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CreateTransaction


Create a new Transaction object and send it to the network to be processed.

Transaction Parameters

Parameter Type Required Description
version number Required The decimal conversion of the bitwise concatenation of CHAIN_ID and MSG_VERSION parameters.

- For mainnet, it is 65537.
- For Developer testnet, it is 21823489.
nonce number Required A transaction counter in each account. This prevents replay attacks where a transaction sending eg. 20 coins from A to B can be replayed by B over and over to continually drain A's balance.

It's value should be Current account nonce + 1.
toAddr string Required Recipient's account address. This is represented as a String.

NOTE: This address has to be checksummed for every 6th bit, but the "0x" prefix is optional.

For deploying new contracts, set this to "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000".
amount string Required Transaction amount to be sent to the recipent's address. This is measured in the smallest price unit Qa (or 10^-12 Zil) in Zilliqa.
pubKey string Required Sender's public key of 33 bytes.
gasPrice string Required An amount that a sender is willing to pay per unit of gas for processing this transaction. This is measured in the smallest price unit Qa (or 10^-12 Zil) in Zilliqa.
gasLimit string Required The amount of gas units that is needed to be process this transaction.
code string Optional The smart contract source code. This is present only when deploying a new contract.
data string Optional String-ified JSON object specifying the transition parameters to be passed to a specified smart contract.

- When creating a contract, this JSON object contains the init parameters.
- When calling a contract, this JSON object contains the msg parameters.

For more information on the Scilla interpreter, please visit the documentation.
signature string Required An EC-Schnorr signature of 64 bytes of the entire Transaction object as stipulated above.
priority boolean Optional A flag for this transaction to be processed by the DS committee. Now ignored.

Example Request

curl -d '{
    "id": "1",
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "CreateTransaction",
    "params": [{
      "version": 65537,
      "nonce": 1,
          "toAddr": "0x4BAF5faDA8e5Db92C3d3242618c5B47133AE003C",
          "amount": "1000000000000",
          "pubKey": "0205273e54f262f8717a687250591dcfb5755b8ce4e3bd340c7abefd0de1276574",
          "gasPrice": "2000000000",
          "gasLimit": "50",
          "code": "",
          "data": "",
          "signature": "29ad673848dcd7f5168f205f7a9fcd1e8109408e6c4d7d03e4e869317b9067e636b216a32314dd37176c35d51f9d4c24e0e519ba80e66206457c83c9029a490d",
          "priority": false
        }]
}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST "https://api.zq2-prototestnet.zilliqa.com/"
let tx = zilliqa.transactions.new({
  version: 65537,
  toAddr: "0x4BAF5faDA8e5Db92C3d3242618c5B47133AE003C",
  amount: units.toQa("1", units.Units.Zil),
  gasPrice: units.toQa("2000", units.Units.Li),
  gasLimit: Long.fromNumber(50),
});

// Send a transaction to the network
tx = await zilliqa.blockchain.createTransaction(tx);
console.log(tx.id);
public class App {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        Wallet wallet = new Wallet();
        wallet.setProvider(new HttpProvider("https://api.zq2-prototestnet.zilliqa.com/"));
        wallet.addByPrivateKey("e19d05c5452598e24caad4a0d85a49146f7be089515c905ae6a19e8a578a6930");
        Transaction transaction = Transaction.builder()
                .version(String.valueOf(pack(1, 8)))
                .toAddr("4baf5fada8e5db92c3d3242618c5b47133ae003c".toLowerCase())
                .senderPubKey("0246e7178dc8253201101e18fd6f6eb9972451d121fc57aa2a06dd5c111e58dc6a")
                .amount("1000000000000")
                .gasPrice("2000000000")
                .gasLimit("50")
                .code("")
                .data("")
                .provider(new HttpProvider("https://api.zq2-prototestnet.zilliqa.com/"))
                .build();
        transaction = wallet.sign(transaction);
        // Send a transaction to the network
        HttpProvider.CreateTxResult result = TransactionFactory.createTransaction(transaction);
        System.out.println(result);
    }
}
from pyzil.account import Account
from pyzil.zilliqa import chain
chain.set_active_chain(chain.MainNet)

account = Account(private_key="0xe19d05c5452598e24caad4a0d85a49146f7be089515c905ae6a19e8a578a6930")

payload = {
    "to_addr": "0x4BAF5faDA8e5Db92C3d3242618c5B47133AE003C",
    "amount": "1000000000000",
    "nonce": account.get_nonce() + 1,
    "gas_price": "2000000000",
    "gas_limit": 50,
    "code": "",
    "data": "",
    "priority": False,
}

params = chain.active_chain.build_transaction_params(account.zil_key, **payload)
txn_info = chain.active_chain.api.CreateTransaction(params)
print(txn_info)
func SendTransaction() {
    wallet := NewWallet()
    wallet.AddByPrivateKey("e19d05c5452598e24caad4a0d85a49146f7be089515c905ae6a19e8a578a6930")
    provider := provider2.NewProvider("https://api.zq2-prototestnet.zilliqa.com/")

    tx := &transaction.Transaction{
        Version:      strconv.FormatInt(int64(util.Pack(1, 1)), 10),
        SenderPubKey: "0246E7178DC8253201101E18FD6F6EB9972451D121FC57AA2A06DD5C111E58DC6A",
        ToAddr:       "4BAF5faDA8e5Db92C3d3242618c5B47133AE003C",
        Amount:       "10000000",
        GasPrice:     "2000000000",
        GasLimit:     "50",
        Code:         "",
        Data:         "",
        Priority:     false,
    }

    err := wallet.Sign(tx, *provider)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
    }

    rsp := provider.CreateTransaction(tx.ToTransactionPayload())

    if rsp.Error != nil {
        fmt.Println(rsp.Error)
    } else {
        result := rsp.Result.(map[string]interface{})
        hash := result["TranID"].(string)
        fmt.Printf("hash is %s\n", hash)
        tx.Confirm(hash, 1000, 3, provider)
    }
}

Example response

{
  "id": "1",
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": {
    "Info": "Non-contract txn, sent to shard",
    /*
    Other possible Info:
    Contract Creation txn, sent to shard
    Contract Txn, Shards Match of the sender and reciever
    Contract Txn, Sent To Ds
    */
    "TranID": "2d1eea871d8845472e98dbe9b7a7d788fbcce226f52e4216612592167b89042c"
  }
}

Arguments

Parameter Type Required Description
id string Required "1"
jsonrpc string Required "2.0"
method string Required "CreateTransaction"
params N/A Required See table below for the Transaction parameters required: