Which coins can be used on other chains?
Whether the same coin exists elsewhere, or a copy of it that somebody else issued.
Circle issues USDC directly on dozens of chains. A "bridged" USDC is a different token, issued by a bridge and not by Circle.
Source: Circle: USDC across chains · checked 2 October 2026
Ripple's docs list RLUSD as available on the XRP Ledger, Ethereum, Base, Optimism and three other networks.
Source: Ripple docs: RLUSD · checked 2 October 2026
Bitcoin itself exists only on its own network. On other chains it appears as a wrapped token: someone holds real bitcoin and issues a token against it.
Source: WBTC · checked 2 October 2026
Ether reaches the networks built on Ethereum, such as Arbitrum, through a bridge, and other chains as a wrapped token. Either way it depends on the bridge's code and on whoever runs it.
Source: Ethereum.org: bridges · checked 2 October 2026
LINK was issued on Ethereum. On other networks it usually exists as a bridged token, a copy that depends on whatever moved it there.
Source: Chainlink docs: LINK token · checked 2 October 2026
WLD is a token on Ethereum. People who claim it receive a bridged copy on World Chain, a network built on top of Ethereum, where the project expects most WLD activity to happen.
Sources: World white paper: tokenomics, World: World Chain · checked 2 October 2026
ENA is available on Ethereum and on a number of other chains through LayerZero, and its docs say it can be used to vote wherever it is held.
Source: Ethena docs: ENA · checked 2 October 2026
The other questions
- Which coins can be sold for dollars?
- Which coins can be held without a company?
- Which coins can send a payment?
- Which coins can earn a return by themselves?
- Which coins can run applications?
- Which coins limit their own supply?
- Which coins hold a steady dollar value?
- Which coins can be redeemed for what backs them?
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it, and nothing here is advice. Each answer names where it comes from and the day we read it. A coin we have not written up is left out, not marked down. How these answers are written.