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General Information

Block Size

Block Speed

Gas price

Patchset

Native token

Network ID

~17,000,000 Gas

5 sec

1 -10 GWei

Berlin

POA

99

To mitigate an ongoing denial-of-service attack, validators decided to increase the gas price to a range between 1-10 Gwei. Each validator can determine their own value within this range.

Blockchain Explorers

BlockScout is the official blockchain explorer for the POA Network. With this full-featured, open-source explorer you can view transactions, accounts & balances, access data via the API and read and verify smart contracts.

2) AnyBlock Analytics Explorer is convenient for exploring recent transactions and blocks and locating basic information extremely quickly.

JSON RPC endpoints

There are endpoints provided by POA. They are used to connect to the network. Use these endpoints to connect with DApps or when connecting to the POA Network with MetaMask or other web3 wallets.

POA Core Network

WebSockets

wss://core.poa.network/wss

Archive node (last 100k blocks)

Network ID

99

On-Chain Randomness Contract (RandomAuRa)

Block

Date

Contract

14350721

03/31/2020

0x67e90a54AeEA85f21949c645082FE95d77BC1E70

The current implementation requires a chain running OpenEthereum or Nethermind AuRa consensus. The Random Number generation contract was introduced in this PR.

TokenBridge UI

TokenBridge UI at https://bridge.poa.net/

DApp Management & Developer Tools

  • Pocket provides a decentralized API layer for DApp developers (IOS, Android & Web SDKs available) and blockchain users.

  • TheGraph supports xDai data indexing, querying and display.

  • Tenderly dashboard supports POA transaction inspection - smart contracts can also be pushed to the dashboard for real-time monitoring.

Additional Resources

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