Overview

Blockchain data is extensive, and having enhanced information about a block can provide comprehensive insights into blockchain activity. This enables developers, analysts, and businesses to perform better analysis and make more informed decisions.

In this Function example, we will query block, transactions, and transaction receipt data to get vital block analytics data like active addresses, gas price, ETH transferred, biggest transactions, etc.

Sample Function

The following is the code for the Function to get the vital block analytics data in JavaScript Node.js v20 runtime using the block with receipts dataset:

// Initialize the main function
function main(params) {

    // Extract dataset and network from metadata in params
    const block = params.data[0];
    const dataset = params.metadata.dataset;
    const network = params.metadata.network;
    
    const transactions = block.transactions; // Get transactions of the block
    const blockNumber = parseInt(block.number, 16); // Convert block number from hex to int
    
    // Initialize variables for enhanced stats
    let totalGasPrice = BigInt(0);
    let totalEthTransferred = BigInt(0);
    let contractCreations = 0;
    let largestTxValue = BigInt(0);
    let largestTxHash = null;
    const activeAddresses = new Set();
    const uniqueTokens = new Set();

    // Process all transactions
    for (const tx of transactions) {
        // Gas price
        const gasPriceInWei = BigInt(tx.gasPrice);
        totalGasPrice += gasPriceInWei;
        
        // ETH transferred
        const valueInWei = BigInt(tx.value);
        totalEthTransferred += valueInWei;
        
        // Largest transaction
        if (valueInWei > largestTxValue) {
            largestTxValue = valueInWei;
            largestTxHash = tx.hash;
        }
        
        // Active addresses
        if (tx.from) activeAddresses.add(tx.from.toLowerCase());
        if (tx.to) activeAddresses.add(tx.to.toLowerCase());
        
        // Contract creations
        if (!tx.to) contractCreations++;
        
        // Unique tokens (approximation based on 'to' address)
        if (tx.to) uniqueTokens.add(tx.to.toLowerCase());
    }
    
    // Calculate average gas price
    const averageGasPriceInWei = totalGasPrice / BigInt(transactions.length);
    const averageGasPriceInGwei = Number(averageGasPriceInWei) / 1e9; // Convert Wei to Gwei

   // Return data
    return {
        blockNumber,
        dataset,
        network,
        transactionCount: transactions.length,
        averageGasPriceInWei: averageGasPriceInWei.toString(),
        averageGasPriceInGwei,
        totalEthTransferred: (Number(totalEthTransferred) / 1e18).toString(), // Convert Wei to Ether
        activeAddressCount: activeAddresses.size,
        contractCreations,
        uniqueTokensInteracted: uniqueTokens.size,
        largestTx: {
            value: (Number(largestTxValue) / 1e18).toString(), // Convert Wei to Ether
            hash: largestTxHash
        }
    };
}

Request

We will invoke the function with the following cURL command. Be sure to replace the YOUR_API_KEY with your own QuickNode API key and the POST URL with the URL of your Function.

curl -X POST "https://api.quicknode.com/functions/rest/v1/functions/{functionId}/call?result_only=true" \
  -H "accept: application/json" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "network": "ethereum-mainnet",
    "dataset": "block",
    "block": "latest"
  }'

Response

Resulting in the following response:

{
  "blockNumber": 21194268,
  "dataset": "block",
  "network": "ethereum-mainnet",
  "transactionCount": 204,
  "averageGasPriceInWei": "31088390223",
  "averageGasPriceInGwei": 31.088390223,
  "totalEthTransferred": "2156.1978496173274",
  "activeAddressCount": 317,
  "contractCreations": 2,
  "uniqueTokensInteracted": 132,
  "largestTx": {
    "value": "2100",
    "hash": "0x908f3b5fd5f84b9c751ec6453c4112af41f0e87e6e96b64a403a5ad40be5a8ec"
  }
}

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