TRC-20 vs ERC-20: why the same USDT costs differently on different networks

You send a hundred USDT. One time it costs a couple of cents and arrives before you can close the wallet. The other time the wallet asks for twelve euros and you wonder whether something is broken.

Nothing is broken. You sent the same token on two different networks and they are technically completely different systems that simply carry the same name. This is one of the most frequent misunderstandings at crypto casinos and also the most expensive: choosing the wrong network does not only cost money, it can mean the deposit disappears for good.

In this article we unpack what TRC-20 and ERC-20 are, where the fee actually comes from, when each pays off and how to avoid that one irreversible mistake.

USDT is not a blockchain

Let us start with the most important sentence. A stablecoin like USDT is not an independent blockchain like Bitcoin. It is a token — a record that lives on some other chain and uses that chain's security, speed and price list.

Tether, the issuer of USDT, has put the same token into circulation on dozens of networks. The most common are:

• TRC-20 — on the Tron network
• ERC-20 — on the Ethereum network
• BEP-20 — on the BNB chain
• SPL — on the Solana network
• plus Polygon, Avalanche, Arbitrum and others

All of them have the same name on screen and the same value: one USDT is one dollar. But technically they are different things that cannot talk to one another. USDT on the TRC-20 network cannot move to an ERC-20 address, exactly as you cannot send an email to a phone number.

Where the network fee comes from at all

The network fee does not go to Tether or to the casino. It goes to the network's validators — computers that process transactions and secure the chain. Every network pays them on a different principle and that is where the price difference is born.

Ethereum: gas and an auction

On Ethereum, computational work is measured in units called gas. A simple ETH transfer uses 21,000 gas. A token transfer — like USDT — requires running a smart contract and usually uses 45,000–65,000 gas, i.e. two to three times more.

The price of gas is not fixed. It forms in an auction: when there is a lot of activity on the network, the price rises, because everyone bids more to get their transaction into a block. At a calm moment a USDT transfer may cost a euro, at a peak forty. The same transaction, the same amount, the same network.

It is precisely that volatility that makes ERC-20 uncomfortable for casino payments. You do not know in advance what it will cost.

More about the gas fee is in our glossary.

Tron: bandwidth and energy

Tron works on entirely different logic. Every account gets a free daily amount of bandwidth, and transactions that fit within it are essentially free. A token transfer additionally needs energy, which can be obtained either by freezing TRX or simply paid for with TRX.

In practice that means a USDT TRC-20 transfer usually costs about one to three TRX — an amount measured in cents. And what matters even more: that price is stable. The Tron network does not have the same auction dynamics as Ethereum, because the network's capacity is far larger than the actual demand.

The numbers side by side

The following is a typical picture. The exact numbers change, especially on Ethereum, but the orders of magnitude have stayed the same for years.

Note the last row in the table before "suits": the withdrawal minimums. That is a consequence most players do not expect. Casinos set the minimums so that the network fee does not eat up a withdrawal. Since the ERC-20 fee is high, the minimum is high too. At BC.Game the USDT ERC-20 withdrawal minimum is about 21 USDT, while for USDC it is 5.1. BetFury requires 25 USDT for USDT.

In other words: the choice of network affects not only what you pay but also how small an amount you can withdraw at all.

When ERC-20 does pay off after all

After all of the above it may seem that ERC-20 is simply worse. It is not — it has three strong use cases.

Very large amounts. When you are moving tens of thousands, a twelve-euro fee is a rounding error. Ethereum is a more mature network than Tron in terms of security and decentralisation, and with a larger amount that outweighs the price.

You are already in the Ethereum ecosystem. If your assets are in ETH, in DeFi protocols or in NFTs, ERC-20 is the natural choice and moving between networks (bridges, conversion) costs more than the network fee itself.

The casino does not support Tron. Some smaller or Web3-native houses work only in the Ethereum ecosystem. MetaWin, for example, works on the Ethereum and Base networks and logging in with a wallet presupposes that ecosystem.

L2 networks change this calculation

Here is the good news. Second-layer networks have been built on top of Ethereum — Base, Arbitrum, Optimism — which offer Ethereum's security but bundle transactions together and share the fee among many users. The result: a fraction-of-a-cent price and confirmation within seconds, without leaving the Ethereum world.

