TL;DR
The Starknet feeder gateway, a temporary solution for querying the sequencer’s state, is being replaced by Starknet full nodes (Pathfinder, Juno, Papyrus) and RPC services. It will stop serving most queries by November (on Testnet), retaining only synchronization-related endpoints.
Motivation
The Starknet feeder gateway serves as a gateway for querying the centralized sequencer on the state of Starknet. It was meant to be used as a temporary solution until full nodes that support Starknet’s JSON-RPC mature and are able to meet the needs of the ecosystem. Starknet will have three different full-node implementations in production (Pathfinder, Juno, and soon Papyrus). Consequently, it is time to deprecate the feeder gateway and migrate to RPC providers.
Schedule
The feeder gateway will stop supporting most queries in the following schedule -
- Integration: November 1
- Testnet: November 15
- Mainnet: December 18
The feeder gateway will continue to support queries required for full nodes to synchronize on the state of Starknet.
Full list of endpoints
Methods that will continue to be supported are:
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get_oldest_transaction_age
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get_number_of_transactions_in_backlog
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get_block
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get_block_hash_by_id
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get_block_id_by_hash
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get_contract_addresses
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get_class_by_hash
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get_compiled_class_by_class_hash
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get_state_update
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get_transaction
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get_transaction_status
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get_signature
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get_public_key
Methods that will be removed are:
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call_contract
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estimate_fee
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estimate_fee_bulk
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estimate_message_fee
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simulate_transaction
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get_block_traces
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get_class_hash_at
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get_code
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get_full_contract
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get_nonce
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get_storage_at
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get_transaction_hash_by_id
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get_transaction_id_by_hash
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get_transaction_receipt
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get_transaction_trace
Additionally, the feeder will accommodate historical data until the inception of Starknet v0.12.3. The upcoming RPC version 0.5.0 will provide extended support, allowing the RPC to supply all the information that was previously available from the feeder gateway.
To adapt, users should transition to using RPC providers.
StarkWare will be running an open RPC endpoint (based on Papyrus) for the Integration environment, and Nethermind will be operating an open RPC endpoint (Juno based) for the Integration environment as well.