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.

sp = algod_client.suggested_params()
# Create transfer transaction
xfer_txn = transaction.AssetTransferTxn(
    sender=acct1.address,
    sp=sp,
    receiver=acct2.address,
    amt=1,
    index=created_asset,
)
signed_xfer_txn = xfer_txn.sign(acct1.private_key)
txid = algod_client.send_transaction(signed_xfer_txn)
print(f"Sent transfer transaction with txid: {txid}")

results = transaction.wait_for_confirmation(algod_client, txid, 4)
print(f"Result confirmed in round: {results['confirmed-round']}")

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

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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)