The transaction substate

A transaction substate is created during the execution of the transaction that is processed immediately after the execution completes. This transaction substate is a tuple that is composed of four items. These items are described here:

  • Suicide set or self-destruct set: This element contains the list of accounts (if any) that are disposed of after the transaction executes.
  • Log series: This is an indexed series of checkpoints that allow the monitoring and notification of contract calls to the entities external to the Ethereum environment, such as application frontends. It works like a trigger mechanism that is executed every time a specific function is invoked, or a specific event occurs. Logs are created in response ...

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