Hands-On Blockchain for Python Developers

Sending ether to smart contracts

Now, let's send some ether to the smart contract. Let's use the second account for this. The second account wants to donate 5 ether using a smart contract as follows:

truffle(development)> Donation.deployed().then(function(instance) { return instance.donate({ from: "0x6d3eBC3000d112B70aaCA8F770B06f961C852014", value: 5000000000000000000 }); });

You would get the following output:

As well as the from field, you need to add a value field. In this value field, you input how much money you want to send to the smart contract. You may wonder why this number has so many zeros. When you transfer money in Ethereum blockchain, ...