What is minimum (reserved) Stellar wallet balance?

Modified on Fri, 26 Apr 2024 at 12:50 PM

The absolute minimum balance for every active Stellar wallet is 1 XLM, therefore when making a payment you should make sure to leave at least 1 lumen in your account.

When activating your account with the initial payment, we recommend sending or buying at least 5 XLM to make sure you have enough to use the LOBSTR app without any Stellar network restrictions.

Minimum balances help protect the network from spam account creation. Following the Stellar Network protocol, each new held asset (trustline), signer or active trade offer requires an additional 0.5 XLM reserve.

Sponsored Reserves also affect the minimum account balance and are reflected by the # of sponsoring entries and # of sponsored entries.

For example, an account with 1 trustline and 2 offers would have a minimum balance of 2.5 lumens:

1 XLM account min balance + 0.5 XLM base reserve * (3 entries + 1 sponsoring entry - 1 sponsored entry) = 2.5 total XLM reserve.

Entries include:

Trustlines
Offers
Signers
Data entries

IMPORTANT!

With reference to the Stellar Network protocol, when creating an offer for sale, the funds involved in the offer are postponed to the reserved balance and cannot be used until the order is canceled or executed.

The minimum balance is held in reserve, and closing an entry frees up the associated base reserve.

Any transaction that would reduce an account balance to less than the minimum will be rejected.

Please note that LOBSTR does not apply additional fees when submitting a transaction, however, there are base Stellar network transaction fees, the amount of which depends on the Stellar network load. The transaction fees for transactions submitted from LOBSTR can be as low as 0.00001 XLM and as high as 1 XLM.

Make sure your Stellar wallet has enough XLM to cover a maximum Stellar network fee (enforced by the Stellar network, not LOBSTR).

Learn more:

What are the fees for a transaction?

On the LOBSTR apps, the reserved balance is displayed on the 'Home' page (choose 'Lumens' > scroll down to 'Your balance' > 'Reserved balance'):

WEBSITE

MOBILE

The funds in your reserved balance are still yours and can be withdrawn at any time. In case you want to withdraw the last 1 XLM, LOBSTR provides you an option to transfer all your balance without any restrictions to any Stellar address of your choice — learn more about our Merge Tool here.

If you have any further questions on the minimum account balance, please reach out to us at support@lobstr.co.