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RPC connection to the chain
Concept
Last reviewed 2026-09-15
How do you extract knowledge from the Bittensor chain? The taostats API gets you 99.9% of the way there.
There are some calls that may require direct access into the chain. There is a Python SDK for some direct access. But not even that gets you everything.
The Taostats RPC Connection gives you direct access into the chain. From the chain you can make many requests for granular information.
how RPC works:
See the API documentation for endpoint details.
With just an API key from taostats, you can make RPC calls using the Bittensor SDK