eth_getBlockByHash

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Supported on Arbitrum One (Nitro) only.

Parameters

• hash - Hash of the block.
• boolean - If true it returns the full transaction objects, if false only the hashes of the transactions.

Returns

• object - A block object, or ‘null’ when no block was found.
  • number - The block number of the requested block encoded as a hexadecimal. null if pending.
  • hash - The block hash of the requested block. null if pending.
  • parenthash - Hash of the parent block.
  • nonce - Hash of the generated proof-of-work. null if pending.
  • sha3uncles - SHA3 of the uncles data in the block.
  • logsbloom - The bloom filter for the logs of the block. null if pending.
  • transactionsroot - The root of the transaction trie of the block.
  • stateroot - The root of the final state trie of the block.
  • receiptsroot - The root of the receipts trie of the block.
  • miner - The address of the beneficiary to whom the mining rewards were given.
  • difficulty - Integer of the difficulty for this block encoded as a hexadecimal.
  • totaldifficulty - Integer of the total difficulty of the chain until this block encoded as a hexadecimal.
  • extradata - The “extra data” field of this block.
  • size - The size of this block in bytes as an Integer value encoded as hexadecimal.
  • gaslimit - The maximum gas allowed in this block encoded as a hexadecimal.
  • gasused - The total used gas by all transactions in this block encoded as a hexadecimal.
  • timestamp - The unix timestamp for when the block was collated.
  • transactions - Array of transaction objects
  • uncles - Array of uncle hashes.

API Endpoint

The format of an Arbitrum Nova API endpoint is
https://open-platform.nodereal.io/{{apiKey}}/arbitrum-nitro/

Here is an example:
https://open-platform.nodereal.io/4c0a1c23661a4e26bcbcwed461e34ea9/arbitrum-nitro/

Example

Request

curl https://open-platform.nodereal.io/{{apiKey}}/arbitrum-nitro/ \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{"method":"eth_getBlockByHash","params":["0x829df9bb801fc0494abf2f443423a49ffa32964554db71b098d332d87b70a48b",false],"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}'

Result

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 1,
    "result": null
}