{"id":594,"date":"2025-04-13T11:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T10:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/blockchain\/?p=594"},"modified":"2025-06-03T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T08:59:10","slug":"cardano-transaction-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/blockchain\/cardano\/fees\/cardano-transaction-fees","title":{"rendered":"Cardano transaction fees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Calculating a Cardano transaction fee?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Fees are constructed around two constants (a and b).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The formula for calculating minimal fees for a transaction (tx) is: a * size(tx) + b<br>Where &#8216;a&#8217;  and &#8216;b&#8217; are protocol parameters, and size(tx) is the transaction size in bytes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The a and b protocol parameters (minFeeA and minFeeB) can be found at: <a href=\"https:\/\/cardanoscan.io\/protocolparams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/cardanoscan.io\/protocolparams<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Calculating the total ADA required for a transaction<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the transaction fee, Cardano also requires a certain amount of ADA to be transferred as part of a transaction. This ADA isn&#8217;t lost, the recipient receives it into their wallet. It is primarily a security measure to deter spam and malicious users from creating large number of UTxOs and bloating the ledger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minimum ADA cost for a UTxO (transaction)is commonly referred to as &#8220;min ADA&#8221; and it comprises of the transaction cost and the minimum ADA requirement by multiplying the size with &#8220;ADA Per UTXO Byte&#8221; protocol parameter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calculating a Cardano transaction fee? Fees are constructed around two constants (a and b). The formula for calculating minimal fees for a transaction (tx) is: a * size(tx) + bWhere &#8216;a&#8217; and &#8216;b&#8217; are protocol parameters, and size(tx) is the transaction size in bytes. The a and b protocol parameters (minFeeA and minFeeB) can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}