Arbitrum Blockchain
Data Indexing API
Arbitrum Blockchain
Data Indexing API
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Arbitrum Quick Facts
Arbitrum is an L2 scaling solution for Ethereum. It is a suite of Ethereum scaling solutions that enables high-throughput, low cost smart contracts while remaining trustlessly secure. Arbitrum has security rooted in Ethereum, with any one party able to ensure correct Layer 2 results. Arbitrum is also able to run unmodified EVM contracts and unmodified Ethereum transactions. Moving contract computation and storage off of the main Ethereum chain allows for much higher throughput. Designed and engineered to minimize the L1 gas footprint of the system, Arbitrum minimizes per-transaction cost.
Note about how we calculate transaction fees on Arbitrum:
Generally, the fees_paid in our transaction response is simply the product of gas_price and gas_spent .
However for Arbitrum, the fees_paid in our transaction response is the sum of multiple L1 and L2 fees associated with the function call, transaction execution and storage.
To calculate the same fees_paid provided in our transaction response from Arbiscan , take the product of their Gas Price Bid and Gas Usage.
Unified API Developer Docs
Tutorials, guides and references on the Unified API.
Unified API Reference
Complete reference documentation for the Unified API.
Developer SDK
Official open-source client libraries for your favorite platforms.
FAQ
These FAQs are a self-serve support resource for the Covalent API.
Base URL
The API Host for all requests is https://api.covalenthq.com/v1. Some additional points to keep in mind:
- All requests are done over HTTPS (calls over plain HTTP will fail.)
- The default return format for all endpoints is JSON unless the query parameter
format=csvis specified. - All requests require authentication.
Authentication
To access the Covalent API, you will need an API key. Various authentication mechanisms are available:
Authentication via Query parameter
curl -X GET https://api.covalenthq.com/v1/ENDPOINT/?key=API_KEYAppend key=API_KEY as a query parameter to all requests.
Authentication via Basic Auth
curl -X GET https://api.covalenthq.com/v1/ENDPOINT/ \
-u API_KEY:
-H 'Content-Type: application/json'
# The colon prevents curl from asking for a password.Provide your API key as the basic auth username. You do not need to provide a password.
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Supported Endpoints
Code Samples
Get token balances for address
/v1/{chainName}/address/{walletAddress}/balances_v2/Commonly used to fetch the native, fungible (ERC20), and non-fungible (ERC721 & ERC1155) tokens held by an address. Response includes spot prices and other metadata.
Costs:
Processing:
npm install @covalenthq/client-sdk
import { CovalentClient } from "@covalenthq/client-sdk";
const ApiServices = async () => {
const client = new CovalentClient("YOUR_API_KEY");
const resp = await client.BalanceService.getTokenBalancesForWalletAddress();
console.log(resp.data);
}
