CASE 02 / FOLLOW THE TRANSFER
Get $100 to the right place.
Plan a fictional cross-chain payment, follow its asset trail, and discover whether the recipient can actually use what arrives.
Follow the case.
- Read the destination
Check the chain, accepted native or wrapped token, minimum amount, and whether the receiver needs gas for a later action.
- Plan the route
Compare a same-chain send, native burn-and-mint, wrapped lock-and-mint and a custodial service. Budget fees and optional destination gas.
- Predict and send
Predict success, an unsupported asset, insufficient gas, a fee shortfall or a bridge delay. Follow three checkpoints in the asset trail.
- Inspect what arrived
Read the destination receipt, separate pending claims from arrived tokens, and replay with a different route. Release a delayed bridge message to see what changes.
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TAKE IT WITH YOU
The question to keep asking.
A successful transaction is only one step. The recipient needs the right asset on the right chain, enough usable value, and the resources required for their next action.
YOUR PRACTICAL CHECKLIST
- Read the recipient’s exact network and token acceptance requirements.
- Distinguish an issuer-native asset from a bridge-issued claim.
- Count route fees before comparing the delivered amount.
- Check whether the next action needs destination gas.
- Track source, pending and destination states separately.
- Investigate unsupported deposits through the destination’s actual control and support process.
Model boundaries & mechanism sources
- Alpha and Delta are fictional chains; DOLLAR is an illustrative unit rather than a real issuer claim. No real addresses or wallets are used.
- The transfer budget is 100 DOLLAR and each task requires at least 98 accepted units. Route fees are fixed at 0, 0.5, 1 or 2 DOLLAR, not live quotes.
- A fictional package converts 0.5 DOLLAR of the budget into one prefunded Delta gas unit. A later wallet payment or app interaction costs 0.2 gas units; a recipient service manages its own gas. Source gas is funded separately.
- Native burn-and-mint, lock-and-mint wrapped claims, same-chain transfers and custodial routing have distinct asset trails. The model isolates their architecture, not their comparative safety.
- A delayed bridge leaves a pending claim. An unsupported destination does not automatically mean irreversible loss; recovery depends on control and support. Service failure, bridge compromise, market prices and variable settlement times are excluded.
FOLLOW THE CONNECTIONS