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The ICTech supports different clients in order to support ICTech and Ethereum transactions and queries:

Description
Default Port

ICTech gRPC

Query or send ICTech transactions using gRPC

9090

ICTech REST (gRPC-Gateway)

Query or send ICTech transactions using an HTTP RESTful API

9091

Ethereum JSON-RPC

Query Ethereum-formatted transactions and blocks or send Ethereum txs using JSON-RPC

8545

Ethereum Websocket

Subscribe to Ethereum logs and events emitted in smart contracts.

8586

Tendermint RPC

Subscribe to Ethereum logs and events emitted in smart contracts.

26657

Tendermint Websocket

Query transactions, blocks, consensus state, broadcast transactions, etc.

26657

Command Line Interface ( CLI )

Query or send ICTech transactions using your Terminal or Console.

N/A

ICTech gRPC #

ICTech exposes gRPC endpoints for all the integrated ICTech SDK modules. This makes it easier for wallets and block explorers to interact with the Proof-of-Stake logic and native ICTech transactions and queries.

ICTech gRPC-Gateway (HTTP REST) #

gRPC-Gateway reads a gRPC service definition and generates a reverse-proxy server which translates RESTful JSON API into gRPC. With gRPC-Gateway, users can use REST to interact the ICTech gRPC service.

See the list of supported gRPC-Gateway API endpoints for the ICTech testnet here.

Ethereum JSON-RPC #

ICTech supports most of the standard JSON-RPC APIs to connect with existing Ethereum-compatible web3 tooling.

::: tip Check out the list of supported JSON-RPC API [endpoints] and namespaces. :::

Ethereum Websocket #

Then, start a websocket subscription with ws

# connect to tendermint websocet at port 8546 as defined above
ws ws://localhost:8546/

# subscribe to new Ethereum-formatted block Headers
> {"id": 1, "method": "eth_subscribe", "params": ["newHeads", {}]}
< {"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"0x44e010cb2c3161e9c02207ff172166ef","id":1}

Tendermint Websocket #

Tendermint Core provides a Websocket connection to subscribe or unsubscribe to Tendermint ABCI events.

::: tip For more info about the how to subscribe to events, please refer to the official Tendermint documentation. :::

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "subscribe",
    "id": "0",
    "params": {
        "query": "tm.event='<event_value>' AND eventType.eventAttribute='<attribute_value>'"
    }
}

List of Tendermint Events #

The main events you can subscribe to are:

  • NewBlock: Contains events triggered during BeginBlock and EndBlock.

  • Tx: Contains events triggered during DeliverTx (i.e. transaction processing).

  • ValidatorSetUpdates: Contains validator set updates for the block.

::: tip

👉 The list of events types and values for each ICTech SDK module can be found in the [Modules Specification]section. Check the Events page to obtain the event list of each supported module on ICTech. :::

List of all Tendermint event keys:

Event Type
Categories

Subscribe to a specific event

"tm.event"

block

Subscribe to a specific transaction

"tx.hash"

block

Subscribe to transactions at a specific block height

"tx.height"

block

Index BeginBlock and Endblock events

"block.height"

block

Subscribe to ABCI BeginBlock events

"begin_block"

block

Subscribe to ABCI EndBlock events

"end_block"

consensus

Below is a list of values that you can use to subscribe for the tm.event type:

Event Value
Categories

New block

"NewBlock"

block

New block header

"NewBlockHeader"

block

New Byzantine Evidence

"NewEvidence"

block

New transaction

"Tx"

block

Validator set updated

"ValidatorSetUpdates"

block

Block sync status

"BlockSyncStatus"

consensus

lock

"Lock"

consensus

New consensus round

"NewRound"

consensus

Polka

"Polka"

consensus

Relock

"Relock"

consensus

State sync status

"StateSyncStatus"

consensus

Timeout propose

"TimeoutPropose"

consensus

Timeout wait

"TimeoutWait"

consensus

Unlock

"Unlock"

consensus

Block is valid

"ValidBlock"

consensus

Consensus vote

"Vote"

consensus

Example #

ws ws://localhost:26657/websocket
> { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "subscribe", "params": ["tm.event='ValidatorSetUpdates'"], "id": 1 }

