Yeah, I’ve tried writing to @brian about that but for some reason haven’t been getting any responses or anything. I’m about to have to reach out to @sampson and others. They really need to not only update some of their FAQ and help guides that are misleading, but ideally need to have a bit of a tutorial for people. Brave is going to likely be the introduction to cryptocurrency for what I’m guessing are the majority of users. It’s extremely complicated, especially with how Brave Wallet is set up on fees and all. They need to either adjust that to be more “simple” or need to have a bit of a “learning course” to help people know where to look and what to do in order to send/swap properly.
Going to tag this topic as solved.
@lowner had the original solution, so I am just going to reactivate that. 
@Aman_M I wish I could give you a solution too! I think several of your posts deserve a wiki! lol You were awesome!
@talgeeze Thank-you for your patience in explaining the limit information to me! Greatly appreciated.
Brave community members are the greatest! lol
Fair enough. I’m happy just to contribute.
And if you start getting a grasp of it, maybe you can create a detailed post on using Brave Wallet, adding networks/tokens, using testnets, transacting, Gas fee & Swaps, lol 
and someone can mark it as wiki.
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finished my last bat to eth swap a few hours ago, ~$13.50 in total gas fees. about the same as the first.
good luck to everyone in the swapstakes 
LOL too funny. I think you are the only one to enter. 
You going to be reeling in the prizes! 
Good luck!
I have this problem too.
I’m trying to swap 109 BAT to ETH. It only says “insufficient funds for gas”. There is no way gas costs over $100 lol.
Do you have to have ETH in the wallet also to pay gas fees?
I’ve tried 0.00000001 BAT and same message.
UPDATE: I read above that gas fees are paid in ETH. It would be nice if it just showed how much the gas fees are.
i found this twitter account for a good estimate, updated every 15 minutes.
the uniswap estimate would be the gauge i’d check. you’d need at least that much eth in your wallet to conduct the swap plus a smaller fee to approve the contract before swapping.
best time I’ve found for low fees is early AM EST
I can answer this now! Yes, you do have to have ETH in your wallet to pay gas fees (see @lowner solution). The gas fees fluctuate depending on network load, but they are pretty high even on the low end.
To see a gas fee estimate, go to https://etherscan.io/gastracker and look for 0x swap in the Estimated Cost of Transaction Actions: list. The current gas fee estimate is below. Outrageous!
But then I checked again right before posting and the gas estimate is below. Still outrageous, but it will give you some idea how fast gas fee amounts fluctuate.
If you do have enough ETH for gas fees and an Activate BAT button pops up. Only click and confirm once, even if it looks like it didn’t work. You will be charged gas fees each time you Activate/Confirm. See Post #35 from @Aman_M post above. Especially pay attention to this:
And refrain from creating multiple activation transaction for any token as they all will cost gas fee if approved.
I hit the Activate button about 5 times and when it was all said and done had about $9 worth of ETH charged. Sheesh.
@lowner lol you were much quicker and much more concise! Didn’t even notice, I was so focused on trying to “get it right”. Hope I did anyway! 
Some interesting statistics on Swap-stakes- https://0xtracker.com/apps/brave. The campaign period was 8-13th March.
No day during the campaign, had more than 200 active traders (unique trades) swapping, highest being 191 on 11th March. Brave stands nowhere compared to Metamask on active traders or trades. But odds for swap-stake entry would be very high.
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I have the same problem, I moved Ether to my Brave Wallet to stake a few dollars in the PoolTogether lottery, I linked the app with Brave easily but now I can´t swap USDC because of insufficient funds. Brave built its wallet on the Ethereum network and it has exorbitant fees, it is not Brave taking up the commission they only charge 0.85% I think, it is the Ethereum network being congested and charging incredible amounts for gas.
Brave announced they would integrate the Solana network this year, when that happens the problem will be solved, Solana fees are around $0.001 per transaction but as of right now for small amounts I would not use the wallet, Brave can´t do anything about it other than implementing Solana as soon as possible.
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