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# Do I Need to Pay Gas Fees with ELLIPAL Pay?

**✅ 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.

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**⚠️ 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.

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**Summary: Do You Pay Gas?**

| <p>Action <br></p>                                  | <p>Do You Pay Gas?<br></p>                 |
| --------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------ |
| <p>Paying with your card (in-store/online) <br></p> | <p>❌ No (sponsored by ELLIPAL Pay)<br></p> |
| <p>Sending crypto to another wallet<br></p>         | <p>✅ Yes (paid in xDai)<br></p>            |
| <p>Swapping tokens on-chain<br></p>                 | <p>✅ Yes (paid in xDai)<br></p>            |


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