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Cancel an order

Take back the funds from an order that has not been filled.

An order that has not been filled can be cancelled. Cancelling spends the order back to the address it names, which is yours.

Cancelling is a transaction, so you sign it and your wallet pays its network fee.

Cancel it

Connect the wallet that placed the order

Open Pending orders. If no wallet is connected, the screen says to connect the wallet that placed the order, and the cancel button stays disabled until you do.

Press Cancel on chain

Find the order in the list and press Cancel on chain.

Zerochord finds the order's output on chain, builds the cancelling transaction, and hands it to your wallet.

Approve it in your wallet

Once submitted, the screen prints the transaction hash of the cancel and marks the order cancelled in this browser.

When there is nothing left to cancel

If Zerochord cannot find an unspent output of that transaction at the order address, it says so: the order is already filled, expired or cancelled.

That message is good news in the first case. Open the receipt to see what arrived.

Expired orders

Every order Zerochord places carries an expiry. The Pending orders entry shows it.

After the expiry passes, anyone may cancel the order and keep up to the cancellation tip shown on the entry. The rest returns to you. You can still cancel it yourself before that happens, and then no tip is paid.

Stop tracking is not a cancel

Stop tracking here only removes the entry from this browser's list. The order stays on chain and stays fillable. Use Cancel on chain to get funds back.

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