Klaytn Network
Introduction
The Klaytn Network is a global public blockchain platform developed by Ground X, the blockchain affiliate of the leading South Korean Internet company, Kakao. Klaytn is a service-centric blockchain platform providing an intuitive development environment and friendly end-user experience. It is built upon solid reliability and significant stability with substantial service development for mass adoption. The platform allows real-world applications of large scale to be produced right away so that our end-users can make full use of services without much expertise in blockchain or cryptocurrency.
Quick facts
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Klaytn Mainnet Cypress chainId | 8217 |
| Klaytn Blockchain Explorer | https://scope.klaytn.com/ |
| Block time | ~1 second |
Supported endpoints
chain_id and wallet address, return current token balances along with their spot prices. This endpoint supports a variety of token standards like ERC20, ERC721 and ERC1155. As a special case, network native tokens like ETH on Ethereum are also returned even though it’s not a token contract.
chain_id and wallet address, return all transactions along with their decoded log events. This endpoint does a deep-crawl of the blockchain to retrieve all kinds of transactions that references the address including indexed topics within the event logs.
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Appendix
Klaytn Gas token
KLAY token is the native token of the Klaytn network. This is similar to Ether in Ethereum. To interact with the Klaytn network, KLAY tokens are required to pay as gas fees. KLAY serves as a means of payment and exchange for all applications running in the Klaytn ecosystem. Covalent’s responses automatically returns gas_* fields in the KLAY units.