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requestAirdrop RPC Method

Requests an airdrop of lamports to a Pubkey

params​

string required Pubkey of account to receive lamports, as a base-58 encoded string

u64 required Amount of lamports to airdrop

object optional Configuration object containing the following fields:

commitment

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

result​

string Transaction Signature of the airdrop, as a base-58 encoded string

cURL

curl https://us-seattle.openverse.network/api -s -X \
 POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d ' 
 {
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "id": 1,
   "method": "requestAirdrop",
   "params": [
     "83astBRguLMdt2h5U1Tpdq5tjFoJ6noeGwaY3mDLVcri",
     1000000000
   ]
 }
'

Response

{
 "jsonrpc": "2.0",
 "result": "5VERv8NMvzbJMEkV8xnrLkEaWRtSz9CosKDYjCJjBRnbJLgp8uirBgmQpjKhoR4tjF3ZpRzrFmBV6UjKdiSZkQUW",
 "id": 1
}