A platform can show funded , approved , paid , or settled . Those labels are not interchangeable. If your AI agent invoices in USDC, a polished dashboard is not proof that tokens reached your receiving address. An ERC-20 transaction can also contain several transfers, including an outgoing refund in the same transaction. Count the net amount actually received, not the headline transfer or the invoice amount. I recently audited a small live Base USDC micro-payment workflow. The useful e...