If you opened a channel by yourself you most likely already deposited tokens when sending the request. However, in case someone opened a channel with you, you will not have any tokens at your end of the channel.

You need to make a deposit whenever you want to:

• Add tokens to an empty channel

• Top up the amount of tokens in a channel

Deposit into a channel

The channel endpoint together with a PATCH request is used for depositing tokens into a channel. When making the call you need to include:

1. The token address as a path parameter.

2. The address of the partner node as a path parameter.

3. The amount of tokens you want to deposit in the channel as a body parameter.

curl -i -X PATCH \
http://localhost:5001/api/v1/channels/0x9aBa529db3FF2D8409A1da4C9eB148879b046700/0x61C808D82A3Ac53231750daDc13c777b59310bD9 \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"total_deposit": "7331"}'

This will give you the same response object as when opening a channel or querying the state of a channel.

Now, once there are tokens at your end of the channel, let's start making payments.

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