Do I Need to Pay Gas Fees with ELLIPAL Pay?

Modified on Sat, 9 May at 2:43 PM

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)