Foundry cast

CLI Swiss Army knife for Ethereum and EVM chains.

When to use cast

Use cast when you need to:

• perform read-only calls against contracts
• inspect balances, storage slots, code, receipts, or block data
• encode or decode ABI data quickly from the shell
• send a controlled transaction in an authorized lab

Quick Start

# Balance lookup
cast balance 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 --rpc-url https://rpc.example