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# Why is my Available Balance 0?

If your balance shows `0`, a lower number than you expect, or a gap between your **Available** and **Full** balance, it's usually one of two normal situations: your wallet is still syncing, or part of your balance is temporarily locked while a recent transaction confirms. Neither means your funds are lost.

## Available vs. Full balance

Your **Full Balance** is the total amount in your wallet, including funds that aren't fully confirmed yet. Your **Available Balance** is the portion you can spend right now. A temporary gap between the two is normal.

**On Monero specifically:** when you send a transaction, the leftover from the coins you spent is returned to your wallet as **change**, and that change is locked for **10 blocks (about 20 minutes)** before it becomes spendable. So right after you send, your Available Balance can drop — sometimes to `0` — even though your Full Balance is unchanged. This is a Monero protocol rule, not something Cake Wallet controls.

On any coin, funds you've **just received** also count toward your Full Balance right away but only become spendable (Available) once they have enough network confirmations.

In the example below, the amount shown as **confirming** is the locked portion — it isn't spendable yet, but it will be once it confirms.

<div align="left"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cake-tech/docs-assets/main/v6.3.1/balance_available-vs-full.png" alt="Monero home showing a confirming (locked) amount below the available balance" width="375"></div>

## A balance of 0 while the wallet is still syncing

If **both** your Available and Full balance read `0`, or only part of your history has loaded, your wallet is most likely still scanning the blockchain. A wallet can only display the correct balance once it is fully synced. When syncing has finished, the sync area at the top of the screen is empty — no status text and no dot. That empty space is how you know your wallet is fully synced.

<div align="left"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cake-tech/docs-assets/main/v6.3.1/restore_05_syncing.png" alt="The status bar showing blocks remaining while the wallet scans" width="375"></div>

If the wallet has already finished syncing but the balance still looks wrong, or funds you know arrived aren't there, see [Why are my funds not appearing?](https://docs.cakewallet.com/faq/funds-not-appearing) — for Monero, a [rescan](https://docs.cakewallet.com/features/managing-your-wallet/rescan) is the usual fix.