eth_blockNumber - Validation Cloud

Returns the number of most recent block. This method will use 20 Compute Units.

Reference: Here

Parameters

None

Returns

QUANTITY - hexadecimal value of the current block number the client is on

// Result
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 0,
  "result": "0x3a6434d"
}

curl https://mainnet.unichain.validationcloud.io/v1/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> \
    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_blockNumber","params":[],"id":0}'