Wallet balance vs. address balance — what's the difference?

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Wallet Balance refers to the total Litecoin balance across all addresses that have been explicitly generated within the wallet. Address Balance represents funds at one specific address. Can they differ? Yes. When importing a wallet, recovered funds from default addresses consolidate into the ltc1 address. Since default addresses aren't "generated" addresses, their balance is initially excluded from the wallet total — only after the first transaction does the default address balance get included. Checking balances via API Address balance: GET /api/Litecoin/AddressBalance with the address as a parameter Wallet balance: GET /api/Wallet/get-wallet-balance with the wallet as a header parameter