Refers to the transfer of Ether, from one Ethereum address to another. Such transactions are initiated by users who intend to send Ether to other users or addresses within the Ethereum network.

Regular Ethereum Transactions

Refers to a transaction in which a new **smart contract** is created on the Ethereum network that requires the sender to provide the bytecode for the contract using the **data field** , as well as any necessary initialization parameters. This process allows the smart contract to be deployed on the network and made available for interaction with other participants.

Ethereum contract deployment transaction

Is a transaction designed to run a function or method within a smart contract on the Ethereum network. Smart contracts can execute themselves automatically, based on the terms of the agreement written in the code agreed by the user.

Ethereum Contract Execution Transaction

Under Ethereum there are three types of transactions.
- Regular transactions.
- Contract deployment transaction.
- Contract executions transaction

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The term "transaction" is used in Ethereum to refer to the signed data package that stores a message to be sent from an externally owned  account (managed by a human) to another or to interact with a smart contract. 

Ethereums Messages and Transactions 

STARTGAS and GASPRICE are crucial for Ethereum's anti-denial of service model. In order to prevent accidental or hostile infinite loops or other computational wastage in code, each transaction is required to set a limit to how many computational steps of code execution it can use. The fundamental unit of computation is "gas"; usually, a computational step costs 1 gas, although some operations cost higher amounts of gas because they are more computationally complex, or increase the amount of data that must be stored as part of the state. 

Transactions (STARTGAS and GASPRICE)

"Transaction" is used in Ethereum to refer to the signed data package that stores a message to be sent from an externally owned account. Transactions contain six pieces: 
-The recipient of the message
-A signature identifying the sender
-The amount of ether to transfer from the sender to the recipient
-An optional data field
-A STARTGAS value, representing the maximum number of computational steps the transaction execution is allowed to take
-A GASPRICE value, representing the fee the sender pays per computational step

Messages 

- **from**: The sender's address, who will sign the transaction, must be an externally-owned account (contract accounts are not able to initiate transactions).
- **recipient**: The receiving address, if it's an Externally owned account will transfer value and if it's a smart contract it will execute the code.
- **signature**: The identifier of the sender, who authorizes the transactions
- **nonce**: A counter that indicates the number of transaction from this account.
- **data**: used for storing any data or the contract code.
- **gasLimit**: the limit of gas units for this transactions.
- **maxPriorityFeePerGas**: Gas included as tip to the validator.
- **maxFeePerGas**: The highest cost per unit of gas that someone is willing to pay for the transaction.

Information of a Transaction

Types of Ethereum transaction

For completing a transaction in **Ethereum** involves a process of several stages ever since the moment a transaction is initiated until it is ultimately added to the blockchain. Currently the main following stages  involved in a transaction are: 
1. Transaction creation.
2. Transaction propagation.
3. Transaction selection.
4. Transaction confirmation.


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