requestAirdrop RPC Method

Requests an airdrop of lamports to a Pubkey

Parameters

string required

Pubkey of account to receive lamports, as a base-58 encoded string

integer required

lamports to airdrop, as a "u64"

object optional

Configuration object containing the following fields:

commitment string optional

Result

<string> - Transaction Signature of the airdrop, as a base-58 encoded string

Code sample

curl https://api.devnet.solana.com -s -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '
  {
    "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1,
    "method": "requestAirdrop",
    "params": [
      "83astBRguLMdt2h5U1Tpdq5tjFoJ6noeGwaY3mDLVcri",
      1000000000
    ]
  }
'

Response

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": "5VERv8NMvzbJMEkV8xnrLkEaWRtSz9CosKDYjCJjBRnbJLgp8uirBgmQpjKhoR4tjF3ZpRzrFmBV6UjKdiSZkQUW",
  "id": 1
}