Many local transactions can contribute to one published unit of information.
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A teacher can collect several worksheets and record a shared summary rather than carrying each one separately to the office.
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Link blocks, then see what an edit breaksStep 1 / 4
The first toy block records Maya sending Leo three units. A1 is an illustrative fingerprint label, not a real cryptographic digest.
The first toy block records Maya sending Leo three units. A1 is an illustrative fingerprint label, not a real cryptographic digest.Block two stores a reference to A1. A new page is connected to the prior page through its fingerprint.Block three refers to B2. The linked history now has three pages, each building on the previous one.Editing block one changes its toy fingerprint to X9. Block two still refers to A1, so its parent link is invalid and the downstream continuation needs revalidation.
Animated local teaching model. No wallet, RPC or live blockchain data. Some labels and hashes are abbreviated for readability.
Execution is grouped
A rollup operator or other participant can organize transactions into batches for its publication and settlement process. Exact terminology and formats vary between implementations.
A batch is not one user action
A user’s transaction can be part of a larger collection with shared publication costs. That helps explain why estimating an individual fee can involve more than counting local EVM instructions.
The published information must support the mechanism
A settlement design needs enough authenticated information and available data for its intended verification or challenge process. A short summary alone is not automatically sufficient for independent reconstruction.
Keep inclusion stages separate
An operator accepting a transaction, publishing batch data and settling a state claim are different milestones. A frontend should identify which milestone its success label describes.
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Is a rollup batch necessarily just one user transaction?
A batch can group many transactions for publication and settlement.