The purpose of this project is to play around with interacting with the elrond blockchain network. There is an elrond-sdk for facilitating this functionality.
Internally everything in EGLD is represented as 10^18 and a uint. Elrond works with 18 decimals, so in order to get a human readable number diving by 10^18. Programmatically this is represented as:
import math
balance = int(egld_response.('key')) / int(math.pow(10, 18))Learnt this the hard way but I found a comment here from one of the core devs mentioning it.
4294967295 can be used as the shard ID when querying the Metachain using shard APIs. Some APIs require a shard ID as a parameter. See here for reference.
As taken from the docs here:
A Hyperblock is a block-like abstraction that reunites the data from all shards, and contains only fully-executed transactions (that is, transactions executed both in source and in destination shard).
The docs provide a high level overview oferdpy but lack practical code examples. The elrond-sdk exposes CLI interfaces that demonstrate how you can hook into the library, for example cli_block.py.
Follow the instructions to setup erdpy here. If you're using the mainnet make sure the proxy appropriately:
erdpy config set proxy https://api.elrond.com
Instructions on how to install erdpy can be found here: