getLatestLedger - Validation Cloud

For finding out the current latest known ledger of this node. This is a subset of the ledger info from Horizon. This method will use 10 Compute Units.

Reference: Here

Parameters

None

Returns

id (string) Hash of the latest ledger as a hex-encoded string protocolVersion (number) Stellar Core protocol version associated with the latest ledger sequence (number) Sequence number of the latest ledger

// Result
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 8675309,
  "result": {
    "id": "2a00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
    "protocolVersion": 20,
    "sequence": 666
  }
}

curl https://mainnet.stellar.validationcloud.io/v1/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> \
    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 8675309,
  "method": "getLatestLedger"
  }'

curl https://testnet.stellar.validationcloud.io/v1/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> \
    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 8675309,
  "method": "getLatestLedger"
  }'