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wallet.getBalance() now supports Arkade Assets! See how it works on the Assets > Check Balance page.
Your Arkade wallet balance shows how many satoshis you can spend in offchain transactions. This is your primary balance for everyday payments within Arkade. 
const balance = await wallet.getBalance()

// Total wallet balance
console.log('Total:', balance.total)

// Boarding UTXOs waiting to be onboarded
console.log('Boarding Total:', balance.boarding.total)

// Available balance - spendable in offchain Arkade transactions
console.log('Available:', balance.available)

// Offchain balance split by settlement state
console.log('Settled:', balance.settled)
console.log('Preconfirmed:', balance.preconfirmed)

// Funds that may require recovery
console.log('Recoverable:', balance.recoverable)

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Understanding Your Balance

Your Arkade wallet balance is composed of different VTXO states: 
{
  // Offchain balances (VTXOs)
  preconfirmed: 0;      // Cosigned by the Arkade operator and sender
  settled: 20000;       // Bitcoin-anchored via batch swap
  available: 20000;     // settled + preconfirmed (spendable in transactions)
  recoverable: 5000;    // Expired VTXOs and subdust. (see VTXO Management)
  total: 25000;         // available + recoverable

  // Pending onchain deposits. (boarding UTXOs - see Ramps for onboarding)
  boarding: {
    unconfirmed: 0,     // Unconfirmed onchain UTXOs
    confirmed: 0,       // Confirmed onchain UTXOs
    total: 0            // confirmed + unconfirmed
  };
}
Primary Balance Fields:
  • available - What you can spend right now in Arkade transactions
  • total - Your total offchain balance including funds that need recovery
For everyday use, focus on the available balance.
Advanced Balance Fields:
  • recoverable - VTXOs that have been swept by the server or subdust amounts. Follow the steps in VTXO Recovery to recover these funds.
  • boarding - Only relevant when using the native onboarding process. For most users, this will be zero.
Learn more about VTXO States.

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Managing Coins

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Getting Virtual UTXOs

You can retrieve all your offchain VTXOs with a simple call: 
// Get virtual UTXOs (offchain)
const vtxos = await wallet.getVtxos()
console.log('Number of VTXOs:', vtxos.length)

// Log important information about each VTXO
vtxos.forEach((vtxo, index) => {
  console.log(`VTXO #${index + 1}:`);
  console.log(`  ID: ${vtxo.txid}:${vtxo.vout}`);
  console.log(`  Amount: ${vtxo.value} sats`);
  console.log(`  Batch ID: ${vtxo.virtualStatus.batchTxID}`);
  console.log(`  Status: ${vtxo.virtualStatus.state}`); // "preconfirmed" | "settled" | "swept" | "spent";
});
Each VTXO has the following shape: 
type ExtendedVirtualCoin = {
  txid: string;
  vout: number;
  value: number;
  status: {
    confirmed: boolean;
    // optional block hash, height, etc...
  };
  virtualStatus: {
    state: "preconfirmed" | "settled" | "swept" | "spent";
    // commitment tx ids, expiry, etc...
  };
  createdAt: Date;
  assets?: Asset[]; // see Assets > Core Concepts
  // misc taproot fields, extra witness, etc...
}

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Getting Boarding UTXOs

Boarding UTXOs are onchain UTXOs that have been sent to a boarding address but haven’t yet been converted to VTXOs: 
// Get boarding UTXOs
const boardingUtxos = await wallet.getBoardingUtxos()
console.log('Number of boarding UTXOs:', boardingUtxos.length)

// Log important information about each boarding UTXO
boardingUtxos.forEach((utxo, index) => {
  console.log(`Boarding UTXO #${index + 1}:`);
  console.log(`  TXID: ${utxo.txid}`);
  console.log(`  Output Index: ${utxo.vout}`);
  console.log(`  Amount: ${utxo.value} sats`);
  console.log(`  Status: ${utxo.status.confirmed ? 'Confirmed' : 'Unconfirmed'}`);
});
Each boarding UTXO has the following shape: 
type ExtendedCoin = {
  txid: string;
  vout: number;
  value: number;
  status: {
    confirmed: boolean;
    // optional block hash, height, etc...
  };
  // misc taproot fields, extra witness, etc...
}

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Next Steps

  • Send Payments - Learn how to send payments within Arkade and to Lightning
  • VTXO Management - Manage VTXO renewal and recovery
  • Ramps - Advanced: onboard from Bitcoin or offboard to Bitcoin