Topping up canisters
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Using dfx
There are two options to top up any canister: By depositing cycles, or by converting ICP to cycles directly.
Depositing cycles
If you have a cycles wallet configured, you can take any amount of cycles from it and deposit them directly into a canister. To do so, use
dfx canister --network ic deposit-cycles <canister id> <amount of cycles>
As an example, to send 10 trillion cycles (TC) to canister fg7gi-vyaaa-aaaal-qadca-cai, you would run
dfx canister --network ic deposit-cycles fg7gi-vyaaa-aaaal-qadca-cai 10000000000000
Using ICP directly
If you have ICP that you want to use to top up any canister, you can run
dfx ledger --network ic top-up <canister id> --amount <amount of ICP to convert>
As an example, to top up canister fg7gi-vyaaa-aaaal-qadca-cai with 10.3 ICP, you can run
dfx ledger --network ic top-up fg7gi-vyaaa-aaaal-qadca-cai --amount 10.3