If a casino supports Base or Arbitrum, that is almost always a better choice than the Ethereum main network. Support is growing fast and in our view it is the direction the whole market is moving in over the next couple of years.

How the wrong-network mistake actually happens

Nobody chooses the wrong network knowingly. The mistake always arises in one of four ways and all of them are avoidable.

1. The address looks familiar. Ethereum and BNB chain addresses both start with 0x and are the same length. Tron's start with T and are visually clearly different. When you send to a 0x address, you have to know whether it is Ethereum, BNB, Polygon or some other EVM chain — the address itself does not say.

2. The wallet remembers the previous choice. Many wallets remember the network last used. If you made the previous transfer via ERC-20 and this time copy a TRC-20 address but do not change the network, the money goes to the wrong place.

3. The casino generates different addresses for different networks. That is normal and correct — but it means a saved old address may be for the wrong network. Always copy freshly from the deposit page.

4. An exchange names the network differently. Binance says "TRX (Tron)", Coinbase may say something else, some casino simply writes "Tron". Those are all the same thing, but the difference in names creates doubt, and mistakes are made in doubt.

What happens when the mistake has already been made

The honest answer: in most cases there is nothing to be done. But not all cases are the same.

You sent USDT to a TRC-20 address that is actually an ERC-20 address. The money is technically on the Tron network, at an address that on the Tron network probably belongs to nobody. Practically gone.

You sent USDT on the ERC-20 network to a BNB chain address (both 0x). Here there is hope. If the address belongs to a casino or an exchange and they control the same private key on both chains, they can theoretically get the money. That is a favour, not a right, and large platforms often charge for it. Write to support immediately and add the transaction hash.

You sent to the right network but below the minimum. That is the mildest case and usually solvable through support.

You sent to the right network but to the wrong casino's address. Write to both casinos. If the receiving casino can link the payment to your account, a solution is possible.

In any case: save the transaction hash. Without it nobody can search for anything.

A practical recommendation by situation

A regular player, amounts of €20–500. TRC-20. Without exceptions. The speed is seconds, the fee is cents, support is universal. Keep 20–30 TRX in the wallet for network fees and forget the problem.

A large deposit, over €5,000. ERC-20 or Bitcoin. The fee becomes irrelevant and you can choose the most mature network. Be sure to make a small test transfer first.

You are testing a new casino. TRC-20 or Solana with the minimum amount. If something goes wrong, you lose cents.

You use wallet log-in (MetaWin and the like). Then the network is already chosen for you and the question does not arise. Just check that you have enough of the base coin on the right chain for the network fee.

You do not want to deal with networks at all. That is an entirely sensible position. Then a casino with bank payments is a better tool for you — pangakasiinod.ee and kiiredvaljamaksed.ee cover houses with an Estonian licence where money moves straight from a bank account and no network has to be chosen.

How casinos choose networks

Why does one casino support eight networks and another two? The answer is technical and financial at once.

Every supported network means separate infrastructure for a casino: a node to monitor, a wallet system, a security audit and liquidity. That costs. Large houses like BC.Game support over a hundred coins, because the volume justifies the cost. Smaller ones stick to what most users actually want — usually BTC, ETH, USDT and a couple of fast alternatives.

For a player there are two conclusions here. First: a wide coin selection is an indirect sign of volume and technical maturity. Second: it says nothing about a casino's honesty or withdrawal speed. Stake supports a dozen coins and pays out within minutes; some house supporting a hundred coins does it more slowly.

In our ranking every house's supported coins are listed and on our crypto payments comparison page the networks are side by side.

Security: which network is safer

That is a legitimate question when you are keeping money on a network whose fee is almost zero.

Ethereum is more decentralised: there are tens of thousands of validators and they are widely distributed. Attacking the network is practically impossible and that is one reason institutions prefer it.

Tron is more centralised: there are 27 validators and they are chosen by vote. That makes the network faster and cheaper, but it also means control is concentrated in the hands of a smaller number of parties.

Does that matter for casino payments? Honestly, little. You keep money on the network for minutes, not years. The risk that the Tron network collapses during your transaction is vanishingly small compared with the risk that the casino itself holds up your withdrawal. Optimise what really counts.

It does matter for long-term holding, though. If you keep a significant amount in stablecoins for months, Ethereum or a well-distributed L2 is a more sensible choice than Tron. And better still — keep it in a cold wallet, not on a casino account.

