How Accounts, Chains, and RPCs Work

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The concept Ethereum-style chains have two kinds of accounts: externally owned accounts (EOAs — controlled by a private key, like the one in MetaMask) and contract accounts (code deployed on-chain with no private key of its own). Both have an address and a balance, and both can receive funds, but only an EOA can initiate a transaction, because only an……

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