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REST API overview

Introduction​

MultiversX has 2 layers of REST APIs that can be publicly accessed. Both of them can be recreated by anyone that wants to have the same infrastructure, but self-hosted.

These 2 layers of REST APIs are:

  • https://gateway.multiversx.com: the lower level layer (backed by MultiversX Proxy) that handles routing all the requests in accordance to the sharding mechanism. More details can be found here.

  • https://api.multiversx.com: the higher level layer (backed by api.multiversx.com repository) that uses the gateway level underneath, but also integrates Elasticsearch (historical) queries, battle-tested caching mechanisms, friendly fields formatting and so on. More details can be found here.