The stablecoin itself: what is worth knowing

Separate from the network question there is also the question of the token itself. USDT is the world's largest stablecoin and it is backed by Tether — a private company that claims every USDT in circulation is covered by reserves.

Two things a player should know.

First: USDT is not a euro or a dollar in a bank account. It is a private company's obligation. Historically the composition of Tether's reserves has been disputed and regulators have dealt with it. In practice USDT has stayed pegged to the dollar for years, but that is not a state guarantee.

Second: alternatives exist. USDC is generally considered more transparently backed and more favoured among regulators. Casino support is narrower but growing. When there is a choice and the fee is similar, USDC is a sensible default.

At a casino you keep money for a short time, so that risk is small. But if you use a stablecoin as a savings instrument, the difference is worth knowing.

Common questions that did not fit elsewhere

Can the network fee be avoided? No. It can only be reduced by choosing a cheap network. Every transaction costs someone something.

Can a casino cover the network fee? Some compensate the withdrawal fee under certain conditions, but the deposit fee you always pay yourself, because you initiate the transaction.

Why does the wallet show the fee in different currencies? Because the fee is paid in the network's base coin. The wallet converts it into euros or dollars for you, but the actual payment happens in TRX or ETH.

Do I have to pay a fee even when a transaction fails? On Ethereum yes — gas is spent on a failed transaction too, because the network did work. On Tron generally not in the same way. That is one more reason why experimenting with ERC-20 in small amounts is an expensive lesson.

Can the network be changed after sending? No. A transaction is irreversible from the moment it reaches a block.

Step by step: a first TRC-20 deposit

If you have not done it before, the whole process looks like this. Let us take the situation where you want to put a hundred dollars of USDT into a casino on the Tron network.

Step 1 — get USDT on the TRC-20 network. If you buy on an exchange, be sure to choose "TRC-20" or "Tron" as the network on withdrawal. The exchange asks for it separately and the default choice may not be the one you want.

Step 2 — get some TRX. Buy TRX for a couple of dozen euros and send it to the same wallet. Without it you cannot move the USDT on. It is a one-off action that covers dozens of future transfers.

Step 3 — open USDT on the casino's deposit page and choose the network. Almost every crypto casino asks for the network separately. Choose Tron / TRC-20. The casino generates an address starting with the letter T.

Step 4 — copy the address from the clipboard. Do not type it by hand. After pasting, check the first and last four characters.

Step 5 — send a small test amount. The first time with a new casino, send an amount close to the minimum. Wait until it arrives.

Step 6 — send the rest. If the test succeeded, the address and the network are provably right.

The whole process takes ten minutes the first time and thirty seconds afterwards.

Why casinos favour TRC-20 so much

If you look at crypto casinos' deposit pages, you will notice that TRC-20 is almost always the first or second choice. There are reasons for that which have nothing to do with your convenience.

Withdrawals are cheap for the casino. A casino makes thousands of withdrawals a day. When each costs a cent instead of a euro, the annual difference is a six-figure number. That is exactly why TRC-20 withdrawal minimums are low — the casino can afford to pay out small amounts.

Automation is easier. A fast and cheap network means a casino can process a withdrawal automatically without having to fear stuck transactions. That in turn is why TRC-20 withdrawals often arrive faster than on other networks — not only because of the block time but also because of the casino's internal process.

Users want it. On the Asian and Latin American markets USDT TRC-20 is the de facto digital dollar. Casinos follow demand.

For a player there is an indirect but important conclusion here: a network that is cheap for a casino is usually fast for you too. The interests coincide here unusually well.

The choice of coin and network at the casinos in our ranking

Support varies more than it seems at first glance. The following is an overview of what the houses in our table offer in practice.

In practice that means TRC-20 works everywhere except MetaWin, which is wallet-based and lives in the Ethereum ecosystem. If you want one network that works everywhere, it is TRC-20.

Three things nobody tells you

First: the casino's internal conversion. Some houses keep your balance in one currency and convert the deposit into it. If you deposit USDT and the balance is in dollars, that is mostly one to one. But if you deposit BTC and the balance is in dollars, you carry exchange-rate risk and sometimes a conversion margin too. Playing with a stablecoin avoids both.

