Transaction Statuses

The Sui Network is renowned for its high transaction speed, with an average TPS of over 100 and an all-time high TPS of 297,000. Transaction blocks come in 3 statuses:

• Success
• Failure
• Abort

When a transaction is initiated, it runs almost instantly. If it runs successfully, it gets the Success status; otherwise, it gets the Failure status. However, there's a case when a transaction was intentionally halted, reverting all changes made up to that point. Such a transaction gets the Abort status (see figure below).

In the Move programming language, the abort keyword is used to abort a transaction, and there is no catch mechanism; once aborted, the transaction is considered failed.

A failure transaction occurs when a transaction cannot be completed successfully due to errors or unmet conditions. The changes are not applied, and the transaction does not commit to the blockchain.

An abort transaction is a specific type of failure transaction in which the transaction is intentionally halted using the abort keyword, reverting all changes made up to that point.

Suiscan tracks and shows the Success, Failure, and Abort statuses of both transaction blocks and inscriptions on the transaction list page and on the transaction details page, as illustrated in the images below. You can filter the entries by status.

To learn more how transactions run on Sui, please go here.