Performance & Cost
Real, on-chain measurements of what a deposit costs and how long it takes to settle, per chain.
TL;DR — EVM L2s are effectively free + fast (~$0.01, a few seconds). Ethereum is pricier + slower. Tron is the outlier on both: ~$10 for a first deposit and ~2+ minutes — roughly 1000× the L2 cost.
A deposit has two cost parts:
- Each deposit — charged every time funds are swept from the user's address to the treasury.
- First-time setup — a one-time, per-address cost to deploy the user's deposit wallet on first use. Repeat deposits to the same address skip it.
So a first deposit pays both; every repeat deposit pays only "each deposit".
Cost (USD)
| Chain | Each deposit | First-time setup (once/address) | First deposit (both) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base (8453) | $0.0012 | $0.0050 | $0.0062 |
| Arbitrum (42161) | $0.0040 | $0.0167 | $0.0207 |
| Polygon (137) | $0.0036 | $0.0110 | $0.0146 |
| BSC (56) | $0.0032 | $0.0140 | $0.0172 |
| Ethereum (1) | $0.0676 | $0.2774 | $0.3451 |
| Tron (728126428) | $3.65 | $6.62 | $10.27 |
USD computed at native prices: ETH $1,692 · BNB $572 · POL $0.077 · TRX $0.32 (Pyth). Gas/energy used is fixed, so every USD figure scales linearly with the native price — e.g. at ETH $3,400, the Ethereum + L2 numbers roughly double.
EVM gas is ~identical everywhere — each-deposit ~112–166k gas, first-time setup ~490k gas on every chain (same bytecode → same gas). The USD spread is purely gas-price × native-token-price; Tron's energy model is simply ~1000× costlier.
Speed — time to the DEPOSIT webhook
End-to-end: user's on-chain payment → signed DEPOSIT webhook (detection + confirmations + sweep).
| Chain | First deposit | Repeat deposit |
|---|---|---|
| Arbitrum | ~3.6s | ~2.0s |
| Base | ~9.3s | ~2.7s |
| Polygon | ~9.5s | ~5.2s |
| BSC | ~9.8s | ~5.7s |
| Ethereum | ~55s | ~16s |
| Tron | ~139s | ~80s |
Cost as a share of the deposit
First-deposit cost as a % of the deposited amount, at a few sizes:
| Chain | $10 | $50 | $100 | $500 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L2s (Base/Arb/Polygon/BSC) | <0.3% | <0.05% | <0.02% | <0.01% |
| Ethereum | 3.5% | 0.7% | 0.35% | 0.07% |
| Tron | 103% | 21% | 10% | 2% |