Second: the withdrawal network restriction. Some casinos require a withdrawal to go via the same network the deposit was made with. That is standard anti-money-laundering practice and entirely sensible, but it means the choice of network at the moment of the deposit locks the withdrawal too. Choose the one you also want to get back.

Third: the difference between a token and a coin in bonus calculations. Some offers apply only with a certain coin or a minimum amount. If the bonus terms say "min 20 USD equivalent", the casino counts by the rate at the moment of the deposit — and if you sent BTC whose rate fell in the meantime, you may end up below the threshold. A stablecoin removes that problem too.

How much this costs a year

Let us do a simple calculation, because the order of magnitude surprises many.

Suppose you make two deposits and two withdrawals a month — 48 transactions a year in total.

Via TRC-20: about €0.05–0.15 per transaction. A year: €2.4–7.2.

Via ERC-20 at average load: about €3–8 per transaction. A year: €144–384.

Via ERC-20 at peak times: it can exceed a thousand euros a year.

The difference is larger than most casinos' welcome offer. It is money that simply disappears without your getting a single spin for it. And unlike bonus terms, there is no small print here — you simply choose the wrong line in a dropdown.

That is exactly why we start every casino review with the payments section and why our payments comparison page is one of the most-read pages on this site.

What a smart contract is and why it makes a token transfer more expensive

A short technical digression that explains the root of the whole price difference.

When you send ETH, the network simply changes the balance of two accounts. That is a cheap operation.

When you send USDT, the network does not move "USDT" — because as far as the network is concerned there is no such thing. Instead you run a smart contract, which is a program on the chain and which has to move a record from one address to another in its internal table. That is more computational work and therefore more gas.

From that follows one little-known fact too: sending an ERC-20 token is always more expensive than sending ETH itself on the same network, usually two to three times. If a casino supports both ETH and USDT ERC-20 and you are price-sensitive, ETH is the cheaper choice — but then you carry the price risk.

On Tron the logic is the same, but since the base price is so low, the difference is not noticeable in practice.

A summary decision tree

If you have to choose fast, here is the simple logic:

1. Does the casino support TRC-20? If yes and the amount is under €5,000 → choose TRC-20. The end.
2. Does the casino support Base, Arbitrum or Solana? If yes → those are cheap and fast too.
3. Is the amount very large and are you in the Ethereum ecosystem? → ERC-20 is sensible.
4. Do you not want to deal with networks? → consider a casino with bank payments (kiiredvaljamaksed.ee).
5. Everything else → TRC-20.

For most players this tree ends on the first line and that is an entirely correct outcome.

Wallets and networks: what works with what

Not all wallets support all networks and that is another place where mistakes arise. A short overview of what works in practice.

MetaMask is built for Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains. That means Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, the BNB chain and other networks with 0x addresses. It does not support Tron natively — if your only wallet is MetaMask, you cannot hold TRC-20 USDT. That is the most common reason people pay via ERC-20 when they should not.

Trust Wallet supports both Tron and EVM chains and is therefore more flexible for casino use. If you are starting from scratch and want one app, it is a sensible choice.

TronLink is Tron's own wallet and works most smoothly with TRC-20, but only in that ecosystem.

Phantom is for Solana, by now with support for some EVM chains as well.

Ledger and Trezor support all the major networks at hardware level, but need a separate app on the device for each chain. For a larger balance they are the right choice.

An exchange account supports everything the exchange supports — but as we described in the previous article, it adds its own processing stage before the blockchain.

A quick guide to address formats

The first characters of an address tell you the network, if you know what to look at.

• Starting with T, 34 characters → Tron (TRC-20)
• Starting with 0x, 42 characters → Ethereum or some other EVM chain (ERC-20, BEP-20, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon). The address itself does not say which of them — you have to know the context.
• bc1 or 1 or 3 → Bitcoin
• L or M or ltc1 → Litecoin
• Solana addresses are 32–44 characters, with no characteristic prefix

That last point about EVM chains matters. The same 0x address technically exists on all EVM chains at once, but the money you send there lands on the chain you chose. If the casino is waiting on Base and you sent on the Ethereum main network, the money is at the right address on the wrong chain — solvable, but it needs support's help.

How much you really save: three profiles

An occasional player. Two or three deposits a year, a hundred euros each time. The fee difference between TRC-20 and ERC-20 is about 20 euros a year. Unpleasant, but not decisive. For you it matters more that you do not make the wrong-network mistake — that would cost a hundred euros at once.

