Blocks are the building blocks of blockchains and rollups. A block contains transactions which contains instructions which will alter the state of the solana blockchain incrementally. Transactions within a block can only be executed one after the other, not in parallel. Instructions within a transaction can only be executed one after the other, not in parallel.
Learn more in the official Solana documentation here.
Table Columns
| Column Name | Description | Type | Example | Column Name |
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| slot | The time of the slot and also block. Within the time window of a slot a block may or may not be proposed and voted upon. Only non-empty slots are indexed. | number | 276304227 | |
| height | The number of blocks beneath the current block. The first block after the genesis block has height one. height < slot as some each slot as at most 1 block.
blocks < 81032053 have no block height | number | 255661589 | |
| timestamp | The time when the slot was included on the blockchain.
blocks < 39824214 have no block timestamp | timestamp_ntz | 2024-07-08 02:16:54.000 | |
| hash | Unique identifier for that slot. (base58) | varchar | 36KR3aiVEZYSJDb8wgWBWpXbYykuz3BJagFRMhFijKxA | |
| parent_slot | Slot number of the non-empty slot preceding this slot | number | 276304226 | Table Columns| Column Name | Description | Sample Value | Column Name |
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| block_timestamp | The time when the block was included on the blockchain. | 2022-09-15 13:51:47 | | | block_number | The length of the chain, in blocks. | 15539508 | | | block_hash | Unique identifier for that block. | 0x25680259dfb40b4ee724ae22fda01a34e6d598c5f2fc25b6d871cb56c488de70 | | | parent_hash | Unique identifier of the block preceding this block, also known as the parent block. | 0x46707e33e9dca09ec95f0fc8b996e3bbce3ad3e02ea270939207bab1f809066f | Table Columns| Column Name | Description | Sample Value | Column Name |
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| block_timestamp | The time when the block was included on the blockchain. | 2022-09-15 13:51:47 | | | block_number | The length of the chain, in blocks. | 15539508 | | | block_hash | Unique identifier for that block. | 0x25680259dfb40b4ee724ae22fda01a34e6d598c5f2fc25b6d871cb56c488de70 | | | parent_hash | Unique identifier of the block preceding this block, also known as the parent block. | 0x46707e33e9dca09ec95f0fc8b996e3bbce3ad3e02ea270939207bab1f809066f | | | gas_limit | Gas limit of the current block. | 30000000 | | | gas_used | Total gas used in the block. | 6999860 | | | miner | Proof of Stake
Address receiving fees from transactions in this block
Proof of Work
Address of the miner that mined this block. | 0x388c818ca8b9251b393131c08a736a67ccb19297 | | | transaction_count | Number of transactions included in this block. | 95 | | | nonce | Proof of Stake
Unused post Merge. The value will always be 0x0000000000000000
Proof of Work
Used to demonstrate proof of work during mining | 0x090c1db284e8b101 | | | difficulty | The effort required to mine this block.
Proof of Stake
Always 0 | 11594723311525902 | | | total_difficulty | Total difficulty of the chain until this block. | 58750003716598352816469 | | | size | The size of the block, in bytes, as determined by the gas_limit. | 23628 | | | base_fee_per_gas | Post London Upgrade (EIP1559), this represents the minimum gas_used required for a transaction to be included in a block.
Represented in wei. | 10966453825 | |
| | gas_limit | Gas limit of the current block. | 30000000 | | | gas_used | Total gas used in the block. | 6999860 | | | miner | Proof of Stake
Address receiving fees from transactions in this block
Proof of Work
Address of the miner that mined this block. | 0x388c818ca8b9251b393131c08a736a67ccb19297 | | | transaction_count | Number of transactions included in this block. | 95 | | | nonce | Proof of Stake
Unused post Merge. The value will always be 0x0000000000000000
Proof of Work
Used to demonstrate proof of work during mining | 0x090c1db284e8b101 | | | difficulty | The effort required to mine this block.
Proof of Stake
Always 0 | 11594723311525902 | | | total_difficulty | Total difficulty of the chain until this block. | 58750003716598352816469 | | | size | The size of the block, in bytes, as determined by the gas_limit. | 23628 | | | base_fee_per_gas | Post London Upgrade (EIP1559), this represents the minimum gas_used required for a transaction to be included in a block.
Represented in wei. | 10966453825 | |
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| previous_block_hash | Unique identifier of the non-empty slot preceding this slot | varchar | 2ymHtgWXKxVf5BVVdt34onGrkUm7oDCHTMBBzkJt1rsV | |
| transaction_count | Number of transactions in the block | number | 875 | |
| nonvoting_transaction_count | Number of nonvoting transactions in the block | number | 441 | |
| reward_count | Number of rewards in the block | number | 1 | |
