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Field card · The five lanes

The five lanes, logged: network costs at a glance

Baselines, wait patterns and the jobs each network does best — the reference card behind every lane comparison in the ledger.

Every fee comparison on this site rests on one measurement: what each blockchain charges to move funds between wallets we control. This page is the card itself — the baselines for Ledger 26-D, the behaviour of each lane, and the casino support we logged across the board.

The baselines

Medians of three self-hosted transfers per coin, ordinary priority, same weeks as the casino tests.

NetworkBaseline costOn a $50 exitOn a $200 exitSettles atBoard support
BTC L1 on-chain, batched exchange exit$1.83.6%0.9%1 confirmation7 of 7
ETH L1 gas, standard priority$1.22.4%0.6%block inclusion7 of 7
USDT-TRC20 energy + bandwidth on Tron$1.02%0.5%block inclusion7 of 7
LTC L1 on-chain$0.030.06%0.015%1 confirmation7 of 7
SOL base fee + priority$0.010.02%0.005%confirmed slot4 of 7
These numbers, not any operator's marketing, are the definition of “network cost” used in every review. When a cashier's quoted fee matches its lane's baseline to the cent, the operator line is zero; the gap, where it exists, is the number the ledger exists to print.

Choosing a lane: the field card

Address test ($10–$20): SOL where offered (sub-cent), otherwise LTC (three cents). Two casinos on the board pair these lanes with a $10 minimum, making the test nearly free. Ordinary exit ($40–$200): LTC or USDT-TRC20 — cents to a dollar, seconds to minutes, universal support. Large exit ($500+): any lane is cheap in percentage terms; USDT-TRC20 for stability, BTC if you prefer its assumptions. Very large exit: BTC; the fee is basis points and the assumptions are the point.

Two cautions repeat from the guides because they belong on the card: exit in the coin you entered with (coin switches invite source-of-funds questions), and re-read the dollar value of any coin-denominated minimum on the day — floors expressed in BTC float with the market.

Support across the board

Of the seven cashiers in this season's ledger, all seven offered BTC, ETH and USDT-TRC20; six offered LTC; four offered SOL. The cent lanes are where support thins — which is why lane coverage counts toward each review's structure score, not just cost. A cashier that omits the cheapest lanes is choosing which of your exits can be cheap.

The full per-casino, per-lane receipts — including every padded quote we caught — are in the individual ledger reviews. This card stays deliberately generic: it prices the pipes, the reviews price the plumbers.