eth_syncing

BNB Smart Chain mints a block roughly every three seconds under Proof-of-Staked-Authority consensus, settling BNB transfers and BEP-20 token activity. A node has to keep pace with that head or it falls behind. eth_syncing tells you which side of the line a given node sits on. Point your client at https://bsc.therpc.io/YOUR_API_KEY against chain ID 56 and the call comes back in one of two shapes. A fully caught-up node answers with a flat false. A node still replaying history answers with a progress object that carries startingBlock, currentBlock, and highestBlock.

Use cases

• Confirm a freshly bootstrapped BSC archive or full node has finished importing before you route production traffic to it.
• Render a sync-progress percentage in a node-monitoring dashboard by dividing currentBlock against highestBlock.
• Gate application startup so a service refuses to serve requests until the underlying node reports false.
• Diagnose a stalled or lagging validator-tracking node by polling currentBlock over successive three-second intervals and watching whether it advances.

Parameters

Diese Methode erwartet keine Parameter. Übergib ein leeres Array [].

Response

Example request

1curl https://bsc.therpc.io/YOUR_API_KEY \
2  -X POST \
3  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
4  -d '{
5    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
6    "method": "eth_syncing",
7    "params": [],
8    "id": 1
9  }'

Try it live in the BNB Smart Chain playground.

Errors & troubleshooting

Common pitfalls

• Certain clients briefly report false during specific sync phases even before they are truly caught up, so never treat a single false as proof the node holds the latest BNB Smart Chain head.
• Because BSC folds validation and ordering into one PoSA execution layer, this call describes execution-layer import only; it does not surface any separate beacon or attestation status.
• The progress object's extra fields are geth-family client specific, so code reading anything beyond the three guaranteed keys must tolerate missing entries without throwing.

Supported networks

• Mainnet — Chain ID: 56
• Testnet — Chain ID: 97

See also

• eth_blockNumber
• eth_chainId
• net_peerCount

1curl https://bsc.therpc.io/YOUR_API_KEY \
2  -X POST \
3  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
4  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"eth_syncing","params":[]}'