Coins waiting in your inbox

Algorand will not let a wallet receive a coin it does not hold yet. Some wallets, Pera among them, offer a way round that: an asset inbox, from the ARC-59 standard, where the coin waits in an account set aside for your agent's wallet. Nobody holds that inbox's key, and only your agent's wallet can claim the coin from it.

Where you see it

When something is waiting, Home shows a card with an Open inbox button, and the Wallet page gets an Inbox tab with a count. Each row shows the coin's name, a tag saying Verified, Not verified or Couldn't check, its asset id, who sent it, the amount, its value in dollars when PortMula can price it, and already held if the wallet holds that coin. Under the list is how much ALGO each claim sends back.

If the inbox could not be read, the tab says so. That is not the same as nothing waiting.

Claiming a coin

Press Claim on its row, or in Terminal say claim asset and the coin's id, or claim and its name if it is on the verified list. PortMula builds the claim and shows you a card with the coin's facts. Nothing is signed until you approve it, and then you get the transaction id and an explorer link.

• If the wallet does not hold the coin yet, the claim starts holding it in the same step, which locks 0.1 ALGO, the network's rule. The inbox sends ALGO back with the coin.
• Building the claim is one of the services your agent buys, and its price is on the Services page. A claim from the Wallet page counts as a run toward your plan's daily limit, which Settings shows.
• A claim is never counted against your trade limits: nothing leaves the wallet but the network fee.
• If your agent is paused, resume it in Settings first.

Before you claim something you did not expect

Anyone can send a coin to your agent's inbox, and claiming makes the wallet hold it. Read the card first: it says whether the coin is on the verified list and whether anyone can freeze it or claw it back. You do not have to claim anything, and nothing moves until you do. Verified coins and look-alikes explains the list.

When a claim is refused

If nothing of that coin is waiting, the inbox cannot be read, or claiming is not available, you are told why and nothing is charged. ALGO itself never waits in an inbox; only other coins do.