Your public Base Gateway

Base is a secure and developer-friendly Ethereum L2, built on the OP Stack that aims to bring the next billion users to web3. Base is built to be the onchain home for Coinbase and the easiest way for decentralized apps to leverage Coinbase's products and distribution.

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Base Mainnet

Coinbase's Base Mainnet is set to revolutionize the cryptocurrency landscape. Built on Optimism's OP Stack, it operates as a rollup network, efficiently processing transactions outside the Ethereum blockchain. With over 100 dApps and service providers, Base aims to solve Ethereum's scalability issues, contributing to the industry's trend of addressing blockchain network scalability and cost challenges.

Public RPC Endpoint

Public WSS Endpoint

Playground

MethodDocumentation
eth_blockNumber

Parameters

eth_blockNumber

Returns the number of the most recent block

eth_blockNumber response

Returns the number of the most recent block

resultnumber

An integer value of the current block number the client is on

Request

curl -X POST https://base-mainnet.public.blastapi.io \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":0,"method":"eth_blockNumber"}'
Average API calls/sec404.1
Average API calls/day34,914,246
API calls last 24h46,434,894

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