BlockX Clients

BlockX supports different clients in order to support Cosmos and Ethereum transactions and queries:

-	Description	Default Port
Cosmos gRPC	Query or send BlockX transactions using gRPC	9090
Cosmos REST (gRPC-Gateway)	Query or send BlockX transactions using an HTTP RESTful API	9091
Ethereum JSON-RPC	Query Ethereum-formatted transactions and blocks or send Ethereum txs using JSON-RPC	8545
Ethereum Websocket	Subscribe to Ethereum logs and events emitted in smart contracts.	8586
Tendermint RPC	Subscribe to Ethereum logs and events emitted in smart contracts.	26657
Tendermint Websocket	Query transactions, blocks, consensus state, broadcast transactions, etc.	26657
Command Line Interface (CLI)	Query or send BlockX transactions using your Terminal or Console.	N/A

Cosmos gRPC

BlockX exposes gRPC endpoints for all the integrated Cosmos SDK modules. This makes it easier for wallets and block explorers to interact with the Proof-of-Stake logic and native Cosmos transactions and queries.

Cosmos gRPC-Gateway (HTTP REST)

gRPC-Gateway reads a gRPC service definition and generates a reverse-proxy server which translates RESTful JSON API into gRPC. With gRPC-Gateway, users can use REST to interact the Cosmos gRPC service.

Ethereum JSON-RPC

BlockX supports most of the standard JSON-RPC APIs to connect with existing Ethereum-compatible web3 tooling.

Ethereum Websocket

Then, start a websocket subscription with ws

# connect to tendermint websocet at port 8546 as defined above
ws ws://localhost:8546/

# subscribe to new Ethereum-formatted block Headers
> {"id": 1, "method": "eth_subscribe", "params": ["newHeads", {}]}
< {"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"0x44e010cb2c3161e9c02207ff172166ef","id":1}

Tendermint Websocket

Tendermint Core provides a Websocket connection to subscribe or unsubscribe to Tendermint ABCI events.

For more info about the how to subscribe to events, please refer to the official Tendermint documentation.

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "subscribe",
    "id": "0",
    "params": {
        "query": "tm.event='<event_value>' AND eventType.eventAttribute='<attribute_value>'"
    }
}

List of Tendermint Events

The main events you can subscribe to are:

• NewBlock: Contains events triggered during BeginBlock and EndBlock.

• Tx: Contains events triggered during DeliverTx (i.e. transaction processing).

• ValidatorSetUpdates: Contains validator set updates for the block.

The list of events types and values for each Cosmos SDK module can be found in the Modules Specification section. Check the Events page to obtain the event list of each supported module on BlockX .

List of all Tendermint event keys:

-	Event Type	Categories
Subscribe to a specific event	"tm.event"	block
Subscribe to a specific transaction	"tx.hash"	block
Subscribe to transactions at a specific block height	"tx.height"	block
Index BeginBlock and Endblock events	"block.height"	block
Subscribe to ABCI BeginBlock events	"begin_block"	block
Subscribe to ABCI EndBlock events	"end_block"	consensus

Below is a list of values that you can use to subscribe for the tm.event type:

-	Event Value	Categories
New block	"NewBlock"	block
New block header	"NewBlockHeader"	block
New Byzantine Evidence	"NewEvidence"	block
New transaction	"Tx"	block
Validator set updated	"ValidatorSetUpdates"	block
Block sync status	"BlockSyncStatus"	consensus
lock	"Lock"	consensus
New consensus round	"NewRound"	consensus
Polka	"Polka"	consensus
Relock	"Relock"	consensus
State sync status	"StateSyncStatus"	consensus
Timeout propose	"TimeoutPropose"	consensus
Timeout wait	"TimeoutWait"	consensus
Unlock	"Unlock"	consensus
Block is valid	"ValidBlock"	consensus
Consensus vote	"Vote"	consensus

