# Balances ### 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 --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://subsembly.gitbook.io/subsembly/modules/pre-built/balances.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.