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
- $24.76
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 | 1.564938 USDT (TRC-20) |
| SUI sui | 2.031441 USDT (TRC-20) |
| DOGE dogecoin | 2.128761 USDT (TRC-20) |
| ETH arbitrum | 2.148711 USDT (TRC-20) |
| POL polygon | 2.16195 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDT ton | 2.182742 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDC near | 2.183398 USDT (TRC-20) |
| TRX tron | 2.245635 USDT (TRC-20) |
| TON ton | 2.374823 USDT (TRC-20) |
| BCH bitcoin_cash | 2.390037 USDT (TRC-20) |
| LTC litecoin | 2.426754 USDT (TRC-20) |
| NEAR near | 2.534449 USDT (TRC-20) |
| BNB bsc | 2.974256 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDT polygon | 3.492386 USDT (TRC-20) |
| SOL solana | 3.493784 USDT (TRC-20) |
| ETH optimism | 3.797722 USDT (TRC-20) |
| IOST iost | 3.948579 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDT near | 4.416244 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDT optimism | 5.482234 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDC optimism | 5.483882 USDT (TRC-20) |
| XMR monero | 5.573298 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDT solana | 6.548224 USDT (TRC-20) |
| DASH dash | 7.334013 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDT arbitrum | 7.715737 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDC arbitrum | 7.718056 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDC solana | 7.718056 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDT bsc | 13.299493 USDT (TRC-20) |
| ETH ethereum | 16.115331 USDT (TRC-20) |
| XRP ripple | 22.048655 USDT (TRC-20) |
| BTC bitcoin | 30.305404 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDT ethereum | 45.228427 USDT (TRC-20) |
| USDC ethereum | 45.242022 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.