- What is a contract creation?
- Instead of calling an existing contract, this transaction deployed brand-new smart-contract bytecode to the chain. The 'Created contract' field in the More Details collapsible shows the newly-assigned contract address — derived deterministically from the sender + the sender's nonce, or via CREATE2 from a salt. From now on, anyone can call functions on that address; its own address page on Quantascan tracks every subsequent interaction.
- How can I tell if this transaction is final?
- Look at the Finality badge in the action header. It starts as 'head' (just landed, still being attested by the validator committee), advances to 'justified' after one epoch (~2h 8min) and reaches 'finalized' after two epochs (~4h 16min) — at which point the protocol guarantees the transaction can never be reversed (an attacker would need to control more than one-third of total stake and willingly slash it). Most wallets treat 'head' as safe for everyday transfers; exchanges and high-value transfers conventionally wait for finalization.
- How was the fee on this transaction calculated?
- On QRL 2.0 the fee is gas_used × effective_gas_price, sourced from the transaction's receipt — not the upper-bound max-fee the sender originally signed. The effective gas price is the confirming block's EIP-1559 base fee plus the sender's optional priority tip (capped at the signed maximum). The base fee is destroyed by the protocol; only the priority tip reaches the proposer.
- Will the contents of this transaction ever change?
- No. Once a transaction is included in a finalized block its hash, sender, recipients, value moved, fee paid, status, and emitted event logs are part of the historical record forever. The URL of this page is also stable: bookmarking or sharing it always returns the same data, even years from now.