Verified smart contract tick appears in Call Trace for some accounts

[Neurone]

Description

In the Call Trace section of an Ethereum transaction, if the recipient is a non-existent account and the transaction value is 0, a verified smart contract tick will appear.

For example, this is a simple transaction sending 0 value to a non-existent address.

Steps to reproduce

1. Send a simple 0 value Ethereum transaction (no smart contract call) to the network.
2. Check the explorer details page for the transaction.

Side note. You still cannot do point 1 without modifying the JSON-RPC relay code, but we have an open issue about this and you can use the existing transaction example above to check the mirror node explorer code is correctly updated.

Additional context

Hedera network

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Version

v24.4.0-318-gef880125

Operating system

None