unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about escrow is guesswork
The title is the argument: unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about escrow is guesswork. Here is the rest of it. A token symbol identifies an asset, not a network. The same symbol commonly exists on several chains with incompatible address formats, and sending across that boundary is generally…
The transaction hash is the canonical receipt: it is public, verifiable by either party, and it is what a support query should quote.
Pasted rather than typed the address, then checked the first and last six characters. Habit now.
Pasted rather than typed the address, then checked the first and last six characters.
Agreed — and the hash is the receipt. Nothing else is.
How many confirmations does it show?
The transaction hash is the canonical receipt: it is public, verifiable by either party, and it is what a support query should quote.
This is the check that prevents the only genuinely unrecoverable mistake in this thread.
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ask which networks they actually accept before you order
the memo field matters on the chains that use one
Which networks did they list as accepted?
Yes — gas is the network’s, not the supplier’s, and conflating them produces a lot of unfair complaints.