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Comprehensive reference documentation for Sei’s EVM JSON-RPC API endpoints, including standard Ethereum methods and Sei-specific extensions for developers.
Sei fully supports the standard Ethereum JSON-RPC API, so existing EVM tooling (ethers.js, viem, Hardhat, Foundry, etc.) works out of the box. Use the explorer below to browse every method Sei exposes, inspect parameters, run requests against a live endpoint, and copy ready-to-use snippets in six languages. The authoritative prose for the request format, the deprecated sei_*/sei2_* extensions, and address resolution follows underneath.
By default the explorer lists only the available, current methods. Each is labelled with one of three statuses:
Supported — registered with a full implementation and standard Ethereum behavior.
Limited — callable, but returns a static value or has a Sei-specific caveat (shown in the method’s Sei-specific behavior note). Examples: eth_coinbase returns the fee-collector address and eth_getProof returns an IAVL proof.
Unavailable — not registered, explicitly errors, or not applicable to Sei’s architecture. This includes blob methods (eth_blobBaseFee), proof-of-work and uncle methods, and the admin/miner/clique/engine/les/personal namespaces.
The deprecated sei_*/sei2_* extensions and the unavailable methods are hidden by default — enable Show deprecated & unavailable methods to browse them. The deprecated extensions are also documented under Sei custom endpoints.
Sei supports the Ethereum JSON-RPC API with some Sei-specific extensions to support cross-VM operations, synthetic transactions, and other advanced features. Because Sei has instant finality, the safe, finalized, and latest block tags all resolve to the same (latest committed) block.All endpoints follow the standard JSON-RPC format:
JSON-RPC Request/Response Format
Request Format
HTTP method: always “POST”
Header: accept: application/json
Header: content-type: application/json
Body (JSON):
id: an arbitrary string identifier
jsonrpc: always “2.0”
method: endpoint name (e.g. “eth_sendRawTransaction”)
params: an array that differs from endpoint to endpoint
Response Format
Body (JSON):
id: the same identifier in request
jsonrpc: always “2.0”
result: an object that differs from endpoint to endpoint
Every method below is also browsable interactively in the explorer above; this section is the static, copy-friendly reference. Methods are grouped by purpose and labelled with their Sei support status. Block parameters accept a hex number or one of the tags latest, earliest, pending, safe, or finalized — on Sei, safe, finalized, and latest all resolve to the latest committed block due to instant finality. The deprecated sei_*/sei2_* extensions are documented separately under Sei custom endpoints.
Supported. Submits a signed, RLP-encoded raw EVM transaction to the network and returns its hash.Sei-specific behavior: Decodes to an ethtypes.Transaction, wraps it in a Cosmos MsgEVMTransaction, and broadcasts via CometBFT (async BroadcastTx by default; slow mode uses BroadcastTxCommit). Non-zero CheckTx codes surface as ABCI errors, not geth mempool errors. Legacy (non-1559) txs must set gasPrice at or above the governance minimum (currently 50 gwei on mainnet); blob (EIP-4844) txs are not enabled. Supports per-sender EvmProxy forwarding.Parameters:
Limited. Signs (with a node-hosted key) and submits a transaction in one call.Sei-specific behavior: Requires the ‘from’ address’s private key in the node’s local test keyring; production/public RPC nodes hold no hosted keys, so this returns ‘from address does not have hosted key’. Always signs as LegacyTxType. Sign client-side and use eth_sendRawTransaction instead.Parameters:
#
Name
Type
Description
1
args
object
Transaction object (from, to, value, data, gas, nonce, etc.).
Limited. Signs a transaction with a node-hosted key and returns the signed payload without broadcasting.Sei-specific behavior: Requires a node-hosted key for the from address; not usable on public RPC nodes that hold no keys. Returns both the raw RLP bytes and the decoded tx.Parameters:
#
Name
Type
Description
1
args
object
SendTxArgs transaction object to sign (from, to, gas, gasPrice, value, nonce, data).
