Do I Need to Pay Gas Fees with ELLIPAL Pay?

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)

 

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