A regular player. One deposit and one withdrawal a week. The difference is €150–400 a year. That is more than most welcome offers are worth and it is why it is worth setting the network choice properly once and then forgetting it.

A high-turnover player. Movements every day, often large amounts. Here the network fee becomes relatively small compared with the turnover, but in absolute terms it can be thousands of euros. Players at that level use almost exclusively stablecoins on fast networks and keep the money in their own wallet, not at the casino.

All three profiles share one conclusion: TRC-20 or some cheap L2 is the default and the ERC-20 main network is the exception, not the rule.

What to do when a casino supports only ERC-20

Some Web3-native houses do not support Tron at all. Three strategies.

Choose an L2 if available. If the casino accepts Base, Arbitrum or Optimism, use them. The same ecosystem, a hundred times cheaper.

Bundle transactions. If you have to use the Ethereum main network, make fewer and larger transfers. Four €250 deposits cost four times more than one of a thousand euros.

Time it. Look at the gas price before sending and send when it is low. Early European morning is usually the cheapest window. The difference between a calm moment and a peak can be fivefold.

And if none of those suits — consider whether that casino is right for you at all. In our ranking there are eleven houses and ten of them support TRC-20.

Common misconceptions

"TRC-20 is cheap because it is less secure." Partly true, but disproportionately presented. Tron is more centralised (27 validators), which is a trade-off for speed. At a casino, where money moves in minutes, that risk is practically non-existent compared with the risk that the casino itself delays your withdrawal.

"ERC-20 is slow." It is not. Ethereum's block time is 12 seconds, which is fast. ERC-20's problem is the price, not the speed.

"If the fee is high, the transaction is faster." On Ethereum a higher fee only affects the queue for getting into a block. When the network is calm, a higher fee gives nothing.

"I can choose a cheaper fee and the transaction will simply take longer." On Ethereum a transaction with too low a fee can hang indefinitely, and it blocks your next transactions from the same address, because they are executed in order. That is more unpleasant than simply waiting.

"A stablecoin does not swing, so there is no risk." The value risk is small, but counterparty risk exists: USDT is a private company's obligation. And casino risk — wagering, KYC, terms — is not changed by any coin.

What ties all this to choosing a casino

The network fee is a technical detail, but it reveals something more important: how much friction a house puts between you and your money.

A casino that supports only expensive networks and sets high withdrawal minimums has essentially decided that a small player is not its customer. 500 Casino is an example — a $50 BTC withdrawal minimum together with the absence of a fiat withdrawal is a practical barrier, not a technical necessity.

A casino that supports TRC-20 and Solana with low thresholds has decided the opposite. Thunderpick, with a €1 deposit minimum and free withdrawals, is the opposite pole.

In our scoring that goes into the payments score and we do not soften it. If a house makes getting your money hard, that is a real cost for a player — regardless of how good the game selection is.

We apply the same logic in the fast withdrawals ranking and the no-KYC list: we measure obstacles, not promises.

The network fee and bonus mathematics together

One thing nobody calculates separately: the network fee affects a bonus's real value in exactly the same way as a wagering requirement, only at the opposite end.

Suppose you take a 100% welcome bonus on a €100 deposit, with wagering of 35×. You have to generate €3,500 of turnover. If a slot game's average RTP is 96%, you statistically lose about €140 over that turnover. The bonus was €100. So the expected result is already negative before you pay any fee.

Now add the network fee. Via TRC-20 the deposit and withdrawal together cost about ten cents — that changes nothing. Via ERC-20 at a peak moment it can be forty euros, which is 40% of the bonus's nominal value.

The conclusion is uncomfortable but clear: choosing a bad network can turn a mediocre offer into a losing one. And unlike the wagering requirement, which the casino imposes on you, it is entirely under your own control.

Work your specific case through with our calculator — it takes a minute and prevents decisions you regret later.

When the casino charges a withdrawal fee itself

Alongside the network fee there is another, more often hidden cost: the casino's own withdrawal fee.

Most houses on this list do not charge it. Thunderpick says outright that there is no fee on its side for either deposits or withdrawals. Stake and Shuffle usually cover the withdrawal's network fee themselves.

