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With the launch of Stacks 2.0, a new version of the Blockstack blockchain was released. There are two ways of interacting with the blockchain, either using the Stacks Blockchain API or by making RPC calls to a Stacks Core directly.
Stacks Core API
The Stacks 2.0 blockchain's Rust implementation exposes RPC endpoints (in JSON format), which can be used to interface with the Stacks blockchain. You can find the RPC API references here.
Stacks Blockchain API
The Stacks Blockchain API was built to maintain pageable materialized views of the Stacks 2.0 Blockchain. It is a server that exposes a RESTful JSON API, hosted by PBC. It introduces aidditonal functionality (e.g. get all transactions), as well as proxies calls directly to Stacks Node. You can find the OpenAPI specification and documentation here.
Note: Using this API requires you to trust the server, but provides a faster onboarding experience. It also addresses performance issues for which querying a node itself would be too slow or difficult.
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