Sortition transaction is used to enter a validator in the committee. By committing a sortition transaction, the validator will enter the committee. Sortition transactions are valid for 7 blocks, which is defined as “sortition interval” in the consensus parameters.
The sortition transaction has a payload consists the following fields:
Size | Field |
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21 bytes | Address |
48 bytes | Sortition Proof |
Validators do not need to pay a fee for sortition transactions, and the fee should be set to zero.