How to Send Dogecoin: Fees, Dust and Confirmations
A practical guide to sending DOGE: how transaction fees are calculated, what the dust limit is and how long confirmations take on the Dogecoin network.
What a Dogecoin transaction actually is
Your balance is not a number in an account — it is a set of unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs) addressed to you. Sending DOGE means selecting enough UTXOs, creating new outputs for the recipient and for your change, and signing the whole structure with your private key.
DogeVault does this locally: it fetches your UTXOs from a public blockchain API, builds and signs the transaction in your browser, then broadcasts the signed result. The API only ever sees data that is already cryptographically final.
Fees and the dust limit
Dogecoin fees depend on transaction size, not value: the reference rate is 0.01 DOGE per kilobyte, and a typical payment is well under half a kilobyte. Sending 10 DOGE or 10,000 DOGE costs roughly the same tiny fee.
The dust limit (about 0.01 DOGE) prevents outputs too small to be worth spending. If your change would be below dust, it is simply added to the fee instead of creating an unusable output.
Confirmations and timing
Dogecoin produces a block roughly every minute. A transaction is visible in seconds and typically considered settled after a few confirmations; exchanges usually credit deposits after 3–6.
Before sending, always verify the recipient address character by character — blockchain transactions are irreversible. A wrong address is not a support ticket; it is a donation to the void.
- Check the first and last characters of the address
- Send a small test amount for a new recipient
- Keep the transaction ID (txid) as your receipt
Put it into practice
Create or import your non-custodial Dogecoin wallet — it takes two minutes.