Send Transaction

Creates, signs, and sends a new transaction to the network. Creates new message call transaction or a contract creation, if the data field contains code, and signs it using the account specified in from.

Note: If a to address is not provided, it will be assumed that the transaction is a contract creation transaction, and the data field of the transaction will be used as the contract initialization code. gasPrice cannot be used together with maxPriorityFeePerGas and maxFeePerGas.

Request Parameters

Params[0]

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
from	String	Yes	The address the transaction is sent from. (20 Bytes)
to	String	Yes (optional when creating new contract)	The address the transaction is directed to. (20 Bytes)
gas	String	No (default: 90000)	Integer of the gas provided for the transaction execution. It will return unused gas.
gasPrice	String	No	The gas price the sender is willing to pay to miners in wei.
value	String	Yes	Integer of the value sent with this transaction, in Wei.
data	String	No	The compiled code of a contract OR the hash of the invoked method signature and encoded parameters.
nonce	Integer	No	Integer of a nonce. This allows to overwrite your own pending transactions that use the same nonce.

Response Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
DATA	String	The transaction hash, or the zero hash if the transaction is not yet available. (32 Bytes)

Request Example

ethereum.request({
  method: "eth_sendTransaction",
  params: [
    {
      from: "0x5A3897b0513FdBeEc7C469D9aF4fA6C0752aBea7",
      to: "0xDeaDbeefdEAdbeefdEadbAcFdeadbeefDEADbEEF",
      value: "0x0",
      data: "0x",
    },
  ],
});

Response Example

"0xa3f20717a250c2b0b729b7e5becbff67fdaef7e0699da4de7ca5895b02a170a12d887fd3b17bfdce3481f10bea41f45ba9f709d39ce8325427b57afcfc994cee1b"