eth_getBalance - Ethereum

Shows a balance of an account on the chosen address in wei

How to Use the eth_getBalance Method

Parameters

1. DATA, 20 Bytes - an address which balance you are checking.

2. QUANTITY|TAG - the string "latest", "earliest" or "pending", or an integer block number.

What you receive

QUANTITY - the chosen address’ balance in wei presented as an integer.

Sample

Here is a typical appliance example.

Call

Curl

curl https://eth-mainnet.rpcfast.com/?api_key=<key> \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_getBalance","params":["0xc94770007dda54cF92009BFF0dE90c06F603a09f", "latest"],"id":0}'

Sample

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 0,
  "result": "0x7c2562030800"
}