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Sending, and seeing your balance and activity, go through your own node: it needs to be running and in sync. Your addresses and keys work without it, so Receive always shows your address. For how sending works on Parallax in general, see Sending and receiving LAX.

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Receive

Receive shows your address, a Copy button and a QR code. You can use the same address as many times as you like. Only send LAX on the Parallax network (chain ID 2110) to it. For a hardware wallet account, choose Verify on Ledger (or Trezor) to check the address on the device before you share it; see Hardware wallets.

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Send

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Fill in the recipient and the amount

Send takes an address, or a contact’s name from your Contacts. It says when the address is one of your own accounts or a contact. Max sends your whole balance less the fee.
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Choose the fee

The network fee is Suggested by your node, from recent blocks and its pool, or Custom if you’d rather pay more to get into a block sooner. A custom fee can’t go below the suggested one: a transaction that waits holds back every later one from the same account.
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Review and send

Review and sign shows the recipient in full (check every character against the address you were given), the amount, the network fee and the total. It warns you when something looks off: sending to the same account, sending to a contract, or a fee more than three times what your node suggests. Then Sign and send: a hardware wallet account confirms on the device, and a watch-only account makes a signing request for your offline signer.
While the node is offline or still syncing, Send says so and waits: connect, or let it finish syncing, first.

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A send that’s waiting

A send stays Pending until a miner puts it in a block. From its row in your activity you can:
  • Speed up: send the same transaction again with a higher fee, so miners take it sooner. It replaces the original.
  • Cancel: send 0 LAX to your own account in its place, with a higher fee, so miners take it instead. Only the fee is spent.
Either way, if the original makes it into a block first, the replacement has no effect and costs nothing. The wallet keeps each of its sends until it’s in a block, and sends it to the network again whenever the node starts or the wallet unlocks. A send the node lost by restarting still reaches its peers.

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History

History lists everything an account has sent, received and mined:
  • Filters for Received, Sent, Mined and Failed.
  • Search by contact, address, transaction hash or block number, and Go to a date. Search by hash reaches back as far as the node’s transaction index, about a year of blocks: go to an older transaction’s date instead.
  • Export saves what’s shown as a CSV file.
On a new install, the history is indexed in the background: the latest activity shows at once, and older activity appears as indexing goes on (Indexing history, with its progress). Export is available once it’s done.

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