Akash (AKT)

GetBlock provides fast and reliable access to Akash nodes via JSON-RPC API. Connect to the Akash network without running your own infrastructure.

Akash Network is a decentralized cloud-compute marketplace built on the Cosmos SDK and secured by CometBFT (Tendermint) consensus for fast, deterministic finality. Rather than a single provider, Akash matches users who need compute with a marketplace of providers: a user posts a deployment describing the resources they want, providers submit bids, and an accepted bid becomes a lease that runs the workload — all settled on-chain in the native AKT token and funded through escrow. Because Akash is a Cosmos SDK chain, GetBlock exposes it over two interfaces: JSON-RPC (the CometBFT node RPC) and REST (the Cosmos SDK LCD, including Akash's own marketplace modules).

Key Features

Decentralized Compute Marketplace: Deployments, orders, bids, leases, and providers coordinate cloud compute on-chain
Cosmos SDK + CometBFT: Deterministic single-block finality and IBC connectivity
AKT Settlement: Leases are priced and settled in AKT, funded through per-deployment escrow accounts
Akash Modules: Chain-specific deployment, market, and provider modules exposed over REST
Two Interfaces: CometBFT JSON-RPC for consensus/block/tx data and broadcast; Cosmos REST for module queries
bech32 Addresses: Accounts use the akash1… address format

TECHNICAL DISCLAIMER: AUTHORITATIVE API SPECIFICATION.

GetBlock's API reference documentation is provided exclusively for informational purposes and to optimize the developer experience. The canonical specifications are the CometBFT RPC (for JSON-RPC), the Cosmos SDK REST/gRPC (for standard modules), and the Akash Network protobuf definitions (for the deployment, market, and provider modules), published at docs.akash.network.

Network Information

Property

Value

Network Name

Akash (akashnet-2)

Native Currency

AKT (1 AKT = 1,000,000 uakt)

Consensus

CometBFT (Tendermint) BFT

Framework

Cosmos SDK

Address Format

bech32 (akash1…)

Block Time

~6 seconds

Finality

Deterministic (single block)

Interfaces

Interface

Transport

Use it for

JSON-RPC

CometBFT JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP

Consensus, block, and transaction data; transaction broadcast; abci_query for any module state

REST

Cosmos SDK REST (LCD) over HTTP

Module queries — bank, staking, gov, distribution, and Akash's deployment / market / provider modules

Base URL

https://shared.eu-central-1.getblock.io/<ACCESS-TOKEN>/

Supported Networks

Network

JSON-RPC

REST

Frankfurt, Germany

New York, USA

Singapore, Singapore

Mainnet (akashnet-2)

✅

❌

APIs

JSON-RPC API — CometBFT consensus, block, tx, and abci_query
REST API — Cosmos SDK and Akash marketplace module queries

Support

For technical support and questions:

Support: support@getblock.io