read from the chains, not quoted · the median fee of real transfers, each with its transaction · read 19–20 Oct 2026
A plain transfer: one ordinary account sends the coin straight to another, the transaction succeeds, and it does nothing else. Left out, and counted by reason in each receipt: transfers made through smart wallets, relayers and other contracts, failed transactions, and anything that also swaps, bridges or pays out in batches. A transfer into a wallet that held none of the coin writes a new storage slot and costs more; those are first-time transfers, kept apart with their own figure.
Where a chain lets senders prepay their fees — staked or rented energy on Tron, a sponsor paying the gas — the figure is what a sender without any of that pays, and the receipt says how many senders paid less.
Every chain on which Tether
↗ issues USDT or Circle
↗ issues USDC itself, as their own pages list them (read 19 Oct 2026, re-read monthly), plus the fifteen chains holding the most stablecoins whatever the issuer, plus a few by decision. We read USDC where Circle issues it, USDT where only Tether does.