Building Transactions

Using the view and custody services to construct a transaction has four steps.

Plan the Transaction

Using the TransactionPlanner (opens in a new tab) RPC in the view service, compute a TransactionPlan.

This RPC translates a general intent, like "send these tokens to this address" into a fully deterministic plan of the exact transaction, with all spends and outputs, all blinding factors selected, and so on.

Authorize the Transaction

With a TransactionPlan in hand, use the Authorize (opens in a new tab) RPC to request authorization of the transaction from the custody service.

Note that authorization happens on the cleartext transaction plan, not the shielded transaction, so that the custodian can inspect the transaction before signing it.

Build the Transaction

With the TransactionPlan and AuthorizationData in hand, use the WitnessAndBuild (opens in a new tab) RPC to have the view service build the transaction, using the latest witness data to construct the ZK proofs.

Broadcast the Transaction

With the resulting shielded Transaction complete, use the BroadcastTransaction (opens in a new tab) request to broadcast the transaction to the network.

The await_detection parameter will wait for the transaction to be confirmed on-chain. Using await_detection is a simple way to ensure that different transactions can't conflict with each other.