Inspect an address

Before you start

• Supported networks: mainnet.
• Status: Universe implementation for the read views. The underlying model is protocol behavior.
• Read only. Nothing here spends anything.

What you need

The address, and a data source that reports outpoints.

The procedure

1. Read the portfolio balances view for the address.
2. Read the coloured UTXO view for the same address. This is the one that matters.
3. For each coloured outpoint, record: the txid and vout, the satoshi value, and the Atomical ID or IDs it carries.
4. Note any outpoint carrying more than one Atomical. That is a mixed output. See splat and mixed outputs.
5. Record the generation identifier and indexed height the answer came from.

What a balance figure hides

The total says	It does not say
1 246 units	How many outputs that is, or their sizes
One token	Whether any output also carries something else
A number	Whether any output is below the dust threshold
A current figure	Which generation and height produced it

You cannot plan a transfer from a total. You can only plan one from outpoints.

Reading the response

Every Universe response carries a request identifier, a generation identifier, and freshness metadata. Record them. When something looks wrong later, those three fields are what makes the difference explainable. See readiness and freshness.

If it fails

An empty result and an unavailable service look the same in a user interface and mean opposite things. Read unavailable index against empty balance.

Source

UTXO ownership and ARC-20 API.