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princepossum124566Someone bought my NFT with WETH before I had WETH set up in my wallet. I’m confused as to where the WETH went. It was listed on the polygon blockchain and idk what happens when someone buys with a different token. Is it in my polygon wallet? Someone help! I can dm the etherscan receipt – I have no idea where the money went
analytical_1This may be technical but it will help you understand how tokens work. (tl;dr add the Weth contract address to your wallet’s token list)
A token is just a ledger of balances that lives inside a contract. This is what it looks like:
Alice- 3
Bob- 5
Carol- 10
And so on…This could be the usdc contract, Weth contract, Dai contract, they are all the same. The only difference is 3 units of Weth is worth way more than 3 units of usdc and the contract addresses are different.
By default when a token contract is created, every single wallet address in existence starts with 0. Your wallet technically doesn’t ‘hold’ tokens, its the contracts that do. Your wallet just looks up your address inside of the contract and sees what your balance is.
When someone ‘sent’ you Weth, the Weth contract just subtracted their balance and added to yours. What your wallet does is just keep tabs on your balances within each contract.
The_AbbasYou listed it on the “Polygon (Matic) network”. Not listed it to be sold for Matic. The weth they paid is in your wallet don’t worry. Just add it to metamask’s page. If you are not sure how, a quick fix is to change a setting in your wallet, from general settings turn the option ” hide tokens with zero balance ” on. It has the side effect of showing all tokens with some balance, regardless of if you added them or not.
gm10000These browser wallets need to have 2FA. Why don’t they?!
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