How to get the native balance of an address

Step 1: Setup Moralis

Read the article Setting Up Moralis: Getting Started and make sure to finish all the steps. Only after that you can go ahead to complete this guide.

Step 2: Get the native balance of an address

In order to get the native balance of a wallet address, Moralis provides you the getNativeBalance API endpoint.

Here you'll need two parameters: address and chain.

Once you have obtained both the address and chain, you can copy the following code:

index.js (JavaScript)

const Moralis = require("moralis").default;
const { EvmChain } = require("@moralisweb3/common-evm-utils");

const runApp = async() => {
  await Moralis.start({
    apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
    // ...and any other configuration
  });

  const address = '0xd8da6bf26964af9d7eed9e03e53415d37aa96045';

  const chain = EvmChain.ETHEREUM;

  const response = await Moralis.EvmApi.balance.getNativeBalance({
    address,
    chain,
  });

    console.log(response.toJSON());
}

runApp();

index.ts (TypeScript)

import Moralis from "moralis";
import { EvmChain } from "@moralisweb3/common-evm-utils";

const runApp = async() => {
  await Moralis.start({
    apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
    // ...and any other configuration
  });

  const address = "0xd8da6bf26964af9d7eed9e03e53415d37aa96045";

  const chain = EvmChain.ETHEREUM;

  const response = await Moralis.EvmApi.balance.getNativeBalance({
    address,
    chain,
  });

  console.log(response.toJSON());
};

runApp();

index.py (Python)

from moralis import evm_api

api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"

params = {
    "address": "0xd8da6bf26964af9d7eed9e03e53415d37aa96045",
    "chain": "eth",
}

result = evm_api.balance.get_native_balance(
    api_key=api_key,
    params=params,
)

print(result)

Step 3: Run the script

To run the script, enter the following command:

Shell (JavaScript)

node index.js

Shell (TypeScript)

ts-node index.ts

Shell (Python)

python index.py

In your terminal, you should see the following JSON response:

[
  {
    "balance": "900051407680925461166"
  }
]

Congratulations 🥳 You just got the native balance of a wallet address with just a few lines of code using the Moralis Wallet API!

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API Reference

If you want to know more details on the endpoint and optional parameters, check out:

• getNativeBalance

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