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

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:

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

5. 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. 

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.’ 

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..

1. 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. 

 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. 

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.

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: 

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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

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:

1. 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. 

2. 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. 

3. 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. 

4. 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. 

5. 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. 

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 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.

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:

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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.

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.

1. 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. 

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.

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

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

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. 

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. 

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. 

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!  

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. 

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. 

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

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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!

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. 

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. 

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.  

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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!

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. 

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. 

Here are some key aspects of Explorers as a Service:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

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 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; 

1. 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. 

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

3. 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. 

4. 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.  

The multi-chain paradigm in blockchain is gaining huge traction. And, now it demands more advanced block explorers, which should be innovative and optimized for next-gen features like multi-ecosystem support, extensibility, and high level of security. Considering this, we are building TraceHawk that intends to further increase the usefulness of block explorers and enhance the existing experience of blockchain exploration.

As a full-suite, multi-chain, plus personalized explorer– TraceHawk is designed to allow everyone access to a range of on-chain analytics and all sorts of data from custom Layer1 and Layer2s in an intuitive way. Whether you are building a web3 application or a blockchain network, TraceHawk is the way to derive specific on-chain insights from the sea of blockchain data.

TraceHawk is a white-labeled blockchain explorer designed to be open-source, customizable, and universally accessible. TraceHawk allows users to easily interact with and inspect on-chain across a range of chains & projects, including EVM chains, appchains, and Layer2/Layer3 rollups built on Cosmos, Polkadot, Substrate, and more. TraceHawk empowers projects with their own personalized block explorer for a more custom on-chain experience backed by robust functionalities and intuitive design that is equally useful for all levels of users.

Having your TraceHawk explorer means you will save significant time managing explorers. That’s because TraceHawk offers fully managed and hosted blockchain explorers. In addition, you will access a wide range of features related to user experience, performance, security, and compliance.

With multi-level optimization and enterprise SLA, TraceHawk has been integrated with the capability to offer blazing-fast data queries and block synching. This enables users to get instant responses to every query, which is made possible by rapid data syncing. TraceHawk guarantees that your explorer will never face downtime or lagging issues, regardless of the volume of searches it has to handle.

TraceHawk offers the best-in-class user experience with its friendly interface designed for seamless navigation and exploration of all types of blockchains. With search bars, multiple filters, and sorting options (for date, value, and similar parameters), you can pull data quickly without hassle. Additionally, TraceHawk has advanced features such as direct access to real-time data and auto-updating price feeds to enable a holistic view of blockchain ecosystems.

TraceHawk allows users to dive deeper into a range of Layer1/ Layer2 blockchains, rollups, and appchains. Be it a broad ecosystem like 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, TraceHawk’s full-suite block explorer provides detailed analytics from all kinds of chains.

By using TraceHawk’s white-labeled blockchain explorer, you get interesting branding and customization options to match the specific theme of your use case. Here, you can simply make modifications on the existing explorer and use it as a personalized explorer for your business. As evident already, this will allow you to save the time and resources that you would otherwise be spending on building a custom explorer from scratch.

Given that ERC tokens have always been the spotlight in the broad Web3 ecosystem, TraceHawk supports ERC20, ERC721, ERC677, and ERC1155 token standards. Users can simply use TraceHawk’s Explorer to perform a query about their preferred token and obtain the data right away. For example, you can get a concise list of addresses holding ERC721 tokens (representing NFTs) in just a few seconds.

TraceHawk leverages secure and reliable APIs to provide users with the most accurate and detailed blockchain and Web3 market data without any heavy lifting or additional cost for synching and storing precise data. And, with its flexibility to update data feeds and add new data as needed, TraceHawk keeps you relevant despite rapidly changing markets.

To track performance of your block explorer, TraceHawk offers a sleek monitoring dashboard that oversees the whole activity and produces critical metrics such as total CPU consumed, memory running out, network bandwidth, load balancer, and so on. All these details are presented on a graphical dashboard for easy understanding. Plus, as all the aggregated important details are provided in one place, the monitoring dashboard keeps you informed about Explorer’s various aspects in real-time. Also, you will get support and assistance from blockchain experts who are skilled at bypassing all kinds of issues in almost no time.

TraceHawk offers enterprise SLA (Service Level Agreement) to commit to a high response time and an uptime of around 99.9%. Incase of an unexpected outage or other issue impacting your explorer’s performance, there will be an instant resolution. Likewise, TraceHawk has different support methods, including email support, phone support, as well as ‘on-demand’ dedicated custom support for customers requiring one-to-one discussion with experts. Both of these services are focused on maintaining a certain level of TraceHawk’s service quality and meanwhile allow businesses to scale endlessly without any barriers.

