Exodus Error with Solution: Ethereum address not properly formatted

When you are working with Exodus and try to send Ethereum or any ERC-20 token, you may receive an error like the one below if you add an address into the “send input” box.
“Warning! The address is not formatted correctly. Please double-check each character in the address.
If you send it to a wrong address, your funds cannot be recovered!”
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Introduction

Today we will be exploring the steps you need to take so that you can fix the “address is not formatted properly” error on Exodus. Before we jump into the guide, we need to know why this message is coming up in the first place.
If you have added an address in the “Send” field, then you might have seen this error due to the wrong address. If you send the funds and ignore the error, then you could potentially lose your funds. This error is stating that the address doesn’t follow the process of the blockchain, so it must be wrong.

Fix

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   The only way to verify the transaction on your end would be to check out each character and match it up with the address you are trying to send coins too. If you are sending it to an address that you provided, then it likely has an altercation to it.
   If you got an address from a friend, then it’s possible they made a mistake, and you will need to have them send another address.
   Let’s look at an example of this happening.
   If we take an authentic address: 0x698386190a497ec9eb0bd15f57bf49c4f9042b2f and change the middle section **0x698386190a497io8eb0bd15f57bf49c4f9042b2f the middle “io8” **will cause an error in the Exodus application because the app runs a “checksum” algorithm with every address and would see that it’s not a real address.
   If you send your funds to an address even if it’s one character off, you will lose your coins/tokens because the address will be wrong.

Conclusion

This is an example of an error that we thankfully get because if you didn’t, you could have sent money to an invalid address by accident and lost your funds. Exodus has a lot of different errors that are on the user’s side to help prevent loss of funds which is, yet another reason Exodus is one of the best wallets.
When you are sending money to an address, especially a large amount, you will want to verify that the address you received is correct and doesn’t have any alterations in it.
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