A REST API for the Cosmos Chain Registry.
In an effort to cut expenses, as of Aug 5 2023, I am no longer hosting this API service.
If a company or individual is interested in sponsoring hosting, please reach out to me via a method on https://davidnix.io.
It's not hard to host yourself. See the render.yaml as easy example to host on Render.com.
In no particular order:
- Liveness for peers
- Add node id to peer endpoints, so user does not have to parse it from address.
- Liveness for RPC endpoints
- Liveness for LCD endpoints
- Liveness for grpc endpoints
- Capture uptime metrics for peers and endpoints
- Capture data such as earliest block height for endpoints
These may or may not happen.
- Client command line interface
- Discover and track peers outside the chain registry
- Discover and track endpoints outside the chain registry
I wanted something programmatic that I could query easily. Digging through some web UI or a Github repo isn't my idea of fun. An API lets you write scripts and programs to do the digging for you.
I still plan to support this API. Instead of caching data from the Chain Registry Github, the API will query chains to build the cache. Therefore, you can still have a central API to query for chain information.
There will likely be a long transition period as information moves on-chain and away from Github.
Selfishly, I wanted to learn Rust. I've been following Rust since 2017, but have never had purpose to write any. This project is now that purpose.
Additionally, I wanted something super high performance and robust, so I could host as cheaply as possible.