Limited. Signs an EIP-191 personal message with a node-hosted key for the given address.Sei-specific behavior: Only works for addresses in the node’s local test keyring; production/public RPC nodes hold no hosted keys, so this returns ‘address does not have hosted key’. Applies the EIP-191 personal-message TextHash before signing.Parameters:
Supported. Returns the EVM transaction matching the given hash, or null if not found.Sei-specific behavior: Sees EVM transactions only; if the hash resolves to a non-EVM Cosmos tx it errors. Pending lookups read from the CometBFT mempool, not a geth txpool. Use the legacy sei_getTransactionByHash to also surface Cosmos txs with synthetic representations.Parameters:
Supported. Returns the receipt of a transaction by hash, or null if not found.Sei-specific behavior: Receipt is reconstructed from keeper.GetReceipt + CometBFT block data rather than from a native MPT receipt trie; status/logs are standard Ethereum format.Parameters:
Supported. Returns the EVM transaction at the given index within the block at the specified number.Sei-specific behavior: Index maps over EVM transactions only; an out-of-range index yields a null result rather than an error.Parameters:
Supported. Returns the EVM transaction at the given index within the block identified by hash.Sei-specific behavior: Index maps over EVM transactions only; same null-on-overflow semantics as the block-number variant.Parameters:
Supported. Returns the number of transactions sent from an address (nonce) at a given block.Sei-specific behavior: For the ‘pending’ tag Sei returns EvmNextPendingNonce from the CometBFT mempool (or redirects to an EvmProxy if the sender is sharded there). safe/finalized/latest are equivalent due to instant finality.Parameters:
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Name
Type
Description
1
address
DATA, 20 bytes
Account address.
2
blockNrOrHash
BLOCKNUMBER or DATA
Block number, tag, or hash; ‘pending’ returns the next pending nonce.
Limited. Sei-specific helper that returns the current EVM nonce for an address (latest state only).Sei-specific behavior: Non-standard Sei extension exposed as eth_getNonce, implemented as StateAPI.GetNonce in state.go (NOT on TransactionAPI). Unlike eth_getTransactionCount it takes no block tag (latest-only via ctxProvider(LatestCtxHeight)) and returns a bare uint64 with no block-tag argument. Prefer eth_getTransactionCount for standard nonce queries.Parameters:
Limited. Sei extension that returns the recorded VM error string for a transaction by hash (empty string if it succeeded or is not found).Sei-specific behavior: Non-standard Sei extension registered under the eth namespace. Unlike eth_getVMError, a not-found lookup returns an empty string and no error.Parameters:
Limited. Sei extension that returns the EVM VM error string recorded in a transaction’s receipt by hash.Sei-specific behavior: Non-standard Sei extension registered under the eth namespace. Returns the receipt’s VmError field and propagates a not-found error (unlike eth_getTransactionErrorByHash, which returns an empty string on not-found).Parameters:
Supported. Returns the wei balance of an account at a given block.Sei-specific behavior: Balance reflects the account’s SEI bank balance (18-decimal wei representation) and can change from both EVM and non-EVM (Cosmos bank send / wasm) transactions. Height is resolved via the watermark manager with a state-version guard.Parameters:
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Name
Type
Description
1
address
DATA, 20 bytes
Account address.
2
blockNrOrHash
BLOCKNUMBER or DATA
Block number, tag (latest/earliest/pending/safe/finalized), or hash.
Supported. Returns the value stored at a storage slot of an address at a given block.Sei-specific behavior: Reads the EVM keeper’s slot value directly rather than from an MPT trie. The slot key must decode to at most 32 bytes.Parameters:
Limited. Returns a Merkle proof for an account and the requested storage slots.Sei-specific behavior: Sei stores state in an IAVL tree, not an Ethereum Merkle-Patricia trie. The result is a Sei-specific ProofResult{address, hexValues, storageProof} where storageProof entries are CometBFT/IAVL crypto.ProofOps, NOT eth-style MPT proof nodes. There is no accountProof, balance, codeHash, nonce, or storageHash field (Sei has no per-account state root); standard eth_getProof verifiers will not work.Parameters:
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Name
Type
Description
1
address
DATA, 20 bytes
Account address.
2
storageKeys
array of DATA, 32 bytes
Storage slot keys to prove (bounded by MaxStorageKeysPerProof).
