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Here’s How to Verify Smart Contracts on OP Stack, Step by Step

TraceHawk — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 07:45:39 +0000

If you are building your L2/L3 on OP Stack, smart contract verification is a critical step in the entire development cycle. While there are multiple ways to do this, let’s learn to verify OP Stack smart contract using TraceHawk block explorer. We’ll discuss the step-by-step process of verifying smart contracts quickly within the explorer’s interface itself.

Before that, let’s first understand why it is important to verify smart contracts and also the various options available to do this.

Different ways to verify OP Stack smart contracts:

In a standard setup, only smart contract deployer has access to the original code, and it cannot be accessed publicly until it’s verified. That’s where smart contract verification comes in. Let’s discuss some of the popular and viable ways to verify OP Stack smart contracts:

Verify using Remix- As an open-source IDE, Remix allows developers to leverage its browser-based interface to create, test, and deploy their smart contract on Ethereum for anyone to review and use the code.

Verify using Hardhat- Hardhat is a leading smart contract development framework that makes it simple to verify a contract’s source code. For this, you need an API key to verify the contract.

Verify using Brownie- With Brownie, you will get an automatic source code verification feature that supports verification for all kinds of Solidity contracts.

Verify using Foundry- Foundry is a smart contract development & verification tool that offers a command line tool- Forge tests to build, deploy, and verify smart contracts for both the public and permissioned networks.

Verify using block explorers- Finally, there’s contract verification via block explorers like TraceHawk. This is by far the most simple and hassle-free method of verifying your OP Stack smart contract. Let’s learn more about this.

Why verify an OP Stack smart contract via Block Explorer?
Contract verification via Block Explorer is quick & straightforward. Once verified, the smart contract or token contract’s code is available to everyone, which allows for the following:

Enhanced transparency: When your project’s smart contract is open source, it enhances transparency and trust across the developer community, allowing anyone to inspect its code and suggest changes.

Security: Having your contract verified means that more people can authenticate it and highlight security vulnerabilities (if there’s any).

Experimentation: Open-sourced smart code allows developers to fork the code, integrate additional features, and continue to build on top of it. This leads to innovation and further adoption of your OP Stack smart contract.

Plus, verified smart contracts also allow users to interact with the contract’s data using direct methods like ‘Read’ and ‘Write.’

How do you verify your OP Stack smart contract? step-by-step process

This section explains how to verify your OP Stack smart on a block explorer. Here, we have taken reference to Pandasea’s block explorer. Pandasea is a Layer2 OP Stack that uses a custom explorer powered by TraceHawk. Let’s begin..

Create & compile your OP Stack smart contract:

Of course, you’ll need a properly compiled OP Stack smart contract to verify it. If you already have the code, you can proceed with the verification. If not, let’s create one.

Step:1 Visit Remix IDE; the popular, open-source platform to create, debug, compile, and experiment with EVM-compatible smart contracts.

Step:2 Switch to Solidity environment by clicking on ‘Deploy & Run Transactions’ in the left panel.

Step:3 Select ‘Injected Provider- MetaMask’ from the Environment’s drop-down list. This will open your Metamask wallet, allowing you to connect your account to the Remix IDE and continue with smart contract deployment.

Once your Metamask account is connected, make sure it has enough funds to execute transactions. Here’s Pandasea’s testnet faucet to feed in tokens to your wallet.

Step:4 From the Remix IDE, click on the file explorer icon and create a new Solidity file. For example, we’ve created a ‘greeter.sol’ file for the purpose of this guide.

Also, we’ve written our smart contract code for the greeter.sol (as you can see in the above image). This Solidy code refers to a contract that will allow users to set and receive a personalized greeting message. Just FYI, this code is licensed under an open-source MIT license, and its version is ^0.8.26.

Step:5 Next step is to compile our smart contract. Click on ‘Solidity Compiler’ from the Ethereum’s logo and proceed with ‘Compile greeter.sol’.

Step:6 Let’s deploy our contract. Click on ‘Deploy’ and confirm transactions in your Metamask. Upon successful transaction, Remix IDE will provide all the information related to the contract, such as status, transaction hash, block, contract address, and more. Now, let’s verify the contract.

Verify OP Stack smart contract on Pandasea Explorer:

Step:1 Open Pandasea block explorer and connect your Metamask wallet. In the search bar, add your contact address. In our case, it is ‘0x1454e5675d4e3ffc3f27cf5c22ec01ca9d7fc21d’. Now, the explorer will open a comprehensive dashboard showing end-to-end details about the contract.

Step:2 Navigate to the ‘Other’ option in the top-left corner and click on ‘Verify Contract’. A new dashboard will open with 3 different fields– contract address, contract license, and the verification method.

We’ve added all the required details specific to ‘greeter.sol’ contract. Also, we are using the most-used verification method– Solidity (Standard JSON input). However, TraceHawk-powered Pandasea explorer supports 6 other methods, such as Solidity (Multi-part files), Vyper (Multi-part files), Vyper (standard JSON input), Solidity (Flatteneed source code), and Vyper (contract).

Finally, we’ve uploaded the JSON file that you again get fetched from the Remiz IDE. Go to artifacts—>build info→ address—> copy + save the input code under .json file extension.

Step:3 Click ‘Verify & Publish,’ and your contract will be verified instantly. The instructions will appear like this:

Step:4 To confirm if your OP Stack smart contract is verified successfully, click on the ‘Blockchain’ from the top-right corner and click on verified contract. As you can see, our smart contract; Greeter is in the verified contract’s list.

Step:5 Since our contract is verified and published for public use, anyone– be it a developer, researcher, or other data consumers can interact with the contract to;

Validate the contract code:

Read contract data:

Write contract:

Note: All the instructions in this guide are based on testnet. You can follow these same processes to verify OP Stack smart contracts on mainnet.

Launching your OP Stack Explorer? Add custom features with TraceHawk

If you are launching or planning to launch an OP Stack block explorer, TraceHawk is ready to serve as your custom explorer. TraceHawk saves you significant cost and time with the option to customize TraceHawk and make it specific to your project rather than creating one from scratch. Also, TraceHawk offers a custom block explorer for Arbitrum Orbit, Polygon CDK, Tezos Smart Rollups, ZK Stack chains, and Parachains, and for all the leading appchains. For more information on TraceHawk, its features, customization, and offerings, connect with our experts. Also, you can try TraceHawk yourself and get a brief overview of TraceHawk’s comprehensive offerings.

Smart Block Explorer for Tezos Smart Rollups: Try TraceHawk!

TraceHawk — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:08:45 +0000

TraceHawk is excited to offer a custom-fitted, dedicated block explorer for Tezos Smart Rollups. Web3 enterprises, startups, or individual projects building their Layer2 smart rollups can now use TraceHawk as their personalized block explorer. This will allow L2s to offer a custom blockchain explorer experience to users on the network. With this addition, TraceHawk has successfully added block explorer support for all the leading rollup stacks, including OP Stack, Arbitrum Orbit, Polygon CDK, and ZK Stack. Let’s discuss how TraceHawk serves as the ultimate block explorer for Tezos Smart Rollups.

A bit about Tezos Smart Rollups and TraceHawk’s offerings

Tezos Smart Rollups are custom, permissionless Layer2 scaling solution built for Tezos blockchain. By introducing smart rollups, Tezos allow applications to increase their transaction throughput with off-chain transaction computation while also ensuring Layer1-based cutting-edge security and decentralization. Etherlink- the popular Tezos Smart Rollups has added support for TraceHawk into their ecosystem. Here’s a glimpse of TraceHawk’s offerings for Tezos Layer2s:

In-depth search TraceHawk allows Smart rollups Layer2s to perform in-depth exploration into the network, fetching necessary information about blocks, transactions, accounts, wallet activities, token balances, etc.

- Instant contract verification
Users now have the ease to verify their smart contracts from the explorer itself, through a simplified process. This eliminates the need to switch between platforms or use a complex process.

- Seamless API calls
TraceHawk offers robust APIs that allow for calls through both the standardized and custom API methods, for example, standard JSON, Vyper, Flattened source, etc.

Personalized on-chain data viewing TraceHawk works with the motto- “your chain, your explorer,” and hence, it allows Tezos Smart Rollups to customize their explorer, such as UI and features, to offer a personalized on-chain experience to the users.

- Wallet-compatibility
TraceHawk supports all the wallets supported on Tezos blockchain as well as Ethereum-compatible wallets like Metamask.

