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Funding your account

How USDC-on-Base deposits work — your address, confirmations, minimums, and the wrong-network risk.


You fund your account with USDC on Base, and campaigns can only be activated once you hold a real balance. Funding is a crypto deposit, not a card charge — which is exactly what lets a cannabis exchange operate where card networks won't.

Your deposit address

Your wallet page shows a persistent USDC-on-Base deposit address (and a QR code for it). It's yours and it doesn't change — you can reuse it for every top-up. Send USDC to that address and, once the network confirms the transfer, we credit your balance.

There is no "amount" to enter up front: whatever amount arrives at your address is credited. Send $50 of USDC, get $50 of balance (less nothing — deposits are not taxed by the take-rate; that only applies to what advertisers spend).

Minimum and confirmations

  • Minimum deposit is $1.00. A transfer below that isn't credited.
  • We wait for the transfer to reach a safe number of on-chain confirmations before crediting, so a deposit is not instant — it lands shortly after the network settles it. Your wallet page shows the deposit once it's seen and again once it's confirmed.

Send on the right network — this matters

Send only USDC, and only on the Base network, to your deposit address.

  • Do not send USDC on Ethereum mainnet, Polygon, or any other chain to this address.
  • Do not send other tokens (ETH, BTC, or any non-USDC asset).

Funds sent on the wrong network or in the wrong asset can be unrecoverable. If you're moving funds from an exchange, double-check that it supports withdrawing USDC on Base before you send.

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