Mastering Blockchain - Second Edition

Contract creation transaction

There are a few essential parameters that are required when creating an account. These parameters are listed as follows:

• Sender
• Original transactor (transaction originator)
• Available gas
• Gas price
• Endowment, which is the amount of ether allocated
• A byte array of an arbitrary length
• Initialization EVM code
• Current depth of the message call/contract-creation stack (current depth means the number of items that are already there in the stack)

Addresses generated as a result of contract creation transaction are 160-bit in length. Precisely, as defined in the yellow paper, they are the rightmost 160-bits of the Keccak hash of the RLP encoding of the structure containing only the sender and the nonce. Initially, the ...