What makes TraceHawk Block Explorer a top-choice for Tezos Smart Rollups?
Open-source access: TraceHawk was created to offer users open-source block explorer access. It works by offering a ‘Demo’ option that anyone can leverage for a brief run-through of TraceHawk’s Tezos Smart Rollups explorer. From connecting the wallet to viewing on-chain data and connecting to RPC endpoints, each critical operation is possible with the demo option.

- Extensive on-chain analyticsUsing TraceHawk, Tezos Smart rollup chains can offer a comprehensive on-chain view to their users, including the following:

Layer1-Layer2 details: Deposit/withdrawals- Simply with a click, TraceHawk offers you a list of all the deposits happening between Layer1 Tezos to Layer2 rollups. Likewise, you can keep a track of withdrawals that are originally initiated on L2, but executed finally on the underlying L1.

Custom transaction batches- TraceHawk’s Tezos Smart Rollups explorer supports the unique ‘Transaction Batches’ feature that users can leverage to get a custom, batched data about the transactions and further information such as L2 block transactions, Layer1 transaction hash, or transaction timestamp.

Blocks- This option allows Tezos Smart Rollups users to fetch a detailed list of blocks from any rollup L2 and filter the information on essential parameters like ‘Forked’ or ‘Uncle’ blocks.

Accounts- Provides a list of top-accounts based on performance parameters like token held, account balance, total transactions, etc.

Verified contracts- Allows to extract all the verified contracts and their respective information like total ETH balance, contract version, address, and verification time.

*Ease of integration & customization: *
As discussed, TraceHawk is designed to be a personalized block explorer. Speaking about Tezos Smart Rollups, Layer2 projects can integrate custom, use case-specific features to TraceHawk like extensive search option, adding advanced watchlist, expanding support for preferred tokens, and a lot more.

Multi-chain access:

Designed as a new-age block explorer, TraceHawk has added multi-chain support. This allows Layer2 users to explore the information from a range of chains, be it Tezos-based chains like Octez or the best ever smart rollup on Tezos – The Etherlink. Also, TraceHawk can be optimized to offer multichain data access to users. For example, they add an address and get details about all its activities happening on multiple chains.

*APIs and developer tools: *
Two widely used APIs; Rest and GraphQL APIs are already available on TraceHawk. These APIs are simple to use and optimized for performance & high-availability. Hence, developers of all stages can access them to gather data. Plus, Tezos Smart Rollups L2s have the freedom to customize this API feature to add more APIs, enable additional customization, or expand the API limits, based on their chain’s requirements.

*Token tracker: *
With the ‘Token’ feature, Tezos smart rollup can simplify the search experience for users. As a standard setup, TraceHawk has added support for ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-1155, and ERC-404 tokens. But, if we talk about Tezos rollups, your explore can support Tezos’ native token- Tez (XTZ), ERC tokens, plus tokens from all the smart rollups L2s. All you need is a strategic plan for customization according your Tezos smart rollup L2’s specific offerings.

*Gas tracker: *
With the gas usage tracker, TraceHawk allows any Tezos Smart rollup chains to track the exact consumption by their address. On the explorer’s dashboard, you can check complete gas information such as real-time usage or consumption across different network scenarios like slow, average, or fast network speed.

24/7 analytics dashboard:
TraceHawk offers a 24/7 analytics dashboard for a comprehensive view of Tezos Smart Rollups. It’s basically a real-time dashboard that breaks down complex information into insightful data using charts, tables, and graphs. The dashboard shows all kinds of details like on-chain blocks, events, gas usage, memory, CPU consumption, block time, and more.

*Contract verification: *
Verifying any smart contracts is hassle-free on TraceHawk. For this, TraceHawk offers a low-code, 1-click contract verification tool that quickly verifies and publishes smart contracts from the explorer. This allows Tezos smart rollup developers to easily verify any smart contracts and their codebase before using them for their project.

EaaS (Explorer-as-a-service):
Explorer-as-a-service is one of TraceHawk’s key offerings, which removes the complex aspect of hosting or managing a full-fledged block explorer. Rather than setting up the infrastructure or worrying about explorer management, Tezos Smart Rollup can now use TraceHawk’s EaaS to benefit from a fully-managed and fully-hosted explorer service.

RaaS-compatibility:
TraceHawk and its Explorer-as-a-service is fully compatible with rollups-as-a-sevice (RaaS) stack. Integrated with rollup-specific features, modularity, and branding options, TraceHawk is an ideal block explorer for RaaS providers. This means that RaaS platforms having support for Tezos Smart Rollups can use TraceHawk as their default, pluggable block explorer into their stack.

Get your custom block explorer for Tezos Rollups: Try TraceHawk!
Now that Tezos Smart Rollups have started making waves, we’ll definitely witness surge in smart rollup development in future. If you are building or planning to build a Tezos Smart Rollup L2 like Etherlink, TraceHawk can be your ideal, custom block explorer. TraceHawk is already trusted by leading players like The Binary Holdings and Memento Blockchain, next can be your project. Try TraceHawk yourself to understand its specific features. Or, you can connect with our experts for more details.

Tracking Every OP Stack L1-L2 Interaction: How TraceHawk Does It 24/7?

TraceHawk — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:14:32 +0000

OP Stack’s popularity is increasing rapidly with launch of high-traction Layer2s like Base (2.776B TVL), Mode Network ($406.52M), and Fraxtal ($176.08MTVL) on its rollup ecosystem. Individuals on these chains, like developers, end users, validators/miners, or protocol auditors, frequently need to track the interaction between Layer1 and Layer2. Using TraceHawk, all of them can easily retrieve comprehensive details of L1-L2 activities, with 24/7 updated details.

In this article, we’ll dive into this L1-L2 interaction feature of TraceHawk. This will explain what specific information TraceHawk provides for L1-L2 interaction and how users can benefit from its comprehensive details.

Why Tracking L1-L2 Interactions is Important?
Before we tap into the L1-L2 interaction feature on TraceHawk, let’s quickly discuss the factors that make the tracking of L1-L2 interactions important:

Transaction validation: Analyzing L1-L2 data is important to ensure validity of transactions on OP Stack chains and prove the authenticity of L2 state (stateroot) changes. Tracking this L1-L2 interaction via an OP Stack explorer becomes a quick and simple approach.

Network performance metrics: L1-L2 interactions also provide important metrics around transaction throughput, gas efficiency, and latency. All these allow for seamless performance analysis for all types of OP Stack networks.

Fraud proofs analysis: Exploring L1-L2 interaction allows OP Stack chain users to analyze the fraud proofs submitted on Layer1 Ethereum that contents Monitor the submission and validation of fraud proofs to oppose validity of transactions, detect fraudulent transactions, and resolve the issue before the challenge period is over.

End-to-end transparency: ‘L1-L2 details’ offers transparency in how Optimism (L2) interacts with Ethereum (L1), ensuring users can verify the system’s operation.

Now, let’s understand how TraceHawk offers seamless Layer1-Layer2 interaction for OP Stack chains. Or, if you want to learn more about TraceHawk and its rollup-centric capabilities, check out the article linked below:

TraceHawk: A Full-suite Multi-ecosystem Block Explorer

Here’s how TraceHawk tracks L1-L2 Interaction 24/7:
TraceHawk is designed as a new-age block explorer optimized especially for appchains and Layer2 rollups, which compliments its support for general-purpose chains. Tracking OP Stack Layer1-Layer2 is one of the essential features of TraceHawk OP Stack chain explorer through which you can deep dive into each activities that take place between Layer1-Layer2 and vice versa; basically, it’s a bi-directional approach. Here are all the details you can track:

Layer1 → Layer2 Deposits:
TraceHawk provides a list of all the deposits that users on Layer1 are adding to OP Stack Layer2. For example, if a user deposits ERC-20 tokens from Ethereum to any OP Stack Layer2, TracHawk will keep track of the real-time updates of this deposit, track details, and reflect data on its OP Stack explorer.

As visible in the above image, TraceHawk provides granular details about each deposit, including Layer1 block number, L2 transactions hash, exact deposit time, Layer1 transaction hash, transaction origin on L1, and gas limit. For in-depth information about the L1 → L2 deposit, click on the L2 transaction hash. This will open a separate dashboard with details such as deposit status, account address for sender & receiver, deposit value, transaction fee, gas price, gas usage & limit, gas fee, and burnt fees.

