Explaining Technical Processes: How Transactions Work

A simple graphic illustrating the concept of a blockchain transaction

🧭 Lesson Overview: Explaining How Web3 Works

Welcome to your first lesson in English for Web3 Professionals! In this module, you’ll master the language needed to explain complex technical processes with precision and confidence.

We’ll start with the fundamentals of an Ethereum transaction, breaking down what happens from the moment a transaction is created until it’s finalized. You’ll learn to use key sequencing expressions such as First, Subsequently, Once X is complete, and Prior to. This will help you guide listeners through technical steps clearly and logically.

By the end of this lesson, you won't just know what an Ethereum transaction is; you'll have the vocabulary and a structured approach to explain it clearly to colleagues, clients, or anyone else in the Web3 space.

📚 Learning Steps: Your Path to Technical Fluency

  1. ✅ Master the Vocabulary: Familiarize yourself with all essential blockchain terms so you can talk confidently about them.

  2. 📖 Go Hands-on: Complete the reading assignment to reinforce your understanding English grammar and expressions for talking about blockchain technology and it's core concepts.

  3. 📝 Test Your Knowledge: Take the comprehension quiz to solidify your learning and ensure you're ready for the next lesson.

🧠 Essential Blockchain Vocabulary

Before diving deeper into explaining technical processes, build your Web3 vocabulary with our essential terms. These definitions and real-world analogies are designed to help you create a mental model of how blockchain concepts work. By mastering this technical terminology, you’ll be better equipped to understand the technologies discussed in this lesson.

Each term has been selected to support your understanding of explaining technical processes at both a conceptual and practical level.

Consensus Mechanism

Cryptography

ECDSA

EIP

ETH

EVM

Externally-owned Account (EOA)

Finality

Gas

Layer-2

Mempools

Nonce

On-chain

Private Key

Signature

Smart Contract

Transaction

Validators

📘 Challenge Yourself

Ready to go hands-on? Complete the reading assignment to reinforce this lesson's concepts. Then, take the short quiz to test your technical fluency.

📝 Quiz: Test Your Blockchain Knowledge

Ready to put your skills to the test? Take this short quiz to test your understanding of the lesson's core concepts. Solidify your knowledge before moving on to the next topic in your learning path.

1. Which of the following expressions signals the beginning of a process?

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