get_default_block_tip_latency

Documentation for eth_defi.provider.broken_provider.get_default_block_tip_latency function.

get_default_block_tip_latency(web3)[source]

Workaround for Ankr and other node providers that do not handle the chain tip properly.

Likely due to how requests are broken a block number available in one call disappears in the following. Thus, with broken JSON-RPC service providers we cannot trust web3.eth.block_number to work and we need to subtract this number from it.

See get_block_tip_latency()

Returns: Number of blocks we need to subtract from the latest block
Parameters: web3 (web3.main.Web3) –
Return type: int