# Cardano will allow paying fees with tokens

**URL:** <https://forum.cardano.org/t/cardano-will-allow-paying-fees-with-tokens/110066>\
**Category:** Education\
**Created:** [7 November 2022 14:13 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/cardano-will-allow-paying-fees-with-tokens/110066 "2022-11-07T14:13:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jaromir](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/jaromir/32/14207_2.png) [@Jaromir](https://forum.cardano.org/u/Jaromir)\
**Post date:** [7 November 2022 14:13 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/cardano-will-allow-paying-fees-with-tokens/110066/1 "2022-11-07T14:13:55Z")

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Cardano will allow users to pay transaction fees through tokens instead of native ADA coins. This mechanism has been named Babel fees. Let’s take a look at what changes it requires and how it will work.

## TLDR:

- Most people won’t sign up for a centralized exchange just to use a blockchain. Don’t expect them to buy native coins of blockchain just to hold tokens or stablecoins.
- For the security of the Cardano network, it is important that transaction fees are paid in ADA and not in tokens.
- Users will be able to create a transaction without having to pay a fee in ADA. Instead of a fee, the transaction will contain a liability.
- Transactions containing a liability are processed by pairing them with a matching transaction that pays the fee.
- The Babel fees feature can be used for other things like atomic swaps.
- Pro pool operátory může Bable fees přinést nové byznys opportunity.

This article was prepared by[Cardanians](https://cardanians.io/en) with support from[Cexplorer](https://cexplorer.io/).

**Read the article** : [https://cexplorer.io/article/cardano-will-allow-paying-fees-with-tokens](https://cexplorer.io/article/cardano-will-allow-paying-fees-with-tokens)

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**Author:** ![brouwerQ](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/brouwerq/32/28193_2.png) [@brouwerQ](https://forum.cardano.org/u/brouwerQ)\
**Post date:** [8 November 2022 11:58 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/cardano-will-allow-paying-fees-with-tokens/110066/2 "2022-11-08T11:58:51Z")

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> Alice has only 100 X tokens in her Cardano wallet and no ADA coins.

This isn’t possible because of the min UTxO value… So I wonder how that will play out…