Method reference

trace_filter

Scans a range of blocks for Parity-style traces matching your filter — addresses and topics — and returns them in one call. It is the range-scan half of the Parity trace trio (with trace_block for whole blocks and trace_transaction for single transactions).

This is the method indexers reach for when receipts are not enough: Safe's Transaction Service, for example, uses trace_filter to find internal transfers while indexing non-L2 Safe deployments. Availability is the most uneven of any method we probe — OP Stack and most zk chains dropped the trace namespace entirely, and some providers gate what remains. Querying old block ranges requires archive access (append &archive=1 on paid plans).

Example request

curl -s https://rpc.swiftnodes.io/rpc/eth?key=YOUR_API_KEY \
  -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"trace_filter","params":[{"fromBlock":"latest","toBlock":"latest"}]}'

Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your SwiftNodes key (free tier available).

Chain support — 11/54 chains

Auto-probed 2026-08-28 through the real customer path (auth, routing, failover). served · ± served by some upstreams of that chain · unavailable. Full matrix: method support.

ChainChain IDSupport
Ethereum1
BNB Smart Chain56
Base8453
Arbitrum One42161
Polygon137
Optimism10
Avalanche C-Chain43114
Sonic146
Sei1329
Cronos25
PulseChain369
opBNB204
Mantle5000
Celo42220
Linea59144
Scroll534352
Blast81457
Gnosis100
Berachain80094
Unichain130
Metis1088
Taiko167000
Fraxtal252
Kava2222
Chiliz88888
Soneium1868
Story1514
Ethereum Classic61
Monad143
Plasma9745
Katana747474
zkSync Era324
Polygon zkEVM1101
Kaia8217
Core1116
Flare14
Mode34443
Manta Pacific169
Immutable zkEVM13371
ZetaChain7000
Shibarium109
Aurora1313161554
Rootstock30
Zora7777777
Beam4337
IoTeX4689
Boba Network288
WEMIX1111
Astar592
Telos EVM40
Fuse122
Canto7700
Harmony1666600000
Robinhood Chain4663
Need trace_filter on a chain that shows ✗? Upstream mixes change and we re-probe weekly — tell us what you need, or start on the free tier and test your own workload.