The Cardano Blockchain has over 40 parameters that lets you tune the system to work on a wide range of applications. In this installment of our series to explore these parameters, we will be covering the max transaction execution steps, aka the max_tx_ex_steps network parameter. In a previous article we covered the max_block_ex_steps, the parent parameter of sort to our parameter of the day.

What is max_tx_ex_steps?

Both max_tx_ex_steps and its parent max_tx_block_steps defines the upper limit on the number of Plutus script execution steps allowed in a single block. The difference between the two is that the parent has a limit on the sum of all transactions in the entire block. The max_tx_ex_steps on the other hand…