Blocks

Blocks are the building blocks of blockchains and rollups.

A block contains transactions which will alter the state of an EVM system incrementally. Transaction within a block can only be executed one after the other, not in parallel.

Table Columns

Column Name
Description
Example

timestamp

The unix timestamp for when the block was collated.

2020-11-02 12:26:49

number

The length of the chain, in blocks.

1,882,507

hash

Unique identifier of a transaction.

0x16aa301c8f8b32c6bb91b254ca7939d1e44a35f8acdb45ad3e1a62195e2e47d7

parent_hash

Unique identifier of the block preceding this block, also known as the parent block.

0x7f90b8d20da5bbe6aac4329da6b243b8b2cc1d60b7a775a8df58a3878bcf4c96

sha3_uncles

An array of uncle hashes.

0x1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567b6ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347

logs_bloom

The bloom filter for the logs of the block.

0x002000020000001000100800800004000000000004000000000000000000010000000000800001000000000811008000098010000000000008000010002000004480208002000000019000080000002020d00000124000100004000080000400000000200202000000000000008008000000000002080400040000100000000000008604000000000080000000000001000404010000000800000040000000000210400000000000200000000102000000804800000002000000084000000000200000020800000200000000800210002000000000000010000001120000a0000010800000200000011000000010100000002000400200401000000000000000

transactions_root

The root of the transaction trie of the block.

0xb247596ab04d445adee2ffea9af58181f2e1ad07497ed6036f9a7a923a3d712a

state_root

The root of the final state trie of the block.

0x7f80351bb8de6006011f85920e09fe24e5fe5c4dd26d8c16109778aba431f15f

receipts_root

The root of the receipts trie of the block.

0x6f406e3bf3e3c82416405965da34d392b52075b658b1b99eae916ea38035647b

miner

The address of the beneficiary to whom the mining rewards were given

0x4430b3230294d12c6ab2aac5c2cd68e80b16b581

difficulty

The integer of the difficulty for this block.

2

total_difficulty

The integer of the total difficulty of the chain until this block.

3,764,492

size

The size of the block, in bytes, as determined by the gas_limit.

1,818

extra_data

The “extra data” field of this block.

0xd883010002846765746888676f312e31332e34856c696e75780000000000000007f8ddd4deb9c77b9bcb9ea5b67f7eae2f06a9677ba23f5b445ee9e85a04df1c2bd517d8e0a657c888b47ad6e1c4b4641fff5beb53bb69e2690460e0bf5fbf7301

gas_limit

Gas limit of the current block.

30,000,000

gas_used

Total gas used in the block.

517,647

transaction_count

Number of transactions included in this block.

5

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.

_created_at

Timestamp of the entry creation.

_updated_at

Timestamp of the entry update.

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