Question: Possible to donate cycles?

[mtgovern]

Is it possible to send cycles to a canister that I do not own (3rd party canister)?

For example: OpenChat at one point I believe end of last year abruptly stopped working, turns out it ran out of cycles.

Would any random person be able to top up a canister, and if so, how?

[quint]

The easiest way is through the NNS UI.

1. Go to the NNS, login.
2. Canisters > Create or Link Canister
3. Link Canister to Account, copy-paste a canister id.
4. Top up the Canister (Add Cycles).

[jzxchiang]

Worry about your favorate canister running low on cycles? You got it covered!

Hi everyone! I’ve decided to beef up my little ICP-to-cycle demo back in the day. So please allow me to present to you the Canister Tip Jar! It allows anybody to choose and donate cycles to their favorite canisters, as long as the canister has the black hole canister in its controller list. Cycles are not sent all at once though, they are only sent on a need basis – whenever a canister’s cycle runs below daily average, it will be topped up to the average again. The app is almost ready, but si…

[mtgovern]

Thanks, I actually meant in regards to an external canister I do not control. It seems: dfx ledger top-up did the trick

[AdamS]

From within the network, i.e. if you already had cycles, you would call the deposit_cycles function of the management canister with the cycles attached.