IOTA

IOTA Chains API

The chains API from IOTA — 18 operation(s) for chains.

GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 19

GET /v1/chain Get information about a specific chain #
DELETE /v1/chain/access-node/{peer} Remove an access node #
PUT /v1/chain/access-node/{peer} Configure a trusted node to be an access node #
POST /v1/chain/activate/{chainID} Activate a chain #
POST /v1/chain/callview Call a view function on a contract by Hname #
POST /v1/chain/chainrecord/{chainID} Sets the chain record #
GET /v1/chain/committee Get information about the deployed committee #
GET /v1/chain/contracts Get all available chain contracts #
POST /v1/chain/deactivate Deactivate a chain #
POST /v1/chain/dump-accounts dump accounts information into a humanly-readable format #
POST /v1/chain/estimategas-offledger Estimates gas for a given off-ledger ISC request #
POST /v1/chain/estimategas-onledger Estimates gas for a given on-ledger ISC request #
POST /v1/chain/evm Ethereum JSON-RPC #
GET /v1/chain/evm/ws Ethereum JSON-RPC (Websocket transport) #
GET /v1/chain/mempool Get the contents of the mempool #
GET /v1/chain/receipts/{requestID} Get a receipt from a request ID #
GET /v1/chain/requests/{requestID}/wait Wait until the given request has been processed by the node #
POST /v1/chain/rotate Rotate a chain #
GET /v1/chain/state/{stateKey} Fetch the raw value associated with the given key in the chain state #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://docs.iota.org/iota-api-ref
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APIReference
https://docs.iota.org/iota-api-ref
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Documentation
https://docs.iota.org/developer/iota-evm/references/json-rpc-spec
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APIReference
https://docs.iota.org/developer/iota-evm/references/openapi/ethereum-json-rpc

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iota/refs/heads/main/openapi/iota-chains-api-openapi.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

iota-chains-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  description: REST API for the Wasp node
  title: Wasp Chains API
  version: '0'
servers:
- url: /
tags:


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