Your first USDT send feels stressful because it is final. This checklist removes the unknowns.
Before you touch the send form
- Confirm the receiving network with the recipient. "Send me USDT" is not enough — ERC-20 and TRC-20 addresses are visibly different (0x… vs T…), but BEP-20 and ERC-20 addresses look identical while being incompatible. Ask: "Which network?"
- Make sure you have the fee coin. USDT does not pay its own network fees: you need ETH on Ethereum, TRX on Tron, BNB on BSC. A wallet holding only USDT cannot send on that chain.
In the send form
- Paste the address, then verify it: compare the first 8 and last 8 characters with the source (clipboard malware swaps middle characters less often than ends). Our form checks format and checksum automatically.
- Start with a test amount — $1–5 — whenever the destination is new. Send the test, confirm arrival, then send the rest. The fee is trivial; the certainty is priceless.
- Use Max when emptying a wallet, so the fee is deducted correctly and no dust remains. For token sends, Max accounts for the gas reserve.
- Read the confirmation screen fully: address, network, amount, estimated fee. This is the last moment anything can be stopped.
After sending
You get a transaction hash immediately. Depending on the network, the recipient sees it after confirmations: about a minute on Tron, a couple of minutes on Ethereum, faster on L2s. Our history links every transfer to the block explorer so you can watch it land yourself.
If something looks wrong
Do not send a "correction" transfer — that doubles the loss. Check the hash on the explorer: if the transfer succeeded, it is done; if it is pending, wait. And read what can and cannot be recovered before paying anyone who offers help.
