Bridge BTC for gas fee

Uploading and verifying BTC data, along with other operations on exSat, requires paying gas fees in exSat. These gas fees are deducted from the BTC deposited when creating the account. When the balance is low, you will need to recharge with more BTC as gas fee.

Check BTC balance for gas fee

You can check the BTC balance used for gas fees on the Synchronizer/Validator account details page.

If you're running from source code, please execute "yarn start-commander" to run the client.

yarn start-commander

If you're running with Docker, please use the following commands to run it in interactive mode (assume the container name is commander)

docker rm commander
docker run -it --name commander -v $HOME/.exsat/:/app/.exsat -e CLIENT_TYPE=commander exsatnetwork/exsat-client:latest

Simply select your role as Synchronizer or Validator to view the details of your account, such as:

Bridge BTC as gas fee

Since Synchronizers and Validators operate on the exSat native layer, you can follow these steps to bridge BTC for gas fees:

1. Bridge BTC to the EVM layer.

2. Refill your Synchronizer or Validator account.