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
nonce	The transaction nonce, unique to the wallet	0x0000000000000000
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.