How To Transfer An Eosio.token Token

Goal

Transfer token created by eosio.token contract

Before you begin

  • Install the currently supported version of cleos
  • You are going to transfer a token created by eosio.token contract and eosio.token contract has been deployed on the network which you are connected to
  • Understand the following:

    • What is a transaction
    • Token transfers are irrevertable

Steps

Assume you would like to transfer 0.0001 SYS token to an account called bob from an account called alice, execute the following:

cleos transfer alice bob "0.0001 SYS" "Hodl!" -p alice@active