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The VTXOs page shows a list of the VTXOs that make up your off-chain balance.
Screenshot of the VTXOs page listing three spendable VTXOs with their expiry block heights, the auto-refresh badge, and the next round countdown

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The plugin refreshes VTXOs for you

VTXOs have a limited lifetime: your wallet must periodically refresh them before expiry. A badge at the top of the list shows the current auto-refresh threshold setting. By default, Bark will refresh any VTXO whose lifetime drops below 24 hours. You can tune the threshold, or even set the wallet to refresh every VTXO right after it’s received, in settings. Refreshes are executed during rounds, which occur every hour. You’ll see when the next round starts at the top of the VTXO page.

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Refresh or offboard manually

Advanced users may sometimes want granular control over their VTXOs. For example, a user who has received a particularly large VTXO might prefer to refresh before it gets to the refresh threshold, or to bring it on-chain. To act on individual VTXOs, just select one or more VTXOs from the list, then choose one of the options in the top-right of the table:
  • Refresh: Mark the selected VTXOs for refresh in the next round. You forfeit the selected VTXOs and receive fresh ones.
  • Offboard: Make an on-chain payment from the selected VTXOs. The bitcoin is delivered to your Bark on-chain wallet, and BTCPay notifies you when the payment completes.
Screenshot of the VTXOs page with one VTXO selected and the Refresh and Offboard actions displayed above the list
Refreshing is free during a VTXO’s final two days of lifetime; refreshing earlier than that costs liquidity fees.
To bring off-chain bitcoin on-chain, most users will prefer to use the Send page instead. You can send from your off-chain balance to an on-chain address.

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Track exits

If an emergency exit is in progress, this page is where you follow it: the exiting VTXOs switch to exiting and exited statuses with progress detail, and an exiting sub-balance appears under the main balance at the top of the page until every VTXO has been claimed on-chain.