Network Configurations

This is the information required to run a node or to develop on the different Flare networks:

• Flare is the main network.
• Songbird is the canary network, used for testing features under “real fire” conditions, before deploying them on the main network.
• Coston is Songbird's public test network.
• Coston2 is Flare's public test network.

General feature adoption flow.

Configuration Values

	Flare	Songbird	Coston	Coston2
Chain ID	14	19	16	114
Asset Ticker	FLR	SGB	CFLR	C2FLR
RPC endpoint BETA	flare-api	songbird-api	coston-api	coston2-api
Rosetta API	flare-rosetta	-	-	-
Block Explorer	flare-explorer	songbird-explorer	coston-explorer	coston2-explorer
Test Faucet	-	-	coston-faucet	coston2-faucet

All RPC endpoints are rate-limited to avoid spamming attacks.

Beta

Please note that the offered public RPC endpoints are in an experimental phase and might suffer unexpected downtime.

Sample query

curl -s -m 10 --request POST 'https://flare-api.flare.network/ext/C/rpc' \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -d '{
            "jsonrpc":"2.0",
            "method":"eth_blockNumber",
            "params":[],
            "id":1
    }'

Returns the chain height, which should look something like:

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":"0x103384"}

Additional Notes

• Address derivation and format validation are the same as on Ethereum. The recommended BIP paths are m/44’/60’/x’/0/0 (hardened) and m/44’/60’/0’/0/x.
• JavaScript API Docs: https://web3js.readthedocs.io/en/v1.3.4/
• Running a Node: https://github.com/flare-foundation/flare

RPC Nodes for Connected Chains

Along with the endpoints listed above to interact with its own networks, Flare offers public RPC nodes for a series of other blockchain networks, to bootstrap development of connected services like attestation providers.

Beta

Please note that the offered public RPC endpoints are in an experimental phase and might suffer unexpected downtime.

BitcoinLitecoinDogecoinXRPLAlgorandEthereum

RPC endpoint: https://bitcoin-api.flare.network

Sample query

curl -s -X POST -m 10 -H "Content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"hc", "method": "getblockchaininfo", "params":[]}' \
-u public:d681co1pe2l3wcj9adrm2orlk0j5r5gr3wghgxt58tvge594co0k1ciljxq9glei \
https://bitcoin-api.flare.network | jq

RPC endpoint: https://litecoin-api.flare.network

Sample query

curl -s -X POST -m 10 -H "Content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"hc", "method": "getblockchaininfo", "params":[]}' \
-u public:ntvzi4i1yne499t7vcdjqhhp92m3jvm0bb6dkpr406gkndvuns9sg6th3jd393uc \
https://litecoin-api.flare.network | jq

RPC endpoint: https://dogecoin-api.flare.network

Sample query

curl -s -X POST -m 10 -H "Content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"hc", "method": "getblockchaininfo", "params":[]}' \
-u public:6r1e5z3w9g6qruvkzkqvz8w67yqrq5js2cmyl2f1cncbp7gpp7tqixqskuub5v70 \
https://dogecoin-api.flare.network | jq

RPC endpoint: https://xrpl-api.flare.network

Sample query

curl -s -X POST -m 10 -H "Content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"method": "server_info", "params":[{"api_version": 1}]}' \
https://xrpl-api.flare.network | jq

RPC endpoint: https://algorand-api.flare.network

Sample query

curl -s -m 10 \
-H "X-Algo-API-Token: zl748k3wddvld8cvn64utnslbf7otorkijp84se0f58pmuu0shgm27gttpcjpmuq" \
https://algorand-api.flare.network/v2/status | jq

RPC endpoint: https://ethereum-api.flare.network/

Sample query

curl -s -X POST -m 10 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id":67, "method":"eth_blockNumber", "params":[]}' \
https://ethereum-api.flare.network | jq

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Last update: 2023-03-20