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
- $16.12
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 | 0.00063541 Ethereum |
| SUI sui | 0.00082515 Ethereum |
| DOGE dogecoin | 0.00086423 Ethereum |
| ETH arbitrum | 0.0008731 Ethereum |
| POL polygon | 0.00087875 Ethereum |
| USDT ton | 0.00088625 Ethereum |
| USDC near | 0.00088652 Ethereum |
| TRX tron | 0.00090911 Ethereum |
| TON ton | 0.00096495 Ethereum |
| BCH bitcoin_cash | 0.00097481 Ethereum |
| LTC litecoin | 0.0009842 Ethereum |
| NEAR near | 0.00102359 Ethereum |
| BNB bsc | 0.00120817 Ethereum |
| USDT polygon | 0.001418 Ethereum |
| SOL solana | 0.00141984 Ethereum |
| ETH optimism | 0.00154315 Ethereum |
| IOST iost | 0.00163034 Ethereum |
| USDT near | 0.0017931 Ethereum |
| USDT optimism | 0.00222592 Ethereum |
| USDC optimism | 0.00222659 Ethereum |
| XMR monero | 0.00227251 Ethereum |
| USDT solana | 0.00265874 Ethereum |
| DASH dash | 0.00299587 Ethereum |
| USDT arbitrum | 0.00313232 Ethereum |
| USDC arbitrum | 0.00313326 Ethereum |
| USDC solana | 0.00313372 Ethereum |
| USDT bsc | 0.00539913 Ethereum |
| XRP ripple | 0.00895056 Ethereum |
| USDT tron | 0.01004244 Ethereum |
| BTC bitcoin | 0.01232648 Ethereum |
| USDT ethereum | 0.01836382 Ethereum |
| USDC ethereum | 0.01836933 Ethereum |
| USDC bsc | 0.040600399 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.