How Tagsend works.

You can send crypto to someone who has never touched crypto, addressed only by a handle they already have. This page explains what actually happens when you do.

Sending

1. 1Pick the platform they post on and type their handle. Nothing is looked up — no API is asked whether that account exists.
2. 2Choose an amount and connect a wallet to pay from. You can use an existing wallet, or sign in with email or a social account and get one created for you.
3. 3A wallet is created for that handle and the money is transferred straight to it. From that moment it is an ordinary on-chain balance you can look up on a block explorer.

Collecting

1. 1The recipient opens the site and signs in with the account the money was sent to.
2. 2That sign-in is the whole check. The wallet was created against their handle, so proving they own the handle proves the wallet is theirs.
3. 3They see the balance and withdraw it to any address they choose.

They never made an account here, and never knew a wallet existed until they arrived. Nothing expires: money sent today is claimable in a year exactly as easily.

Why no platform API is needed

The obvious way to build this would be to look up a handle’s user ID and key the wallet on that. It is also the expensive way — X charges for the API that does it.

Instead Tagsend is its own authentication provider. The wallet is keyed on a string we mint ourselves — x:mrbeast — so sending consults nothing external. The handle is resolved exactly once, at collection time, by the person who owns it, through a login they were performing anyway.

Signing in is free on every platform supported here. Only the separate data APIs cost money, and nothing in this product touches them.

Who holds the keys

Wallets are created through Privy and secured by key shares the recipient controls once they sign in. Tagsend can create a wallet for a handle. It cannot spend from one, and neither can anyone who has not proved they own the handle.

Platforms

You can send to any of these: X, GitHub, Discord, Twitch, Telegram.

Every one of them can collect, so anything you send is claimable the moment the recipient signs in.

Chains

SOL on Solana, and USDC or ETH across Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon and Ethereum. Every handle is given both a Solana and an Ethereum address when it is first sent to, so either rail reaches anyone.

Things worth knowing

Handles are not permanent. A wallet belongs to a handle, not to a person. If an account is renamed and someone else registers the old name, that new owner could collect what was sent. Send to handles you recognise, and tell the recipient rather than leaving it sitting.

Transfers are final. This is an ordinary on-chain transfer. There is no reversal, and a handle typed wrongly sends money to a wallet belonging to whoever owns that handle.