Single

Retrieves the block specified by its id (number or hash).

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Blockchains Supported

This endpoint supports Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin and Polygon.

Response Data (Current)

Field

Type

Description

Notes

baseFeePerGas

number

Minimum fee required for the transaction to be included in the block.

Only available on Ethereum network.

burntFees

number

Amount of Ether destroyed when this block was mined.

Only available on Ethereum network.

difficulty

string

A scalar value corresponding to the difficulty level of this block.

duration

string

The block time in milliseconds.

extraData

string

An arbitrary byte array containing data relevant to this block.

Only available on Ethereum network.

gasLimit

string

The scalar value equal to the current limit of gas expenditure per block.

Only available on Ethereum network.

gasUsed

string

The scalar value equal to the total gas used in transactions in this block.

Only available on Ethereum network.

hash

string

The block header hash.

logsBloom

string

The Bloom filter composed from indexable information (logger address and log topics) contained in each log entry from the receipt of each transaction in the transactions list.

Only available on Ethereum network.

miner

object

Contains data about the block's miner, i.e. the address.

Only available on Ethereum network.

address

string

The 160-bit address to which all fees collected from the successful mining of this block
be transferred.

Only available on Ethereum network.

mixHash

string

The 256-bit hash which proves combined with the nonce that a sufficient amount of computation has been carried out on this block.

Only available on Ethereum network.

nonce

string

The 64-bit hash which proves combined with the mix-hash that a sufficient amount of computation has been carried out on this block

numTransactions

number

Number of transactions contained in the block.

number

string

The scalar value equal to the number of ancestor blocks.

parent

object

Contains data about the block's parent.

parent.hash

string

The Keccak 256-bit hash of the parent block’s header.

parent.number

number

The parent block number.

reward

string

The mining reward for the block. See full value conversion reference here.

rewardFee

string

The sum of all the transaction fees for all the transactions in the block. See full value conversion reference here.

Only available on Ethereum and Litecoin networks.

rewardUncle

string

The uncle reward. See full value conversion reference here.

Only available on Ethereum network.

receiptsRoot

string

The Keccak 256-bit hash of the root node of the trie structure populated with the receipts of each transaction in the transactions list portion of the block.

Only available on Ethereum network.

sha3Uncles

string

The combined hash of alluncles for a given parent.

Only available on Ethereum network.

size

number

The size of the block in bytes.

stateRoot

string

The Keccak 256-bit hash of the root node of the state trie, after all transactions are executed and finalisations applied.

timestamp

string

The value equal to the reasonable output of Unix’s time() at this block’s inception.

totalDifficulty

string

The total difficulty of the chain.

transactionsRoot

string

The Keccak 256-bit hash of the
root node of the trie structure populated with each transaction in the transactions list portion of the block.

Only available on Ethereum network.

Response Data (Future)

FieldTypeDescription
currentstringThe current block number.
futurestringThe future block number.
remainingstringThe number of blocks until the future block number.
fastobjectThe amount of historical data used in the calculation.
normalobjectThe amount of historical data used in the calculation.
safeobjectThe amount of historical data used in the calculation.
slowobjectThe amount of historical data used in the calculation.
averageBlockDurationnumberThe block duration used in the calculation of the block predictions.
remainingMillisecondsnumberThe number of milliseconds until the future block is reached.
timestampstringThe predicted time at which that block will be mined.
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