Layer2 → Layer1 Withdrawals:
Similar to deposits, TraceHawk provides a detailed withdrawal list for OP Stack L1-L2 interaction. These withdrawals represent cross-domain transactions that are first initiated on Layer2 and then executed or finalized on Layer1. Usually, these withdrawals are made by OP Stack layer2s to call a contract on Layer1 or transfer ETH from L2 to L1-based accounts.

For each withdrawal, TraceHawk will provide specific info like message nonce, sender’s account address, L2 transaction hash, timestamp, withdrawal status, L1 transaction hash, etc.

To get more in-depth details, click on ‘Layer2 transaction hash’, and it will open a separate dashboard containing transaction details, including:

Details like withdrawal status, timestamp, block confirmation, timestamp, contract address, sender’s address, token (asset) value, transaction fee, gas price, gas usage & limit, gas price, burnt fees.

Also, if you navigate through other options in the menu, the dashboard will show more details like token transfers, user operations, internal transactions, logs, state changes, and raw traces.

Transaction batches (Layer2 → Layer1):
Another important aspect of OP Stack L1 <> L2 interaction is transaction batches. Using TraceHawk block explorer, users can fetch details about batches of transactions processed on Layer2 and submitted on Layer1 for validation and data availability.

As you can see in the image, TraceHawk provides total transaction batches from OP stack Layer2 with details like block number, L2 block transaction count, L1 transaction hash, and time stamp. Also, you can click on the ‘Transaction Hash’ to view further transaction details on Ethereum.

User Transactions:
Displaying user transactions is one of the basic yet vital features of TraceHawk, through which it provides a list of transactions happening on an OP Stack network. For each transaction, you can check specific details like transaction hash, type, method, block, sender account address, asset/token value, and fee.

Layer2 output roots:
Apart from deposits, withdrawals, and user transactions, TraceHawk offers a holistic view of output roots. This cryptographic root hash refers to a summary of state changes that have occurred on Layer2 (need to be synchronized with Ethereum) and are produced by an OP Stack L2 rollup after it successfully processes a batch of transactions.

Specific details for each output root will be provided, including the L2 output index, timestamp (age), L2 block number, L1 transaction hash, and output root hash.

Launching a Custom OP Stack Explorer? Try TraceHawk!
If you are planning to launch a custom OP Stack explorer, TraceHawk can be your ideal explorer solution. Instead of creating an explorer from scratch, you can customize TraceHawk’s existing features and optimize it to meet your chain’s specific needs. Like, you can add a tracking feature for Layer3, customize the home page, add unique filters, enhance the search functionality, and a lot more. Also, you can use TraceHawk for Arbitrum Orbit, ZK Stack chains, Polygon CDK, Parachains, and all the leading rollups & appchains. For more information about TraceHawk’s features, customization, and offerings, connect with our experts. And, if you want to explore a demo first, try TraceHawk by yourself.

Batched L2 Details for OP Stack: Key Feature your Explorer Might be missing

TraceHawk — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 08:58:15 +0000

As OP Stack’s adoption surges more in popularity, we see rapid development of blockchain explorers designed for OP Stack chains. If you are picking a block explorer for your OP Stack rollup, one key feature that you must look for is ‘batched Layer2 transactions’ details.

Batched Layer2 details refer to the aggregated transactions on Layer2 that are posted on Layer1 for final validation. This batching process is integral in the rollup of exactly how important it is for explorers to provide batched OP Stack L2 details.

These batched transactions in an explorer enhance transparency, allowing users to see all transactions that are actually bundled and processed while also providing clear insights into network performance via parameters like batch processing time, associated gas fee, transaction hash, and more.

In our article, we’ll learn about the batched OP Stack L2 details feature on TraceHawk. We’ll understand how batched transactions are visible and what details are present there. Before that, let’s quickly get an overview of the batching process in OP Stack rollups.

Overview of Layer2 batching in OP Stack rollups

Batching in OP Stack rollups is almost similar to the batching process of most Optimistic rollups, however the difference reflects in components and their specific functions. Like, batching in OP stack is typically done through op-batcher and, op-proposer . Here, batcher creates transaction batches and then write a commitment for each post-transaction state on Layer1.

Here’s a step-by-step process of Layer2 translation batching in OP Stack rollups. This whole process is handled by op-batcher, which include two main operations:

Compressing Layer2 transactions into batches

The batcher starts by aggregating sequencer batches into ‘channels’. FYI, a channel refers to a sequence of Layer2 block’s sequencer batches. The main reason of further compressing batches into channels is to ensure a better compression ratio and thereby reduce the data availability cost.

Posting batches on Layer1; Base chain

Once transaction threshold is reached for the channel, it is posted on Layer1. Based on the data size, the channel can either be posted as single or multiple transactions. Here’s a graphical overview:

On a basic level, batching process on OP Stack happens as follows:

Transaction gathering: The Layer2 collects user transactions over a definite timeframe or until enough amount of transactions are gathered.

Batch creation: Once the conditions for batching are met, the transactions are grouped into a single batch. This helps in managing multiple transactions efficiently.

Compression: Batches are compressed into channels for low DA cost and faster validation.

Signature aggregation: This involves creating a single cryptographic signature to validates the entire batch, enabling efficiency in batch submission to Layer1.

Submission to Layer1: Batched Layer2 transactions are then submitted as a single transaction on Layer1, reducing the on-chain footprint.

Validation & finality: The underlying Layer1 verifies the batch using the respective signatures and updates its state based on the transactions included in that batch. Once validated, all transactions in the batch achieve finality.

How TraceHawk provides batched Layer2 details for OP Stack?

TraceHawk offers projects with their custom, brand-specific block explorers. Spelling about OP Stack chains, TraceHawk explorer can be customized as per the unique L2/L3 requirements like adding support for off-chain layer, search filter for preferred ERC tokens, blob explorer, as well as changes in the explorer UI itself. Want to learn more about what TraceHawk has to offer for OP Stack? Here’s a detailed guide:

TraceHawk for OP Stack Rollups: Everything you want in a Block Explorer

Regarding batched L2 details, TraceHawk OP Stack block explorer has integrated a feature called ‘Transaction Batches’ into the explorer. Using this option, a OP Stack chain can dive deeper into comprehensive batched L2 data and retrieve custom details as required.

Here’s an example of OP Stack blockchain explorer that TraceHawk is offering for The Binary Holdings to accommodate their OP Stack Layer2. Let’s get a firm understanding of TraceHawk’s ‘Batched Layer2 Details’ feature from this custom explorer. Note that this explorer is fully-open source, thus is available for everyone to explore network-related on-chain data. Let’s see how the TraceHawk explorer offers OP Stack batched L2 details.

Visit the explorer and connect wallet. Adding your wallet is optional, unless you want to do transactions or interact with the dApps or contract on the network.

If you add wallet (like we’ve done), ensure that you switch the existing network to The Binary Holding’s testnet or mainnet.

2. Next, navigate to the ‘Blockchain’ from the menu bar and click on ‘Txn batches (transaction batches)’.

3. A new dashboard will appear with a list of batched Layer2 details about the OP Stack chain. Details will be classified into transaction batches or L2 block, L2 block transaction count, L1 transaction hash, and age of the bathed transaction.

As you can see in the above image, there a total of 904.73K batches. You can move to any page; 1,2,3,…and so on, to check their respective batches.

4. TraceHawk explorer allows you to check further details about each individual transaction batches. To do this, click on any L2 block and a separate page will open showing block-specific details and transactions.

On the details page, you will get information like block height, block size, miner’s detail, timestamp, total transactions, gas used, block reward, gas limit, base fee and burnt fee. Also, you can go to ‘view details’ to get information about hash, nonce, difficulty, etc.

Whereas, on the transactions page, you will see transaction hash, transaction type (contract call in our case), method, address from which transaction has done, token value, and fee. Note that TBNRY is the native token for The Binary Holding’s OP Stack L2.

5. Also, you can granular transaction and address details. Simply click on the transaction hash and you will get all the details like withdrawal status, associated block, token transfers, user operations, internal transactions, logs, state changes, and raw trace.

Similarly, when you click on the address (under from/to), you will see details like token balance, transfers, transactions, internal transactions, coin balace history, and contract. While all the other options provide information, ‘contract’ gives you the option to get contract code, read contract, and write contract. From here, you can also verify and publish contract.

