USDT on Ethereum: swap limits and where it goes
ERC-20 is the version of USDT that everything accepts and the one that costs the most to move. That trade is the whole decision: on a large transfer the fee is a rounding error against certainty of acceptance, and on a small one it can be a meaningful share of the amount. Nothing about the token differs — only the network charging you to move it.
- Assets
- USDT (ERC-20)
- Network
- Ethereum
- The wait before a swap starts
- 12 confirmations~3 min
- Cheapest way in
- $45.22
Where USDT (ERC-20) 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 | 1.565094 USDT (ERC-20) |
| SUI sui | 1.99334 USDT (ERC-20) |
| DOGE dogecoin | 2.133564 USDT (ERC-20) |
| USDT ton | 2.182742 USDT (ERC-20) |
| USDC near | 2.183615 USDT (ERC-20) |
| ETH arbitrum | 2.197859 USDT (ERC-20) |
| TRX tron | 2.246295 USDT (ERC-20) |
| POL polygon | 2.280001 USDT (ERC-20) |
| BCH bitcoin_cash | 2.352419 USDT (ERC-20) |
| TON ton | 2.364346 USDT (ERC-20) |
| NEAR near | 2.437258 USDT (ERC-20) |
| LTC litecoin | 2.486937 USDT (ERC-20) |
| BNB bsc | 3.008208 USDT (ERC-20) |
| IOST iost | 3.080285 USDT (ERC-20) |
| USDT polygon | 3.492386 USDT (ERC-20) |
| SOL solana | 3.559091 USDT (ERC-20) |
| ETH optimism | 3.884587 USDT (ERC-20) |
| USDT near | 4.416244 USDT (ERC-20) |
| USDT optimism | 5.482234 USDT (ERC-20) |
| USDC optimism | 5.484428 USDT (ERC-20) |
| XMR monero | 5.617508 USDT (ERC-20) |
| USDT solana | 6.548224 USDT (ERC-20) |
| DASH dash | 7.145421 USDT (ERC-20) |
| USDT arbitrum | 7.715737 USDT (ERC-20) |
| USDC arbitrum | 7.718824 USDT (ERC-20) |
| USDC solana | 7.718824 USDT (ERC-20) |
| USDT bsc | 13.299493 USDT (ERC-20) |
| ETH ethereum | 16.483938 USDT (ERC-20) |
| XRP ripple | 22.838601 USDT (ERC-20) |
| USDT tron | 24.781361 USDT (ERC-20) |
| BTC bitcoin | 30.665611 USDT (ERC-20) |
| USDC ethereum | 45.246526 USDT (ERC-20) |
| USDC bsc | 100 USDT (ERC-20) |
Where the address format helps you and where it does not
Ethereum shares its address format with every other EVM network, so an address that is valid here is also valid on several chains you did not mean. The address cannot catch that mistake for you; only reading the network beside it can.
The fee moves with the network, not with the amount
Sending a hundred dollars costs the same as sending a hundred thousand, because the network charges for the work rather than the value. That is why a small swap out of ERC-20 is disproportionately expensive and a large one is not.