Value Transfer
TxTypeValueTransfer is used when a user wants to send KAIA.
- As kaia provides multiple transaction types to make each transaction type serve a single purpose, TxTypeValueTransfer is limited to send KAIA to an externally owned account (EOA).
Import the ethers and @kaiachain/ethers-ext packages to add kaia features on ethers.js
Define sender address, sender private key and reciever address
Set up the provider with the specified kairos testnet URL. A provider in ethers is a read-only abstraction to access the blockchain data.
Also, you can change the provider URL from kairos to quicknode
Create a sender's wallet with the private key and provider
Declare a transaction with the fields such as type, from, to, value.
Send the tx to the blockchain. Function sendTransaction
internally signs with the private key of the account and then transmits it to the blockchain network.
The wait function returns the tx receipt if it is completed in the blockchain.