Launch your custom OP Stack explorer with TraceHawk

As discussed, Batched L2 detail is one of the several features TraceHawk offers for OP Stack explorers. Based on your Layer2-specific requirements, you can launch a custom block explorer and optimize it for performance and resiliency. For hands-on analysis, you can try TraceHawk yourself. View Demo or schedule a call with us for additional queries. We’re happy to assist you.

TraceHawk for Avalanche L1s: Your Go-To Explorer for Subnet Transactions

TraceHawk — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 10:52:42 +0000

TraceHawk is expanding block explorer support for Avalanche L1 (previously referred to as Subnets). Enterprises, startups, scaleups, and independent web3 projects building their application-specific Avalanche Layer1 can use TraceHawk as a network explorer with custom features and functionalities. After this critical addition, TraceHawk offers custom block explorer for all the leading appchains and rollups, such as Arbitrum Orbit, OP Stack, ZKsync Hyperchain, Polygon CDK, Polkadot Parachains, and Cosmos SDK.

This article highlights TraceHawk’s offerings for Avalanche L1. However, let’s quickly learn about Avalanche L1 as it’s quite a new concept.

Understanding Avalanche Layer1 (prev. Subnets)
Avalanche L1 is a sovereign appchain network that can define its own rules related to validators, tokenomics, operations, and more. Avalanche Layer1 includes a dynamic set of validators who are accountable to achieve consensus on the state of one or more blockchains. However, each blockchain must be validated exactly by one Avalanche Layer1.

Because Avalanche L1 has been rebranded from Avalanche Subnets, most of its aspects- from architecture to compliance, and staking parameters are the same as Subnets. If you want detailed information about Subnets, read the article below:

Why Build on Avalanche Subnets: Key Factors for its Adoption

A brief about TraceHawk Avalanche L1 Block Explorer
TraceHawk block explorer for Avalanche L1 is designed especially to serve its application-specific requirements. Avalanche L1 networks can use TraceHawk to benefit from performance & availability, rich customization options, high-traction network support, APIs, tools, personalization, and many more features. Learn about all these features and TraceHawk’s offerings here.

How TraceHawk serves the ultimate Avalanche L1 Block Explorer?
TraceHawk offers a range of unique features for Avalanche Layer1. Let’s now discuss some of its main benefits:

Avalanche L1 deep dive:

TraceHawk, as your network’s block explorer will allow users on your Avalanche L1 to dive deeper and navigate through all the vital information, including:

Transactions: Provide thorough details about Avalanche L1 transactions based on their status; pending or confirmed. It will include all kinds of transactions specific to Avalanche L1, such as large transactions, internal transactions, cross-transactions, PVM (parallel virtual machine) transactions, and more.

Blocks: Allow users to explore a detailed list of desired Avalanche L1 transactions and their details like block size, validator, total transactions, gas used, etc. Also, you can filter these blocks based on the ‘Forked’ or ‘Uncle’ category.

Accounts: Provides a curated list of top-performing accounts on Avalanche L1 networks. The stats are based on total balance on accounts, tokens held, and transaction count.

Withdrawals: Shows an interactive list of all the withdrawals happening on Avalanche L1s.

Verified contracts: Allows to filter verified contracts and their specific details like token balance, contract version, contract address, verification time, and license.

Multi-Avalanche L1 support:

Built for the future, TraceHawk allows Avalanche L1 users to explore diverse chains building with Avalanche; be it P-chain, C-Chain, X-Chain or use case-specific chains building as Avalanche L1. For example, you can explore MELD L1, Beam L1, Shaprnel L1, etc to retrieve specific information from these networks.

Open-source design:

TraceHawk Avalanche L1 block explorer is created as a open-source project. This means, anyone in the web3 community can access TraceHawk, customize it, and use it to explore their preferred networks. Additionally, TraceHawk welcomes developers and contributors to suggest upgrades for features, integration, UI/UX, and so on.

Access to APIs and developer tools:

TraceHawk supports two popular and widely used APIs– Rust and Graph QL. Both these APIs are optimized for performance & availability and are designed to be easy-to-use. This allows all levels of developers and users on Avalanche L1 to utilize APIs and get their relevant data. Further, TraceHawk supports customization of these APIs to suit specific needs. Like, you can add custom endpoints, define API limits, or personalize its actions, etc.

AVAX (ERC token) and NFTs tracker:

The ‘Token’ feature in TraceHawk allows for seamless access of ERC-20 token data; AVAX in case of Avalanche L1 and NFTs. Based on your Avalanche L1’s requirements and features, you can filter token data for ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-1155, or ERC-404. For each of these tokens, TraceHawk provides details like the token’s real-time price, market cap, token symbol, and total holders.

Gas tracker:

Knowing that gas usage tracking is an integral component for Avalanche L1s and other appchains, TraceHawk comes with a ‘Gas Tracker’ option on its dashboard. This will provide you information about gas usage– real time and historical consumption. Plus, you can see gas-related stats for different stages of the network- during slow, average, and fast network processing.

Quick smart contract verification:

TraceHawk replaces the complex process of smart contract verification with a hassle-free, one-click approach. To accommodate this, TraceHawk offers a low-code contract verification and publishing tool on its explorer’s interface. Avalanche L1 developers can now verify smart contracts quickly and authenticate the source code properly to utilize for their project.

Comprehensive analytics dashboard:

TraceHawk Avalanche L1 explorer comes with a real-time, 24/7 dashboard to present complex data in charts & graphs. The dashboard gives real-time as well as historical data for blocks, transactions, events, block time, gas usage, summarized details of daily/weekly transactions.

Explorer-as-a-service:

Explorer-as-a-service in TraceHawk eliminates the challenges of launching and managing a full-fledged Avalanche L1 block explorer. For this, TraceHawk offers a fully-managed and hosted block explorer where all the hassle of infrastructure maintenance, scaling, optimization, and uptime remains the accountability of TraceHawk’s team. Hence, Avalanche L1s will get a high-performance block explorer on their end with zero heavy lifting.

EaaS block at TraceHawk is also highly suitable for IaaS or Infrastructure-as-a-service platforms because of its great branding and customization options. Any IaaS provider supporting Avalanche L1 and other appchains can include TraceHawk as the default block explorer in their stack. This will save time & effort required for building and managing block explorers. Instead, projects deploying on their platform can plug-n-play TraceHawk’s standard explorer, or they can customize it as required.

Launch custom block explorer for your Avalanche L1
Avalanche L1 is the latest addition to Avalanche. Although it was previously subnet, Avalanche plans to introduce a few important upgrades on it. This is encouraging for several enterprises and web3 projects that are looking to build appchain. If you plan to build Avalanche L1, TraceHawk can be your ideal block explorer solution. Try it now!

Also, if you want more details about TraceHawk’s offerings, customization, or features, connect with our experts. Schedule one-to-one calls or write your queries via email.

The Binary Holdings L2 Scales with TraceHawk Block Explorer

TraceHawk — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:38:24 +0000

We’re excited to announce that The Binary Holdings is now leveraging TraceHawk block explorer for their Layer2 OP chain.

Visit https://explorer.sepolia.thebinaryholdings.com/ to see it in action!

TraceHawk is integrated into Binary Holdings’ testnet, providing streamlined data access and a user-friendly experience. Our team has been working diligently to ensure TraceHawk is fully compatible with Binary Holdings’ blockchain’s unique design, demonstrating its capability to adapt to tailored blockchain architectures.

The Binary Holdings (TBH) focuses on web3 infrastructure for the telecommunications sector in emerging markets, aiming to make Web3 access easy for the next billion users. They chose the OP Stack because it’s ready for the market and easy for developers to use. Optimism’s compatibility with Ethereum and EVM tools allows dApps to integrate smoothly with the OP Stack, benefiting from its scalability and lower gas fees. With the OP Stack, TBH can provide scalable, cost-effective, and efficient services that are essential for the growth of Web3 technologies in telecommunications.

The Binary Holdings will use $BNRY as its native gas token, adding significant utility and boosting the native economy. This initiative aims to lower the barriers for telecommunications companies when adopting and integrating Web3 functionalities. By offering infrastructure that supports high transaction throughput at reduced costs, TBH is making the Web3 transition smoother for telecom companies, fostering innovation, increasing user engagement, improving security, and enabling decentralized services.

