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# Send LINK to your Contract

Fund our smart contract with LINK

### Fund your Contract with LINK

Let’s now send LINK to our `TransferUSDCBasic.sol` contract so that our contract can pay CCIP's usage fees. 

1. Go to MetaMask, click the “Tokens” tab
2. Then click on the LINK token

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3. Click the "Send" button:

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4. Paste in the deployed address of your `TransferUSDCBasic.sol:`

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5. Enter `3` LINK
6. Click the "Next" button

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7. Click the "Confirm" button:

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### Check LINK Balance in Remix

Check the LINK balance in our `TransferUSDCBasic.sol` contract. Go back to Remix and your `TransferUSDCBasic.sol` contract.

1. Copy your deployed contract's address
2. Paste the address into the `balancesOf` function and click the `balancesOf` button
3. Underneath you will see `linkBalance: 3000000000000000000` which is `3` LINK  &#x20;

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Now you are ready to do a Cross-Chain token transfer using CCIP!&#x20;