eth_getTransactionReceipt

BNB Smart Chain (chain ID 56, native token BNB) settles transactions in roughly three seconds under its PoSA consensus, and eth_getTransactionReceipt is how you read the outcome once a transaction has been mined. Point it at the TheRPC endpoint https://bsc.therpc.io/YOUR_API_KEY with a transaction hash and it returns the full execution receipt for that mined transaction: the success-or-revert status flag, the exact amount of gas consumed, the effective gas price actually charged, and every BEP-20 event log the call emitted. Until the transaction lands in a block the receipt does not exist, so a null answer simply means it is still in flight.

Use cases

• Confirm after mining whether a BNB transfer or swap succeeded by reading the status flag (0x1 success, 0x0 revert).
• Decode the emitted logs to update application state — for example PancakeSwap Swap events or Venus Mint events.
• Read contractAddress to discover where a freshly deployed BEP-20 contract now lives on chain.
• Multiply gasUsed by effectiveGasPrice to compute the precise BNB fee the sender actually paid.

Parameters

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_getTransactionReceipt",
7    "params": ["0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"],
8    "id": 1
9  }'

Try it live in the BNB Smart Chain playground.

Errors & troubleshooting

Common pitfalls

• A pending transaction has no receipt yet, so the response is null; poll on the ~3-second block cadence until it turns non-null instead of assuming instant availability.
• A status of 0x0 means the transaction was mined but reverted — the BNB spent on gas is gone even though no state change stuck.
• When ingesting whole blocks, call eth_getBlockReceipts once per block rather than firing one receipt request per transaction hash; it is far cheaper at scale.

Supported networks

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

See also

• eth_getTransactionByHash
• eth_getBlockReceipts
• eth_getLogs

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_getTransactionReceipt","params":[""]}'