[Meta] the USDC rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining
the USDC rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining — with the counter-argument included, because I find it fairly persuasive.
Got a quote with a fifteen-minute expiry and assumed it was a pressure tactic. It was just a held rate.
Sent to the right address on the wrong chain years ago. Nothing to be done. That is the lesson I paid for.
The sequence that makes this boring, which is the goal.
Ask which networks are accepted before you order. Pick the one with a sensible fee at that hour. Paste the address rather than typing it and verify the first and last several characters. Check whether the chain requires a memo. Send a test amount if the total is large. Wait for confirmations before treating anything as done. Save the transaction hash with the order reference.
Seven steps, most of them seconds long, and between them they eliminate every failure mode that gets posted on this board.
That is everything I have. The rest is opinion and I have tried to keep it out.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Network fees are set by chain congestion at the time of sending. They are paid to the network, not to the recipient, and they vary by hour as well as by chain.
Memo requirements are chain-specific. The chain you are describing does not use one.
ask which networks they actually accept before you order
Asked which networks CPC accepted before ordering and picked the cheapest one at that hour. Saved more than the difference in price.
Same. Asking which networks are accepted before ordering has saved me twice.
What is and is not the supplier’s fault, since this board generates unfair complaints.
Not theirs: the network fee, chain congestion, confirmation time, the rate moving between quote and send, and a payment sent on the wrong chain. Theirs: which networks they accept, how quickly they credit a confirmed payment, and whether the address they gave you was correct and communicated clearly.
Keeping those columns separate makes the reports here far more useful. A thread titled "supplier took my payment" that turns out to describe forty minutes of unconfirmed transaction helps nobody and follows people around for years.
Disagree — a quote expiry is normal when a rate is being held. Pressure to decide immediately is a different thing.
network and address, checked twice, before anything else
Confirmations are the count of blocks built on top of the one containing your transaction. Until there are some, the transaction is not settled in any meaningful sense.
Small fix — that is the network fee, not a supplier charge. The distinction matters for the complaint you are making.
I would not treat a delayed confirmation as evidence of anything at all. Chains have busy hours.
A test transaction costs one extra network fee and verifies the address, the network and the recipient’s crediting process before the main amount moves.
A test transaction costs one extra network fee and verifies the address, the network and the recipient’s crediting process before the main amount move
Agreed — and the hash is the receipt. Nothing else is.
Wallet address redacted from the post above. Hashes are fine here; addresses are not.
Confirmation took forty minutes on a busy evening and I had already written half an angry message. Deleted it.
Nearly sent on the wrong network. The token symbol was identical and the address format was the only clue.
Which network, exactly?
Correction: that address format is not the chain you named. Worth checking before anybody follows this.
keep the hash, it is the only receipt that exists
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