Understanding total address currencies in order to perform simple transaction

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It’s a while that I’m stuck here

I’m trying to perform a simple transaction from this address, which balance looks like:

cardano-cli query utxo --address $(cat payment.addr) --testnet-magic 1097911063
                           TxHash                                 TxIx        Amount
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
63e9c27e39d07f89e774e8ce67c1dde00960cd0ce8a294446ef6e0710229f9c0    15        1400000 lovelace + 1 65b2b0dd9028c871ac1997399979cfc12a7f05738e1ec8d8a16ea52f.AadaGoldenTicket + TxOutDatumHashNone
67a0902d60e520007ba31046c7eaf2f4ef831d43e64e4dd94ae0417b71f56cb7     0        1000000000 lovelace + TxOutDatumHashNone
7d9ce3aecb2203c7c83277ac56cc910b38db597760a95efe65598bcd75bca838     1        989823279 lovelace + TxOutDatumHashNone

to be honest, I have no idea how to treat the AadaGoldenTicket token which I have here for some reason, so I tried every possible sum to calculate the total value in the address
using:

expr 1000000000 + 989823279

expr 1000000000 + 989823279 + 1400000

or even using cardano scan I should have 1,991.223279 tADA so in Lovelace

1991223279

what do I do:

cardano-cli transaction build-raw \
--tx-in 7d9ce3aecb2203c7c83277ac56cc910b38db597760a95efe65598bcd75bca838#1 \
--tx-out $(cat reciver.addr)+1000000000 \
--tx-out $(cat sender.addr)+0 \
--invalid-hereafter 0 \
--fee 0 \
--out-file toReciver.draft.txn \

#get fee

cardano-cli transaction calculate-min-fee \
--tx-body-file toReciver.draft.txn \
--tx-in-count 1 \
--tx-out-count 2 \
--witness-count 1 \
--byron-witness-count 0 \
--testnet-magic 1097911063 \
--protocol-params-file testnet-protocol-params.json \

176897 Lovelace

#get current slot
cardano-cli query tip --testnet-magic 1097911063

#slot: 42946225

#input transaction params
cardano-cli transaction build-raw \
--tx-in 7d9ce3aecb2203c7c83277ac56cc910b38db597760a95efe65598bcd75bca838#1 \
--tx-out $(cat reciver.addr)+1000000000 \
--tx-out $(cat sender.addr)+$(expr 1000000000 + 989823279 - 1000000000 - 176897) \
--invalid-hereafter 42957225 \
--fee 176897 \
--out-file toReciver.raw.txn \

#sign
cardano-cli transaction sign \
--tx-body-file toReciver.raw.txn \
--signing-key-file sender.skey \
--testnet-magic 1097911063 \
--out-file toReciver.signed.txn \

#submit
cardano-cli transaction submit \
--tx-file toReciver.signed.txn \
--testnet-magic 1097911063

I get any kind of UTxO error, which are not very helpful;

here is as an example the error message of the commands shown above:

Command failed: transaction submit  Error: Error while submitting tx: ShelleyTxValidationError ShelleyBasedEraAlonzo (ApplyTxError [UtxowFailure (WrappedShelleyEraFailure (UtxoFailure (ValueNotConservedUTxO (Value 989823279 (fromList [])) (Value 1991223279 (fromList [])))))])

which make me think that I’m getting wrong the way to calculate the total of the address; what should I do to get it right?

2

Hi!

The balance is worng:

–tx-out $(cat reciver.addr)+1000000000
–tx-out $(cat sender.addr)+$(expr 1000000000 + 989823279 - 1000000000 - 176897) \

You have in the UTXO 989823279 (989 ADA), then you don’t have enough funds to send 1000000000 (1000 ADA).

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so in the utxo output only the last row is valid?

In my case, in the output:

cardano-cli query utxo --address $(cat payment.addr) --testnet-magic 1097911063
                           TxHash                                 TxIx        Amount
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
63e9c27e39d07f89e774e8ce67c1dde00960cd0ce8a294446ef6e0710229f9c0    15        1400000 lovelace + 1 65b2b0dd9028c871ac1997399979cfc12a7f05738e1ec8d8a16ea52f.AadaGoldenTicket + TxOutDatumHashNone
67a0902d60e520007ba31046c7eaf2f4ef831d43e64e4dd94ae0417b71f56cb7     0        1000000000 lovelace + TxOutDatumHashNone
7d9ce3aecb2203c7c83277ac56cc910b38db597760a95efe65598bcd75bca838     1        989823279 lovelace + TxOutDatumHashNone

only

7d9ce3aecb2203c7c83277ac56cc910b38db597760a95efe65598bcd75bca838     1        989823279 lovelace + TxOutDatumHashNone

is the valid UTxO of the address?

thanks a lot for your response :smile:

4

Yes, each UTXO transaction represent an unspent balance in your account.

For example, you did 3 deposit transactions of 500 ADA each (your total balance is 1500 ADA):

UTXO#1 500 ADA
UTXO#2 500 ADA
UTXO#3 500 ADA

Now you want to send 750 ADA. You make a transaction with 2 TXins and 2 outs:

–tx-in UTXO#1
–tx-in UTXO#2
–tx-out $(cat reciver.addr)+750
–tx-out $(cat sender.addr)+(1000 - 750 - fee)

You use two UTXO with 1000 ADA, then you need to send you back the rest minus the fee ~250 ADA.

The problem in your case is that you are only using the last UTXO, transaction has less than 1000 ADA. That’s why, the transaction isn’t valid.

Regards.

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thanks @Juantxuthree , your explanation is very clear :heart_eyes:

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