Limited. Returns the list of addresses for which the node holds hosted keys.Sei-specific behavior: Sourced from the node’s local test keyring only; production/public RPC nodes hold no hosted keys, so this returns an empty list. Sign client-side and use eth_sendRawTransaction.Parameters: none.
Supported. Returns block information by number or tag, with full transactions when fullTx is true.Sei-specific behavior: Under the eth namespace only EVM transactions are indexed (synthetic/bank-transfer txs excluded). Block number 0 returns a synthetic genesis block (for The Graph compatibility); future/non-existent numeric blocks return null. Uncle/PoW header fields (sha3Uncles, nonce, mixHash, difficulty) are placeholders and the uncles array is always empty (CometBFT consensus). safe/finalized/latest are equivalent due to instant finality.Parameters:
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Name
Type
Description
1
number
BLOCKNUMBER
Block number (hex) or tag (latest/safe/finalized/pending/earliest).
2
fullTx
boolean
If true include full transaction objects, else only hashes.
Supported. Returns block information by block hash, with full transactions when fullTx is true.Sei-specific behavior: Block hashes are CometBFT block hashes (computed from the Tendermint header), so they differ from Ethereum block hashes and are not interchangeable across chains. Under the eth namespace synthetic txs and bank transfers are excluded. The genesis hash returns a synthetic genesis block; unknown/zero hash returns null. Uncles array is always empty.Parameters:
#
Name
Type
Description
1
blockHash
DATA, 32 bytes
Block hash.
2
fullTx
boolean
If true include full transaction objects, else only hashes.
Supported. Returns the number of EVM transactions in a block by number, as a hex quantity.Sei-specific behavior: Counts EVM transactions only (via getEvmTxCount); synthetic/bank-transfer txs are excluded. Genesis returns 0x0; non-existent/future blocks return null.Parameters:
Supported. Returns the number of EVM transactions in a block by hash, as a hex quantity.Sei-specific behavior: Counts EVM transactions only; synthetic/bank-transfer txs are excluded. Genesis hash returns 0x0; unknown hash returns null.Parameters:
Supported. Returns all EVM transaction receipts for a given block.Sei-specific behavior: Under the eth namespace synthetic/shell receipts are excluded (includeShellReceipts=false). Genesis returns an empty array; zero hash returns null. transactionIndex is recomputed sequentially over the compacted receipt list.Parameters:
Supported. Returns the number of the most recent committed EVM block as a hex uint64.Sei-specific behavior: Block height comes from CometBFT latest height; the latest committed block is already final on Sei (instant finality, so latest == safe == finalized).Parameters: none.
Supported. Returns the EVM chain ID as a hex big int.Sei-specific behavior: Sourced from the x/evm keeper. Mainnet (pacific-1) = 1329 (0x531); testnet (atlantic-2) = 1328 (0x530).Parameters: none.
Limited. Returns the block reward beneficiary (coinbase) address.Sei-specific behavior: Sei has no miner; this returns the Cosmos fee-collector module address (GetFeeCollectorAddress), not a validator/miner address. The COINBASE opcode returns the same value.Parameters: none.
Limited. Returns a suggested gas price in wei (hex).Sei-specific behavior: Sei-specific congestion heuristic, not a raw mempool oracle. InfoAPI.GasPrice/GasPriceHelper (info.go): when uncongested it returns baseFee * 110/100 (base fee +10%); when congested it returns medianRewardPrevBlock + baseFee (50th-percentile priority-fee reward from the previous block added to base fee). The base fee comes from the x/evm keeper (GetNextBaseFeePerGas), which is itself floored at the governance-set minimum base fee; the RPC handler applies no additional explicit lower-bound clamp. The mainnet minimum gas price (~50 gwei) is enforced for transaction acceptance at the mempool/ante-handler level, not inside eth_gasPrice.Parameters: none.
Limited. Returns a suggested priority fee (tip) per gas in wei (hex).Sei-specific behavior: Sei-specific: returns a hardcoded 1 gwei (defaultPriorityFeePerGas) when the chain is uncongested; only when congested does it derive the tip from the previous block’s 50th-percentile reward. Sei docs advise using a single gasPrice and omitting EIP-1559 fee fields.Parameters: none.
