How to Connect to Celestia

In this guide, you'll learn the following connection methods to the Celestia infrastructure:

• How to Connect to Cosmos REST
• How to Connect to Celestia Tendermint RPC via cURL
• How to Connect to Celestia via WebSocket
• How to Connect to Celestia Tendermint REST via cURL
• How to Connect to Celestia via gRPC

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Note:

Visit the Celestia marketplace page to explore Blockdaemon’s Celestia infrastructure.

How to Access Your Blockdaemon Celestia Credentials

Once you have purchased your Blockdaemon Celestia infrastructure, you can access your credentials:

1. Log into the Blockdaemon app.
2. Click Nodes under the Access menu.
3. Select the Celestia node.
4. Select the Connect tab. You'll find the following information:
   1. Endpoint URL
   2. Auth String
   3. Auth Token

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Info:

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How to Connect to Cosmos REST

The example below shows how to get the latest block.

curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' 'https://YOUR_ENDPOINT_URL/cosmos_rest/cosmos/base/tendermint/v1beta1/REST_METHOD?auth=YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN'

• ReplaceYOUR_ENDPOINT_URLwith your unique identifier from Blockdaemon.
• Replace REST_METHOD with your chosen REST method.
• Replace YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN with the Auth Token in the Blockdaemon app.

How to Connect to Celestia Tendermint RPC via cURL

curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{"method": "RPC_METHOD", "params": [METHOD_PARAMS], "id": 1}' 'https://YOUR_ENDPOINT_URL/tendermint_rpc?auth=YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN'

• Replace RPC_METHOD with your chosen RPC method.
• Replace METHOD_PARAMS with your chosen RPC parameters.
• ReplaceYOUR_ENDPOINT_URLwith the Endpoint URL in the Blockdaemon app.
• Replace YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN with the Auth Token in the Blockdaemon app.

How to Connect to Celestia via WebSocket

wscat -H "X-Auth-Token: YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN" -c wss://YOUR_ENDPOINT_URL:8443/websocket

• Replace YOUR_ENDPOINT_URL with the Endpoint URL in the Blockdaemon app.
• Replace YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN with the Auth Token in the Blockdaemon app.

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Info:

wscat is a tool that can connect over WebSocket(s) and may need to be installed. You can use your preferred tool of choice.

How to Connect to Celestia Tendermint REST via cURL

curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' 'https://YOUR_ENDPOINT_URL/tendermint_rest/status?auth=YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN'

• Replace YOUR_ENDPOINT_URL with the Endpoint URL in the Blockdaemon app.
• Replace YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN with the Auth Token in the Blockdaemon app.

How to Connect to Celestia via gRPC

grpcurl -H "X-Auth-Token: YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN" YOUR_ENDPOINT_URL:443 list

• Replace YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN with the Auth Token in the Blockdaemon app.
• ReplaceYOUR_ENDPOINT_URLwith your unique identifier from Blockdaemon.

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Info:

Please see the list of supported gRPC services here.

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