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legendary
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so i sent some usdt to a smart contract address other then my wallet address is there anything i can do or just consider it gone?
If to say the money can not be recovered back, it is not true, but to recover it back may likely be impossible also. I think there is someone that sent a very big amount to smart contract but because it was a huge amount the amount was sent back to him after he take it publicly. Let me put it like this, just like someone that paid a very high amount for bitcoin transaction fee, but the person let people know about it by taking it to public that he is the person, then we heard later the miner that received the fee paid it back to the right owner.

Though this is not about bitcoin transaction fee but a smart contract but the coin developer can as well decide to pay back the person that send the coin to the smart contract address, but this goes to huge amount of money that is clear and known to the public, the coin developer will have no option than to send the amount back to the right owner.

But many people lost money this way by sending to the smart contract address and not and will never be obvious and lead to loss of money.
copper member
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so i sent some usdt to a smart contract address other then my wallet address is there anything i can do or just consider it gone?

The only way you have to contact the maker of the smart contract, and ask him to return your assets. But that is a very impossible thing, forget it.
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This is why it's important for us to know how exactly the cryptocurrency world goes. We need to make sure that we know what are we going to do before actually doing something. I personally always do re-check multiple times before executing the transactions. I am sorry, but it seems there's nothing we can do. It went to an unsupposed address where it can't be back. Once it goes to a smart contract, it's gone. Let's take a lesson from our own mistakes and from others.
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I do not think that amount can be retrieved. Unless the contract address that has received your token had a function implemented that allows it to transfer back the received tokens. But, why would a developer set such a function? It is better to forget that amount and learn from your mistake.
legendary
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so i sent some usdt to a smart contract address other then my wallet address is there anything i can do or just consider it gone?

General knowledge says that smart contract addresses do not have private keys, so consider the coins gone forever because even if you contact the person who deployed the smart contract. They won't be able to help you recover them.

How did you end up entering a smart contract address instead of your wallet address?
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legendary
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It's gone, but think of it as paying money for a lesson. I'm sorry, but I can't for the life of me understand how people can be so careless with their money knowing that transactions are final once confirmed. Heck, I always double check my transaction entries even when just transferring a measly $20.
legendary
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As above said, not likely but it will surely get lost forever.  

Try to check the smart contract address if this has a function of transfer option if there is and then you're lucky enough and good to go with your USDT, but if not (Which is I strongly doubt) there's nothing you can do is accept your mistake.  Since cryptocurrency and the blockchain that has been used is an irreversible transaction or can't be undone, there's no way to get your USDT back.

Sorry for your loss but I think you need to move on and don't let will happen this in the future and you should learn from this mistake, next time you should be careful always because I said, the crypto transaction is irreversible.
legendary
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The tokens have likely lost forever.

Most of the smart contracts don't have a function for sending tokens.
Even if the smart contract address you sent the tokens to has such a function, due to security issues, it's very very unlikely that the owner sends back the tokens to you.
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so i sent some usdt to a smart contract address other then my wallet address is there anything i can do or just consider it gone?
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