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Ethereum Transaction Fields
An Ethereum transaction contains information that authorizes an externally owned account to transfer value or interact with a smart contract:
- sender (
from): The externally owned account that signs and initiates the transaction. - recipient: The receiving account or smart contract. A transfer can send value to an account, while a transaction addressed to a smart contract can execute its code.
- signature: Authorizes the transaction and identifies its sender.
- value: The amount of Ether transferred from the sender to the recipient.
- nonce: A counter tracking the number of transactions sent from the sender's account.
- data: Optional data used for a smart-contract interaction or contract deployment.
- gas limit: The maximum number of gas units the transaction may consume.
- maximum priority fee per gas: The sender's maximum tip per gas unit for the validator.
- maximum fee per gas: The highest total fee per gas unit the sender is willing to pay.
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