genuine question about network that I am slightly embarrassed to ask
Question in the title, detail here: genuine question about network that I am slightly embarrassed to ask.
Rate quotes expire because the underlying rate moves. A short expiry is ordinary; urgency about your decision is a separate signal and should be read separately.
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.
If somebody has the same thing measured a different way, post it next to mine and we will see whether they agree.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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 unrecoverable.
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.
Some chains require a memo or destination tag to route funds to the right account. Omitting it on those chains is one of the more common ways payments go astray.
Wallet address redacted from the post above. Hashes are fine here; addresses are not.
This. A test transaction on a large order costs a fraction of the fee and removes the whole class of risk.