ApeChain is a dedicated infrastructure layer designed to power the ApeCoin ecosystem. It’s an Arbitrum chain that utilizes $APE as its native gas token, significantly enhancing $APE’s utility and fostering a robust, dynamic economy. ApeChain focuses on ecosystem discovery, unique web3 rails, and top-of-funnel exposure to provide developers and users with the best possible blockchain experience.

The ApeChain API allows interaction with the ApeChain network through a set of JSON-RPC methods. Its design is familiar to developers who have worked with Ethereum’s JSON-RPC APIs, making it intuitive and straightforward to use.

Send Your First Request on Alchemy

Let’s use the viem package to create an ApeChain client connected to Alchemy and fetch the latest block number!

npm install --save viem

Create Client Connected to Alchemy

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import { createPublicClient, http } from "viem"; 
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import { apeChain } from "viem/chains";
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const client = createPublicClient({
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  chain: apeChain,
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  transport: http("https://apechain-mainnet.g.alchemy.com/v2/YOUR_ALCHEMY_API_KEY"),
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});

Now that you’ve created a client connected to Alchemy, you can continue with some basics:

Get Latest Block Number

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const blockNumber = await client.getBlockNumber();
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console.log("Current block number:", blockNumber);

Get an Address Balance

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const balance = await client.getBalance({ address: "0xab5801a7d398351b8be11c439e05c5b3259aec9b" });
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console.log("Balance (APE):", Number(balance) / 1e18);

Read Block Data

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const block = await client.getBlock({
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  blockNumber: blockNumber, // from previous example
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});
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console.log(block);

Fetch a Transaction by Hash

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const tx = await client.getTransaction({ hash: "0xYOUR_TX_HASH" });
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console.log(tx);

Fetch Transaction Receipt

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const receipt = await client.getTransactionReceipt({
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  hash: "0xYOUR_TX_HASH"
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});
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console.log(receipt);

ApeChain APIs

For the full list of ApeChain APIs, see the ApeChain API Endpoints.