Ethereum RPC Method List

METHODS

Method List

72 methods. Client: erigon.

Every method below is rate-limited. The limits are per-client and deliberately unpublished — they may change without notice. Batches count per element and never cache.

Method	Rate class	Recommended windows	Cached
web3_clientVersion	—	—	No
web3_sha3	—	—	No
net_listening	—	—	No
net_peerCount	—	—	No
net_version	—	—	No
eth_blockNumber	—	—	No
eth_chainID	—	—	No
eth_chainId	—	—	Always
eth_protocolVersion	—	—	No
eth_syncing	—	—	No
eth_capabilities	—	—	No
eth_gasPrice	—	—	No
eth_maxPriorityFeePerGas	—	—	No
eth_feeHistory	—	—	No
eth_blobBaseFee	—	—	No
eth_baseFee	—	—	No
eth_config	—	—	No
eth_getBlockByHash	—	—	By hash (two-sight)
eth_getBlockByNumber	—	—	Below finality
eth_getBlockTransactionCountByHash	—	—	No
eth_getBlockTransactionCountByNumber	—	—	No
eth_getUncleByBlockHashAndIndex	—	—	No
eth_getUncleByBlockNumberAndIndex	—	—	No
eth_getUncleCountByBlockHash	—	—	No
eth_getUncleCountByBlockNumber	—	—	No
eth_getTransactionByHash	—	—	No
eth_getRawTransactionByHash	—	—	No
eth_getTransactionByBlockHashAndIndex	—	—	No
eth_getRawTransactionByBlockHashAndIndex	—	—	No
eth_getTransactionByBlockNumberAndIndex	—	—	No
eth_getRawTransactionByBlockNumberAndIndex	—	—	No
eth_getTransactionReceipt	—	—	No
eth_getBlockReceipts	—	—	By hash or below finality
eth_estimateGas	—	—	No
eth_getBalance	—	—	By hash or below finality
eth_getCode	—	—	By hash or below finality
eth_getTransactionCount	—	—	By hash or below finality
eth_getStorageAt	—	—	By hash or below finality
eth_getStorageValues	heavy window	Recommended: ≤ 1,024 slots (erigon-side).	No
eth_exist	—	—	No
eth_call	—	—	Below finality (two-sight)
eth_callBundle	heavy window	—	No
eth_callMany	heavy window	—	No
eth_simulateV1	heavy window	erigon-side: 256 blocks, 5,000 calls per block, 10,000 calls total.	No
eth_createAccessList	—	—	Below finality (two-sight)
eth_getBlockAccessList	—	—	No
eth_getLogs	getLogs window	Recommended range ≤ 10,000 blocks; larger ranges may be slow. blockHash queries are not affected.	Below finality (numeric span)
eth_sendRawTransaction	—	—	No
eth_sendRawTransactionSync	heavy window	erigon-side: caller timeout, 1 minute max.	No
eth_getProof	heavy window	—	No
trace_call	—	—	Below finality (two-sight)
trace_callMany	—	—	No
trace_rawTransaction	—	—	No
trace_replayBlockTransactions	—	—	No
trace_replayTransaction	—	—	No
trace_block	—	—	Below finality
trace_filter	getLogs window	Recommended range ≤ 10,000 blocks; larger ranges may be slow.	No
trace_get	—	—	No
trace_transaction	—	—	No
txpool_content	—	—	No
txpool_contentFrom	—	—	No
txpool_status	—	—	No
erigon_getHeaderByHash	—	—	No
erigon_getHeaderByNumber	—	—	Below finality
erigon_getLogsByHash	—	—	No
erigon_getLogs	getLogs window	Recommended range ≤ 10,000 blocks; larger ranges may be slow. blockHash queries are not affected.	No
erigon_getBalanceChangesInBlock	—	—	No
erigon_forks	—	—	No
erigon_getBlockByTimestamp	—	—	No
erigon_getBlockReceiptsByBlockHash	—	—	No
erigon_blockNumber	—	—	No
erigon_getLatestLogs	getLogs window	Recommended: logCount ≤ 100 and blockCount ≤ 1,000; larger requests may be slow.	No

Caching is not enabled yet: today every response arrives uncached. The Cached column describes the behavior after caching is enabled: Always = cached for every query. By hash = cached when the block param is a 0x hash. Hash-based transaction lookups (eth_getTransactionByHash, eth_getTransactionReceipt, eth_getRawTransactionByHash, and the by-tx traces) never cache: the pre-mine answer (null or "0x") is transient, and caching it lies to a poller for up to 24 h. Below finality = cached when the numeric block sits below the finalized checkpoint; latest tags and recent blocks never cache. Two-sight = a second identical request within 60 s confirms the store, so a null or error body never enters the cache.

Every cached response echoes your request id back and serves only clean bodies: a null result or a JSON-RPC error is remembered for 24 h instead of being cached. Equivalent spellings share one entry: addresses and hashes fold to lowercase, quantity zeros strip, and object keys sort.

This endpoint runs erigontech/erigon. The debug and ots namespaces are disabled on this fleet by design, so those methods answer "method not found". The ethereum and pulsechain fleets run different clients with different configurations, so their method sets and tracing outputs are not identical.

Erigon Client Caps and Sources

eth_simulateV1 — 256 blocks, 5,000 calls per block, 10,000 calls total.
erigon 3.5.4, rpc/jsonrpc/eth_simulation.go (maxSimulateBlocks, maxSimulateCallsPerBlock, maxSimulateTotalCalls).
https://github.com/erigontech/erigon/blob/28bc52d6777ca962df31188a8e525a61f4afe191/rpc/jsonrpc/eth_simulation.go

eth_getStorageValues — at most 1,024 slots.
erigon 3.5.4, rpc/jsonrpc/eth_accounts.go (maxGetStorageSlots). PR #23581 documents the method parameters.
https://github.com/erigontech/erigon/blob/28bc52d6777ca962df31188a8e525a61f4afe191/rpc/jsonrpc/eth_accounts.go

eth_sendRawTransactionSync — 1-minute caller timeout.
erigon 3.5.4, rpc/rpccfg/rpccfg.go (DefaultRpcTxSyncMaxTimeout).
https://github.com/erigontech/erigon/blob/28bc52d6777ca962df31188a8e525a61f4afe191/rpc/rpccfg/rpccfg.go

The source links pin to commit 28bc52d, the commit the erigon 3.5.4 tag names.