---
title: "Sender does not have enough balance"
description: "NEAR Protocol needs a small amount of your tokens to pay any fees necessary to change the state of the blockchain."
url: https://help.mynearwallet.com/en/articles/15-sender-does-not-have-enough-balance
collection: "FAQs"
updated: 2025-07-26
language: en
---

# Sender does not have enough balance

NEAR Protocol needs a small amount of your tokens to pay any fees necessary to change the state of the blockchain.

A typical example is simply sending a transaction, an operation that changes _the state_ of the blockchain, specifically two accounts: the receiver (who will get $NEAR) and the sender, who will have less $NEAR and will pay these fees for both.

Less intuitively, there are other _state_ changes that pay fees, such as:

-   sending fungible and non-fungible tokens;
    
-   staking and unstaking tokens;
    
-   authorize Web3 applications such as [Ref.Finance](http://Ref.Finance);
    
-   recovering the wallet on a new browser window;
    
-   claiming $NEAR from a [lockup contract.](https://nearhelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500002337821-How-do-I-transfer-NEAR-from-my-lockup-account-to-my-main-account-)
    

Even registering a new account, such as "coin-op2.near", requires some fees.

If your wallet doesn't have enough tokens available, the transaction will fail with an error similar to the one below. **The solution is to add a small amount to your balance** (even 0.1 can be enough) and try again.

![Screen\_Shot\_2021-10-21\_at\_2.png](https://nearhelp.zendesk.com/hc/article_attachments/4411240117015/Screen_Shot_2021-10-21_at_2.png)

  
_Your account does not have enough balance for this operation._