Cardano Starter Kit 007
Building Transactions on cardano-cli
Objectives
1
I know how to build, sign, and submit transactions using cardano-cli
2
I can describe the contents of an Unspent Transaction Output (UTxO) on Cardano

Building Transactions on cardano-cli

Just in case you haven't seen this, here's a video that will show you what's going on under the hood when a transaction is build, signed, and submitted on the Cardano blockchain. This is the essential functionality behind everything else that happens when users interact with Cardano, and if you understand it, then you'll be able to get a better grasp on why the buzz has been about "concurrency" for the last few days.

Links

  • Twitter thread from IOG: https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1434518391465943048
  • SundaeSwap Blog Post: https://sundaeswap-finance.medium.com/concurrency-state-cardano-c160f8c07575
  • Charles doing what he does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVA54yAaLC8
  • Hot off the press: https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/09/06/no-surprises-transaction-validation-on-cardano/
  • Cardanoscan: https://cardanoscan.io/
  • Cardano-Node: https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node

Keep Going with official documentation

After watching this video, see if you can follow allowing with the official documentation about building more advanced transactions: By including metadata: https://developers.cardano.org/docs/transaction-metadata/how-to-create-a-metadata-transaction-cli/ Or by minting native assets: https://docs.cardano.org/native-tokens/getting-started

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