Degen Chain is shutting down. Alchemy support for Degen Mainnet (degen-mainnet) ends on August 31, 2026. See the Degen Mainnet Deprecation Notice for details.
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Degen Chain is an Arbitrum–based Layer-3 that settles on Base and uses DEGEN as gas, delivering ultra-low-cost transactions for Farcaster mini-apps and trading-style apps.
The Degen API lets you interact with the Degen network through a set of JSON-RPC methods. If you've worked with Ethereum's JSON-RPC APIs, the design will feel familiar.
Let's use the viem package to create a Degen client connected to Alchemy and fetch the latest block number!
npm install --save viemimport { createPublicClient, http } from "viem";
import { degen } from "viem/chains";
const client = createPublicClient({
chain: degen,
transport: http("https://degen-mainnet.g.alchemy.com/v2/YOUR_ALCHEMY_API_KEY"),
});Now that you've created a client connected to Alchemy, you can continue with some basics:
const blockNumber = await client.getBlockNumber();
console.log("Current block number:", blockNumber);const balance = await client.getBalance({ address: "0xab5801a7d398351b8be11c439e05c5b3259aec9b" });
console.log("Balance (DEGEN):", Number(balance) / 1e18);const block = await client.getBlock({
blockNumber: blockNumber, // from previous example
});
console.log(block);const tx = await client.getTransaction({ hash: "0xYOUR_TX_HASH" });
console.log(tx);const receipt = await client.getTransactionReceipt({
hash: "0xYOUR_TX_HASH"
});
console.log(receipt);For the full list of Degen APIs, see the Degen API Endpoints.