Sponsorship

Sponsor an account, offering to pay for all transaction fees for that account.

You should only sponsor an account you trust, and/or have a legally binding agreement with. A sponsored account holder can easily drain your account through spam transactions. If the account holder is running a node, he/she can claim part of the spend tokens as mining reward. Limit the amount of tokens on the sponsoring account, adding funds when necessary.

See transaction fees with sponsored accounts for more info.

JSON

{
  "type": 18,
  "version": 3,
  "id": "HtxiY9x8aVBDfPvEUifYZuBEDge5TCDDAtqRGBW8HDef",
  "sender": "3NBcx7AQqDopBj3WfwCVARNYuZyt1L9xEVM",
  "senderKeyType": "ed25519",
  "senderPublicKey": "7gghhSwKRvshZwwh6sG97mzo1qoFtHEQK7iM4vGcnEt7",
  "recipient": "3N9ChkxWXqgdWLLErWFrSwjqARB6NtYsvZh",
  "timestamp": 1610410901000,
  "fee": 500000000,
  "proofs": [
    "QKef6R8LrMBupBF9Ry8zjFTu3mexC55J6XNofDDQEcJnZJsRjZPnAk6Yn2eiHkqqd2uSjB2r58fC8QVLaVegQEz"
  ],
  "height": 1225821
}

• id and height should be omitted when broadcasting. These fields are set by the node.

• Binary strings are base58 encoded.

• timestamp is in microseconds since epoch.

• fee includes 8 digits, so LTO * 10^8

Binary schema

The binary data structure of the unsigned transaction.

V3 (current)

#	Field Name	Type	Length
1	Transaction type	Byte (constant, value=18)	1
2	Version	Byte (constant, value=3)	1
3	Network id	Byte	1
4	Timestamp	Long	8
5	Sender's key type	KeyType (Byte)	1
6	Sender's public key	PublicKey (Array[Byte])	32 | 33
7	Fee	Long	8
8	Recipient	Address (Array[Byte])	26

• Network id can be obtained by taking the 2nd byte from the sender address.

• Each key type has a numeric id in addition to the reference from the JSON.
• Integers (short, int, long) have a big endian byte order.

V1

#	Field Name	Type	Length
1	Transaction type	Byte (constant, value=18)	1
2	Version	Byte (constant, value=1)	1
3	Network id	Byte	1
4	Sender's public key	PublicKey (Array[Byte])	32
5	Recipient	Address (Array[Byte])	26
6	Fee	Long	8
7	Timestamp	Long	8

• Network id can be obtained by taking the 2nd byte from the sender or recipient address.

• Integers (short, int, long) have a big endian byte order.