avm.getAssetDescription

Get information about an asset.

Signature

avm.getAssetDescription({assetID: string}) -> {
    assetId: string,
    name: string,
    symbol: string,
    denomination: int
}

• assetID is the id of the asset for which the information is requested.

• name is the asset’s human-readable, not necessarily unique name.

• symbol is the asset’s symbol.

• denomination determines how balances of this asset are displayed by user interfaces. If denomination is 0, 100 units of this asset are displayed as 100. If denomination is 1, 100 units of this asset are displayed as 10.0. If denomination is 2, 100 units of this asset are displays as .100, etc.

Example

Request

curl -X POST --data '{
    "jsonrpc":"2.0",
    "id"     :1,
    "method" :"avm.getAssetDescription",
    "params" :{
        "assetID" :"2fombhL7aGPwj3KH4bfrmJwW6PVnMobf9Y2fn9GwxiAAJyFDbe"
    }
}' -H 'content-type:application/json;' https://ava-mainnet.blastapi.io/<project-id>/ext/bc/X

Result

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": {
        "assetID": "2fombhL7aGPwj3KH4bfrmJwW6PVnMobf9Y2fn9GwxiAAJyFDbe",
        "name": "Avalanche",
        "symbol": "AVAX",
        "denomination": "9"
    },
    "id": 1
}`