Supported. Returns base fees, gas-used ratios, and reward percentile data over a range of blocks.Sei-specific behavior: Base fees and rewards reflect Sei’s x/evm fee market (GetNextBaseFee), not an Ethereum EIP-1559 mempool, and Sei does not burn the base fee. Watermark-aware: pruned/historical blocks may not be available as far back as on Ethereum archive nodes.Parameters:
#
Name
Type
Description
1
blockCount
QUANTITY
Number of blocks in the requested range.
2
newestBlock
BLOCKNUMBER
Highest block of the range (number or tag).
3
rewardPercentiles
array of float
Monotonically increasing percentiles to sample for priority-fee rewards.
Supported. Returns the network/chain ID as a decimal string.Sei-specific behavior: Returns the EVM chain ID in decimal (alias of eth_chainId): ‘1329’ on pacific-1 mainnet, ‘1328’ on atlantic-2 testnet.Parameters: none.
Supported. Returns the client version string.Sei-specific behavior: Reports a synthetic ‘Geth/<os>-<arch>/<goVersion>’ string (Sei’s EVM is backed by go-ethereum); it does NOT embed the actual sei-chain/seid version, so it is not a reliable Sei version indicator.Parameters: none.
Supported. Creates a log filter for the given criteria and returns a filter ID for later polling.Sei-specific behavior: Subject to the same range/size caps as eth_getLogs: open-ended ranges return up to 10,000 logs (DefaultMaxLogLimit); close-ended ranges are limited to 2,000 blocks (DefaultMaxBlockRange), with large-query rate limiting.Parameters:
#
Name
Type
Description
1
crit
object
Filter criteria: fromBlock, toBlock (or blockHash), address(es), and topics.
Supported. Returns all logs matching a previously created log filter, including historical logs.Sei-specific behavior: Bounded by the same caps as eth_getLogs (2,000-block range, 10,000-log limit) with large-query rate limiting.Parameters:
Supported. Returns logs matching the given filter criteria.Sei-specific behavior: Returns EVM logs only. Hard limits: max 2,000 blocks per close-ended query and up to 10,000 logs per response; exceeding the range errors with ‘block range too large’. Large queries are globally rate-limited. Use the legacy sei_getLogs to include synthetic logs from Cosmos activity.Parameters:
Supported. Removes a previously installed filter by ID; returns true if it existed and was removed.Sei-specific behavior: Returns false if the filter did not exist rather than erroring. Filters also expire automatically when not polled.Parameters:
Limited. Opens a WebSocket-only push subscription for newHeads or logs notifications.Sei-specific behavior: WebSocket-only (SubscriptionAPI is not registered on the HTTP server; returns rpc.ErrNotificationsUnsupported over HTTP). Only ‘newHeads’ and ‘logs’ are implemented in source; there is no ‘newPendingTransactions’ subscription despite some client docs implying otherwise. newHeads subscriptions are capped by MaxSubscriptionsNewHead.Parameters:
#
Name
Type
Description
1
subscriptionType
string
Subscription name: ‘newHeads’ or ‘logs’.
2
filter
object
Optional filter criteria (address/topics) for the ‘logs’ subscription.
The filter object applies only to logs subscriptions. For newHeads, pass the subscription name alone: "params": ["newHeads"].Example request:
Supported. Cancels an existing WebSocket subscription by ID; returns true on success.Sei-specific behavior: WebSocket only; has no effect over HTTP (notifications unsupported there).Parameters:
#
Name
Type
Description
1
subscriptionID
string
The subscription ID returned by a prior eth_subscribe call.
Supported. Executes a read-only message call against state without creating a transaction; supports state and block overrides.Sei-specific behavior: Gas is capped by RPCGasCap and execution time by RPCEVMTimeout; a fail-fast limiter may reject with ‘eth_call rejected due to rate limit: server busy’. Canonical EVM<->Sei address resolution uses eth_call to the addr precompile at 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000001004.Parameters:
Supported. Estimates the gas needed to execute a transaction.Sei-specific behavior: Bounded by RPCGasCap and protected by a fail-fast limiter. Block gas limit on Sei is 12.5M; parallel execution can cause estimates to vary slightly, so size gasLimit with a modest buffer.Parameters:
#
Name
Type
Description
1
args
object
Transaction call object.
