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# sendTransaction

Submit a real transaction to the Stellar network. This is the only way to make changes "on-chain".

This method will use `10` [Compute Units](/v1/about/billing.md).

***

## Reference: [Here](https://soroban.stellar.org/api/methods/sendTransaction)

## **Parameters**

* `transaction (string)`(required) The signed transaction to broadcast (serialized in base64).

## Returns

* `hash` string - The transaction hash (in an hex-encoded string).
* `status` string - The current status of the transaction by hash.
  * Allowed values:PENDINGDUPLICATETRY\_AGAIN\_LATERERROR
* `latestLedger` string - The latest ledger known to Soroban-RPC at the time it handled the `sendTransaction()` request.
* `latestLedgerCloseTime` string - The unix timestamp of the close time of the latest ledger known to Soroban-RPC at the time it handled the `sendTransaction()` request.
* `errorResultXdr` string (optional) - If the transaction status is `ERROR`, this will be a base64 encoded string of the raw TransactionResult XDR struct containing details on why stellar-core rejected the transaction.

```bash
// Result
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 8675309,
  "result": {
    "hash": "a01441a4d0b80769d2c2d97dcd28d13e9036065da14ea83731424d77efc50894",
    "status": "PENDING",
    "latestLedger": "45075181",
    "latestLedgerCloseTime": "1677115742"
  }
}
```

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="mainnet" %}

<pre class="language-bash"><code class="lang-bash"><strong>curl https://mainnet.stellar.validationcloud.io/v1/&#x3C;YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> \
</strong>    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 8675309,
  "method": "sendTransaction",
  "params": {
    "transaction": "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"
  }
}'
</code></pre>

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="testnet" %}

```bash
curl https://testnet.stellar.validationcloud.io/v1/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> \
    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 8675309,
  "method": "sendTransaction",
  "params": {
    "transaction": "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"
  }
}'

```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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