# Ethereum API

### Overview

Launched in 2015, Ethereum is an open-source, blockchain-based, decentralized software platform.

In the Ethereum universe, there is a single, canonical computer (called the Ethereum Virtual Machine, or EVM) whose state everyone on the Ethereum network agrees on. Everyone who participates in the Ethereum network (every Ethereum node) keeps a copy of the state of this computer. Additionally, any participant can broadcast a request for this computer to perform arbitrary computation. Whenever such a request is broadcast, other participants on the network verify, validate, and carry out (“execute”) the computation. This causes a state change in the EVM, which is committed and propagated throughout the entire network.

Requests for computation are called transaction requests; the record of all transactions as well as the EVM’s present state is stored in the blockchain, which in turn is stored and agreed upon by all nodes.

### BwareLabs currently supported network types

* Mainnet

### **Available endpoint types on BwareLabs**

* JSON RPC;
* WebSockets;

### Explorer Link - <https://etherscan.io/>


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