2
blockNrOrHash
BLOCKNUMBER or DATA
Optional block number, tag, or hash; defaults to latest.
Limited. Estimates gas for a transaction after first applying a sequence of preceding calls against the same simulated state.Sei-specific behavior: Non-standard Sei/geth extension (not part of the standard Ethereum JSON-RPC spec). Same gas-cap and fail-fast-limiter behavior as eth_estimateGas.Parameters:
#
Name
Type
Description
1
args
object
The final call to estimate gas for.
2
calls
array of object
Ordered list of preceding calls applied before the estimate.
3
blockNrOrHash
BLOCKNUMBER or DATA
Optional block number, tag, or hash; defaults to latest.
Supported. Generates an EIP-2930 access list (and gas used) for a transaction.Sei-specific behavior: Defaults to the pending block tag (matching geth). A VM error during simulation is surfaced in the result’s ‘error’ field rather than failing the RPC.Parameters:
#
Name
Type
Description
1
args
object
Transaction call object.
2
blockNrOrHash
BLOCKNUMBER or DATA
Optional block number, tag, or hash; defaults to pending.
Limited. Returns the transactions currently in the pool, grouped by sender address and nonce into pending and queued buckets.Sei-specific behavior: Sei-specific simplification: every unconfirmed EVM tx from the CometBFT mempool is reported under ‘pending’ and ‘queued’ is always empty (no geth-style pending/queued nonce-gap distinction). The result set is truncated to the node’s MaxTxPoolTxs config, so it may not reflect the entire mempool.Parameters: none.
Supported. Replays a transaction by hash and returns an execution trace using the configured tracer.Sei-specific behavior: HTTP-only (the debug namespace is not registered on the WebSocket server). Supports geth tracers (callTracer, prestateTracer, flatCallTracer, struct/opcode logger); callTracer/prestateTracer/flatCallTracer results are pre-baked/cached via TraceBaker. Requires trace-enabled/archive state for the target height.Parameters:
Supported. Traces all transactions in a block by number and returns per-transaction execution traces.Sei-specific behavior: HTTP-only. safe/finalized/latest are equivalent due to instant finality.Parameters:
Supported. Executes and traces a call against a block’s state without creating a transaction.Sei-specific behavior: HTTP-only. Arbitrary geth tracer names pass through. Tracing on the pending block is not supported.Parameters:
#
Name
Type
Description
1
args
object
Transaction call object.
2
blockNrOrHash
BLOCKNUMBER or DATA
Block number, tag, or hash.
3
config
object
Optional trace-call config (tracer name, state overrides, block overrides).
Limited. Sei extension that replays a transaction and returns its app/tendermint/receipt state-access traces.Sei-specific behavior: Sei-specific extension (not part of upstream go-ethereum’s debug namespace). HTTP-only and subject to historical-debug-trace availability guards.Parameters:
#
Name
Type
Description
1
hash
DATA, 32 bytes
Transaction hash whose state accesses are returned.
Sei extends the standard Ethereum JSON-RPC API with custom endpoints that enhance functionality for developers. These extensions enable better handling of cross-VM interactions, synthetic transactions, improved error reporting, and other Sei-specific features.
Deprecation Notice: All sei_* and sei2_* JSON-RPC methods are deprecated and scheduled for removal. Do not build new integrations on these endpoints. Use standard eth_* and debug_* methods instead.Access is controlled by the enabled_legacy_sei_apis setting under [evm] in app.toml. Only methods explicitly listed in this allowlist are available. Disabled methods return a standard JSON-RPC error (code -32601, data "legacy_sei_deprecated"). Allowed methods pass through unchanged, with an optional Sei-Legacy-RPC-Deprecation HTTP response header signaling deprecation.
