FAQs
Can Chainhook target both Bitcoin and Stacks?
Chainhooks can listen and act on events from the Bitcoin and Stacks network.
Can I use chainhook for cross-chain protocols?
Yes, Chainhooks can be used for coordinating cross-chain actions. You can use chainhook on Bitcoin, ordinals, and Stacks.
Can I use chainhook for chain-indexing?
Chainhook can easily extract the information needed to build (or rebuild) databases for a front end.
Can I use Chainhook with distributed nodes?
The chainhook event observer was designed as a library written in Rust, which makes it very portable. Bindings can easily be created from other languages (Node, Ruby, Python, etc.), making this tool a very convenient and performant library, usable by anyone.
How can I connect chainhook with Oracles?
Oracles, in general, do the following:
- Capture relevant on-chain events
- Process the events via some off-chain, centralized logic
- Commit the resultant data on-chain
Chainhook can be used to efficiently capture relevant on-chain events and forward them to off-chain services.
How can I use Chainhook in my application?
Chainhook can be used from the exposed RESTful API endpoints. A comprehensive OpenAPI specification explaining how to interact with the Chainhook REST API can be found here.
Can I run chainhook on mainnet?
Yes, you can run chainhook on both the testnet and mainnet.
How can I optimize chainhook scanning?
Use adequate values for start_block and end_block in predicates by reducing the number of network hops between the chainhook and the bitcoind process.