getBalance RPC Method

Returns the lamport balance of the account of provided Pubkey

params

string required Pubkey of account to query, as base-58 encoded string..

object optiona Configuration object.

• commitment
  • The commitment describes how finalized a block is at that point in time. See Configuring State Commitment.

• minContextSlot

  The minimum slot that the request can be evaluated at.

result

u64RpcResponse JSON object with value field set to the balance.

cURL

curl https://api.mainnet.openverse.network/ -s -X \
 POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d ' 
 {
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "id": 1,
   "method": "getBalance",
   "params": [
     "83astBRguLMdt2h5U1Tpdq5tjFoJ6noeGwaY3mDLVcri"
   ]
 }
'

Response

{
 "jsonrpc": "2.0",
 "result": {
   "context": { "slot": 1 },
   "value": 0
 },
 "id": 1
}