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1. A user creates and signs a [transaction](/developers/docs/transactions/) with their private key. This is usually handled by a wallet or a library such as [ether.js](https://docs.ethers.io/v5/), [web3js](https://web3js.readthedocs.io/en/v1.8.1/), [web3py](https://web3py.readthedocs.io/en/v5/) etc but under the hood the user is making a request to a node using the Ethereum [JSON-RPC API](/developers/docs/apis/json-rpc/). The user defines the amount of gas that they are prepared to pay as a tip to a validator to encourage them to include the transaction in a block. The [tips](/developers/docs/gas/#priority-fee) get paid to the validator while the [base fee](/developers/docs/gas/#base-fee) gets burned.
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2. The transaction is submitted to an Ethereum [execution client](/developers/docs/nodes-and-clients/#execution-client) which verifies its validity. This means ensuring that the sender has enough ETH to fulfill the transaction and they have signed it with the correct key.
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3. If the transaction is valid, the execution client adds it to its local mempool (list of pending transactions) and also broadcasts it to other nodes over the execution layer gossip network. When other nodes hear about the transaction they add it to their local mempool too. Advanced users might refrain from broadcasting their transaction and insteads forward it to specialized block builders such as [Flashbots Auction](https://docs.flashbots.net/flashbots-auction/overview). This allows them to organize the transactions in upcoming blocks for maximum profit ([MEV](/developers/docs/mev/#mev-extraction)).
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4. One of the nodes on the network is the block proposer for the current slot, having previously been selected pseudo-randomly using RANDAO. This node is responsible for building and broadcasting the next block to be added to the Ethereum blockchain and updating the global state. The node is made up of three parts: an execution client, a consensus client and a validator client. The execution client bundles transactions from the local mempool into an "execution payload" and executes them locally to generate a state change. This information is passed to the consensus client where the execution payload is wrapped as part of a "beacon block" that also contains information about rewards, penalties slashings, attestations etc that enable the network to agree on the sequence of blocks at the head of the chain. The communication between the execution and consensus clients is described in more detail in [Connecting the Consensus and Execution Clients](/developers/docs/networking-layer/#connecting-clients).
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4. One of the nodes on the network is the block proposer for the current slot, having previously been selected pseudo-randomly using RANDAO. This node is responsible for building and broadcasting the next block to be added to the Ethereum blockchain and updating the global state. The node is made up of three parts: an execution client, a consensus client and a validator client. The execution client bundles transactions from the local mempool into an "execution payload" and executes them locally to generate a state change. This information is passed to the consensus client where the execution payload is wrapped as part of a "beacon block" that also contains information about rewards, penalties, slashings, attestations etc that enable the network to agree on the sequence of blocks at the head of the chain. The communication between the execution and consensus clients is described in more detail in [Connecting the Consensus and Execution Clients](/developers/docs/networking-layer/#connecting-clients).
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5. Other nodes receive the new beacon block on the consensus layer gossip network. They pass it to their execution client where the transactions are re-executed locally to ensure the proposed state change is valid. The validator client then attests that the block is valid and is the logical next block in their view of the chain (meaning it builds on the chain with the greatest weight of attestations as defined in the [fork choice rules](/developers/docs/consensus-mechanisms/pos/#fork-choice)). The block is added to the local database in each node that attests to it.
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6. The transaction can be considered "finalized", i.e., that it can not be reverted, if it has become part of a chain with a "supermajority link" between two checkpoints. Checkpoints occur at the start of each epoch and to have a supermajority link they must both be attested to by 66% of the total staked ETH on the network.
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