What happens in the second after you press send

The life of one request

Software does not wait well. An agent paying for an API call needs an answer inside the request, and a trading program needs to know a fill is real before it places the next order. Here is what the network does with a single transaction, in the order it happens.

1. 0 ms

   You press send

   Your wallet, or your agent, signs an ordinary transaction, the same kind MetaMask signs on any EVM network. It goes to one endpoint. There is no second system to choose, no lane to pick, no separate account for agents. One account, one ledger, one address to call.

2. A few ms

   The network answers before you can blink

   Paxeer X runs your transaction the moment it arrives and hands back a signed receipt. That receipt is the network's word that your request executed, in this order, with this result. You can check its signature offline, keep it, and show it to an auditor months later. For most apps, this is the moment the spinner stops.

3. A fraction of a second

   It takes its place in the next block

   Blocks arrive every fraction of a second, and the network executes transactions in parallel, so a busy afternoon on someone else's app does not slow yours. Your request goes into the block at the exact position the receipt promised.

4. About 1 s

   It is final

   Validators commit the block and the result cannot be reorganized away. No counting confirmations, no waiting for a cut-off time, no reversal next week. When your app says done, it means done, and the receipt you were holding now matches a committed block.