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
- $16.44
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 | 0.00062259 Ethereum |
| SUI sui | 0.00079174 Ethereum |
| DOGE dogecoin | 0.00084743 Ethereum |
| USDT ton | 0.00086828 Ethereum |
| USDC near | 0.00086863 Ethereum |
| ETH arbitrum | 0.0008731 Ethereum |
| TRX tron | 0.00089356 Ethereum |
| POL polygon | 0.00090052 Ethereum |
| BCH bitcoin_cash | 0.00093619 Ethereum |
| TON ton | 0.00094052 Ethereum |
| NEAR near | 0.00096988 Ethereum |
| LTC litecoin | 0.00098735 Ethereum |
| BNB bsc | 0.00119585 Ethereum |
| IOST iost | 0.00122989 Ethereum |
| USDT polygon | 0.00138925 Ethereum |
| SOL solana | 0.00141259 Ethereum |
| ETH optimism | 0.00154315 Ethereum |
| USDT near | 0.00175675 Ethereum |
| USDT optimism | 0.00218079 Ethereum |
| USDC optimism | 0.00218166 Ethereum |
| XMR monero | 0.00222831 Ethereum |
| USDT solana | 0.00260483 Ethereum |
| DASH dash | 0.00283743 Ethereum |
| USDT arbitrum | 0.00306897 Ethereum |
| USDC arbitrum | 0.00307019 Ethereum |
| USDC solana | 0.00307049 Ethereum |
| USDT bsc | 0.00528992 Ethereum |
| XRP ripple | 0.00905549 Ethereum |
| USDT tron | 0.00986019 Ethereum |
| BTC bitcoin | 0.01217567 Ethereum |
| USDT ethereum | 0.01798977 Ethereum |
| USDC ethereum | 0.01799697 Ethereum |
| USDC bsc | 0.039770129 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.