gitbook-docs/development_development/development_reward_block_app/README.md

Building The Reward Block Application

Our project aims to

• retrieve the latest block height from the Ethereum mainnet,
• use that result to retrieve the associated reward block data and
• store the result in a SQlite database

In order to simplify Ethereum data access, we will be using the Etherscan API. Make sure you got yours ready as we are using two Etherscan endpoints:

• eth_blockNumber, which returns the most recent block height as a hex string and
• getBlockReward, which returns the block and uncle reward by block height

Both eth_blockNumber and getBlockReward need access to remote endpoints and for our purposes, a cUrl service will do just fine. Hence, we ned to implement a curl adapter to access the curl binaries of the node. Moreover, as eth_blockNumber returns a hex string and getBlockReward requires an integer, we need a hex to int conversion, which we are going to implement as a stand-alone service. Finally, a SQLite adapter is also required, although the sqlite3.wasm module is readily available from the Fluence repo.

The high-level workflow of our application is depicted in Figure 1.