Module solana_runtime::bank
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The bank module tracks client accounts and the progress of on-chain
programs.
A single bank relates to a block produced by a single leader and each bank except for the genesis bank points back to a parent bank.
The bank is the main entrypoint for processing verified transactions with the function
Bank::process_transactions
It does this by loading the accounts using the reference it holds on the account store, and then passing those to an InvokeContext which handles loading the programs specified by the Transaction and executing it.
The bank then stores the results to the accounts store.
It then has apis for retrieving if a transaction has been processed and it’s status.
See get_signature_status et al.
Bank lifecycle:
A bank is newly created and open to transactions. Transactions are applied
until either the bank reached the tick count when the node is the leader for that slot, or the
node has applied all transactions present in all Entrys in the slot.
Once it is complete, the bank can then be frozen. After frozen, no more transactions can be applied or state changes made. At the frozen step, rent will be applied and various sysvar special accounts update to the new state of the system.
After frozen, and the bank has had the appropriate number of votes on it, then it can become rooted. At this point, it will not be able to be removed from the chain and the state is finalized.
It offers a high-level API that signs transactions on behalf of the caller, and a low-level API for when they have already been signed and verified.
Modules
Structs
get_total_accounts_stats()verify_bank_hash