The TraceHawk dashboard brings visibility, transparency, and interactivity to The Binary Holdings, including:

Overview Screen:

Gain insights with comprehensive stats, including daily transaction graphs, chain data, average block time, gas tracker, wallet addresses, latest blocks by validators, total and latest transactions (including blob txn, contract calls, and token/coin transfers), and more.

In-depth blockchain insights:

Access detailed insights into transactions, blocks, addresses, top accounts, tokens, and withdrawals. Our optimized search features ensure quick and accurate information retrieval.

Contract interaction:

Easily verify contracts within the console using available verification methods. Utilize the read/write functionality to interact with verified contracts on the TBH chain. Each verified contract displays the Contract ABI, Solidity source code, and compiler settings.

API Calls:

A comprehensive REST API provides projects with instant access to the latest TBH data. GraphQL APIs are also available.

Binary Holdings is using Zeeve RaaS as its infra partner for the Layer2 OP chain. It provides all essential tools and integrations with the assurance of enterprise-grade security, compliance, 24/7 support with a 99.9% uptime SLA, dedicated monitoring, and ongoing maintenance and updates.

Daily activity is on the rise in the TBH network, with an increased number of testnet transactions, an average block time of just 2 sec, and active accounts on the rise. TraceHawk is excited to grow alongside The Binary Holdings as engagement and adoption continue to increase!

Learn more about what TraceHawk could do for your OP Stack chains. If you have further queries, write to us or schedule a call with our experts!

Memento ZK L2 Scales with TraceHawk Block Explorer

TraceHawk — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:18:37 +0000

We’re excited to announce that Memento is now leveraging TraceHawk block explorer for their ZK Layer2 Hyperchain.

https://test-explorer.mementoblockchain.com

TraceHawk is integrated into Memento’ testnet, providing streamlined data access and a user-friendly experience. Our team has been working diligently to ensure TraceHawk is fully compatible with Memento’s blockchain’s unique design, demonstrating its capability to adapt to tailored blockchain architectures.

The traditional financial sector often hesitates to adopt public blockchains due to security and customization concerns. To address this, Memento is launching a new Hyperchain, providing a secure, tailored, and controlled blockchain environment for institutional players. This allows dApps to thrive. By leveraging zkSync’s advanced ZK technology and recursive proofs, the Hyperchain tackles scalability challenges, enabling a trustless Layer2 chain for scalable, low-cost payments and transactions that settle on Ethereum. Memento’s adoption of the zkSync ZK Stack bridges the gap between traditional finance and blockchain, offering institutions the best of both worlds.

Memento will use $ETH as its native gas token, adding significant utility and boosting the native economy. This initiative aims to lower the barriers for telecommunications companies when adopting and integrating Web3 functionalities. By offering infrastructure that supports high transaction throughput at reduced costs, Memento is making the Web3 transition smoother for telecom companies, fostering innovation, increasing user engagement, improving security, and enabling decentralized services.

The TraceHawk dashboard brings visibility, transparency, and interactivity to Memento, including:

Overview Screen:

Gain insights with detailed statistics, including daily transaction graphs, chain data, average block time, gas tracker, wallet addresses, latest blocks by validators, and total and recent transactions (such as blob transactions, contract calls, and token/coin transfers), and more.

In-depth blockchain insights:

Get in-depth insights into transactions, blocks, addresses, top accounts, tokens, and withdrawals. Our optimized search makes finding the info you need fast and easy.

Contract interaction:

Easily verify contracts right in the console with our available methods. Use the read/write functionality to interact with verified contracts on the Memento hyperchain. Every verified contract shows the Contract ABI, Solidity source code, and compiler settings.

API Calls:

Our comprehensive REST APIs give projects instant access to the latest L2 data. Plus, GraphQL APIs are available too.

Memento is using Zeeve RaaS as its infra partner for the Layer2 Hyperchain. Zeeve delivers all the essential tools and integrations, ensuring enterprise-grade security and compliance, 24/7 support with a 99.9% uptime SLA, dedicated monitoring, and continuous maintenance and updates.

Daily activity is booming on the Memento network! We’re seeing more testnet transactions, faster block times, and a growing number of active accounts. TraceHawk is thrilled to grow alongside Memento as engagement and adoption keep rising!

Experience TraceHawk for your zkSync Hyperchains. If you have any questions, feel free to write to us or schedule a call with our experts!

Boost Polygon CDK L2/L3s with TraceHawk: The Block Explorer You Need

TraceHawk — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:12:24 +0000

TraceHawk has optimized its support for Polygon CDK chains. The decision to launch a dedicated CDK-specific explorer comes from the rapidly growing demand for CDK L2/L3s and their unique features & functionalities. Web3 projects or developers launching an L2/L3 CDK chain can use TraceHawk as their explorer to search real-time and historical data, including information related to blocks, smart contract addresses, transactions, and more. TraceHawk explorer for Polygon CDK chains is by far the most-suited search engine and analytics tool to cater to the specific needs of different CDK chains– whether built as validium, rollup, or aggregated layer. In this article, we will learn more about TraceHawk’s features while also briefing Polygon CDK chains.

A brief about Polygon CDK chains

Polygon CDK chains refer to modular ZK-powered Layer2s that can be easily customized to the specific application needs. As evident, these chains are built using a Polygon chain development kit or CDK– an open-source and modular toolkit designed to facilitate the seamless launch of custom L2/L3 chains. Full EVM compatibility, flexible components, dedicated throughput, and native gas tokens are the widely known attributes of CDK chains. However, the benefits and options are now varied, such as the options to build Aggregated blockchain, choose validium, add next-level modularity to chains, provers, and a lot more. Meaning that Polygon CDK’s offerings keep innovating from time to time, unlocking broad opportunities for web3 projects.

Why a dedicated explorer for Polygon CDK L2/L3s?

As discussed, Polygon CDK chains are unique in terms of features, benefits, and most importantly– the structure & mechanism. For example, your CDK chain can be a validium, rollup, or aggregated blockchain. Also, your CDK chain might be modular to use a decentralized sequencer, off-chain data availability (DA), Type1/Type2 prover, and so on. This demonstrates that Polygon CDK chains are different from other rollup chains and hence, their need for block explorer can also differ. Due to this reason, we can see many block explorers now adding support for CDK chains to offer specific features.

Enter TraceHawk– A Fast, scalable, and fully customizable block explorer

TraceHawk is a fully-customizable, open-source, plus multi-ecosystem block explorer that seamlessly supports all the leading Layer2 and Layer3 chains, including the ones created using Polygon CDK framework. With TraceHawk, you get all the standard features like an interactive UX, lightning fast search, advanced filters, etc. Speaking about Polygon CDK chain-specific use, it offers in-depth search of CDK chains, support for Agglayer chains, retrieval of DA layer’s data, blobs data exploration, and more that we have discussed in-detail below.

Let’s dive into TraceHawk’s offerings for Polygon CDK L2s and L3s

1- Streamlined access to CDK chain data:

With TraceHawk block explorer, users can do an in-depth exploration of Polygon CDK L2 and L3 chains to retrieve data similar to the below:

Transactions– Retrieve a comprehensive list of all the transactions that are successfully validated and also the pending ones. Filter the data based on real-time and historical events.

Blocks- Get an interactive list of the CDK chain’s blocks. You can either retrieve all the data once or filter them based on ‘Forked’ and ‘Uncles’ parameters.

Top accounts- Search for a comprehensive list of account addresses based on token balance, percentage of total balance held, and total transaction count.

Withdrawals- Access a dedicated withdrawal dashboard to get an interactive list of withdrawals that happens between Polygon CDK L2 and Layer1.

Verified contracts- Search for a detailed list of contracts that are verified successfully. Check thorough data, including contract address, ETH balance, version, and the verification time.

2-Support for Aggregated blockchain:

TraceHawk is optimized to be your ultimate block explorer and analytics platform for Aggregated blockchains. This integration aims to provide users and developers an easy & streamlined access to comprehensive on-chain data appearing all across the Aggregated blockchains. As you may know, the concept of AggLayer is to enable native interoperability across sovereign CDK chains. TraceHawk wants to keep this unified experience intact by offering you a more holistic view into Agglayer chains and their bridge transactions.

3- Blobspace scanner:

Knowing that EIP-4844 allows for the implementation of blobs or ‘blob carrying transactions’ on Polygon, TraceHawk has optimized its support to allow for a seamless exploration of data from batched call data that L2 publishes and later stores on the DA layer. For this, TraceHawk implements advanced data indexers that communicate with the chain and make the data available round the clock upon each query.

