Whether or not you need to pay gas fees depends on what you're doing. With ELLIPAL Pay, card spending is entirely gas-free, while certain crypto actions still require a small fee.
✅ Card Spending Is Always Gasless
Using your ELLIPAL Pay card for purchases is a completely gasless experience.
- No gas tokens required
- No extra fees
How it works: ELLIPAL Pay automatically sponsors the gas fees required for your card transactions. We cover the network costs in the background, so you don’t need to worry about them.
⚠️ On-Chain Crypto Actions Require Gas
You only need to pay gas fees when performing on-chain blockchain actions that are unrelated to direct card spending.
These include:
- Sending funds from your ELLIPAL Pay Safe to another crypto wallet
- Swapping tokens on a decentralised exchange (DEX)
- Interacting with smart contracts outside of ELLIPAL Pay
Network fee token:
Gnosis Chain uses xDai as its gas token. The fees are typically less than €0.01, but you must hold a small amount of xDai in your Safe to complete these actions.
Summary: Do You Pay Gas?
|
Action |
Do You Pay Gas? |
|
Paying with your card (in-store/online) |
❌ No (sponsored by ELLIPAL Pay) |
|
Sending crypto to another wallet |
✅ Yes (paid in xDai) |
|
Swapping tokens on-chain |
✅ Yes (paid in xDai) |