Questions tagged [fees]
For questions regarding the fees and fee structure in the Stellar Network.
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How can I close a Stellar Account?
According to the Minimum Account Balance information, the account has to have
(2 + # of entries) * 0.5) XLM
deposited to support transactions.
Let's say there is an account with 0 trust lines and 1 ...
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How much should I pay nodes?
Disclaimer: I'm not a developer and just started venturing the blockchain and Stellar worlds
Until this morning, my understanding was that miners get compensated for their work by getting gas/...
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From where is the transaction fee for a custom token (build on Stellar) that is charged by Stellar Network?
From where is the transaction fee for a custom token (build on Stellar) that is charged by Stellar Network? Is it from the custom wallet (I know the only possibility will be in XLM)? From whose ...
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How much does it cost to exchange 100 USD for EURs on Stellar Network?
I'm new to Stellar technology and I have some doubts about the Anchors.
As I understand it, the "key point" in transfer real fiat money on the network is the Anchor. An Anchor is a trusted entity ...
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How to properly set `baseReserve` & `baseFee` to 0
I ran a basic private network with the line COMMANDS=["upgrades?mode=set&upgradetime=1970-01-01T00:00:00Z&basefee=0&basereserve=0"] inside of my stellar-core.cfg file on all of my nodes (5 ...
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Stellar standalone and network fees
I am building a non-financial app using Stellar. Basically the app is going to transfer assets between accounts. So I want to run a few standalone nodes under same (private) network.
As far as I ...
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Does stellar takes fee for resolving a federated address?
I did a transaction from my one of my stellar accounts to my federated stellar address which is under another account. But while sending I made the mistake of not giving the complete federated address ...
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What's the business model for being an anchor?
we are looking at becoming an anchor for assets like BTC and ETH, but I don't understand what the business model would be for that. Do any of the current anchors for these assets charge any fees? For ...
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How to compute for fees in multi currency transaction
Is there a way to compute for the fees involved in a multicurrency transaction, and how does stellar choose a path, say for example I would like to send USD to someone in the US using Euros? Is there ...
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Can a token issued on Stellar determine its own transaction fees?
Would a token that plans to take an additional percentage Lumens for transaction fees be possible to create on the existing Stellar network?
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Benefit of overpaying fees
It is possible to specify an overpayment of network fees. For example, on the test network I paid 999 stroops instead of 100 for a single operation.
Does this benefit the sender under any ...
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Is it possible to create a private stellar network without transactions fees?
I am trying to create a private stellar network that is not geared towards financial transactions.
So transactions fees would not make sense. I would like new block to be created without any fees.
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What is the policy for changing base fee?
In December the base fee was changed due the steep rise in XLM value as answered here. I am looking forward for the next change, and wonder if that's the only reason.
My question is, what is the ...
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How are changes in the stellar protocol implemented?
Recently there was a lowering of the base fee from 10 to 0.5 lumens. Typically in a blockchain such a change would require a hard fork. How did all the validators agree to accept the new limit? Did ...
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What is “Bump Sequence”?
There is currently a new operation proposal on stellar's github to add a bump sequence. What does this mean, why is it being implemented, and how does it impact stellar developers?
Bump sequence ...
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Reason for base fee change?
According to the documentation, the base reserve (0.5 XLM) and base fees (0.00001 XLM) are fixed, but over time they will likely be changed:
The base reserve and base fee can change, but should not ...
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Does every transaction on Stellar need XLM as a bridge between 2 assets?
Do we need XLM for every transaction as a bridge currency or only where asset pairs are not established? (I'm not talking about the transaction fees in XLM which are always due)
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Do transaction fees scale with the size of the transaction?
Does the transaction fee increase with larger transfers of XLM?
If so, by how much?
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Are there any steps taken to prevent spamming the Stellar network?
Many wallets have recently received a transaction with advertisement for an inflation pool in the memo text. With a fee of 0.001 XLM, massively spamming the Stellar network seems to be pretty cheap. ...
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How is Stellar base reserve voted?
Stellar tweeted a couple days ago:
Validators on the @StellarOrg network just voted to lower the base reserve to 0.5 #XLM which makes the cost of creating accounts and orders inexpensive again
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Send funds with Fees Included or Not Included?
Is it possible, to program in an option for sending funds minus fees, or plus fees? To have a choice, depending on the situation.
For example, I want to use Lumens to pay for coffee, it's $5.00.
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