Blocks
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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 .
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 beneath the current block. The first block after the 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
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