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Externally Owned Accounts (EOA)

By CoinGecko | Updated on Aug 13, 2021
Externally owned accounts (EOAs) are accounts that are controlled by a private key and have no coding associated with them. If you hold the private key associated with an EOA, you can send Ether and messages from it.

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