sendTransaction

Submits a signed transaction to the cluster for processing.

This method will use 30 Compute Units.

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Parameters

• transaction string The transaction as an encoded string.

• object optional. Configuration object containing the following fields:

  • skipPreflight boolean (default: false) If true, skip the preflight transaction checks.

  • preflightCommitment string (default: finalized) The commitment level to use for preflight.

  • encoding string The encoding format for account data. It can be one of base58 (slow), base64, base64+zstd or jsonParsed.

  • maxRetries usize The maximum number of times for the RPC node to retry sending the transaction to the leader. If this parameter is not provided, the RPC node will retry the transaction until it is finalized or until the blockhash expires.

  • minContextSlot integer. The minimum slot at which the request can be evaluated.

Returns

result The First Transaction Signature embedded in the transaction, as base-58 encoded string (transaction id).

// Result
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": "2id3YC2jK9G5Wo2phDx4gJVAew8DcY5NAojnVuao8rkxwPYPe8cSwE5GzhEgJA2y8fVjDEo6iR6ykBvDxrTQrtpb",
  "id": 1
}

mainnet

curl https://mainnet.solana.validationcloud.io/v1/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> \
    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"method":"sendTransaction","params":["ENTER_ENCODED_TRANSACTION_ID"],"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}'
    

devnet

curl https://devnet.solana.validationcloud.io/v1/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> \
    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"method":"sendTransaction","params":["ENTER_ENCODED_TRANSACTION_ID"],"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}'