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I have deployed a contract on a test net and I want to send some tez to it to test out some operations. When I try to send through Temple wallet, I get:

Failed
Unable to estimate transaction to provided Recipient.
This may happen because:
Minimal fee for this transaction is greater than your balance. A large fee may be required because of you sending funds to an empty Manager account. That requires a one-time 0.257 ꜩ burn fee;
Network or other technical issue.

What is this 0.257 burn fee and why do I need to do it on a contract? Is it a reveal? How would I do it?

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The burn fee is a payment you make to "initialize" a new address or contract. This prevents mass-spam creation of addresses with no contents/value from clogging up storage.

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  • I see, so how would I pay that burn fee when I deploy a new contract?
    – flash76
    Mar 30, 2021 at 18:23
  • You simply add that amount to the transaction fee. It will be deducted/burnt automatically by the network. If you are using the tezos-client CLI, just add --burn-fee 0.257
    – utdrmac ♦
    Mar 31, 2021 at 14:23
  • Is it possible to do it through the SmartPy website? I'm able to deploy the contract through there but not through tezos-client, even if I add 0.257 to the network fee
    – flash76
    Mar 31, 2021 at 15:31

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