Developer Resources & Tools
Block Size | Block Speed | Gas price | Patchset | Native token | Network ID |
12,500,000 Gas | 5 sec | 1 GWei | Istanbul | xDai | 100 |
1) BlockScout is the official blockchain explorer for the xDai Chain. With this full-featured, open-source explorer you can view transactions, accounts & balances, access data via the API, and read and verify smart contracts.
👉 https://blockscout.com/poa/xdai
2) AnyBlock Analytics Explorer is convenient for exploring recent transactions and blocks and locating common information quickly.
👉 https://explorer.anyblock.tools/ethereum/poa/xdai/
Main RPC is a load balancer with 4 nodes, health checks, and failover.
Resource | URL |
JSON RPC endpoint | |
WebSockets WSS endpoint |
Additional resources to connect to xDai network
Resource | URL |
JSON RPC endpoint over HTTP (non-secure) | |
JSON RPC endpoint via Cloudflare | |
WebSockets WS (non-secure) | |
Archive node | |
Network ID | 100 |
A bridge is required to move locked Dai from Ethereum and mint xDai on xDai Chain
You can access the bridge via:
TokenBridge UI at https://dai-bridge.poa.network
Interactions with Smart contracts https://docs.tokenbridge.net/xdai-bridge/how-to-use-xdai-bridge-without-ui
Bridge UI built-in into AlphaWallet, BurnerWallet, BurnerFactory
Biconomy allows for for gasless transactions and improved DApp UX.
Pocket provides a decentralized API layer for DApp developers (IOS, Android & Web SDKs available) and blockchain users.
TheGraph supports xDai data indexing, querying and display.
Chainbeat provides monitoring and analytics tools for DApp developers.
BlockNative supports real-time notification monitoring with API and SDK tools.
Token faucet allows you to easily create ERC20 FAU tokens for testing purposes
Tenderly dashboard supports xDai transaction inspection - smart contracts can also be pushed to the dashboard for real-time monitoring.
Tutorial on how to use GasRelay in your Dapp by Portis. With a few lines of code, gas fees are shifted to DApp owners rather than users, creating an intuitive user experience. https://docs.portis.io/#/gas-relay
WebSockets Endpoint (can be useful to setup BlockScout for xDai) wss://dai-trace-ws.blockscout.com/ws
Archive Fullnode Endpoint (Useful for setting up BlockScout for xDai) https://dai-trace-ws.blockscout.com
Chain spec files and known bootnodes of the xDai network https://github.com/poanetwork/poa-chain-spec/tree/dai
Netstats, an overview of xDai Chain nodes http://dai-netstat.poa.network
DApps Deployed to xDai: Partial list of deployed DApps along with statistics and links: https://www.stateofthedapps.com/rankings/platform/xdai
xDai is available in the Anyblock Index (aka http://eth.events), so you can query it via the Elasticsearch API or search in PostgreSQL: https://account.anyblock.tools/status/
