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Polkadot

Access Polkadot with Blockdaemon RPC API

You can access Blockdaemon Polkadot infrastructure via:

  • Substrate RPC API
  • Substrate Sidecar API
  • Polkadot REST API

Updated 3 months ago


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Polkadot via Substrate RPC API
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