API referenceAccounts
Account Balance
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Fetch the live TAO balance (free + reserved, in TAO) for one account, queried from the finney RPC at request time with 60s KV cache. Returns 400 on invalid ss58; balance_tao is null on RPC failure (200, consistent with blocks/extrinsics null-on-miss).
Path Parameters
ss58*string
Response Body
application/json
application/json
application/json
application/json
application/json
curl -X GET "https://example.com/api/v1/accounts/string/balance"{ "data": { "balance_tao": 0.5, "queried_at": "2026-06-01T00:00:00.000Z", "schema_version": 1, "ss58": "5G9hfkx9wGB1CLMT9WXkpHSAiYzjZb5o1Boyq4KAdDhjwrc5" }, "meta": { "artifact_path": "example", "cache": "short", "contract_version": "2026-06-29.1", "generated_at": "2026-06-01T00:00:00.000Z", "pagination": { "collection": "example", "cursor": 1, "limit": 1, "next_cursor": 1, "order": "asc", "returned": 1, "sort": "example", "total": 1 }, "published_at": "2026-06-01T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "live-cron-prober", "stale_contract": { "built_under": "example", "live": "example" } }, "ok": true, "schema_version": 1}Empty
{ "data": null, "error": { "code": "string", "message": "string" }, "meta": { "artifact_path": "string", "cache": "short", "contract_version": "string", "generated_at": "string", "pagination": { "collection": "string", "cursor": 0, "limit": 0, "next_cursor": 0, "order": "asc", "returned": 0, "sort": "string", "total": 0 }, "published_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z", "source": "string", "stale_contract": { "built_under": "string", "live": "string" } }, "ok": false, "schema_version": 1}{ "data": null, "error": { "code": "string", "message": "string" }, "meta": { "artifact_path": "string", "cache": "short", "contract_version": "string", "generated_at": "string", "pagination": { "collection": "string", "cursor": 0, "limit": 0, "next_cursor": 0, "order": "asc", "returned": 0, "sort": "string", "total": 0 }, "published_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z", "source": "string", "stale_contract": { "built_under": "string", "live": "string" } }, "ok": false, "schema_version": 1}{ "data": null, "error": { "code": "string", "message": "string" }, "meta": { "artifact_path": "string", "cache": "short", "contract_version": "string", "generated_at": "string", "pagination": { "collection": "string", "cursor": 0, "limit": 0, "next_cursor": 0, "order": "asc", "returned": 0, "sort": "string", "total": 0 }, "published_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z", "source": "string", "stale_contract": { "built_under": "string", "live": "string" } }, "ok": false, "schema_version": 1}{ "data": null, "error": { "code": "string", "message": "string" }, "meta": { "artifact_path": "string", "cache": "short", "contract_version": "string", "generated_at": "string", "pagination": { "collection": "string", "cursor": 0, "limit": 0, "next_cursor": 0, "order": "asc", "returned": 0, "sort": "string", "total": 0 }, "published_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z", "source": "string", "stale_contract": { "built_under": "string", "live": "string" } }, "ok": false, "schema_version": 1}