4- L3 CDK chain data search:

Several projects are choosing to build their CDK chains as Layer3s. The reason for this can be to achieve better interoperability or support very use-case specific applications. Hence, if you are building a Polygon CDK L3, TraceHawk can be your ideal block explorer solution to perform a deep search into L3 chains. It will allow you to search for all sorts of critical data, such as deposits, withdrawals, DA layer information, and more.

5- Robust APIs:

TraceHawk explorer for Polygon CDK chains comes with high-availability APIs– REST and GraphQL APIs that developers and CDK chain users can leverage to query network-level data using API endpoints. For better accessibility, these APIs are designed to be open-source and accessible publicly to everyone.

6- Multi-Token tracker:

TraceHawk allows CDK chain users to filter data based on tokens with an intuitive multi-token search feature. As required, you can search for ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-1155, and ERC-404 tokens to get all the necessary details about them, such as real-time price, transfers, FDV, total supply, contact info, and holders.

7- Gas tracker:

Using the ‘gas tracker’ feature of TraceHawk, you can dive deeper into the gas usage of your preferred addresses on CDK chains. From the interface, you can track all the critical gas-related details, such as real-time gas usage and fees during various network stages: slow, average, or fast processing. You can filter the gas details based on historical and real-time trends.

8- Off-chain DA layer’s data:

As Polygon CDK chains have the flexibility to post calldata on-chain or any 3rd party off-chain DA layer, TraceHawk allows for end-to-end exploitation of this alternative DA layer’s data. You can anytime retrieve all kinds of DA data, such as transaction call data, smart contract data, and other off-chain data.

9- Real-time analytics dashboard:

TraceHawk comes with a comprehensive analytics dashboard that provides a snapshot of all the important CDK chain insights in one place. From chain-specific data such as total blocks, block time, and gas fee to daily & weekly transactions, you will get all the important information that gets updated in real-time.

10- Compatibility for high-traction chains:

Given that ‘dedicated throughput’ is one of the main USPs of the Polygon CDK, TraceHawk has performed critical optimization on the explorer so that it can maintain high-performance even for CDK chains with massive traction. Such projects are mostly DeFi dApps or gaming platforms that see millions of daily active users and billions of transactions.

11- Endless customization options:

TraceHawk serves as a personalized block explorer for rollups and appchains. Speaking about CDK chains, they have a range of customization options to make TraceHawk more specific to the use-case. For example, you can expand the search features, add support for the latest tokens, create a unique watchlist, or redesign the analytics dashboard.

12- Explorer-as-a-service (EaaS):

With TraceHawk’s Explorer-as-a-service (EaaS), you get a fully-hosted and fully-managed explorer for your Polygon CDK chains. From offering enterprise-grade infrastructure to scaling the explorer, the TraceHawk team will handle all the challenging aspects, offering you an enchanting user experience. Also, you don’t need to worry about the performance since TraceHawk implements a robust 24/7 monitoring system for your explorer, keeping track of its performance while also solving the issues immediately after it is spotted.

13- 100% RaaS compatibility

Seeing the tremendous popularity of RaaS, TraceHawk has integrated its ecosystem critically to make it suitable for Rollups–as–a–service. This means, if your Polygon CDK chain is managed by RaaS service, you can still plug-in TraceHawk to use as your official explorer. Additionally, TraceHawk can be used by RaaS providers as a third-party explorer service.

Launching your Polygon CDK Chain? Give TraceHawk a try!

TraceHawk block explorer and its explorer-as-a-service (EaaS) is ready for Polygon CDK chains and other L2/L3 rollup chains to use. If you are launching such a chain, you can give TraceHawk a try and analyze its offerings. The features we discussed in the article are just an overview of TraceHawk’s offerings. For a holistic view, you can try TraceHawk yourself. Also, if you’re looking to add specific customizations to your explorer, connect with us. Our experts are also open to handling all your queries. You can send them via mail, or you can schedule a one-to-one call for a detailed discussion.

TraceHawk’s Explorer as a Service: Elevate Rollup & AppChain Analytics

TraceHawk — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:28:10 +0000

With more rollups and appchains coming into the picture, the need for custom data is even more relevant today. Gone are the days when one block explorer like Etherscan fits everyone’s requirements. Instead of a few EVM-compatible chains, we have thousands of EVM rollups on the way. Plus, it’s no longer an EVM-only world; hundreds of L1s are also live today, and more to come. We might have moved from fully public chains to more tailored L1 or L2 chains, but the fundamental values of web3, like transparency and trust, are still maintained. Here comes the role of custom block explorers to fit the architecture of your own chains. But an explorer is just another component of your developer toolbox and requires some substantial investment in infra and management. You might require dedicated indexers, performant GraphQL and REST APIs, smart data pruning, and more, making this small yet significant component a logistical nightmare for you.

Enter Explorer as a Service.

What is Explorer-as-a-Service (EaaS)?

Explorers as a Service” refers to a plug-and-play service model where block explorer functionalities are provided as a managed service, which can be integrated with various blockchain networks, including specialized networks like appchains and rollups. This service model simplifies the process of setting up and maintaining a block explorer for any blockchain, particularly for the newer generation blockchains, because they are not just a mere fork of any chain but are built with multiple modular components like a custom DA or sequencers.

Benefits of Explorer as a Service

Here are some key aspects of Explorers as a Service:

Turnkey Solutions: Providers of Explorers as a Service offer ready-to-use block explorer solutions that can be quickly deployed. This is particularly beneficial for new or smaller blockchain projects that may not have the resources to develop their own explorer from scratch.

Customization: While offering out-of-the-box functionality, these services typically also allow for significant customization to meet the specific needs of different blockchain architectures. This includes tracking unique transaction types, smart contracts, and other network-specific data.

Maintenance and Updates: The service provider handles all aspects of maintenance, updates, and technical support. This ensures the block explorer remains current with the latest blockchain network changes and technological advancements, reducing the technical burden on the blockchain operators.

Scalability: Explorers as a Service is designed to scale with the blockchain network. As transaction volumes and data complexity grow, the service can scale to maintain performance and responsiveness without requiring direct intervention from the network operators.

Enhanced Accessibility: By providing a high-quality, professional block explorer, these services enhance the accessibility and user-friendliness of the blockchain, making it more appealing to developers, investors, and users.

Cost-Effectiveness: Since building and maintaining a custom block explorer can be resource-intensive, using an as-a-service model can be a more cost-effective solution, especially for smaller or emerging blockchain projects.

Explorer as a Service for Appchains & Rollups
Appchains and rollups are specialized blockchain environments designed for efficiency and scalability. They often handle complex, high-volume transactions that standard blockchains might not manage as effectively. However,t with these innovations come unique challenges, especially when it comes to monitoring and analyzing blockchain activity.

Here’s where EaaS shines:

Custom Data Tracking: Appchains and rollups can require monitoring unique metrics or custom transaction paths. EaaS allows you to customize the data you track and how it’s presented, ensuring you always have a clear view of your blockchain’s health and activity.

Real-Time Updates: In fast-moving blockchain environments, having up-to-date data can make or break your project. EaaS provides real-time data updates, giving developers and users the information they need when needed.

Enhanced Security: With the complexity of rollups and appchains, security becomes even more critical. EaaS helps track and report suspicious activities instantly, enhancing your blockchain’s security posture.

TraceHawk for Your Block Explorer Explorer-as-a-Service(EaaS)?

TraceHawk is a reliable name in the Explorer-as-a-Service(EaaS) because it has introduced advanced block explorer features to elevate your Rollup & AppChain Analytics. As an E-a-a-S, TraceHawk provides the following advantages to appchains and rollups;

A comprehensive feature when you are deploying an L3 on Arbitrium. Why? L3s and Appchains built using Arbitrium Orbit have advanced features like on-demand scalability, custom gas tokens, modular data availability (DA), EIP-4844 support, and self-governance. The block explorer must be designed to match up to such a complex need easily. One of TraceHawk’s key trade-offs is extracting on-chain/off-chain data. So, it can easily extract data from off-chain DA layers like Celestia, NEAR DA, or Eigen DA. Thus, it is a smart choice when you are looking for batched L1 transactions as well as transactions that are stored in ALT DAs.

TraceHawk also supports all the latest token standards, such as ERC677 and ERC 4337, along with the former ERC20, ERC721, and ERC 1155 standards.

