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The fee charged is based on Coinbase's estimate rather than the actual network fee, which may differ from the real cost of the transaction.
The updated fee schedule removes the pre-published 1% fee for instant unstaking and instead discloses the fee only at the moment a user requests to unstake. This means users can no longer review the exact cost before initiating a transaction through the published schedule. The revision also explicitly includes converting a pending standard unstake to an instant unstake as a fee-triggering action. No fee continues to apply if a user waits for the full unbonding period.
View change record →When you send cryptocurrency out of your Coinbase wallet, the network fee you pay is based on Coinbase's estimate, not necessarily the actual network fee incurred.
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"when you send cryptocurrency from your Coinbase wallet to another wallet, we will charge a fee based on our estimate of the prevailing network fees for a stand alone wallet-to-wallet send.Excerpt from Coinbase's Fee Schedule
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The fee charged is based on Coinbase's estimate rather than the actual network fee, which may differ from the real cost of the transaction.
When you send cryptocurrency out of your Coinbase wallet, the network fee you pay is based on Coinbase's estimate, not necessarily the actual network fee incurred.
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