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Moonbeam Network

Introduction

Moonbeam is an Ethereum-compatible smart contract parachain on Polkadot.

Moonbeam is much more than just an EVM implementation: it’s a highly specialized Layer 1.5 chain that mirrors Ethereum’s Web3 RPC, accounts, keys, subscriptions, logs, and more. The Moonbeam platform extends the base Ethereum feature set with additional features such as on-chain governance, staking, and cross-chain integrations.

Quick facts

PropertyValue
Moonbeam Testnet Moonbase Alpha chainId1287
Moonbeam Polkadot (not live yet)1284
Moonriver Kusama (not live yet)1285
Blockchain Explorerhttps://moonbase-blockscout.testnet.moonbeam.network/
Block time~2 seconds
Data refresh latency~12 seconds

Supported endpoints

  • api.covalenthq.com/v1/{chainId}/address/{address}/balances_v2/

    • Get token balances for address. Return a list of all ERC20 and NFT token balances including ERC721 and ERC1155 along with their current spot prices.

  • api.covalenthq.com/v1/{chainId}/address/{address}/transactions_v2/

    • Retrieve all transactions for address including their decoded log events. This endpoint does a deep-crawl of the blockchain to retrieve all kinds of transactions that references the address.

  • api.covalenthq.com/v1/{chainId}/address/{address}/transfers_v2/

    • Get ERC20 token transfers for address along with historical token prices.

  • api.covalenthq.com/v1/{chainId}/tokens/{contract_address}/token_holders/

    • Return a paginated list of token holders contract_address as of any historical block height.

  • api.covalenthq.com/v1/{chainId}/events/address/{contract_address}/

    • Return a paginated list of decoded log events emitted by a particular smart contract.

  • api.covalenthq.com/v1/{chainId}/events/topics/{topic}/

    • Return a paginated list of decoded log events with one or more topic hashes separated by a comma.
Go to Covalent's API Reference

Appendix

Moonbeam token

The Moonbeam token GLMR is the native token of the Moonbeam network. This is similar to Ether in Ethereum. To interact with the Moonbeam network, GLMR tokens are required to pay gas fees. The Covalent API response returns gas_* fields in fiat units.