Make a Payment

When your node is connected to a token network, has channels open with one or more peers and have tokens deposited in the channels you're all set to start making payments.

A powerful feature of Raiden is the ability to let you pay anyone in the network by using a path of connected payment channels to mediate the payment and not only directly connected nodes. These payments are called mediated transfers.

Pay

Payments are made from the payments endpoint via a POST request that needs to include:

1. The address of the token you want to pay with as a path parameter.

2. The address of the node receiving your payment as a path parameter.

3. The amount you would like to pay as a body parameter.

curl -i -X POST \
http://localhost:5001/api/v1/payments/0x9aBa529db3FF2D8409A1da4C9eB148879b046700/0x61C808D82A3Ac53231750daDc13c777b59310bD9 \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"amount": "42"}'

You can provide the body parameter with an additional identifier key with a value of your choice. This value can be a number ("identifier": 42) or the stringified number ("identifier": "42").

This is optional and the purpose of the identifier is to give dApps built on Raiden a way to tag payments.

Your payment will most likely succeed if:

• The path of channels leading from your node to the node receiving your payment has enough capacity.

• All nodes needed to mediate the payment are online.

• You have enough tokens in the channel from which you intend to pay out the amount specified in the request body.

To get your tokens out of a channel and back on-chain you either have to withdraw the tokens or close the channel.

Withdraw Tokens

Settle Payments and Close Channels

View payment history

You can view all transactions you've made with a partner node by querying the payments endpoint in a GET request, using the same path parameters as when making a payment.

curl -i \
http://localhost:5001/api/v1/payments/0x9aBa529db3FF2D8409A1da4C9eB148879b046700/0x61C808D82A3Ac53231750daDc13c777b59310bD9

In the response you will be able to see all successful payments, all failed payments and all payments you have received.