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I come from traditional web application development background where the standard is RESTful APIs (and recently with some GrapghQL API showing up).
When I started interacting with ethereum endpoints, especially the one exposed by geth, I find they are all RPC.
Was there a technical reason for this decision? Or it just happened
You can look at this resource about why Ethereum uses JSON-RPC and not REST:
Why do blockchain networks like Ethereum utilize JSON RPC calls and not REST APIs or graphQL?
