How to get the native balance of an ERC20 token vault

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Step 1: Setup Moralis

Read the article Setting Up Moralis: Getting Started and make sure to finish all the steps. Only after that you can go ahead to complete this guide.

Step 2: Get the native balance of an address

In order to get the native balance of an ERC20 token vault, Moralis provides you the getNativeBalance API endpoint.

Here you'll need two parameters: address and chain.

Once you have obtained both the address and chain, you can copy the following code:

index.js (JavaScript)

const Moralis = require("moralis").default;
const { EvmChain } = require("@moralisweb3/common-evm-utils");

const runApp = async() => {
  await Moralis.start({
    apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
    // ...and any other configuration
  });

  // address of ERC20 token vault, e.g. WETH token address
  const address = '0xC02aaA39b223FE8D0A0e5C4F27eAD9083C756Cc2';

  const chain = EvmChain.ETHEREUM;

  const response = await Moralis.EvmApi.balance.getNativeBalance({
    address,
    chain,
  });

  console.log(response.toJSON());
}

runApp();

index.ts (TypeScript)

import Moralis from "moralis";
import { EvmChain } from "@moralisweb3/common-evm-utils";

const runApp = async() => {
  await Moralis.start({
    apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
    // ...and any other configuration
  });

  // address of ERC20 token vault, e.g. WETH token address
  const address = "0xC02aaA39b223FE8D0A0e5C4F27eAD9083C756Cc2";

  const chain = EvmChain.ETHEREUM;

  const response = await Moralis.EvmApi.balance.getNativeBalance({
    address,
    chain,
  });

  console.log(response.toJSON());
};

runApp();

index.py (Python)

from moralis import evm_api

api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"

params = {
    # address of ERC20 token vault, e.g. WETH token address
    "address": "0xC02aaA39b223FE8D0A0e5C4F27eAD9083C756Cc2",
    "chain": "eth",
}

result = evm_api.balance.get_native_balance(
    api_key=api_key,
    params=params,
)

print(result)

Step 3: Run the script

To run the script, enter the following command:

Shell (JavaScript)

node index.js

Shell (TypeScript)

ts-node index.ts

Shell (Python)

python index.py

In your terminal, you should see the following JSON response:

[
  {
    "balance": "3989233490541891348056490"
  }
]

Congratulations 🥳 You just got the native balance of an ERC20 token vault with just a few lines of code using the Moralis Wallet API!

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API Reference

If you want to know more details on the endpoint and optional parameters, check out:

• getNativeBalance

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