Ether: swap limits, timing and where it goes
Ether is both the asset and the fuel, which is the one thing to plan around when swapping it. Sending your entire balance is impossible, because the transfer itself has to be paid for out of that balance, and the amount it costs is set by the network at the moment you send rather than known in advance.
- Assets
- Ethereum
- Network
- Ethereum
- The wait before a swap starts
- 12 confirmations~3 min
- Cheapest way in
- $16.11
Where Ethereum goes, and from how little
The minimum for each destination, in the unit you are sending. Read live, because it moves with the price and a figure written down goes stale quickly.
| Destination | Minimum |
|---|---|
| USDC polygon | 0.00063637 Ethereum |
| SUI sui | 0.00082473 Ethereum |
| DOGE dogecoin | 0.00086471 Ethereum |
| ETH arbitrum | 0.0008731 Ethereum |
| POL polygon | 0.00088008 Ethereum |
| USDT ton | 0.00088759 Ethereum |
| USDC near | 0.00088786 Ethereum |
| TRX tron | 0.00091317 Ethereum |
| TON ton | 0.00096499 Ethereum |
| BCH bitcoin_cash | 0.00097163 Ethereum |
| LTC litecoin | 0.00098493 Ethereum |
| NEAR near | 0.00102889 Ethereum |
| BNB bsc | 0.00120807 Ethereum |
| SOL solana | 0.00141844 Ethereum |
| USDT polygon | 0.00142014 Ethereum |
| ETH optimism | 0.00154315 Ethereum |
| IOST iost | 0.00162003 Ethereum |
| USDT near | 0.00179582 Ethereum |
| USDT optimism | 0.00222929 Ethereum |
| USDC optimism | 0.00222996 Ethereum |
| XMR monero | 0.00226521 Ethereum |
| USDT solana | 0.00266276 Ethereum |
| DASH dash | 0.0029743 Ethereum |
| USDT arbitrum | 0.00313752 Ethereum |
| USDC arbitrum | 0.00313846 Ethereum |
| USDC solana | 0.00313846 Ethereum |
| USDT bsc | 0.00540808 Ethereum |
| XRP ripple | 0.0089563 Ethereum |
| USDT tron | 0.01006491 Ethereum |
| BTC bitcoin | 0.01232669 Ethereum |
| USDT ethereum | 0.0183916 Ethereum |
| USDC ethereum | 0.01839712 Ethereum |
| USDC bsc | 0.040666938 Ethereum |
Leave enough to move what is left
A wallet emptied to the last unit is a wallet that cannot send again. If you plan to swap most of a balance, keep a margin for the next transaction rather than the exact fee for this one, because the next one will be priced by the network then, not now.
ETH on a rollup is a different entry in the table
The same ether held on Arbitrum or Optimism is reached by a different route with its own floor, so the numbers on this page are for Ethereum itself. Sending from a rollup means reading that network’s row rather than this one.