Example

ws ws://localhost:26657/websocket
> { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "subscribe", "params": ["tm.event='ValidatorSetUpdates'"], "id": 1 }

Example response:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 0,
    "result": {
        "query": "tm.event='ValidatorSetUpdates'",
        "data": {
            "type": "tendermint/event/ValidatorSetUpdates",
            "value": {
              "validator_updates": [
                {
                  "address": "09EAD022FD25DE3A02E64B0FE9610B1417183EE4",
                  "pub_key": {
                    "type": "tendermint/PubKeyEd25519",
                    "value": "ww0z4WaZ0Xg+YI10w43wTWbBmM3dpVza4mmSQYsd0ck="
                  },
                  "voting_power": "10",
                  "proposer_priority": "0"
                }
              ]
            }
        }
    }
}

CLI

Users can use the blockxd binary to interact directly with an BlockX node though the CLI.

To use the CLI, you will need to provide a Tendermint RPC address for the --node flag. Look for a publicly available addresses for testnet and mainnet in the Establishing Connections page.

• Transactions: blockxd tx

  The list of available commands, as of v3.0.0, are:

Available Commands:
  authz               Authorization transactions subcommands
  bank                Bank transaction subcommands
  broadcast           Broadcast transactions generated offline
  crisis              Crisis transactions subcommands
  decode              Decode a binary encoded transaction string
  distribution        Distribution transactions subcommands
  encode              Encode transactions generated offline
  erc20               erc20 subcommands
  evidence            Evidence transaction subcommands
  evm                 evm transactions subcommands
  feegrant            Feegrant transactions subcommands
  gov                 Governance transactions subcommands
  ibc                 IBC transaction subcommands
  ibc-transfer        IBC fungible token transfer transaction subcommands
  multisign           Generate multisig signatures for transactions generated offline
  multisign-batch     Assemble multisig transactions in batch from batch signatures
  sign                Sign a transaction generated offline
  sign-batch          Sign transaction batch files
  slashing            Slashing transaction subcommands
  staking             Staking transaction subcommands
  validate-signatures validate transactions signatures
  vesting             Vesting transaction subcommands

Queries: blockxd query

The list of available commands, as of v3.0.0, are:

Available Commands:
  account                  Query for account by address
  auth                     Querying commands for the auth module
  authz                    Querying commands for the authz module
  bank                     Querying commands for the bank module
  block                    Get verified data for a the block at given height
  claims                   Querying commands for the claims module
  distribution             Querying commands for the distribution module
  epochs                   Querying commands for the epochs module
  erc20                    Querying commands for the erc20 module
  evidence                 Query for evidence by hash or for all (paginated) submitted evidence
  evm                      Querying commands for the evm module
  feegrant                 Querying commands for the feegrant module
  feemarket                Querying commands for the fee market module
  gov                      Querying commands for the governance module
  ibc                      Querying commands for the IBC module
  ibc-transfer             IBC fungible token transfer query subcommands
  incentives               Querying commands for the incentives module
  inflation                Querying commands for the inflation module
  params                   Querying commands for the params module
  recovery                 Querying commands for the recovery module
  slashing                 Querying commands for the slashing module
  staking                  Querying commands for the staking module
  tendermint-validator-set Get the full tendermint validator set at given height
  tx                       Query for a transaction by hash, "<addr>/<seq>" combination or comma-separated signatures in a committed block
  txs                      Query for paginated transactions that match a set of events
  upgrade                  Querying commands for the upgrade module
  vesting                  Querying commands for the vesting module

When querying Ethereum transactions versus Cosmos transactions, the transaction hashes are different. When querying Ethereum transactions, users need to use event query. Here's an example with the CLI:

curl -X GET "http://localhost:26657/tx_search?query=ethereum_tx.ethereumTxHash%3D0x8d43464891fac6c113e809e14dff1a3e608eae124d629799e42ca0e36562d9d7&prove=false&page=1&per_page=30&order_by=asc" -H "accept: application/json"