Add money to your agent

Send coins to your agent's address from any Algorand wallet, such as Pera, or from an exchange that supports Algorand withdrawals. Before the first USDC can arrive, the wallet has to be activated, which PortMula does for you once. Everything is on the Wallet page, on the Add funds tab.

Getting the wallet ready

If your agent has no wallet yet, the Wallet page asks you to agree to how it works, then lets you create it. Creating it moves no money.

A new Algorand account cannot hold USDC until it starts holding it, and it needs ALGO to do that. Until then, the Add funds tab shows Activate — enable USDC. Pressing it has PortMula send the wallet ALGO for its minimum balance and turn USDC on, in one group of two transactions that lands whole or not at all, at PortMula's cost. You get the transaction id and an explorer link. PortMula does this once per wallet.

Finding the address

The Add funds tab shows the wallet's .algo name if it has one, the full address with Copy address and View on explorer, and a QR code for scanning from a phone. Under the code is the network the wallet is on.

Which coins to send

• USDC is what your agent spends on the services it buys. Without it, your agent cannot pay for data.
• ALGO pays the network fee on transactions the wallet sends, such as trades and withdrawals, and covers the 0.1 ALGO the network locks for each coin the wallet holds. Activation gives it a starting amount with some room to spare, and you can add more the same way at any time.
• Any other coin arrives only if the wallet already holds it. Otherwise it can wait in the wallet's inbox until you claim it.

Check the network before you send

An address looks the same on every Algorand network, so send only on the network named under the QR code. If it says testnet, coins there have no value: do not send real funds, and do not send to it from an exchange, because an exchange sends real coins on mainnet, where PortMula is not reading this wallet. When you send a coin other than ALGO, check its id matches the one your wallet shows; networks and coin ids shows where to find it.

Seeing it arrive

Once the network confirms the transfer, reload the Wallet page. The coin appears in Holdings and in the Total value card, and the transfer is listed under Activity.