@admin I am hoping I can get some clarification regarding the tx fee structure when sending ADA on the network. When you send a token allotment to another address you subject to the standard tx fee plus (<1 ADA), and a network fee of 2 ADA that is later returned. In an financial context what is this classification of this returned 2 ADA?
The transaction fee is determined by the size of the transaction in bytes. It is typically larger for transactions with tokens, but can also be quite large if you have a lot of pure ADA inputs or outputs.
There is no network fee of 2 ADA.
There is a deposit of 2 ADA once when you start staking which is returned when you deregister the stake address. This is just that. A deposit.
And there is a minimal amount of ADA that has to accompany other tokens (to inhibit denial-of-service attacks with lots of worthless tokens).
But that is not 2 ADA, but depends on the size of the output in bytes/words.
It is sent together with the tokens to the other party and can be offset by requiring a respective larger payment in the other direction.
The transaction fee is determined by the size of the transaction in bytes. It is typically larger for transactions with tokens, but can also be quite large if you have a lot of pure ADA inputs or outputs.
There is no network fee of 2 ADA. There is a deposit of 2 ADA once when you start staking which is returned when you deregister the stake address. This is just that. A deposit.
And there is a minimal amount of ADA that has to accompany other tokens (to inhibit denial-of-service attacks with lots of worthless tokens). But that is not 2 ADA, but depends on the size of the output in bytes/words. It is sent together with the tokens to the other party and can be offset by requiring a respective larger payment in the other direction.