help sent usdt to smart contract instead of wallet

[tvplus006]

so i sent some usdt to a smart contract address other then my wallet address is there anything i can do or just consider it gone?

Previously, there were such precedents when mistakenly listed coins to the address of the contract were returned to the sender. But it was on the Balance Smart Chain network, which is centralized. But regarding your case, I am sure that you have lost your USDT forever, but you should learn from this a lesson that will not allow you to lose your money in this way in the future.

[mdzahed134]

so i sent some usdt to a smart contract address other then my wallet address is there anything i can do or just consider it gone?

The same applies to wallets. There is no reason why they allow the smart contract address to be sent, just as they display an error message when you type an incorrect address.

Right, if they didn’t allow to send our money for incorrect address or smart contract address than it will never happen. They should implement this function. Also i lost 110$ USDT it was (PoS) USDT token and i deposit in binance exchange from polygon site but it will never recover i contact with binance support.

[justdimin]

if they didn’t allow to send our money for incorrect address or smart contract address than it will never happen. They should implement this function.

Like seriously, if it’s possible for them to implement a feature like that that would stop people from sending their money to the wrong contract address, trust me it is going to be really helpful in helping to stop mistakes like this. Then as for we ourselves, we all have to be really careful whenever we are doing anything that has to do with cryptocurrency and have it on our mind that in cryptocurrency everyone is on their own, and if you lose your money, then there are close to zero chances that you’re going to be getting it back.

[mdzahed134]

if they didn’t allow to send our money for incorrect address or smart contract address than it will never happen. They should implement this function.

Like seriously, if it’s possible for them to implement a feature like that that would stop people from sending their money to the wrong contract address, trust me it is going to be really helpful in helping to stop mistakes like this. Then as for we ourselves, we all have to be really careful whenever we are doing anything that has to do with cryptocurrency and have it on our mind that in cryptocurrency everyone is on their own, and if you lose your money, then there are close to zero chances that you’re going to be getting it back.

Of course possible, I see several exchanges already implemented this function like Binance, If you try to sending token in wrong smart chain then where you can't and will mentioned what's wrong. Even when you will paste recipient address it's automatically matched in the network. People can make mistakes but our money can be save just implemented by a function.

[tvplus006]

...How did you end up entering a smart contract address instead of your wallet address?

I'm guessing how the OP could have sent the coins to the contract address, since he made a similar mistake himself, but I saw it in time and canceled the transaction. Obviously, the OP copied the contact's address to add it to the wallet, and then tried to copy the recipient's address, but the address of the contract was saved in the buffer, which he pasted into the recipient's address.

[cryptosatrs25005]

I do not think that amount can be retrieved. Unless the contract address that has received your token had a function implemented that allows it to transfer back the received tokens,

[mbakruroh]

so i sent some usdt to a smart contract address other then my wallet address is there anything i can do or just consider it gone?

If you send a token or anything to a smart contract then you will not get the token back. Unless you send the token to an address with a different smart contract, say you send USDT from the BSC blockchain to the Polygon blockchain, you will get the USDT. In a different case, if you send USDT tokens to an Exchange address, if the exchange supports multiple blockchains, then you will get the USDT tokens, but otherwise you will not get them even if the recipient address is the same.

[GbitG]

I do not think that amount can be retrieved. Unless the contract address that has received your token had a function implemented that allows it to transfer back the received tokens,

100% Surely this payment is already gone forever because most of Smart Contracts has not functions for sending payments but if some still exist for this then teams never take any chance due to security reason.

Now take this as lesson in future double check before sending any amount to any address because few seconds careless can give you more big loses in future.

[milewilda]

so i sent some usdt to a smart contract address other then my wallet address is there anything i can do or just consider it gone?

Similar condition which you might able to find out some idea or answers on but its likely those coins are lost forever.
thats why sending out coins should be checked out twice or thrice or more when more.

https://www.reddit.com/r/binance/comments/pdl7gl/recover_usdt_transferred_from_bep20_to_erc20/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ledgerwallet/comments/m7aoei/accidentally_sent_usdt_to_my_erc20_address_on_the/