Example response:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 0,
    "result": {
        "query": "tm.event='ValidatorSetUpdates'",
        "data": {
            "type": "tendermint/event/ValidatorSetUpdates",
            "value": {
              "validator_updates": [
                {
                  "address": "09EAD022FD25DE3A02E64B0FE9610B1417183EE4",
                  "pub_key": {
                    "type": "tendermint/PubKeyEd25519",
                    "value": "ww0z4WaZ0Xg+YI10w43wTWbBmM3dpVza4mmSQYsd0ck="
                  },
                  "voting_power": "10",
                  "proposer_priority": "0"
                }
              ]
            }
        }
    }
}

CLI #

Users can use the ICTech binary to interact directly with an ICTech node though the CLI.

::: tip 👉 To use the CLI, you will need to provide a Tendermint RPC address for the --node flag. Look for a publicly available addresses for testnet and mainnet in the Quick Connect page. :::

  • Transactions: ICTech tx

    The list of available commands, as of v3.0.0, are:

    Available Commands:
      authz               Authorization transactions subcommands
      bank                Bank transaction subcommands
      broadcast           Broadcast transactions generated offline
      crisis              Crisis transactions subcommands
      decode              Decode a binary encoded transaction string
      distribution        Distribution transactions subcommands
      encode              Encode transactions generated offline
      erc20               erc20 subcommands
      evidence            Evidence transaction subcommands
      evm                 evm transactions subcommands
      feegrant            Feegrant transactions subcommands
      gov                 Governance transactions subcommands
      ibc                 IBC transaction subcommands
      ibc-transfer        IBC fungible token transfer transaction subcommands
      multisign           Generate multisig signatures for transactions generated offline
      multisign-batch     Assemble multisig transactions in batch from batch signatures
      sign                Sign a transaction generated offline
      sign-batch          Sign transaction batch files
      slashing            Slashing transaction subcommands
      staking             Staking transaction subcommands
      validate-signatures validate transactions signatures
      vesting             Vesting transaction subcommands
  • Queries: ICTech query

    The list of available commands, as of v3.0.0, are:

    Available Commands:
      account                  Query for account by address
      auth                     Querying commands for the auth module
      authz                    Querying commands for the authz module
      bank                     Querying commands for the bank module
      block                    Get verified data for a the block at given height
      claims                   Querying commands for the claims module
      distribution             Querying commands for the distribution module
      epochs                   Querying commands for the epochs module
      erc20                    Querying commands for the erc20 module
      evidence                 Query for evidence by hash or for all (paginated) submitted evidence
      evm                      Querying commands for the evm module
      feegrant                 Querying commands for the feegrant module
      feemarket                Querying commands for the fee market module
      gov                      Querying commands for the governance module
      ibc                      Querying commands for the IBC module
      ibc-transfer             IBC fungible token transfer query subcommands
      incentives               Querying commands for the incentives module
      inflation                Querying commands for the inflation module
      params                   Querying commands for the params module
      recovery                 Querying commands for the recovery module
      slashing                 Querying commands for the slashing module
      staking                  Querying commands for the staking module
      tendermint-validator-set Get the full tendermint validator set at given height
      tx                       Query for a transaction by hash, "<addr>/<seq>" combination or comma-separated signatures in a committed block
      txs                      Query for paginated transactions that match a set of events
      upgrade                  Querying commands for the upgrade module
      vesting                  Querying commands for the vesting module

::: tip Note: When querying Ethereum transactions versus ICTech transactions, the transaction hashes are different. When querying Ethereum transactions, users need to use event query. Here’s an example with the CLI:

curl -X GET "http://localhost:26657/tx_search?query=ethereum_tx.ethereumTxHash%3D0x8d43464891fac6c113e809e14dff1a3e608eae124d629799e42ca0e36562d9d7&prove=false&page=1&per_page=30&order_by=asc" -H "accept: application/json"

:::

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