A safe send is three matches: the right coin, the right network, and the right address — plus a memo when the receiver is an exchange that pools deposits. Copy the address; never type it. Then match the first four and last four characters. Clipboard malware can swap a paste. Sending crypto is not a bank transfer. Once the network confirms it, nobody here can reverse it.
The walk
How to send crypto, step by step
- 1 Start on the receiving side. Open the wallet or exchange that will get the coins. Use their receive or deposit screen — not an old text, not a screenshot from a group chat.
- 2 Write down the network name they show. “USDT” is not enough. USDT on Tron is not USDT on Ethereum. Copy the network label they printed, character for character.
- 3 Copy the address from that same screen. Paste it into the sending app. Never type it. Then check the first four and last four characters against the receive screen.
- 4 Look for a memo, tag, or destination tag. If that field is on the deposit page, fill it. Skipping it parks the coins in a pooled wallet with no name on them.
- 5 Send a small test if the rest would hurt to lose. Wait until it shows up. Then send the remainder on the same route.
That order does not change because the app is Coinbase or Robinhood. The button names change. The matches do not.
What has to match
Coin, network, address
If any one of these is wrong, the other two will not save the send.
Checked August 2026
App menus move. Withdraw vs Send, “advanced,” and network pickers get renamed. Confirm the network on the receiver’s live deposit page, not on a memory of last year’s screen.
Wallets you control
How to send crypto to another wallet
A wallet address is a long string. It is not a username. The sending app will not “find” your friend. You paste what their receive screen shows, on the network that screen named.
If both sides are wallets you control, you still do the three matches. People lose coins between their own Coinbase account and their own phone wallet because they picked Ethereum while the phone wallet was on Solana.
Do not copy an address from your old outgoing history. Lookalike addresses get dropped into that list on purpose. Copy from the destination, every time.
Paying a person
How to send crypto to someone
Get the address from them twice if the amount matters — the app, and a second channel (a call, a known email). A QR in a chat is easy to swap. You are not sending “to Sam.” You are sending to a string that must match.
Ask them which network. If they say “just USDT” and you pick Tron because it is cheap, and they only watch Ethereum, the cheap send is the expensive one.
What to tap
How to send crypto from Coinbase
On Coinbase, moving coins to a wallet you control is a withdrawal, not a sale. A sale is when you turn coins into dollars. If you only want the coins on your own device, do not tap Sell.
- Open the wallet that will receive the coins. Copy the address and the network from its receive screen.
- In Coinbase, open Send or Withdraw — not Sell.
- Paste the address, pick the same network, then check the first four and last four characters.
- Send a small test if losing the rest would hurt. Coinbase’s warning about irreversible sends is literal.
Coinbase’s help centre will show the exact taps. Use it for the buttons. Use the send crypto check for the matches those taps skip.
How to send crypto on Robinhood
Robinhood lets you transfer some coins out, not always every coin they let you buy, and not on every network. Fees and wait times are theirs. The irreversible part is still the blockchain’s.
- Confirm Robinhood lists both the coin and the network your receiver named.
- Open their transfer or withdraw screen.
- Paste the address from the receiver’s official screen, then check first four and last four.
- If they do not list that network, stop. A second app is a new send, not a shortcut.
How to send crypto on Kraken
Kraken Pro and the main app can look different. The three matches do not. The destination deposit page is still the source of truth for the network name.
- Copy the address and network from the destination deposit page.
- Open Withdraw: asset, amount, address, network.
- Fill a memo only if Kraken shows that field. Do not invent one.
- Check first four and last four, then send a small test if the rest would hurt.
How to send crypto on Crypto.com
Crypto.com also uses a withdraw-to-address flow. “To Coinbase” is not a special button that skips the network match.
- Copy from the destination receive screen, not from an old history.
- Open Withdraw and pick the matching network.
- Wait out any new-address hold. That wait is them, not a failed send.
- Do not send a second time while the first is pending. Check first four and last four.
Other apps
PayPal, Cash App, and Venmo
These apps can buy and sometimes transfer crypto, with their own country, amount, and coin limits. Treat them like any other sender: the receiver’s network still has to match. If PayPal will not send on the network you need, buy or hold there and send from an exchange that will — that is two steps, each with its own checklist. We do not keep a live PayPal fee table; their help page does.
On a napkin
A worked send
You want to move $2,000 USDC from an exchange to another exchange that lists native USDC on Solana and Ethereum. You open their deposit page. They show Solana. You copy that address. You pick Solana on the sending side. First four and last four match. You send $5. It arrives. You send the rest.
| Step | In words | This send |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Check | Address, network, memo, then a test | Send check first |
| 2. Fee | Cheapest network they actually credit | Solana, about a cent |
| 3. Rest | Same route after the test lands | $1,995 of $2,000 |
Typical network cost on Solana is about a cent; Ethereum mainnet can be several dollars. Those figures are order-of-magnitude, checked August 2026, not a live gas ticker. Use cheapest way to send after the network is one they credit.
What people skip
Common mistakes when sending crypto
- QR from a chat screenshot. Confirm on a second official channel, then check first four and last four.
- Picking an address from old history. Copy from the destination.
- Skipping the memo on XRP, XLM, ATOM, and many exchange deposits.
- Picking a cheap network they do not list. Ticker names repeat across chains.
- Sending again because the first one is “taking forever.” Wait, then check the hash on a block explorer.
After it left
If it already left on the wrong network
Do not send a second full amount. Read what to do after a wrong-network send, then use the wrong-network checker. This site will never ask for a seed phrase to “verify” a send. If a site does, leave.