FAQ's

Can Chainhooks target both Bitcoin and stacks?

Chainhooks can listen and act on events from the Bitcoin and Stacks network.

Can I use chainhooks for cross-chain protocols?

Yes, Chainhooks can be used for coordinating cross-chain actions. You can use chainhooks on Bitcoin, ordinals, and Stacks.

Can I use chainhooks for chain-indexing?

Chainhooks can easily extract the information they need to build (or rebuild) databases for their front end.

Can I use chainhooks with distributed nodes?

The chainhook event observer was designed as a library written in Rust, which makes it very portable. Bindings can easily be created from other languages (Node, Ruby, Python, etc.), making this tool a very convenient and performant library, usable by anyone.

How can I connect chainhooks with Oracles?

An event emitted on-chain triggers a centralized logic that can be committed on-chain once computed.

How can I use Chainhook in my application?

Chainhook can be used from the exposed RESTful API endpoints. A comprehensive OpenAPI specification explaining how to interact with the Chainhook REST API can be found here.

Can I run chainhooks on the mainnet?

Yes, you can run chainhooks on both the testnet and mainnet.

How can I optimize chainhook scanning?

Use of adequate values for start_block and end_block in predicates.

Networking: Reducing the number of networks hops between chainhook and bitcoind process.