A recipient's USDC wallet is the address every swap pays out to, so a wrong one sends their money somewhere they do not control. Whether you can fix it yourself depends on how far the recipient has got.
Check the address before any payment arrives. USDC that has already been sent cannot be brought back.
1. Check the address on the recipient
The recipient's address is shown masked, as the first six characters and the last four:
- Go to My Recipients and open the recipient.
- Read the masked address shown against their swaps.
- Open the wallet itself and compare both ends against the address it displays.
Comparing both ends matters. A wrong address that was pasted from the right wallet app often shares its opening characters, so checking only the start of it proves nothing.
2. Correct it while the recipient is still being set up
A recipient who has not finished setup can have the wallet re-entered in the flow that adds them:
- Go to My Recipients and open the unfinished recipient.
- Continue their setup.
- Enter the correct address at the wallet step and submit it.
The address has to be a USDC address on the Base network, and no two recipients can share one. If it is refused, see One wallet per recipient.
3. Once the recipient is live, contact support
An active recipient's wallet address is shown but cannot be edited in the app. There is no setting for it, so changing one is a support action:
- The recipient's name.
- The correct address, in full.
- Confirmation that the address is a USDC address on Base and belongs to that recipient alone.
We change it and confirm when it is done. Swaps that run before the change is made pay out to the old address, so tell the platform to hold payouts if one is due.
Warning: Do not add a second recipient to work around this. Two recipients cannot share a wallet address, and a duplicate recipient splits the same person's history across two records.
4. USDC that has already been sent
USDC paid out to a wrong address is gone. Fiatswaps cannot reverse a swap or recover funds sent to an address that was entered incorrectly, and it makes no difference whether the address belongs to someone else or to nobody.
The check when an address is entered confirms it is a valid USDC address on Base. It cannot know whether it is the right one, which is why the comparison in step 1 is the only thing standing between a typo and a loss.
Next: Check the wallet meets the requirements before you enter it. Wallet and network →