Last updated on January 1, 1970

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Method eth_getBalance undefined ()
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eth_getBalance

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Returns the balance of the account of given address.

Parameters

DATA - string

address to check for balance.

QUANTITY|TAG - integer or string

block number or "latest", "earliest" or "pending"

Request

wscat -c wss://matic.getblock.io/YOUR-API-KEY/mainnet/ 
# wait for connection and send the request body 
{"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "eth_getBalance",
"params": ["0xe7e2cb8c81c10ff191a73fe266788c9ce62ec754", "latest"],
"id": "getblock.io"}

Response

{
    "id": "getblock.io",
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": "0x14bf15b14d996e4b7eb8"
}
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