Gas · live · base mainnet
Gas fees, live and honest.
JadeCove charges a flat $0.1 "gas fee" on every invoice — it's a USD-denominated pass-through that covers the actual ETH spent on Base to forward your payment to the merchant. Below is the live cost on Base mainnet right now, so you can see exactly what's happening under the hood.
Gas price
0.0060000 gwei
ETH spot
$1987.48
Operator charges
$0.1
Network
Base · 8453
Updated 0s ago
Pick a coin
USDC
ERC-20 transfer · 65 000 gas (safe ceiling)
Gas units65,000
× Gas price0.0060000 gwei
= ETH cost3.90e-7 ETH
= USD cost (live)$0.0008
What JadeCove charges$0.1
Safety margin125.00×
At today's Base gas price, a USDC transfer actually costs ~$0.0008. JadeCove charges $0.1, so the operator's ETH balance covers your transaction with a healthy 125.00× cushion. The leftover stays in the CDP wallet as accumulated fee — it gets swept periodically.
All coins at a glance
| Coin | Gas units | Live ETH | Live USD | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USDC | 65,000 | 3.9e-7 | $0.0008 | 125.00× |
How gas works on Base
- Every on-chain action burns gas units — a fixed cost based on the operation (21 000 for native ETH, ~65 000 for an ERC-20 transfer).
- Gas units are paid in native ETH at the network's current gas price (gwei). Base typically runs at 0.001–0.05 gwei — orders of magnitude cheaper than Ethereum mainnet.
- Cost =
gas_units × gas_price × ETH_price. - JadeCove's CDP wallet holds a small ETH balance pre-funded by the operator. Every auto-forward burns a tiny bit of it.
- Customers pay a flat $0.1 on every invoice in their chosen token. That fee accumulates in the CDP wallet and replenishes the operator's ETH tank over time (the operator manually swaps when needed).
- If the wallet ever runs out of ETH, transfers fail with
insufficient balance. The operator's admin dashboard surfaces this immediately.
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