What starts the pause
Replacing a saved wallet with a different address. From that moment, payout requests are refused until 48 hours have passed, and your dashboard shows the exact UTC time they reopen. The first wallet you ever save starts no pause, because there was nothing to replace. Changing only the payout currency, SOL or USDC, starts no pause either.
Why it exists
Every payout goes to the saved wallet and nowhere else; a request cannot name a different address. That closes one door, and the pause closes the other. Someone who gets into your account could otherwise change the wallet and request a payout in the same minute. With 48 hours between the two, you have time to notice the change and tell us before anything is sent. It is an account-takeover control, not a trading rule, and it says nothing about you.
How it sits with the other waits
It runs in parallel with them, not after them. The fourteen-day wait before a first payout and the five counted days keep running while the wallet pause does. So a change made during the first fourteen days costs nothing at all, as long as it is made more than 48 hours before the fourteen end. The pause only bites when a wallet change is the last thing standing between you and a request.
How to never meet it
- Save the wallet you mean to be paid to on the day the funded account opens, not on the day you request.
- If you plan to move wallets, do it at the start of a payout cycle, while you are still collecting counted days.
- Check the address before saving. Correcting a typo is a change like any other and starts the same pause.
Rules that come with it
One wallet belongs to one trader. An address already linked to another account is refused, both when you save it and when a payout is requested to it. Every coin must be sold before a request, and one request can be pending at a time. None of these is a timer, but each is a reason a request might be refused on the day, so they are worth knowing alongside the pause.
Questions people ask
Does the pause apply to every funded account I hold?
Yes. The wallet belongs to you rather than to one account, so the pause covers payouts from all of them.
Can support lift it early?
It runs its full length. That is the point of it: a pause that could be talked down would not stop someone who had taken over the account.
I changed the wallet by mistake. What now?
Change it back. That is a second change and the pause runs from then, so the sooner the better.