Balances

Account balance manipulation

Overview

The Balances module provides functionality for manipulating accounts and balances. It provides functionality to:

• Get and set account balances

• Retrieving free and reserved balances

• Validating Balance transfers

• Creating accounts

• Transferring an amount between accounts (only free balance)

Dispatchable Calls

Balances module exposes following dispatchable calls that could be included in the extrinsic:

• transfer - transfer some liquid free balance to another account.

• setBalance - set the balances of a given account.

Configuration

The initial accounts and their token balances are defined in genesis configuration. Also, some constants are defined for the Balances module:

• existentialDeposit - the minimum balance an account may have