What is the largest amount one could send in a single transaction?
Also just to confirm my understanding, a transaction only has one destination address per transaction right?
2 Answers
Technically, transaction amount is of mutez type, which is internally represented by 64-bit signed integer.
However, in practice, (if we speak about applied transactions) the amount cannot exceed the total supply, wich is currently 873682204744114 (https://api.tzkt.io/v1/statistics/current).
And yes, a single transaction can have only one destination address.
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ah okay thanks! so unlike bitcoin, the
amountfield doesn't have a fixed size e.g. 8 bytes?– DariusApr 22, 2021 at 21:14 -
2oops, sorry, I confused
mutezwithnat. According to tezos.gitlab.io/michelson-reference/#type-mutez it's indeed 8-byte integer– GroxanApr 22, 2021 at 21:22 -
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I suspect you mean amount as transaction size and not as a mutez value.
The limits per transaction and block can be found in the following RPC: /chains/main/blocks/head/context/constants
hard_gas_limit_per_block: "10400000"
hard_gas_limit_per_operation: "1040000"
hard_storage_limit_per_operation: "60000"
max_operation_data_length: 16384 <---- CHANGED IN FLORENCE
hard_gas_limit_per_block: "10400000"
hard_gas_limit_per_operation: "1040000"
hard_storage_limit_per_operation: "60000"
max_operation_data_length: 32768 <---- CHANGED IN FLORENCE
Also just to confirm my understanding, a transaction only has one destination address per transaction right?
Yes, but when calling a contract, it can also send internal transactions to other contracts.