The enabled_legacy_sei_apis setting in app.toml controls which sei_* and sei2_* methods are accessible on the EVM HTTP endpoint.Default allowlist (enabled on seid init):
To enable additional legacy methods, add them to this array. All other sei_* and sei2_* methods (including all sei2_* block methods) are disabled by default and must be explicitly enabled.
View all available legacy methods
sei_* methods:
Method
Description
sei_getCosmosTx
Get Cosmos transaction by EVM tx hash
sei_getEvmTx
Get EVM transaction by Cosmos tx hash
sei_getTransactionErrorByHash
Get error message for a failed transaction
sei_getVMError
Get VM error details for a transaction
sei_getBlockByHash
Get block by hash (includes synthetic txs)
sei_getBlockByNumber
Get block by number (includes synthetic txs)
sei_getBlockReceipts
Get block receipts (includes synthetic txs)
sei_getBlockTransactionCountByHash
Get tx count by block hash (includes synthetic txs)
sei_getBlockTransactionCountByNumber
Get tx count by block number (includes synthetic txs)
sei_getTransactionByBlockHashAndIndex
Get tx by block hash and index (includes synthetic txs)
sei_getTransactionByBlockNumberAndIndex
Get tx by block number and index (includes synthetic txs)
sei_getTransactionByHash
Get transaction by hash (includes synthetic txs)
sei_getTransactionCount
Get account transaction count
sei_getTransactionReceipt
Get transaction receipt (includes synthetic txs)
sei_getFilterLogs
Get filter logs (includes synthetic logs)
sei_getLogs
Get logs (includes synthetic logs)
sei_getFilterChanges
Get filter changes (includes synthetic events)
sei_newFilter
Create a new log filter
sei_newBlockFilter
Create a new block filter
sei_uninstallFilter
Remove a filter
sei_getBlockByHashExcludeTraceFail
Get block by hash excluding failed traces
sei_getBlockByNumberExcludeTraceFail
Get block by number excluding failed traces
sei_getTransactionReceiptExcludeTraceFail
Get receipt excluding failed traces
sei_traceBlockByHashExcludeTraceFail
Trace block by hash excluding failed traces
sei_traceBlockByNumberExcludeTraceFail
Trace block by number excluding failed traces
sei2_* methods (block queries with bank transfers included):
Method
Description
sei2_getBlockByHash
Get block by hash (includes bank transfers)
sei2_getBlockByNumber
Get block by number (includes bank transfers)
sei2_getBlockReceipts
Get block receipts (includes bank transfers)
sei2_getBlockTransactionCountByHash
Get tx count by block hash (includes bank transfers)
sei2_getBlockTransactionCountByNumber
Get tx count by block number (includes bank transfers)
sei2_getBlockByHashExcludeTraceFail
Get block by hash excluding failed traces (includes bank transfers)
sei2_getBlockByNumberExcludeTraceFail
Get block by number excluding failed traces (includes bank transfers)
For resolving the EVM (0x…) ↔ Sei (sei1…) address pair, use the addr precompile at 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000001004 via a standard eth_call. The precompile is universally available on every Sei RPC, is not part of the deprecated sei_* namespace, and is the canonical resolution path going forward.
The call reverts when the input address is not yet associated. See Accounts for the full association lifecycle and how the bidirectional mapping is established.
The legacy JSON-RPC helpers sei_getSeiAddress and sei_getEVMAddress historically served this role and are still enabled by default on nodes today, but they belong to the deprecated sei_* namespace and may be removed in a future release. New integrations should call the precompile.
sei_getCosmosTx resolves the underlying Cosmos transaction hash for a given EVM transaction. It does not yet have a precompile equivalent and is enabled by default on Sei nodes.
When a sei_* or sei2_* method is called but not listed in enabled_legacy_sei_apis, the node returns:
{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "error": { "code": -32601, "message": "sei_getBlockByNumber is not enabled on this node. The sei_* and sei2_* JSON-RPC surfaces are deprecated, scheduled for removal, and should not be used for new integrations - prefer standard eth_* (and debug_*) methods and official migration guidance. To allow this legacy method, add it to enabled_legacy_sei_apis under [evm] in app.toml.", "data": "legacy_sei_deprecated" }}