When it goes wrong

You sent it on the wrong network

The money is almost never gone in the way people fear. It is sitting at that address on the chain you sent it on, exactly where the ledger says it is. Whether you can get it back depends on one question: does anyone control that address on that chain?

The three cases

If the address is your own on an EVM chain, the funds are yours: the same key opens it on every EVM chain, and you need a wallet that will show that chain. If it belongs to an exchange, recovery depends on their policy and their staff, and it is a support ticket, not a technical problem. If it is a contract or an address nobody holds the key to, it is gone.

Why this happens at all

Every EVM chain shares the same address format. The same 0x string is a valid address on Ethereum, BNB Chain, Polygon, Arbitrum, Base, Optimism and Avalanche, so nothing about the string tells you which one was meant. Tron and Solana formats are distinct, which is precisely why sending to them by mistake is rare.

What this wallet does about it

The network is chosen with the asset, before the address is asked for, so the pair is fixed by the time you paste anything. That prevents the ordinary version of this mistake. It cannot prevent an exchange giving you an address for a chain they did not mean.

What to do in the first ten minutes

Do not send a second transfer to "test" it. Find the transaction on the explorer for the chain you actually used, save the hash, and check who controls the destination. If it is an exchange, open a ticket with the hash and the chain named explicitly. That is the information their recovery process needs and the thing people usually leave out.

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Questions

Are the funds destroyed?

No. They are at that address on that chain. Whether they can be moved depends on who holds its key.

What if I sent to my own address on the wrong EVM chain?

Your key controls that address on every EVM chain. You need a wallet that lets you select the chain you sent on; the balance is there.

Can the wallet reverse it?

No. Nobody can reverse a settled transfer. We hold no keys and no special power over any chain.