Which coins can send a payment?
Whether it moves from one person to another without a company in between, and how long that takes.
Anyone can send bitcoin to any address. A new block arrives about every ten minutes, the fee rises when the network is busy, and a confirmed payment cannot be reversed. Why a payment cannot be undone →
Source: Bitcoin.org FAQ · checked 2 October 2026
Anyone can send ether to any address. A block arrives every 12 seconds, and the fee is paid in ether and rises when the network is busy. Why a payment cannot be undone →
Source: Ethereum.org: proof-of-stake · checked 2 October 2026
Anyone can send XRP to any address. The network agrees on each new set of payments in about 4 to 6 seconds, and no single authority runs it. Why a payment cannot be undone →
Source: XRP Ledger docs: what the ledger is · checked 2 October 2026
Anyone can send BNB to any address on BNB Smart Chain, where it also pays the fee on every transaction. A block arrives in under a second. Why a payment cannot be undone →
Source: BNB Chain docs: BNB Smart Chain · checked 2 October 2026
Anyone can send ada to anyone else, anywhere, without a third party in between. Why a payment cannot be undone →
Source: Cardano: what ada is · checked 2 October 2026
Anyone can send TRX to any address. Each account gets a small free daily allowance for plain transfers, and beyond it some TRX is burned as the fee. Why a payment cannot be undone →
Source: TRON docs: resource model · checked 2 October 2026
Anyone can send AVAX to any address. The fee is paid in AVAX and is burned, not paid to anyone. Why a payment cannot be undone →
Source: Avalanche docs: the AVAX token · checked 2 October 2026
Anyone can send lumens to any address for a small fee. But an account of your own can never be emptied: it must always keep a minimum balance, currently 1 XLM. Held at an exchange, your lumens sit in the exchange's shared account instead, so the rule does not reach you, and you depend on the exchange. Why a payment cannot be undone →
Sources: Stellar docs: lumens, Stellar docs: pooled accounts · checked 2 October 2026
Anyone can send litecoin to anyone, anywhere. No central authority runs it: the network itself handles the payments and issues the new coins. Why a payment cannot be undone →
Source: Litecoin Core · checked 2 October 2026
Anyone can send Bitcoin Cash to anyone, at any time, without asking permission. Its own site puts the usual fee at under a cent, and a confirmed payment is final. Why a payment cannot be undone →
Source: bitcoincash.org · checked 2 October 2026
Anyone can send zcash to any address. A payment can be shielded, which keeps its details private, or transparent, which leaves them public as on most blockchains. Which one is the user's choice. Why a payment cannot be undone →
Source: Zcash: shielded and transparent · checked 2 October 2026
Anyone can send monero to any address, and a new block arrives about every two minutes. The sender, the receiver and the amount of every payment are hidden, for every user and not as an option. Why a payment cannot be undone →
Sources: Monero: what Monero is, Monero: about · checked 2 October 2026
HBAR pays the fee on every transaction, and the fees are priced in US dollars. The network's nodes are run by the members of the Hedera Council, a group of companies, institutions and universities.
Source: Hedera · checked 2 October 2026
Anyone can send dogecoin to any address. A block arrives about every minute. Why a payment cannot be undone →
Source: Dogecoin Core FAQ · checked 2 October 2026
The other questions
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- Which coins can be redeemed for what backs them?
- Which coins can be used on other chains?
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it, and nothing here is advice. Each answer names where it comes from and the day we read it. A coin we have not written up is left out, not marked down. How these answers are written.