/eth/v1/beacon/genesis REST Method

Parameters

This method does not accept any parameters

Returns

data

The object with the following values:

genesis_time

string

The genesis_time configured for the beacon node, which is the unix time in seconds at which the Eth2.0 chain began

genesis_validators_root

string

The genesis validator root

genesis_fork_version

string

A fork version number

Request

curl -X GET \
    "https://docs-demo.quiknode.pro/eth/v1/beacon/genesis" \
    -H "accept: application/json"

var myHeaders = new Headers();
myHeaders.append("accept", "application/json");

var requestOptions = {
  method: 'GET',
  headers: myHeaders,
  redirect: 'follow'
};

fetch("https://docs-demo.quiknode.pro/eth/v1/beacon/genesis", requestOptions)
  .then(response => response.text())
  .then(result => console.log(result))
  .catch(error => console.log('error', error));

import requests

url = "https://docs-demo.quiknode.pro/eth/v1/beacon/genesis"

payload={}
headers = {
  'accept': 'application/json'
}

response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.text)

require "uri"
require "net/http"

url = URI("https://docs-demo.quiknode.pro/eth/v1/beacon/genesis")

https = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
https.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["accept"] = "application/json"

response = https.request(request)
puts response.read_body

Response

{
  "data": {
    "genesis_time": "1606824023",
    "genesis_validators_root": "0x4b363db94e286120d76eb905340fdd4e54bfe9f06bf33ff6cf5ad27f511bfe95",
    "genesis_fork_version": "0x00000000"
  }
}

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