net_peerCount - Validation Cloud

Returns number of peers currently connected to the client. This method will use 20 Compute Units.

This method is served by nanoreth, the HyperEVM archive client, because the Hyperliquid node does not implement it.

Reference: Here

Parameters

None

Returns

QUANTITY - integer of the number of connected peers.

// Result
{
  "id":74,
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": "0x2" // 2
}

curl https://mainnet.hyperliquid.validationcloud.io/v1/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>/evm \
    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"net_peerCount","params":[],"id":74}'