Transferring assets

Authorized by: The account that holds the asset to be transferred.

Assets can be transferred between accounts that have opted-in to receiving the asset. These are analogous to standard payment transactions but for Algorand Standard Assets.

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    """
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    Send an asset transfer transaction of 1 asset with asset id 1234 from account_a to account_b
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    Parameters for an asset transfer transaction.
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    - sender: The address of the account that will send the asset
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    - asset_id: The asset id of the asset to transfer
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    - amount: Amount of the asset to transfer (smallest divisible unit)
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    - receiver: The address of the account to send the asset to
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    """
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    txn_result = algorand_client.send.asset_transfer(
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        AssetTransferParams(
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            sender=account_a.address,
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            asset_id=1234,
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            receiver=account_b.address,
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            amount=1,
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        )
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    )

const xferTxn = algosdk.makeAssetTransferTxnWithSuggestedParamsFromObject({
  from: creator.addr,
  to: receiver.addr,
  suggestedParams,
  assetIndex,
  amount: 1,
});

const signedXferTxn = xferTxn.signTxn(creator.privateKey);
await algodClient.sendRawTransaction(signedXferTxn).do();
await algosdk.waitForConfirmation(algodClient, xferTxn.txID().toString(), 3);

goal asset send -a <asset-amount> --asset <asset-name> -f <asset-sender> -t <asset-receiver> --creator <asset-creator> -d data

See complete code…

See also

Anatomy of an Asset Transfer Transaction

Transfer

`transferAsset`

The key function to facilitate asset transfers is transferAsset(transfer, algod), which returns a SendTransactionResult and takes a TransferAssetParams:

All properties in SendTransactionParams
from: SendTransactionFrom - The account that will send the asset
to: SendTransactionFrom | string - The account / account address that will receive the asset
assetId: number - The asset id that will be transferred
amount: number | bigint - The amount to send in the smallest divisible unit
transactionParams?: SuggestedParams - The optional transaction parameters
clawbackFrom: SendTransactionFrom | string - An optional address of a target account from which to perform a clawback operation. Please note, in such cases senderAccount must be equal to clawback field on ASA metadata.
note?: TransactionNote - The transaction note
lease?: string | Uint8Array: A lease to assign to the transaction to enforce a mutually exclusive transaction (useful to prevent double-posting and other scenarios)