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
- $99.91
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 |
|---|---|
| LTC litecoin | 0.02678106 Ethereum |
| DASH dash | 0.0268002 Ethereum |
| DOGE dogecoin | 0.02680786 Ethereum |
| NEAR near | 0.02680786 Ethereum |
| BTC bitcoin | 0.042869881 Ethereum |
| USDC arbitrum | 0.042869881 Ethereum |
| USDC bsc | 0.042869881 Ethereum |
| USDC ethereum | 0.042869881 Ethereum |
| USDT arbitrum | 0.042869881 Ethereum |
| USDT bsc | 0.042869881 Ethereum |
| USDT ethereum | 0.042869881 Ethereum |
| XMR monero | 0.042869881 Ethereum |
| SOL solana | 0.042872822 Ethereum |
| TRX tron | 0.042872822 Ethereum |
| USDC optimism | 0.042872822 Ethereum |
| USDC polygon | 0.042872822 Ethereum |
| USDC solana | 0.042872822 Ethereum |
| USDT optimism | 0.042872822 Ethereum |
| USDT polygon | 0.042872822 Ethereum |
| USDT solana | 0.042872822 Ethereum |
| USDT tron | 0.042872822 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.