# Cannot send ADA when the wallet has NFTs

**URL:** <https://forum.cardano.org/t/cannot-send-ada-when-the-wallet-has-nfts/58076>\
**Category:** Native Tokens\
**Created:** [19 April 2021 08:29 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/cannot-send-ada-when-the-wallet-has-nfts/58076 "2021-04-19T08:29:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![onotoko](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/onotoko/32/36280_2.png) [@onotoko](https://forum.cardano.org/u/onotoko)\
**Post date:** [19 April 2021 08:29 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/cannot-send-ada-when-the-wallet-has-nfts/58076/1 "2021-04-19T08:29:10Z")

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Hello everyone,  
I just minted 100 NFTs to my wallet, and currently it has 12 ADA in.  
Now I want to send 5 ADA to another wallet by Daedalus wallet and the fee is ~ 0.4 ADA. But when I click to send button I got the error  
` Not enough ADA for fees...`

What is wrong? Please give me some information if you guys faced on it before.  
Thank you so much!

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**Author:** ![bwbush](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/bwbush/32/29827_2.png) [@bwbush](https://forum.cardano.org/u/bwbush)\
**Post date:** [19 April 2021 13:09 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/cannot-send-ada-when-the-wallet-has-nfts/58076/2 "2021-04-19T13:09:44Z")

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Each output of the transaction needs to have at least the [min-ADA](https://cardano-ledger.readthedocs.io/en/latest/explanations/min-utxo.html) value. In your example there are two outputs: the first to the other wallet and the second with the change (which includes the 100 NFTs) back to your own wallet. It’s likely that the 7 ADA + 100 NFTs in change is below the min-ADA value. You have three options:

1. Add more ADA to the wallet from another source, so that the transaction will meet the min-ADA requirement.
2. Send less than 5 ADA to the other wallet. (You can experiment trying different values to see how close to 5 you can get.)
3. Burn some of the NFTs, if they are burnable and you have the necessary signing key(s).

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**Author:** ![onotoko](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/onotoko/32/36280_2.png) [@onotoko](https://forum.cardano.org/u/onotoko)\
**Post date:** [19 April 2021 14:44 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/cannot-send-ada-when-the-wallet-has-nfts/58076/3 "2021-04-19T14:44:40Z")

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Thank you @bwbush,

#1 and #2 resolved my issue. But I just want to ask how can you calculate to 7 ADA is a minimum that I can keep in the wallet?

And for #3, I tried to burn all NFTs but I cannot burn all of them. I got the issue with ValueNotConservedUTxO

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**Author:** ![bwbush](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/bwbush/32/29827_2.png) [@bwbush](https://forum.cardano.org/u/bwbush)\
**Post date:** [19 April 2021 15:04 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/cannot-send-ada-when-the-wallet-has-nfts/58076/4 "2021-04-19T15:04:08Z")

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The min-ADA depends upon the length of the names of the NFTs. This section of the document shows how to do the computation: [Min-Ada-Value Requirement — Cardano Ledger 1.0.0 documentation](https://cardano-ledger.readthedocs.io/en/latest/explanations/min-utxo.html#min-ada-value-calculation). I’m thinking of creating a simple web page where one can enter the numbers and see what the min-ADA is.

To burn tokens, you need to create a minting transaction, but with a negative value for the `--mint` argument in `cardano-cli transaction build-raw`. The incoming UTxO needs to have exactly that number of tokens.

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**Author:** ![onotoko](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/onotoko/32/36280_2.png) [@onotoko](https://forum.cardano.org/u/onotoko)\
**Post date:** [20 April 2021 14:52 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/cannot-send-ada-when-the-wallet-has-nfts/58076/5 "2021-04-20T14:52:42Z")

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That’s perfect. It helps us more  
For burning token, if I lost the utxo, how can I burn it?

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**Author:** ![bwbush](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/bwbush/32/29827_2.png) [@bwbush](https://forum.cardano.org/u/bwbush)\
**Post date:** [20 April 2021 15:04 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/cannot-send-ada-when-the-wallet-has-nfts/58076/6 "2021-04-20T15:04:59Z")

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You can look up the token history on [https://tokentool.io/](https://tokentool.io/) (which lets you look up tokens by name) and [https://cardanoscan.io/](https://cardanoscan.io/) (which lets you look up token transactions once you know the asset ID) to find the UTxO where it is held.

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**Author:** ![onotoko](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/onotoko/32/36280_2.png) [@onotoko](https://forum.cardano.org/u/onotoko)\
**Post date:** [21 April 2021 02:05 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/cannot-send-ada-when-the-wallet-has-nfts/58076/7 "2021-04-21T02:05:57Z")

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Thank you for your support!  
It is better if on cardano-cli does not require a tx\_out with full tokens left

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**Author:** ![bwbush](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/bwbush/32/29827_2.png) [@bwbush](https://forum.cardano.org/u/bwbush)\
**Post date:** [21 April 2021 02:50 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/cannot-send-ada-when-the-wallet-has-nfts/58076/8 "2021-04-21T02:50:27Z")

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It’s fine either way–there probably won’t be much difference in the fee. Anyway, your choice of the `--tx-in` UTxOs pretty much determines what tokens will be in the `--tx-out`.

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**Author:** ![onotoko](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/onotoko/32/36280_2.png) [@onotoko](https://forum.cardano.org/u/onotoko)\
**Post date:** [23 April 2021 01:09 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/cannot-send-ada-when-the-wallet-has-nfts/58076/9 "2021-04-23T01:09:56Z")

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Thank you, sometimes it makes difficulty to calculate the fee and tokens. But so far so good

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**Author:** ![bwbush](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/bwbush/32/29827_2.png) [@bwbush](https://forum.cardano.org/u/bwbush)\
**Post date:** [28 April 2021 00:58 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/cannot-send-ada-when-the-wallet-has-nfts/58076/10 "2021-04-28T00:58:32Z")

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[Here](https://mantis.functionally.io/how-to/min-ada-value/) is an online calculator for the minimum ADA in UTxOs with NFTs or tokens.

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**Author:** ![onotoko](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/onotoko/32/36280_2.png) [@onotoko](https://forum.cardano.org/u/onotoko)\
**Post date:** [28 April 2021 04:06 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/cannot-send-ada-when-the-wallet-has-nfts/58076/11 "2021-04-28T04:06:22Z")

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Sounds great. Thank you so much!
