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CAPS Tokens Transfer

CAPS is the Ternoa blockchain token. Transactions made on the Ternoa blockchain are carried out in CAPS. It is used in particular for the creation of NFTs, Encryption, and storage of data over time.

Prerequisites​

Before getting started, make sure you have the following ready:

  1. Create a Ternoa account with Alphanet CAPS
  2. Install and set up your editor of choice (we will use Visual Studio Code [VSC] in this tutorial)
  3. Install NodeJS v.14+ & NPM
  4. Install & initialize Ternoa-JS

How to transfer CAPS to an address​

This example shows how to transfer a CAPS balance to an address using balancesTransfer. The numberToBalance helper is used to format the amount from a number value to a BN value according to chain decimals (18 decimals for Ternoa).

import {
    balancesTransfer,
    getKeyringFromSeed,
    numberToBalance,
    WaitUntil,
} from "ternoa-js";

const main = async () => {
    try {
        // The known accounts we want to use
        const keyring = await getKeyringFromSeed("//TernoaTestAccount");
        const TO_ADDRESS = "5GguNdS1T2J9BDFMqPhdPp8vtQxfhGJjiGwAaYF7TPLuiJPs";

        // Amount transferred: 1 CAPS
        const amount = numberToBalance(1); // 1 = 1000000000000000000 for the Ternoa blockchain

        const transferData = await balancesTransfer(
            TO_ADDRESS,
            amount,
            keyring,
            WaitUntil.BlockInclusion
        );
        console.log(
            `The amount transferred to ${TO_ADDRESS} is:`,
            transferData.amountRounded,
            "CAPS"
        );
    } catch (e) {
        console.error(e);
    }
};

main();
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The balancesTransferKeepAlive helper can be used for transferring some liquid balance to another account with a check that the transfer will not kill the origin account.

The balancesTransferAll helper can be used for transferring the entire transferable balance from the caller account.

Support​

If you face any trouble, feel free to reach out to our community engineers in our Discord.