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Treasury donation

In the Conway era, you can make donations to the Treasury through a transaction. To construct this transaction, you can use either build or build-raw. The key requirement for this type of transaction is that it must be submitted within the same epoch in which it is created. This is because the transaction body includes the field currentTreasuryValue, which will change in the next epoch, causing the transaction to fail at submission time.

note

The examples on this tutorial are created on a local clusters that hardfork to Conway on epoch 0.

The treasury donation is created on epoch 0 so that when querying the treasury value on epoch 1, the only lovelace in the treasury are those comming from the donation.

Using build-raw​

Query the protocol-parameters:​

cardano-cli conway query protocol-parameters --out-file pparams.json

Query the utxos of your address:​

cardano-cli conway query utxo --address $(< example/utxo-keys/payment1.addr)
                           TxHash                                 TxIx        Amount
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
6b3cac1a1b63498452ef36ff114ad4f51e5be00c6fbf7ff7b8dbf380483642aa     0        589993592922 lovelace + TxOutDatumNone

Query the current treasury value:​

cardano-cli conway query treasury
0

Build the transaction:​

When building the transaction we need to pass the current value of the treasury. Also, we use a fee that is close to the minimum possible fee, We will calculate the acrtual fee in the next step.

cardano-cli conway transaction build-raw \
--tx-in 6b3cac1a1b63498452ef36ff114ad4f51e5be00c6fbf7ff7b8dbf380483642aa#0 \
--current-treasury-value 0 \
--treasury-donation  987654321 \
--tx-out $(< example/utxo-keys/payment1.addr)+589993592922 \
--fee  160000 \
--protocol-params-file pparams.json \
--out-file example/transactions/treasury.tx.raw

Calculate the fee:​

cardano-cli conway transaction calculate-min-fee \
--tx-body-file example/transactions/treasury.tx.raw \
--protocol-params-file pparams.json \
--witness-count 1 \
--output-json
{
    "fee": 166117
}

Calculate the change to balance the transaction:​

echo $((589993592922 - 166117 - 987654321))

Re-build the transaction with the updated values:​

cardano-cli conway transaction build-raw \
--tx-in 6b3cac1a1b63498452ef36ff114ad4f51e5be00c6fbf7ff7b8dbf380483642aa#0 \
--current-treasury-value 0 \
--treasury-donation  987654321 \
--tx-out $(< example/utxo-keys/payment1.addr)+589005772484 \
--fee  166117 \
--protocol-params-file pparams.json \
--out-file example/transactions/treasury.tx.raw
cardano-cli conway transaction sign \
--tx-file treasury.tx.raw \
--signing-key-file payment.skey \
--out-file treasury.tx.signed
cardano-cli conway transaction submit \
--tx-file treasury.tx.signed

At the epoch transition following our transaction, the treasury will be updated.

cardano-cli conway query treasury 
987654321

Using build​

Build the transaction:​

The build command automatically queries the currentTreasuryValue so there is no need to pass it in a flag. As usual. --change-address helps us to automatically balance the transaction.

cardano-cli conway transaction build \
--tx-in $(cardano-cli query utxo --address $(< payment.addr) --output-json | jq -r 'keys[0]') \
--treasury-donation  987654321 \
--change-address $(< payment.addr) \
--out-file treasury.tx.raw

Sign the transaction:​

cardano-cli conway transaction sign \
--tx-file treasury.tx.raw \
--signing-key-file payment.skey \
--out-file treasury.tx.signed

Submit the transaction:​

cardano-cli conway transaction submit \
--tx-file treasury.tx.signed

At the epoch transition following our transaction, the treasury will be updated.

cardano-cli conway query treasury 
987654321

Transaction body details:​

The transaction body carries the fields "currentTreasuryValue": and "treasuryDonation":, these are null in other transactions, this time the fields have a value.

cardano-cli debug transaction view --tx-file example/transactions/treasury.tx.signed
{
    "auxiliary scripts": null,
    "certificates": null,
    "collateral inputs": [],
    "currentTreasuryValue": 0,
    "era": "Conway",
    "fee": "170209 Lovelace",
    "governance actions": [],
    "inputs": [
        "60026f54b66f4f60bbcdbe0e41cc5faaa0ecbef9489badca96e65c2ee13fc180#0"
    ],
    "metadata": null,
    "mint": null,
    "outputs": [
        {
            "address": "addr_test1qp36k4sz488z5he0cut7awr5m2fajm9kkqcex5p963zgpgmkksh55zaw47shfy92nyaa3usf6ly7an8gfl8ktdhhv85s6zhl4v",
            "address era": "Shelley",
            "amount": {
                "lovelace": 589005768392
            },
            "network": "Testnet",
            "payment credential key hash": "63ab5602a9ce2a5f2fc717eeb874da93d96cb6b031935025d44480a3",
            "reference script": null,
            "stake reference": {
                "stake credential key hash": "76b42f4a0baeafa17490aa993bd8f209d7c9eecce84fcf65b6f761e9"
            }
        }
    ],
    "redeemers": {},
    "reference inputs": [],
    "required signers (payment key hashes needed for scripts)": null,
    "return collateral": null,
    "total collateral": null,
    "treasuryDonation": 987654321,
    "update proposal": null,
    "validity range": {
        "lower bound": null,
        "upper bound": null
    },
    "voters": {},
    "withdrawals": null,
    "witnesses": [
        {
            "key": "VKey (VerKeyEd25519DSIGN \"3d1f194c060f6f2a056bdee943fd16eb922aad8ce2ef524a53eefeaba60e6f6f\")",
            "signature": "SignedDSIGN (SigEd25519DSIGN \"efda7f8cf55be3ad34ae38119a141f2d1cd0808193207fb7f896c0636a0b8ad3fbea276db7ba516a25ba013837ab0e5cc396cbc615ff0821ff75a17f5a5b6d05\")"
        }
    ]
}