Glossary
TRON energy and bandwidth
The two resources the TRON network charges for transactions: bandwidth for the size of a transaction and energy for running a smart contract such as a TRC20 token transfer.
How it works in CryptoLike
Every TRC20 transfer, including a USDT payment on TRON, calls the token's smart contract and so consumes energy and bandwidth. An account that has not staked TRX for these resources pays for them by burning TRX. That is why a customer's wallet needs some TRX next to its USDT: a wallet with USDT and zero TRX cannot send the payment.
When a customer pays you in USDT on TRON, the customer's wallet pays this cost; the amount you receive is not reduced by it. When CryptoLike consolidates a USDT payment address, it pays the network cost in TRX from its own gas wallet: it activates the address if needed and sends it TRX, which the transfer then burns for energy and bandwidth. That cost is the platform's and is never charged to your balance. For a USDT TRC20 payout, the network fee is shown in USDT in the estimate before you confirm and is debited with the payout, so you do not need a TRX balance to pay out.
More on choosing a network: USDT TRC20 vs ERC20.
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- USDT TRC20 vs ERC20: which network to accept payments onUSDT on TRON (TRC20) and on Ethereum (ERC20) are separate assets. Compare addresses, network fees, confirmations and the wrong-network risk before accepting USDT.
- How to accept USDT TRC20 payments: setup, confirmations, feesAccept USDT on TRON with CryptoLike: pick the asset, create a payment, show the right network, wait for confirmations, pay out. Fees and errors explained.
- Why a USDT TRC20 transfer needs TRX: energy and bandwidth explainedWhat energy and bandwidth are on TRON, how much a USDT TRC20 transfer consumes, why a wallet needs TRX to send USDT, and who covers the cost with CryptoLike.
Start with a test payment
Create an account, ask support for the test environment and see a payment go from pending to paid on a test network.