Infura Tutorial: Ethereum RPCs, Methods, and Calls

An in-depth guide to reading and writing requests to the Ethereum blockchain, using Infura.

JSON RPC, methods, calls, requests — what does it all mean?! When you start building a dapp on the Ethereum blockchain, you’re introduced to a host of new concepts, request methods and naming conventions to employ — it can be overwhelming. The Infura team are experts in web3 infrastructure. We build open source tools and materials to help more developers interact with Ethereum and IPFS. In this tutorial, we leverage the collective experience of our team to bring you an in-depth guide to reading and writing requests to the Ethereum blockchain, using Infura.

Key Terms and Concepts

Before jumping into the meat of this tutorial, let’s clarify some key terminology. Below is a list of important terms and their corresponding definitions that you need to get familiar with.