Monitoring Transactions

Block time on Arweave is typically between 2-3 minutes in duration, so transactions can be mined within that time frame when network congestion is low. Transactions, in the general case, proceed through the following set of states:

• Pending: the transaction is waiting the "mempool" to be mined
• Confirming: the transaction was mined on an Arweave Node, but has not yet been confirmed by at least 15 total nodes on the network
• Confirmed: the transaction was mined on an Arweave Node and confirmed by at least 15 total nodes on the network
• Not Found: the transaction is not available for any of the following reasons:
  • Insufficient reward to join the mempool
  • Insufficient reward to be mined within 50 blocks during a period of network congestion
  • Transaction is transitioning between states
  • Transaction ID is invalid

Monitor any Arweave transaction's status via its transaction ID by performing:

ardrive tx-status -t "ekSMckikdRJ8RGIkFa-X3xq3427tvM7J9adv8HP3Bzs"

Example output:

ekSMckikdRJ8RGIkFa-X3xq3427tvM7J9adv8HP3Bzs: Mined at block height 775810 with 22439 confirmations

watch -n 10 ardrive tx-status -t "ekSMckikdRJ8RGIkFa-X3xq3427tvM7J9adv8HP3Bzs"