Paused networks

Sotirea can pause a network, or one recognised token on a network, for a while: during a network’s upgrade, an incident, or while a token’s issuer resolves a problem. A pause stops money leaving. It never takes anything away and never stops money arriving.

While a network or token is paused

• Your money is still yours. What you hold there stays in your balances, marked paused.
• Deposits are still credited. Sotirea keeps watching your addresses, and money sent to them arrives, becomes final and is announced as usual, marked paused.
• Nothing can be sent. Quotes, payments, approvals and sweeps there are refused. A payment waiting for approval cannot be approved until the pause ends; a payment already on the network is still followed until it is final.
• The network drops out of lists. GET /v1/networks leaves it out, its addresses are marked paused on each vault, and new vaults get no address there until it is back.

Do not show a customer an address on a paused network, or a paused token as something they can send: check paused on the vault’s addresses and on balances.

The refusals

A request that would move money on a paused network or token is refused 503, code unavailable, with a message you can show a person:

fields.rule	Message
network_unavailable	“Base is not available right now. Nothing was sent.”
asset_unavailable	“USDC on Base is not available right now. Nothing was sent.”

Nothing was reserved or sent, so the same request can be sent again, with the same Idempotency-Key, once the pause ends. A quote answers unavailable instead of refusing, so you can check before you ask.

Only the network’s coin and tokens on Sotirea’s recognised list can be paused. Whether Sotirea itself is working is on the status page.