USDT on Tron: swap limits and where it goes
TRC-20 is the network most people mean when they say they hold USDT, largely because sending it costs little and settles quickly. Those two facts are why it is also the network most often assumed by wallets and by the people receiving a payment, which is a convenience until the receiver is one of the ones that does not take it.
- Assets
- USDT (TRC-20)
- Network
- Tron
- The wait before a swap starts
- 20 confirmations~1 min
- Cheapest way in
- $24.78
Where USDT (TRC-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 (TRC-20) |
| SUI sui | 1.98868 USDT (TRC-20) |
| DOGE dogecoin | 2.131542 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDT ton | 2.182742 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDC near | 2.183615 USDT (TRC-20) |
| ETH arbitrum | 2.195558 USDT (TRC-20) |
| TRX tron | 2.245635 USDT (TRC-20) |
| POL polygon | 2.273056 USDT (TRC-20) |
| BCH bitcoin_cash | 2.351572 USDT (TRC-20) |
| TON ton | 2.364346 USDT (TRC-20) |
| NEAR near | 2.433947 USDT (TRC-20) |
| LTC litecoin | 2.486473 USDT (TRC-20) |
| BNB bsc | 3.006773 USDT (TRC-20) |
| IOST iost | 3.080285 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDT polygon | 3.492386 USDT (TRC-20) |
| SOL solana | 3.553855 USDT (TRC-20) |
| ETH optimism | 3.880125 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDT near | 4.416244 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDT optimism | 5.482234 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDC optimism | 5.484428 USDT (TRC-20) |
| XMR monero | 5.59928 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDT solana | 6.548224 USDT (TRC-20) |
| DASH dash | 7.133634 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDT arbitrum | 7.715737 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDC arbitrum | 7.718824 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDC solana | 7.718824 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDT bsc | 13.299493 USDT (TRC-20) |
| ETH ethereum | 16.466684 USDT (TRC-20) |
| XRP ripple | 22.750069 USDT (TRC-20) |
| BTC bitcoin | 30.617089 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDT ethereum | 45.228427 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDC ethereum | 45.246526 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDC bsc | 100 USDT (TRC-20) |
Sending needs the network coin, not only the token
A USDT balance on Tron cannot move by itself: the transfer is paid for in the network’s own resources, so a wallet holding stablecoin and nothing else can be stuck. This is the most common reason a transfer that "should work" does not.
The address looks like nothing else here
Tron addresses have their own shape, which makes this one of the few stablecoin networks where a wrong-chain send is caught by the address itself rather than succeeding quietly. It is a real safety margin the EVM networks do not give you.