Ethereum for casino deposits: gas, timing and L2 mix-ups
The median ETH send we read on 12 November 2026 cost about $0.0047. Gas was cheapest overnight UTC at around 0.04 gwei and climbed to nearly 1 gwei in the afternoon. Blocks land every 12 seconds. Before a casino deposit, check which network your wallet is using.
- Plain ETH send
- 21,000 gas
- Gas price at snapshot
- 0.06594 gwei, $0.0028 per plain send
- Block time
- 12 seconds
- Finality
- about 15 minutes (ethereum.org)
- Share of crypto casino deposits
- 9.3% of value in August 2026, $470 million in September (Gambling.com)
Gas over one day
| Time (UTC) | Base fee | Plain ETH send | USDT transfer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21:14 (11 Nov) | 0.153 gwei | $0.0065 | $0.014 |
| 00:14 | 0.069 gwei | $0.0029 | $0.0064 |
| 03:15 | 0.06 gwei | $0.0025 | $0.0056 |
| 06:15 | 0.046 gwei | $0.0019 | $0.0043 |
| 09:17 | 0.07 gwei | $0.003 | $0.0065 |
| 12:17 | 0.174 gwei | $0.0074 | $0.016 |
| 15:17 | 0.984 gwei | $0.042 | $0.091 |
| 18:18 | 0.158 gwei | $0.0067 | $0.015 |
| 21:18 | 0.071 gwei | $0.003 | $0.0066 |
One block read every 300 blocks (about an hour) from a public Ethereum node, shown here every third reading. Costs assume no tip and ETH at $2,014.85. USDT transfer = 46,109 gas, the median we measured for a receiver that already holds USDT.
Gas was dirt cheap from around midnight to 11:00 UTC and stayed under a tenth of a gwei the whole stretch. It picked up after lunch in Europe and sat near 1 gwei around 15:00 UTC. A single deposit still came in under five cents at that peak, so you won't feel it much. If you move USDT or other tokens every day, send them in the morning UTC.
What 618 real ETH sends paid
| Percentile | Gas price paid | Cost of the send |
|---|---|---|
| 10th | 0.046 gwei | $0.0019 |
| Median | 0.111 gwei | $0.0047 |
| 90th | 1.149 gwei | $0.049 |
Transactions with no data, a value above zero and a 21,000 gas limit, read from one block every 600 blocks. Price paid = base fee plus tip, capped by the sender's max fee.
Most of these senders didn't overpay. 64% added a tip of 0.01 gwei or less and still made it into a block. The top tenth paid ten times the median or more. You'll find the tip under advanced or custom fee settings in most wallets.
Ethereum or an L2?
Arbitrum, Base and Optimism all use 0x addresses, the same ones you have on Ethereum. Paste a casino's ETH address into a wallet that's set to Base and it goes through without a warning. Whether the money shows up depends on the casino watching Base for your address. If it doesn't, you're writing to support. Look at the network name at the top of your wallet before you press send.
- Read the network name, not the address. The cashier shows which network an address is for. Match it in your wallet before you paste.
- L2 fees are lower, but only help if the casino accepts that L2. Many list Ethereum mainnet only.
- A failed transaction still costs gas. If a send runs out of gas or reverts, the fee is gone and the coins stay with you. Don't lower the gas limit your wallet sets.
- Tokens need ETH for gas. USDT, USDC or any other token on Ethereum moves only if the wallet also holds a little ETH.
Confirmations and finality
A transaction is in a block within seconds when the fee is fair. Final, in the sense that undoing it would need a large part of all staked ETH to be destroyed, takes about 15 minutes. Casinos pick their own point between the two, and the cashier page or support can tell you where theirs sits.
Snapshot 12 Nov 2026, 21:17 UTC. Fees: Blockchair, mempool.space, public RPC nodes, TronGrid, XRP Ledger. Prices: CoinGecko. Fees move by the minute.
| Ethereum | $0.0028 | 12 s | gas price 0.0659 gwei × 21,000 gas (plain ETH send) |
| USDT on Ethereum (ERC-20) | $0.0061 | 12 s | 0.06594 gwei × 46,109 gas (measured median, existing holder) |
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Questions
How much does it cost to send ETH to a casino?
In 618 real sends on 12 November 2026 the median cost was about $0.0047, and 90% paid under $0.049. A USDT transfer uses about 2.2 times the gas of a plain ETH send.
When is Ethereum gas cheapest?
In our one-day measurement, between about midnight and 11:00 UTC, at 0.04 to 0.1 gwei. The afternoon UTC peak was close to 1 gwei.
I sent ETH on Arbitrum or Base by mistake. Is it lost?
Not always. The coins sit at the same address on that network. Whether the casino can reach them depends on how its wallet is set up, so send support the transaction hash.
How many confirmations do casinos need for Ethereum?
Each casino sets its own number. Blocks come every 12 seconds, so even 30 confirmations take about six minutes, and full finality takes about 15 minutes.
Sources
- Ethereum RPC (publicnode): blocks and transactions. base fee every 300 blocks from 26,394,307 to 26,401,507; 618 plain sends in 12 blocks Checked 12 November 2026
- ethereum.org: proof-of-stake (slots and epochs) Checked 12 November 2026
- ethereum.org: single slot finality. about 15 minutes to finalize a block Checked 12 November 2026
- ethereum.org: layer 2 Checked 12 November 2026
- Gambling.com: stablecoins make up roughly three quarters of crypto casino deposits. ETH 9.3% of deposit value in August, $470 million in September; secondary source Checked 12 November 2026
- CoinGecko simple price Checked 12 November 2026
- mempool.space recommended fees Checked 12 November 2026
- Blockchair stats (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin) Checked 12 November 2026
- Ethereum RPC (publicnode) eth_gasPrice Checked 12 November 2026
- BNB Smart Chain RPC (publicnode) eth_gasPrice Checked 12 November 2026
- TronGrid getchainparameters Checked 12 November 2026
- XRP Ledger fee method Checked 12 November 2026
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