Reading Historic Block Data
Access historic block hashes from Axiom.
AxiomV1 caches historic block hashes back to genesis in a format explained here. Smart contracts can access any historic block header data in a trustless way by providing Merkle proofs into this cache. To access this cache with the Axiom SDK, first fetch the
BlockHashWitness:import { Axiom, AxiomConfig } from "@axiom-crypto/core";
const config: AxiomConfig = {
providerUri: <your provider uri (such as from Alchemy, Infura, etc)>,
version: "v1",
}
const ax = new Axiom(config);
const blockHashWitness = ax.block.getBlockHashWitness(<blockNumber>);
Then verify on-chain using this
BlockHashWitness:import { ethers } from "ethers";
const providerUri = <your provider uri (such as from Alchemy, Infura, etc)>;
const provider = new ethers.JsonRpcProvider(providerUri);
const wallet = new ethers.Wallet(<private key>, provider);
const axiom = new ethers.Contract(
ax.getAxiomAddress() as string,
ax.getAxiomAbi(),
wallet
);
const tx = await axiom.isBlockHashValid(
blockHashWitness,
{
gasPrice: ethers.parseUnits("100", "gwei"),
}
);