Make Your First Blockchain RPC Call

Make Your First Blockchain RPC Call

It starts here! In this course you'll interact with the Ethereum blockchain and make your first Remote Procedure Call to the chain - an essential step for everything else.

1. Welcome to the course

What's this course is about

20 sec

2. Introduction to the Course

We delve into the power of provider agnosticism in our Tatum SDK. Learn how to utilize our SDK alongside any RPC provider you prefer, ensuring seamless integration and flexibility.

1 min

3. What is an RPC or RPC Node in blockchain

In this video we breakdown the core fundamentals required to make most of the course and start talking about the first one which is about rpc, and by the end of this video you should be confident in talking about what an RPC is.

2 min 53 s

4. Why we need Blockchain?

In this video we talked about the problems that gave birth to the need of a Trustless Verifiable Immutable Distributed Ledger aka Blockchain.

6 min 40s

5. What is Digital Ledger Technology or DLT & What is Blockchain?

In this video we talk about what a distributed ledger technology is how it is used as blockchain and importantly how blockchain solves the trust, verifiability and mutability issue of traditional ledgers.

7min 20s

6. What is a Blockchain Node?

In this video we are going to discuss what a node is, and finally connect the dots between, Blockchain as a Ledger, Nodes and RPC calls to get ready to make our first call in the following video.

5 min

7. Making your first Blockchain RPC call with Tatum SDK

In this video we will finally make our first RPC call to fetch the wallet balance of an Ethereum Wallet, that too in less than 3 lines of code in less than 4 extra steps compared to industry standards.

4 min

Files & Resources

Browse all the links and downloads mentioned in the course. If you would like us to include any other resource, please let us know in the Community group.

Ethereum RPC documentation

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getBlockNumber documenation

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Course Materials

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