I can exchange my eth bep2 for eth bep20 when I click on “swap to smart chain” but it requires BNB for the fee. Would this be the best option? I don’t want to continuously burn currencies up just moving around looking for a solution. The end game is to have something I can use to exchange for other currencies (whereas currently eth bep2 can’t be used to exchange)
Yes, it's the best way if you want to buy those BSC tokens you mentioned. The swap fee over the Binance chain isn't that expensive so you should be fine. It probably wouldn't take you $1 to convert BEP2 to BEP20.