requestAirdrop RPC Method

Requests an airdrop of lamports to a Pubkey

Request
$ 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
> ]
> }
> '

params

stringrequired

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

u64required

Amount of lamports to airdrop

objectoptional

Configuration object containing the following fields:

result

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

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

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