Return information about all known tips in the block tree, including the main chain as well as orphaned branches.
Request
curl 'https://rpc.web3api.io?x-api-key=YOUR-API-KEY' \
-X POST \
-H 'x-amberdata-blockchain-id: bitcoin-mainnet' \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"getchaintips","params":[]}'
Response
{
"result": [{
"height": 597721,
"hash": "000000000000000000056cfe0e84953b4e077b5b791386aad89a7400039abf5f",
"branchlen": 0,
"status": "active"
},
{
"height": 594081,
"hash": "000000000000000000130e274527b7170e5ed5b80ae7b4ed59cdceb5acf62263",
"branchlen": 1,
"status": "valid-headers"
},
{
"height": 591848,
"hash": "000000000000000000181b1a2354620f66868a723c0c4d5b24e4be8bdfc35a7f",
"branchlen": 1,
"status": "valid-fork"
},
{
"height": 590044,
"hash": "000000000000000000123d82514aa6cad9536b557c24fdf8bf796c1a0e70e708",
"branchlen": 1,
"status": "valid-headers"
}
],
"error": null,
"id": 1
}