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<a name="providers"></a><h1>Providers</h1>
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<p>A <b>Provider</b> is an abstraction of a connection to the Ethereum network, providing a concise, consistent interface to standard Ethereum node functionality.</p><p>The ethers.js library provides several options which should cover the vast majority of use-cases, but also includes the necessary functions and classes for sub-classing if a more custom configuration is necessary.</p><p>Most users should be able to simply use the <a href="/api/providers/#get-default-provider">Default Provider</a>.</p>
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<a name="get-default-provider"></a><a name="default-provider"></a><h2>Default Provider</h2>
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<p>The default provider is the safest, easiest way to begin developing on <i>Ethereum</i>, and it is also robust enough for use in production.</p><p>It creates a <a href="/api/providers/other/#provider-fallback">FallbackProvider</a> connected to as many backend services as possible. When a request is made, it is sent to multiple backends simulatenously. As responses from each backend are returned, they are checked that they agree. Once a quorum has been reached (i.e. enough of the backends agree), the response is provided to your application.</p><p>This ensures that if a backend has become out-of-sync, or if it has been compromised that its responses are dropped in favor of responses that match the majority.</p>
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<div class="property"><div class="signature"><span class="path">ethers</span> . <span class="method">getDefaultProvider</span> ( [ <span class="param">network</span> ] ) <span class="arrow">⇒</span> <span class="returns"><a href="/api/providers/provider/">Provider</a></span></div><div class="body"><p>Returns a new Provider, backed by multiple services, connected to <i>network</i>. Is no <i>network</i> is provided, <b>homestead</b> (i.e. mainnet) is used.</p></div></div>
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<a name="provider-documentation"></a><h2>Provider Documentation</h2>
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