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A payment that finishes with tes success did not necessarily deliver what it said.

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Here is why, and what to read instead.

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A payment's Amount field says how much should arrive.

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But if the sender sets the partial payment flag, the Amount becomes only a maximum.

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The payment can deliver far less, and still succeed.

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The figure to trust is delivered amount, in the transaction's metadata.

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The XRP Ledger's own documentation tells applications to credit that.

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Exchanges that credited the Amount instead have been drained.

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Here is a real case NOSHASHI measured on the twenty-eighth of August twenty twenty-six.

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The payment stated nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, three hundred thirty-two L R C.

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It delivered three thousand, nine hundred fifty-eight.

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About zero point four percent.

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The result was still tes success.

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Any system crediting the stated figure would have over-credited by roughly two hundred fifty times.

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In the same sample, three of two hundred twenty-three consecutive payments carried the partial payment flag.

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Exchanges and custodians hold many customers in one address.

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The destination tag tells them which customer a payment is for.

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A missing tag is a common cause of lost deposits.

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Paths let a payment convert currencies on the way, through order books and pools.

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And escrow locks funds until a time passes or a condition is met.

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In NOSHASHI, open Settlement, paste the sixty-four character transaction hash, and press Read settlement.

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You see the type, the sender, the result, whether the partial payment flag was set, the requested amount, the delivered amount, and the fee that was burned.