> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.validationcloud.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# accountByAddress

> Look up an account (G...) or contract (C...) by address. A contract's history
holds the operations it authorised and the state changes applied to it. Any
valid address returns an Account, even one with no indexed activity; its
connections are then empty.



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