Kadena Nexus
What does it cost to send money today?
Today a simple KDA transfer costs $0.000000029. That is the lowest of the 10 chains below, and cheaper than Ethereum, BNB Chain, Solana, Tron and Bitcoin. It is about 324 thousand times cheaper than the same transfer on Ethereum.
| Chain | Send the chain's coin | Send a stablecoin |
|---|---|---|
| Kadena | $0.000000029 | $0.00000012kb-USDC / USDT |
| Stellar | $0.0000014 | $0.0000014USDC |
| XRP Ledger | $0.0000098 | $0.0000098RLUSD |
| Base | $0.00024 | $0.00073USDC |
| Solana | $0.00037 | $0.00037USDC |
| BNB Chain | $0.00063 | $0.0019USDT |
| Polygon PoS | $0.00089 | $0.0028USDC |
| Ethereum | $0.0095 | $0.029USDC / USDT |
| Tron | $0.082free for most senders (600 free bandwidth a day) | $1.97if TRX is burned; near zero with staked energyUSDT |
| Bitcoin | $0.093 | – |
Fees change all the time; these are today's typical values, not quotes. Bridge, exchange and wallet fees are not included. Today's data (JSON)Daily history (CSV)
Before you compare
- Kadena's fees are low partly because KDA's price and network use are low today. In our mainnet stress test (NR-001) fees stayed at the minimum even with every block full, and 20 parallel chains leave room to grow.
- Stellar and the XRP Ledger are also built for very cheap payments, so several chains here cost a tiny fraction of a cent. Kadena is the only proof-of-work chain among them.
- On Tron, a USDT transfer is expensive if the sender burns TRX and nearly free for senders who stake TRX for energy. We show the burned price.
- Transfer sizes are standard estimates. The exact cost depends on the wallet, the token contract and how busy the network is.
How each figure is measured
- Kadena: Median gas price and gas used by real coin.transfer and transfer-create transactions in the last 3 hours of mainnet blocks. Token transfer uses an upper estimate of 1,000 gas. Today: gas price 0.00000002 KDA, 252 gas per transfer (median of 54 recent mainnet transfers); KDA at $0.00580133.
- Ethereum: Base fee plus median priority fee of the last 5 blocks; 21,000 gas for ETH, 65,000 gas for a token transfer. Today: gas price 0.246 gwei; ETH at $1,835.8.
- Base: Same as Ethereum, plus Base's fee for posting the transaction to Ethereum (upper bound from Base's fee oracle). Today: gas price 0.0061 gwei, L1 data fee up to 2.22e-09 ETH; ETH at $1,835.8.
- BNB Chain: Gas price from the last 5 blocks; 21,000 gas for BNB, 65,000 gas for a token transfer. Today: gas price 0.05 gwei; BNB at $597.45.
- Polygon PoS: Base fee plus median priority fee of the last 5 blocks; 21,000 gas for POL, 65,000 gas for a token transfer. Today: gas price 520 gwei; POL at $0.081474.
- Solana: 5,000 lamport base fee plus the median recent priority fee, for 450 compute units (SOL) and 6,000 (USDC). Today: median priority fee 0 micro-lamports per compute unit; SOL at $73.09.
- Tron: TRX transfer uses 268 bandwidth (free up to 600 a day). USDT transfer uses 64,285 energy, burned at the network price; near zero for senders who stake TRX for energy. Today: energy 100 sun, bandwidth 1000 sun per byte; TRX at $0.307171.
- Bitcoin: mempool.space recommended fee for the next 30 minutes, for a 141 vB one-input, two-output transfer. Today: 1 sat/vB; BTC at $65,628.
- Stellar: Median fee charged in recent ledgers (Horizon fee_stats); one operation. Today: 100 stroops; XLM at $0.140792.
- XRP Ledger: Current open-ledger fee from a public rippled server; one payment. Today: 10 drops; XRP at $0.976159.
Prices in US dollars from CoinGecko. If a source cannot be read, the chain keeps its last value and shows the date it was measured. Questions or corrections: Saudi.KDA@kadena.ws. Nothing here is financial advice.