Path payments: the killer feature

path_payment_strict_send does something almost no other chain does natively: send one asset, deliver another — atomically, in one operation.

You send USDC. The network routes it through order books and liquidity pools — maybe USDC → XLM → EURC — and your grandmother receives EURC. One transaction. If no route can deliver within your bounds, nothing happens at all: no funds stranded mid-swap.

Two flavors:

• Strict send — fix what you pay; the destination receives what the route yields (above your minimum).
• Strict receive — fix what they get; you pay what it costs (below your maximum).