Making Your First
RPC Blockchain Call

Course Notes

What is a Remote
Procedure Call
(RPC)?

What are
Nodes?

Relevant Questions:
Do I have to run a node to read or write data from Blockchain?

A huge infrastructure is required to manage a node

You will have a big data problem

Use Node providers instead

Provider runs and maintains the node

Provider indexes and stores all data

Do I have to run a node to read or write data from Blockchain?

Function to read blockchain info
Function to submit transactions
Smart contracts

Why use
blockchain
and what is it?

What’s in the Block
and what’s
on Chain?