The address you sent from ran out of Energy part-way through the USDT contract, so the network reverted the transfer. Your USDT stayed in the wallet, but the failed attempt is not refunded: any Energy it used and any TRX it burned are spent. Put enough Energy on that address and send again.
How much Energy you need
One thing decides it: whether the receiving address already holds USDT. Look the address up on a block explorer if you are not sure — renting the small size for the large case fails the same way.
| Receiving address | Energy needed | Or burn TRX |
|---|---|---|
| Already holds USDT | ~65,000 | ~6.5 TRX |
| Holds none yet | ~131,000 | ~13.1 TRX |
The burn column is the network’s own price — 100 SUN per Energy since TRON proposal #104 in August 2025 — and it is what the chain takes when nobody has delegated Energy to you. Rental platforms sell the two sizes as 65k and 130k.
The 130k size is quoted separately: cheapest on the board right now is — TRX at the cheapest platform on the board, dearest —, average —. All 22 platforms, rescanned every 15 minutes →
Before you send again
- Rent to the address that signs the transfer — the one holding the USDT. Paying by withdrawing TRX from an exchange usually lands the Energy on the exchange’s wallet instead of yours.
- Check it arrived: your wallet shows it as an Energy balance on the account.
- Send before the rental ends. The cheap terms are 15 minutes and 1 hour, counted from the moment the Energy is delegated.
Questions
Burning TRX only covers Energy up to the fee limit your wallet puts on the transaction. If that limit sits below what the contract needs, execution stops part-way and reverts. Raising the fee limit in the wallet’s advanced settings fixes that case and nothing else — if the TRX balance itself is too low, it fails again.
Only if you send USDT most days. Staking under Stake 2.0 gives you Energy that regenerates daily and costs nothing per transfer, but covering one transfer a day takes a four-figure TRX stake, locked up and exposed to the TRX price. It pays off at steady volume and not before.
No. Energy arrives as an on-chain resource delegation to your address. Whoever sent it can take it back when the rental ends, and that is all: a delegation carries no authority over the account and cannot move, sign for or freeze anything you hold.
Three usual causes. The Energy went to an address other than the one signing — most often because the payment came from an exchange withdrawal, or because the platform takes payment to a shared address and reads the destination from the transaction memo, and the memo was left blank. Or the rental had already expired. Or 65,000 was rented for a transfer to an address that holds no USDT.
More on this: choosing 65k or 130k · burning versus renting, with the arithmetic · which platforms take a memo or run an API