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  "title": "Private transaction submission: hiding an order from which audience?",
  "description": "Understand what changes when a transaction is sent to a private relay or builder path, including visibility, inclusion policy and fallback assumptions.",
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    "text": "Private transaction submission sends a transaction through a service or builder path instead of ordinary public-mempool broadcasting. It can reduce exposure to some frontrunning strategies, but the service and relevant downstream participants still receive information. Privacy, failure handling, inclusion and fallback behavior depend on the route used.",
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      "heading": "Identify who receives the signed transaction",
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        "A wallet sends the transaction to a particular RPC or relay endpoint, which follows its configured submission path. That path can differ from ordinary peer-to-peer mempool propagation.",
        "The endpoint, builder sharing and privacy settings are part of the security assumptions. “Private” without a named mechanism is incomplete."
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        "Flashbots documents policies intended to avoid including reverting transactions through its service. Those are service-specific properties, not a rule that Ethereum universally refuses to charge for failed transactions.",
        "A private transaction can also remain unincluded. Keep submission, inclusion and execution outcome separate."
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        "If a wallet later broadcasts the same transaction publicly, its information becomes available through that path. A user should know whether fallback is automatic or explicit.",
        "Private submission does not replace reviewing the destination, calldata, permissions and minimum output. It changes delivery, not the meaning of the signed authorization."
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      "question": "Does private submission make the transaction invisible after it confirms?",
      "answer": "No. An ordinary transaction included on a public chain remains publicly inspectable. The privacy mechanism concerns its submission and pre-inclusion exposure.",
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