# TRON Fee Optimization

USDT on TRON, without burning TRX — delegated energy cuts your network fees, up to −15% by plan.

A TRC-20 transfer does not pay a gas price; it consumes energy, and an address without energy
burns TRX instead. At payout volume that burn is the single largest line in a stablecoin
operation. Vaultody sources energy and bandwidth on the resource market and delegates them to
your sending address moments before broadcast, so the transfer consumes delegated resources
instead of burning TRX.

## Delegate, transfer, reclaim

The whole cycle completes in seconds around your normal broadcast, sized for exactly the
transaction you are sending. No standing stake, no idle resources, no operations on your side.

- **Energy arrives just in time** — energy and bandwidth are delegated per transfer, then
  reclaimed. Your integration changes by one flag.
- **The discount lands on your bill** — you are billed the network cost minus your plan's rate:
  5% on Entry, 10% on Standard, 15% on Business, negotiated on Enterprise.
- **Applied automatically** — every outgoing TRON transfer, with no staking, no resource
  management and no TRX inventory to maintain.

## When to run it yourself instead

Fee optimization is the managed path. If you would rather hold the resources, you can stake and
delegate TRON energy yourself from the dashboard or the API — the same vault, the same policies,
your own inventory.

## FAQ

**How much do we actually save?**
Your plan's rate off the network cost of each outgoing TRON transfer — 15% at the top tier. High
volume USDT flows feel it on every single transfer, which is where the line shows up.

**Do we have to stake TRX?**
No. Energy and bandwidth are sourced on the resource market and delegated per transaction, so
there is no TRX inventory to fund, watch or unstake.

## Related

- [Gas Sponsorship](/features/gas-sponsorship)
- [Mass Payouts](/features/mass-payouts)
- [Stablecoin Payments](/solutions/stablecoin-payments)
- [Pricing](/pricing)