But some houses charge a fee under certain conditions: if you make too many withdrawals in a short time, if the withdrawal amount is small, or if you have not wagered bonus money through. Those clauses are in the terms, not in a price list, and you do not see them until you press the withdraw button.

Check it before your first larger deposit. Look in the terms for the words "withdrawal fee", "processing fee" or "unplayed funds" — the last is especially important: some casinos charge a fee when you withdraw money you have not played at all, because that looks like money laundering rather than playing.

A small glossary to finish

• A token — a record that lives on another blockchain. USDT is a token, Bitcoin is not.
• A smart contract — a program on a blockchain. A token transfer runs one and therefore costs more than a base-coin transfer.
• Gas — the unit of computational work in the Ethereum ecosystem; the fee = the amount of gas × the price of gas. See the gas fee.
• Bandwidth and energy — Tron's equivalents of gas. Every account gets a free daily amount.
• An EVM chain — an Ethereum-compatible network that uses the same 0x address format (Base, Arbitrum, BNB, Polygon).
• L2, or the second layer — a network built on top of Ethereum that bundles transactions together and shares the fee.
• A bridge — a tool for moving assets from one chain to another. It costs and adds risk; in a casino context it is almost always better avoided by choosing the right network from the start.

History: how TRC-20 became the casinos' standard

USDT was born in 2014 on Bitcoin, through a layer called Omni. It was slow and clumsy, but at the time the only way to hold a dollar-pegged token on a chain.

In 2017 the ERC-20 version came on Ethereum and that changed everything: smart contracts made moving a token programmable and exchanges adopted it fast. Within a few years USDT ERC-20 became the default choice across the whole market.

Then came the boom of 2020 and 2021. The Ethereum network became congested, gas prices rose into tens of euros and moving small amounts became pointless. It was at that moment that the TRC-20 version, which had launched in 2019, began to grow seriously — not because Tron was technically better, but because it was usable.

Casinos followed the demand. By today TRC-20 USDT often exceeds ERC-20 in transfer volume and at crypto casinos it is the de facto standard. That history also explains why older guides talk mainly about ERC-20 — they were written before that shift.

The next shift is already under way and it is L2. Base and Arbitrum offer Ethereum's security at Tron's price, and once casino support catches up, the current trade-off largely disappears.

What this means in practice when choosing a casino

Network support is an indirect but surprisingly good indicator of how modern a casino's technical side is.

A house that supports TRC-20, Solana and some L2 has probably reviewed its payment system in recent years. A house that offers only BTC and ERC-20 USDT has not — and that often correlates with slower withdrawal processing too, because the same aged infrastructure touches both.

That is not a rule but a pattern. But if you are looking between two otherwise similar casinos, broader and more modern network support is a sensible extra argument.

Three things to do right after reading this article

One. Open your wallet and check whether there is base coin there for the network fee — TRX for Tron, ETH for Ethereum. If there is not, buy a couple of dozen euros' worth. That is the most common obstacle and it can be solved once and for good.

Two. Look up which network your current casino supports, and if TRC-20 is there, make your next deposit via it. Compare the fee with what you paid last time.

Three. If you keep a balance at a casino whose collection is not urgent, check the withdrawal minimum for the coin you use. If the minimum is higher than the balance, you now know why — and you also know which coin to choose next time.

Three steps, ten minutes, and the network fee stops being a problem you think about.

Related reading

If this topic concerned you, we have a couple of stories that go deeper into neighbouring questions.

USDT vs BTC deposit speed unpacks where deposit time actually comes from — three steps, of which only one is governed by the blockchain.

How a wagering requirement really works deals with what happens to money after it is at the casino — and why that usually costs more than any network fee.

Curaçao's new licensing system explains who supervises your money and what you can do when a withdrawal gets stuck.

And if you simply want to see the networks side by side without the theory, that is our crypto payments comparison page. The glossary explains the gas fee, TRC-20, stablecoin and confirmation.

In summary

USDT is one token only on screen. In reality it is a family of tokens living on different networks, whose price, speed and address format differ — and which do not talk to one another.

For everyday casino use TRC-20 is almost always the right answer: seconds, cents, universal support. ERC-20 is a tool for large amounts and the Ethereum ecosystem. L2 networks like Base and Arbitrum are the direction the market is moving in, and they remove this whole trade-off.

And that one rule that must not be forgotten: check the network, not only the address. Every other mistake in this article is fixable. That one is not.