TraceHawk allows users to access multiple chains, such as Ethereum, Polkadot, Solana, OP Stack, Arbitrum Orbit, ZkSync Era, or Polygon CDK-powered L2/L3s or application-specific blockchains built with top frameworks like Substrate and Cosmos SDK, Avalanche Subnets, and Polkadot Parachains. Hence, as a developer, you get multiple options while deploying a single explorer and extracting data from different blockchains using the same explorer.

TraceHawk also provides while-labeling features, wherein developers have the full discretion to customize the explorer to support their use cases’ specific requirements. Hence, it allows you to save considerable time and expense by launching your own app-specific block explorer using TraceHawk’s E-a-a-S service.

TraceHawk Block Explorer: Your Gateway to Navigating Cosmos SDK Chains share

TraceHawk — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:17:00 +0000

TraceHawk is expanding its block explorer support for Cosmos SDK chains. Any enterprise, startup, scaleup, or individual developer building with Cosmos SDK framework can use this dedicated block explorer to offer a personalized block viewing experience for their users. With this launch, TraceHawk has made a critical addition to its existing stack of block explorer for OP chains, Arbitrum Orbit L3s, ZK Sync Hyperchains, and Polygon CDK chains.

Hence, let’s discuss TraceHawk’s comprehensive offering for Cosmos SDK Chains. Before that, let’s learn about Cosmos SDK chains and TraceHawk block explorer.

A brief about Cosmos SDK Chains and TraceHawk block explorer

Cosmos SDK chains refer to custom-fit, application-specific blockchains built with the Cosmos SDK framework. As required, web3 projects can build high-performance and production-grade permissioned and permissionless chains to power best-in-class scalability, security, and efficiency for all kinds of apps & services. Continue reading about Cosmos SDK’s unparalleled features in this article.

TraceHawk is a full-suite, multi-chain blockchain explorer optimized especiallly for appchains, rollups while it is equally feasible for general-purpose blockchains. For Cosmos SDK, TraceHawk offers specific features and benefits like rich data navigation, performance & availability despite high traction, API calls, customization, and a lot more to ensure a hassle-free and seamless user experience. Learn more about TraceHawk’s comprehensive offerings here.

What can Cosmos SDK chain users do with TraceHawk?

Users navigating through Cosmos SDK chains can perform the following operations using the TraceHawk block explorer:

Extensive search: TraceHawk allows Cosmos SDK chain users to perform extensive searches and derive specific details about transactions, blocks, accounts, withdrawals, token balances, and more.

Verify contract: Verify any smart contract address directly from the explorer using 7+ contract verification method including standard JSON input, Flattened source code, Vyper.

Make API calls: Leverage robust APIs to make calls using both the standardized as well as custom API endpoints available for Rest and GraphQL.

Personalized views: Customize features of your Cosmos SDK block explorer for personalized block viewing, for example- add tags, create watchlist, search bar, transaction broadcasting, and more.

Connect wallet: Connect your Web3 wallet to be able to perform critical dApp-related tasks such as contract verification, signing transactions, or sending/receiving transactions from any preferred account.

TraceHawk’s Key Features for Cosmos SDK Chains

TraceHawk offers a range features that are specific to Cosmos SDK chains, including the below:

Multi-chain support:

As a next-gen block explorer, TraceHawk enables users to navigate through transactions, account details, tokens, and other critical data from all the Cosmos SDK chain that exists today. From Akash Network to Fetch.ai, Stargaze, Osmosis, Dydx chain, Kepler, and Monsterra, users can derive information from the top Cosmos SDK chain with zero hassle.

Open-source design:

TraceHawk block explorer for Cosmos SDK chains is designed as a open-source project. Hence, it is accessible to everyone users, developers, or contributors seeking to use, explore, or suggest further upgrades.

Deep dive into Cosmos SDK Chains:

Using TraceHawk, users can dive deeper into Cosmos SDK chain’s data, including the following:

Transactions: This option provides users with a comprehensive of validated and pending transactions along with their specific information such as transaction hash, type, method, account address, ETH value, etc.

Blocks: Under blocks, users will see a detailed list of any Cosmos SDK chain’s blocks that can be filtered based on ‘Forked’ or ‘Uncle’ parameters. For each block, specific information will be provided, such as block size, corresponding validator, gas used, etc.

Top accounts: TraceHawk shows a list of top-performing accounts based on total account balance, tokens held, and total transaction count.

Verified contracts: It allows users to filter all the verified contracts and their associated details such as ETH balance, version, contract address, and time of verification.

Withdrawals: The withdrawal option provides users with an interactive list of withdrawals happening on Cosmos SDK Layer1s.

Full-featured APIs and developer tools:

TraceHawk currently offers two popular APIs- Rest and GraphQL APIs optimized for availability and performance. Because these APIs are simple to use, all levels of Cosmos SDK chain developers can utilize them to gather relevant data. However, this API service can be customized to meet the unique needs of your project. Like, you can use custom endpoints, define new API limits, or perform additional customization. Additionally, TraceHawk offers a suite of developer tools & resources that are essential for Cosmos SDK-based development.

Tokens & NFTs tracker:

The ‘Tokens’ option in TraceHawk simplifies users’ access to NFTs and other crypto token-related data. Based on the type of project and data requirement, users on Cosmos SDK chains can filter data across ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-1155, or ERC-404 and get additional information about the token like token symbol, price, on-chain market cap, and total holders.

Gas usage tracker:

The gas tracker on TraceHawk allows users to track the actual gas consumption of any address on Cosmos SDK chains. From the explorer’s interface itself, you can see complete information about gas consumption, including real-time gas usage as well as consumption during different stages of transaction processing—whether slow, average, or fast processing.

Smart contract verification:

As discussed, smart contract verification is quick and hassle-free on TraceHawk. That’s because TraceHawk offers 1-click contract verification and publishing portal on the explorer’s interface. This allows Cosmos SDK chain developers to verify & authenticate a smart contract and its source code before using it for their project.

Real-time analytics dashboard:

For an all-encompassing visualization of diverse Cosmos SDK chain data, TraceHawk is offering a real-time analytics dashboard that presents complex data in an easy-to-comprehend format using graphs & charts. From the latest on-chain data like blocks, events, transactions, block time, gas usage, or summary of weekly transactions– the dashboard maintains track of each data, which is essential for users.

Explorer-as-a-service (EaaS):
The Explorer-as-a-service (EaaS) offering in TraceHawk is designed to eliminate the hassle of Cosmos SDK chains for hosting or managing a custom block explorer. With a fully-hosted and fully-managed block explorer, all the heavy lifting of infrastructure maintenance, on-demand scaling, and upgrade will become the accountability of TraceHawk’s team.

Branding & customization:

Customization & branding options in TraceHawk aim to offer Cosmos SDK chains a completely personalized blockchain explorer. Projects can choose from broad customization options such as adding unique functionality, expanding the search option, integrating a distinct watchlist, optimizing token support for ERC tokens, and much more.

Alignment for Appchains-as-a-service:

TraceHawk is 100% aligned with Appchains-as-a-service. With appchain-specific features, flexibility & modularity, and the explorer-as-a-service, TraceHawk serves as a highly suitable block explorer for Cosmos SDK chains launching with Appchains-as-a-service platforms. Instead of building a block explorer, Cosmos SDK chains can simply plug-and-play TraceHawk into their ecosystem. Or if they want, customization can be done to the explorer.

Try TraceHawk for your Cosmos SDK chains

Given that Cosmos SDK is a leading framework for building application-specific blockchains, a lot of projects are encouraged to build their permissioned or public chains. If you are one among them, you might be looking for a next-gen block explorer. At this point, TraceHawk will serve as a full-fledged block explorer trusted by leading L2 networks such as Memento ZK and The Binary Holding L2. Hence, if you want more information about TraceHawk, its features, or rollup-specific offerings, feel free to ask our experts. You can also schedule a call to discuss your requirements for a block explorer.

Tracing Polkadot Parachains with TraceHawk: The Next-Gen Block Explorer share

TraceHawk — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:40:36 +0000

TraceHawk is now offering a dedicated block explorer for Polkadot Parachains. Enterprises, startups, or individual developers that are launching their use case-specific Parachain can now use TraceHawk as their personalized explorer. This launch is an addition to TraceHawk’s existing block explorer offering for OP Stack rollups, Arbitrum Orbit L3s, ZKsync Hyperchain, and Polygon CDK chains. TraceHawk Explorer for Polkadot Parachains is designed to simplify on-chain and end-to-end explorer management through explorer-as-a-service.

