four. Every validity check will pass on every one of them. Nothing about the address tells you which chain was meant.
Two habits remove the risk entirely, and they are worth building on day one rather than after:
- Say the network every time you hand out the address. "My Ethereum address" and "my Base address" are the same string and a different instruction. The string is not the instruction.
- Keep a little gas on any chain you use. Funds on a network where you hold no gas token cannot be moved off it until you get some there.
Assets sent to your correct address on the wrong network are not gone from the chain, but retrieving them is a technical exercise many people cannot complete, and for some tokens it is not possible at all. One wallet or several covers the same trap from the setup side.
What Orbit will not do yet.
Knowing the edges before you rely on it is more useful than a feature list, and these are the four you would otherwise discover mid-task.
No sending outside the desktop build
Browser and Android prepare a transaction and stop. Receiving and holding are unaffected on both.
No bridging between chains
Swaps are within a network — Ethereum via 0x, Solana via Jupiter. Orbit has no bridge, so ETH to SOL is not something it can do.
No live balance on four networks
Bitcoin Cash, Tron, XRP and Stellar are held as addresses without a balance read. Payments still land; you confirm them on a block explorer.
Hosted checkout is not open
Getting paid to your address or your @name works today. Payment pages that quote a price live in several coins are built but not open, and no date is attached to that here.
None of that is hidden anywhere else on this site either — how payments actually work covers the receiving side in the same detail. A getting-started page that listed only the parts that work would be selling you something rather than teaching you to use it.
Straight answers.
Is there an Orbit blockchain?
No, and this is worth being blunt about because it is the single most common thing people arrive looking for. Orbit is a wallet. There is no Orbit chain, no Orbit validators, no Orbit token and no Orbit network — nothing for you to bridge to, stake on, or buy.
What Orbit does is hold the keys to accounts on blockchains that already exist. Your Bitcoin sits on Bitcoin and your Solana sits on Solana; Orbit is the thing on your device that can sign for them. The full list of networks it covers is generated from the app's own chain list.
How do I start using Orbit?
Open the browser app or install a build, generate a wallet, and write the recovery phrase down. That is the whole setup. There is no signup, no email confirmation and no identity check, because there is no account on our side to attach them to.
The one step with no undo is writing the phrase down. Orbit shows it once, your password encrypts it rather than logging you in, and nobody — including us — can reset it for you.
Which blockchains can I actually use it with?
Orbit can create a fresh wallet on 8 networks: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, Litecoin and Dogecoin. It can hold and track an address you already control on 13, adding Bitcoin Cash, Cardano, Tron, XRP Ledger and Stellar.
Live balances are read for nine of those — the 8 creatable ones plus Cardano — directly from public nodes and block explorers rather than from an Orbit server. Bitcoin Cash, Tron, XRP and Stellar are held as addresses without a live balance read, so funds arrive normally but you confirm them on an explorer.
Can I send money from the browser app?
Not today. Every surface can create wallets, hold keys, receive and show what you own. Signing and broadcasting an outgoing transaction happens in Orbit Desktop only — the browser and Android builds let you prepare a send and then stop, deliberately, rather than failing at the final confirm.
If sending is why you are here, take the Windows build first. The surface-by-surface table lays out exactly which build does what.
Can I move funds from one chain to another inside Orbit?
No. Orbit's swap trades one token for another on the same network — Ethereum via 0x, Solana via Jupiter — and it does not move value between the two. Crossing chains is bridging, which puts your funds with a contract or a relayer in the middle, and Orbit does not do it.
Holding 13 networks side by side is not the same as trading across them, and the swap page is explicit about where that line falls.
What happens if I lose my recovery phrase?
The wallet is gone, permanently. That is not an Orbit limitation to be worked around — it is the direct consequence of nobody else holding a copy of your keys, which is the entire point of self-custody.
The upside is the same fact read the other way: the phrase is not an Orbit login and is not tied to Orbit at all. Keys are derived along each chain's standard BIP39/BIP44 path, so the same phrase opens the same addresses in a different wallet years from now. What that trade actually costs is worth reading before you fund anything.
Not a chain.
Just your keys.
Generate a wallet on your own device, in about two minutes, with no account and no email.