sdk.calculaterequiredcollateral

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calculateRequiredCollateral() function

Calculate the required "collateral" the a transaction must put up if it is running smart contracts. This is to prevent DDOS attacks with failing scripts, and must be some percentage above the total fee of the script.

Signature:

declare function calculateRequiredCollateral(fee: bigint, collateralPercentage: number): bigint;

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
fee	bigint	The full transaction fee
collateralPercentage	number	The protocol parameter defining the buffer above the fee that is required

Returns:

bigint

{bigint}