Tokens transaction fee.

[Rexler]

So my question might be a bit newbish but do you need besides tether in your wallet also ether for paying gas, or in other words you need two?

Yes, as long as the Tether(USDT) is an ERC20 token , it will require a eth in your wallet to cover for the transaction fees, and it's not just Tether(USDT) this is applicable to all ERC20 tokens, or all tokens running on the Ethereum blockchain, i just hope you are aware of the high cost of transaction fees on the Ethereum blockchain, if you can afford paying $25+ per transaction then you are good, but if you can't its best you stay away from eth and ERC20 tokens from now becuz of the transaction fees.

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[cfif]

Its a nice guess. Ethereum based tokens just provides himself interest. Guys look to the value of transaction cost into the Ethereum net and compare them with other tokens.

[aioc]

I have some basic undestanding of how ethereum works but I'm not sure about transaction fees on stablecoins like Tether and other tokens running on ethereum.

So on ethereum when your sending tether your sending tether including the ethereum gas fee.

So my question might be a bit newbish but do you need besides tether in your wallet also ether for paying gas, or in other words you need two?

Im not aware of how token representation with ether etc works, and I also don't intent to learn more about ethereum but it was an question which got my attention.

I also experienced that in my Exodus wallet way back I thought my small Ehereum can still cover my gas, but it was not and I have to wait sometime before I can add Ethereum to my Exodus because the transaction at that time was on an all-time high, just sending it in my Exodus will eat a lot of fees, so if you are going to store USDT on eth platform be sure you have enough gas, I prefer USDT on Tron better with their low fees, I'm not a big fan of Stable coin, there's no profit holding but just part of the strategy to keep your portfolio safe.

[lixer]

Even though your tokens will reach millions of dollars in your wallet, you will need some ETH to pay for the gas or what we called transaction fees. This is how the Ethereum network works. But don't worry, you don't need the same amount of ETH to the same amount of tokens you have. You just need to pay the current gas fees which you can check here: https://ethgasstation.info/


As of now, the price to get the fastest transaction is quite high but compared to a few days ago, this one is good.

I remember finding 40 as "a lot" and right now it is about 150 for sending under 2 minutes. That is really not normal right now, the link you sent me also shows the minimum as what it should be but you could always try to go lower and lower. I have sent with 20% less than what the "minimum suggested" before and it still passed, took some time but it still passed, I know people hate waiting for hours until your money comes but as long as it doesn't get rejected you could do it.

So, what I do is go for like half of what is suggested which gets rejected 100% of the time, and then I go 1 higher and 1 higher until it doesn't get rejected and eventually reach to a decent level. Of course this was back when ethereum transaction fee was like 4 dollars or so, and not what we are anywhere near those levels anymore since ETH price went up while ETH cost of fee went up together and made it even higher.

[Smitty Werben Man Jensen]

regardless of the token you want to move on the ethereum blockchain, the fees will be always paid in eth (gas) so you must always have some eth available to carry out transactions

and now expensive gas will make transaction fees even more expensive too, of course if you want to send tokens from the ethereum platform, you must have an ethereum balance of at least $ 50 for transaction fees, it's terrible isn't it, that's why Binance is now a competitor of Ethereum and trying to shift ethereum's position in 2nd place.

[WalkerIVIV]

and now expensive gas will make transaction fees even more expensive too, of course if you want to send tokens from the ethereum platform, you must have an ethereum balance of at least $ 50 for transaction fees,

When you are not doing swap and then you didn't need a lot of fees to create a single ERC20 transaction. As far as i know the tokens fees should be around $20 and that might be less consider the gas is quite stable at this moment. it looks like OP was a newcomer and that's why he was asking about this too.
When you are using good wallet and the gas fee will always be calculated anytime based on the data that being send by the node that has been running by the wallet provider.

[marilynmanson21]

and now expensive gas will make transaction fees even more expensive too, of course if you want to send tokens from the ethereum platform, you must have an ethereum balance of at least $ 50 for transaction fees, it's terrible isn't it, that's why Binance is now a competitor of Ethereum and trying to shift ethereum's position in 2nd place.

Ethereum transaction fees are expensive because ethereum prices have gone up very high, now BNB prices are still cheap, but if BNB is already expensive, transaction fees on the BSC network will also be very expensive, because I see that once transactions on the BNB network require at least 0.004 BNB and that is not much different from transaction fees at ETH

[Golftech]

and now expensive gas will make transaction fees even more expensive too, of course if you want to send tokens from the ethereum platform, you must have an ethereum balance of at least $ 50 for transaction fees, it's terrible isn't it, that's why Binance is now a competitor of Ethereum and trying to shift ethereum's position in 2nd place.

Ethereum transaction fees are expensive because ethereum prices have gone up very high, now BNB prices are still cheap, but if BNB is already expensive, transaction fees on the BSC network will also be very expensive, because I see that once transactions on the BNB network require at least 0.004 BNB and that is not much different from transaction fees at ETH

That's the factor to consider, way back ETH is not as high as what itis now. You can't just
simply send your assets to other wallet or exchange without paying the gas fee and it's really
high now. if you don't have that much tokens you are trapped, who will transfer asset with
more fees than what you will get.

[torrantz]

regardless of the token you want to move on the ethereum blockchain, the fees will be always paid in eth (gas) so you must always have some eth available to carry out transactions

and now expensive gas will make transaction fees even more expensive too, of course if you want to send tokens from the ethereum platform, you must have an ethereum balance of at least $ 50 for transaction fees, it's terrible isn't it, that's why Binance is now a competitor of Ethereum and trying to shift ethereum's position in 2nd place.

yeah current ethereum tps is just too slow, i wonder whether the developers back then didn't anticipate their coin to have this much of a traffic, eth 2.0 is still a long way to go too since there's rumour that the miners didn't really agree with eth switching to pos and the sharding aswell since it could be potential profit loss for them, this is getting really ridiculous and out of hand.

[X-ray]

Its a nice guess. Ethereum based tokens just provides himself interest. Guys look to the value of transaction cost into the Ethereum net and compare them with other tokens.

What do you mean about himself interest? Ethereum is native coin and it has less gas fees compared with the ethereum asset. People will always need ethereum to interact with the blockchain and this is already fully programmed.
The miners are only receiving ethereum and it doesn't make sense to bring back to comparison between ethereum with another platform.
I guess OP has got his answer and he might sent more ethereum to send his USDT or token