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Transaction types

Find out what types of transaction you can make.

Diego Lorenzetti avatar
Written by Diego Lorenzetti
Updated over a year ago

There are 3 different types of transactions:

  • Deposit/Incoming

  • Withdrawal/Outgoing

  • Trade

Deposit/Incoming

This type of transaction occurs when the balance of an asset in a wallet or exchange increases as a consequence of a transaction coming from another source.

Example:

  • my balance on Kraken is 0.5BTC

  • I decide to deposit 1BTC coming from a hard wallet in my Kraken account

  • my balance on Kraken will be 1.5BTC (initial balance 0.5BTC)

Withdrawal/Outgoing

This type of transaction occurs when the balance of an asset in a wallet or exchange decreases as a consequence of a transaction going towards another source.

Example:

  • my balance on Binance is 4ETH

  • I decide to withdraw 2ETH and move it on Coinbase

  • my balance on Binance will be 2ETH (initial balance 4ETH)

Trade

This type of transaction occurs when the balance of two assets in a wallet or exchange shifts (one increases - one decreases) as a consequence of a trade within the same source.

Example:

  • my balance on Kraken is 1BTC and 5ETH

  • I decide to trade 0.5BTC for 5ETH

  • my updated BTC balance will be 0.5 (initial 1)

  • my updated ETH balance will be 10 (initial 5)

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