Hence, this article discusses TraceHawk’s comprehensive offering for Parachains. We will learn more about Parachains and then understand how TraceHawk is streamlining network exploration for diverse Parachains.

What are Polkadot Parachains?

Polkadot Parachains represents next-generation Layer-1 blockchains that can be customized to suit application-specific needs, including DeFi, Gaming, supply chain, NFTs, and DAOs. IoT, and beyond. Projects can optimize Parachains for both form and function to adjust the level of security, scalability, and user experience. These chains are interconnected and unified through the Relay chain to achieve interoperability and cutting-edge security.

Polkadot Parachains offers an array of possibilities for designing a Layer1 chain. This includes Parachains with independent tokenomics, system Parachains, Bridge Parachains, Parachain hubs, smart contract Parachains, and Appchains. With such uniqueness in design, features, and architecture– Polkadot Parachains might often need their own personalized block explorer that can reflect the specific identity of their chain and offer an integrated experience to users. That’s where TraceHawk takes the hold. Let’s learn more about TraceHawk. Also, if you want to dive deeper into Parachains, read this dedicated article.

A brief about TraceHawk Block Explorer

TraceHawk is a white-labeled blockchain explorer designed to be open-source, customizable, and easily scalable. TraceHawk is best suited for all kinds of blockchains, from Layer1 blockchains to Layer2 rollups and appchains built with Polygon CDK, OP Stack, Arbitrum, Orbit, ZKstack, Cosmos SDK, Substrate, and more. TraceHawk comes with an intuitive design, top-level features, and functionalities that make blockchain exploration a cherishing experience for all levels of users. Highly rich UX, blazing-fast queries, branding options, secure APIs, the latest token support, and 24/7 monitoring are the main features that make TraceHawk a full-fledged explorer. However, chains have the flexibility to customize TraceHawk and make it specific to their chain. That’s just a snapshot of TraceHawk. If you want to learn more, check the detailed guide below: Introducing TraceHawk: A Full-suite Multi-ecosystem Block Explorer

How TraceHawk serves as a ultimate block explorer for Polkadot Parachains?

Multi-Parachains support:

As a high-precision block explorer, TraceHawk allows users to dive through the data and essential information from a range of Parachains and the Polkadot Network itself. Meaning that, users on your Parachain will enjoy an accessible and highly transparent overview of chains like Moonbeam, Acala, Astar, Energy Web X, Phala, Ajuna, and many more. Also, if you want to customize the default list of supported Parachains, TraceHawk team allows you to do so without raising any challenge.

Rich data from Polkadot Parachains:

TraceHawk provides you access to rich on-chain data similar to the following:

Transactions: Shows a comprehensive list of transactions, validated and pending ones.

Blocks: Shows a detailed list of Parachain’s blocks. Get them all once or filter the data based on ‘Forked’ or ‘Uncles’ categories.

Top accounts: Allow users to search top accounts and their address based on the token balance it holds, percentage of the balance, and transaction count.

Withdrawals: Provides a list of withdrawals (moving tokens/assets) from Parachain to a different remote chains or the Relay chain.

Verified contracts: Shows all the contracts that are successfully verified. Authenticate with data such as address, token balance, version, and its verification time.

Powerful API service:

TraceHawk offers two widely-used APIs, Rest and GraphQL APIs, that are optimized for high availability & performance. These APIs are easy to use, safe, and stable and meet the requirements of Parachain developers. Further, TraceHawk understands the specific requirements of projects building on your Parachain, for example, API limits and customization in service. Therefore, TraceHawk offers advanced, flexible API service without creating any challenges.

Analytics dashboard & charts:

TraceHawk offers a graphical analytics dashboard and charts that insightfully present the complex Parachain data. Be it chain-level data such as blocks, transactions, events, block time, gas consumption, or a list of weekly transactions, the dashboard will show all these data, which get updated in real-time for accuracy. Using this dashboard, users will be able to closely monitor a Parachain network, maintain a real-time overview, and derive essential insights.

NFTs & token explorer:

TraceHawk offers streamlined access to NFT-related Parachain data, allowing users to perform searches based on their preferred NFT (ERC-721 tokens), Polkadot’s DOT token, Moonbeam’s GLMR token, and so on. Through its advanced searching capabilities, TraceHawk lets users easily and quickly fetch details about the respective smart contracts, minters, token/NFT balance, transfers, etc. You can leverage the customization option and add your preferred tokens on TraceHawk.

Robust Gas tracker:

Gas tracker is one of TraceHawk’s critical tools that allows your Parachain network users to track and monitor the gas consumption of transactions across the chain. By providing gas usage based on congestion level, such as slow, average, and fast transaction processing– TraceHawk allows users to estimate their own transaction cost and thereby make informed decisions about using gas for their transactions. Gas trackers are useful for Parachains that want to maintain transparency in cost while also constantly optimizing the network’s performance in terms of throughput and speed.

Rapid contract verification:

Using TraceHawk, anyone can verify smart contracts and publish them in one-click. Once these contracts are verified, the corresponding source code becomes public for independent verification. For example, developers on your Parachain network can authenticate any smart contract before interacting with or utilizing it.

Explorer as-a-service:

With EaaS, TraceHawk offers a fully-manged and hosted block explorer for Polkadot Parachains. Each heavy lifting will be handled on TraceHawk’s end, whether infrastructure maintenance, scaling, or upgrades. Also, TraceHawk’s explorer-as-a-service comes with a 24/7 monitoring & analytics system optimized for 99.9% Enterprise SLA.

Optimized for BaaS:

TraceHawk is designed with blockchain infrastructure-as-a-service (BaaS) in mind. Its appchain-specific features, great flexibility in customization, and explorer-as-a-service support are the main features that cater to the demand for BaaS. Instead of building a block explorer from scratch, BaaS platforms can opt for customization and include TraceHawk in their integration stack as a pluggable Parachain block explorer.

Fully customizable:

As mentioned, TraceHawk serves as your personalized block explorer for Polkadot Parachains. You will have a wide range of customization options, such as adding features relevant to your chain, adding search support for new tokens, creating a different watchlist, or even optimizing the user interface. The customization possibilities on TraceHawk are endless. We also provide customized services for unique functions.

Buiding your Parachain? Try Tracehawk!

If you are planning to build a Polkadot Parachain, or you already manage one, TraceHawk block explorer is by far the most ready and powerful block explorer that can simplify the on-chain experience while offering you a tailor-made blockchain explorer. Prominent web3 industry players, Binary Holding L2 and Momento ZK L2s, are scaling with TraceHawk. Next, it can be your chain. Besides the brief walk-through of TraceHawk’s features, if you want additional information or have any queries, feel free to connect with our experts. Also, we are open to discussing your project requirements on a one-to-one call.

TraceHawk’s Explorer as a Service: Elevate Rollup & AppChain Analytics

TraceHawk — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 11:38:25 +0000

Enter Explorer as a Service.

What is Explorer-as-a-Service (EaaS)?

Benefits of Explorer as a Service

Here are some key aspects of Explorers as a Service:

Customization: While offering out-of-the-box functionality, these services typically also allow for significant customization to meet the specific needs of different blockchain architectures. This includes tracking unique transaction types, smart contracts, and other network-specific data.

Maintenance and Updates: The service provider handles all aspects of maintenance, updates, and technical support. This ensures the block explorer remains current with the latest blockchain network changes and technological advancements, reducing the technical burden on the blockchain operators.

Cost-Effectiveness: Since building and maintaining a custom block explorer can be resource-intensive, using an as-a-service model can be a more cost-effective solution, especially for smaller or emerging blockchain projects.

Explorer as a Service for Appchains & Rollups

Appchains and rollups are specialized blockchain environments designed for efficiency and scalability. They often handle complex, high-volume transactions that standard blockchains might not manage as effectively. However,t with these innovations come unique challenges, especially when it comes to monitoring and analyzing blockchain activity.

Here’s where EaaS shines:

TraceHawk for Your Block Explorer Explorer-as-a-Service(EaaS)?

TraceHawk also supports all the latest token standards, such as ERC677 and ERC 4337, along with the former ERC20, ERC721, and ERC 1155 standards.