Babel is the IoTeX service that wraps an Ethereum-node JSON-RPC API: you can point your web3 Ethereum libraries and tools to a Babel endpoint, and have them work with the IoTeX blockchain with no changes.

Access the Babel API

You can deploy your own Babel service available on GitHub, or you can use the publicly accessible endpoints below:

Mainnet

Testnet

Example

To get the balance of the IoTeX address ukzv5m6xnsg3gzaec3shew8nw03cch2x53d6v6 you first convert it into the ethereum address format using ioctl:

$ ioctl account ethaddr io1ukzv5m6xnsg3gzaec3shew8nw03cch2x53d6v6
io1ukzv5m6xnsg3gzaec3shew8nw03cch2x53d6v6 - 0xE584ca6F469c11140Bb9c4617Cb8f373E38C5D46

which gives you the following Ethereum address:0xE584ca6F469c11140Bb9c4617Cb8f373E38C5D46.

Then you can query the Babel endpoint according to the Ethereum JSON RPC API:

» curl -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/json" --data '{"id": 1, "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "eth_getBalance", "params": ["0xE584ca6F469c11140Bb9c4617Cb8f373E38C5D46", ""]}' http://babel-api.mainnet.iotex.io
{
  "id": 1,
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": "0x10f0cf064dd59200000"
}

Which returns the balance 0x10f0cf064dd59200000 (hex) for the address, expressed in Rau units (i.e. 5000000000000000000000 Rau, equivalent to 5000 IOTX).

Check out the official Ethereum JSON-RPC API Documentation at:

Supported API

Below is the list of the currently supported APIs:

• eth_chainId

• eth_blockNumber

• eth_getBlockByNumber

• eth_getBalance

• eth_gasPrice

• eth_getTransactionCount

• eth_sendRawTransaction

• eth_call

• eth_estimateGas

• eth_getCode

• eth_getTransactionReceipt

• eth_protocolVersion

• eth_syncing

• eth_getBlockTransactionCountByHash

• eth_getBlockTransactionCountByNumber

• eth_getBlockByHash

• eth_getTransactionByHash

• eth_getTransactionByBlockHashAndIndex

• eth_getTransactionByBlockNumberAndIndex

• eth_getLogs

• net_version

• net_peerCount

• net_listening

• web3_clientVersion

• getpeers

• eth_coinbase

• eth_mining

• eth_hashrate

• eth_accounts

• eth_getStorageAt

• eth_getUncleCountByBlockHash

• eth_getUncleCountByBlockNumber

• eth_sign

• eth_signTransaction

• eth_sendTransaction

• eth_getUncleByBlockHashAndIndex

• eth_getUncleByBlockNumberAndIndex

• eth_newFilter

• eth_newBlockFilter

• eth_newPendingTransactionFilter

• eth_uninstallFilter

• eth_getFilterChanges

• eth_getFilterLogs

• eth_getWork

• eth_submitWork

• eth_submitHashrate

• eth_pendingTransactions

• db_putString

• db_getString

• db_putHex

• db_getHex

• shh_post

• shh_version

• shh_newIdentity

• shh_hasIdentity

• shh_newGroup

• shh_addToGroup

• shh_newFilter

• shh_uninstallFilter

• shh_getFilterChanges

• shh_getMessages