From 253918c168174823eee236d65c7dff2db915e857 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mayukha Vadari <mvadari@ripple.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:27:27 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] explicitly initialize sfBalance in Payment.cpp

---
 src/libxrpl/tx/transactors/payment/Payment.cpp | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/libxrpl/tx/transactors/payment/Payment.cpp b/src/libxrpl/tx/transactors/payment/Payment.cpp
index 8bf86b7b38..dcfb0bc29c 100644
--- a/src/libxrpl/tx/transactors/payment/Payment.cpp
+++ b/src/libxrpl/tx/transactors/payment/Payment.cpp
@@ -383,6 +383,7 @@ Payment::doApply()
         sleDst = std::make_shared<SLE>(k);
         sleDst->setAccountID(sfAccount, dstAccountID);
         sleDst->setFieldU32(sfSequence, view().seq());
+        sleDst->setFieldAmount(sfBalance, XRPAmount(beast::zero);
 
         view().insert(sleDst);
     }