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# Connecting to Binance Smartchain

### Connecting to Binance Smart Chain (BSC)

If you aren't already connected to Binance Smart Chain (BSC) in your preferred wallet and you don't know how to do that, you'll need to do that first.

There are plenty of great guides already out there on how to set that up. Here are a few we like, depending on which wallet you're using.

#### Metamask

* **\[TEXT]** [Connecting MetaMask to Binance Smart Chain (Binance Academy)](https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/connecting-metamask-to-binance-smart-chain)
* **\[VIDEO]** [How to Connect MetaMask to the Binance Smart Chain (BSC)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVH6wpaHcDI)&#x20;

#### Trust Wallet

* **\[TEXT]** [Connecting Trust Wallet to Binance Smart Chain (BSC) (Binance Academy)](https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/connecting-trust-wallet-to-binance-smart-chain-bsc)

**SafePal**

* **\[TEXT]** [How To Use Binance Smart Chain in SafePal Wallet](https://blog.safepal.io/binance-smart-chain-x-safepal/)

### Funding Your Wallet

Now that you're on Binance Smart Chain (BSC), you'll need to fund your wallet. You can do that by purchasing BSC's native token **BNB** on an exchange like [crypto.com](http://crypto.com/), [Binance](https://www.binance.com/), or any other exchange that allows withdrawal to Binance Smart Chain (BSC). Just be sure it's **BEP-20**, and not **BEP-2**.

If you already have crypto on another network that you'd like to use on Binance Smart Chain (BSC) to invest in BUL Finance, you can also just bridge those funds over!

### Bridging to Binance Smart Chain (BSC)

There are plenty of great services out there these days that make it super simple and hassle-free to bridge funds to Binance Smart Chain (BSC) from another network. We recommend elk.finance. Here are some great tutorials to follow if you need help!

#### **elk.finance**

* **\[TEXT]** [Cross-Chain ElkNet bridge (Official ElkNet Docs)](https://docs.elk.finance/features/cross-chain-elknet-bridge)
* **\[VIDEO]** [How to Bridge Any Token onto Any Chain Easily! (Elk.Finance) (The Calculator Guy)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKSkjfsUA-U)

Now that you've got your wallet connected to Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and your funds ready to deploy, you're finally ready to get started with BUL Finance. In the next section, let's learn how to actually buy BUL and other Protocal tokens, and then explore some of the different strategies you could use depending on your risk tolerance and how you intend to utilize the protocol.