As discussed, TraceHawk comes with an easy-to-use interface that simplifies the whole process– from exploring the blockchain ecosystem to keeping a pulse on explorer’s performance and extensibility options.

Knowing that every business has its own requirements and allocation for the budget, TraceHawk has designed flexible subscription plans that businesses can get customized to suit specific organizational needs.

Although customizability is an important feature of TraceHawk, you can also simply plug and play the explorer as it is to start exploring their preferred blockchain networks. Such ready-to-use blockchain explorers save you significant time and cost needed either for building or customization.

TraceHawk is built to make it radically easy for enterprises and web3 developers to enhance transparency in their blockchain-based applications with meaningful on-chain data. Integrating TraceHawk into your application or network is straightforward and requires only a few steps. However, we encourage web3 enthusiasts to try TraceHawk and explore its unique features & benefits. If you want to evaluate TraceHawk or become an adapter, feel free to contact us. For more information about TraceHawk, you can mail us your queries or schedule a quick call with our team.

In this article, we will delve into what block explorers are, how they work, what on-chain data truly means, and why every business that plans to operate on-chain should have a block explorer.

A block explorer is essentially a search engine for blockchains, initially introduced in public chains where transparency and unrestricted access are paramount. It allows users to look up detailed information on transactions, explore wallet addresses, and examine the blocks themselves, ensuring that anyone can verify the activities on the blockchain without needing permission.

For individual users or businesses observing public chains, the practicality of a block explorer lies in its ability to deliver real-time data. You can see the amount transferred, the wallets involved in transactions, and the exact timestamp of each transaction, all of which are crucial for tracking and verifying movements within the blockchain. Information about blocks — their mining time, position in the blockchain sequence, and the transactions they contain — helps users ensure the integrity of the network and follow its growth accurately. This demonstrates one of the critical benefits of block explorers: real-time data access and verification.

Beyond transaction and block details, blockchain explorers also offer a comprehensive suite of network-level information. This includes the current hash rate, reflecting the computing power dedicated to mining new blocks and securing the network, and the size of the mempool, indicating the volume of pending transactions awaiting confirmation. Such comprehensive information underscores the importance of block explorers in the context of network health and activity.

The dashboard of a block explorer, such as Etherscan, presents this information systematically, displaying everything from the latest blocks and their details to overarching network statistics like the current mining difficulty and transaction volumes. This level of detail is invaluable for users who rely on up-to-the-minute data to make informed decisions, like checking how many confirmations are pending before a transferred token shows up in your balance.

Blockchain explorers also play a crucial role in verifying the integrity of smart contract codes on public chains. By transforming indecipherable byte code into a human-readable format, these tools allow counterparties to thoroughly review and validate the underlying logic before engaging in any transactions or queries. With intuitive ledger APIs, users can also tailor their data views, focusing on the granular details that matter to them. This customization can reveal patterns and insights to businesses that might otherwise remain hidden within the expanse of blockchain data.

Now, before we delve into the importance of block explorers further, let’s explore their architecture, which is vital for their function.

Block explorers function as an encyclopedia that catalogs every transaction and block detail, which is especially critical in public chains where data must be transparent and readily accessible. These explorers connect to full/archive nodes within the blockchain network, allowing them to download and store a complete copy of the blockchain’s data. This comprehensive repository enables efficient and precise searches for specific transactions, blocks, or wallet activities.

The block explorer’s backend systems continuously monitor the blockchain, listening for new blocks and transactions. As these updates occur, the explorer’s indexing engine springs into action, parsing the incoming data and storing it in a high-performance database. This setup ensures that the front-end applications can quickly retrieve and display the information requested by users, providing a smooth and responsive experience that is critical for public chain interactions.

So, if we break it down, their architecture consists mainly of three components:

1. Frontend: This is the interface where all the blockchain data becomes accessible to users. It displays the information in an easy-to-understand format, helping users navigate and interact with the data efficiently.

2. APIs: These act as bridges between the blockchain’s full nodes and the explorer’s backend. The APIs retrieve data from the nodes, including new transactions and recently mined blocks, ensuring the explorer is always up-to-date.

3. Database: Here, the data provided by the APIs is organized and stored. Most block explorers use a relational database structured with SQL, which allows for complex queries to be performed with high efficiency. This structure is crucial because it not only stores the data but also indexes it, making search operations fast and reliable.

Through this structure, the benefits of block explorers in streamlining search operations become evident.

The process starts when a user queries a wallet address, for example. The request is processed through the API, which pulls relevant transaction details from the public chain nodes. This data is then indexed in the SQL database, allowing users to view comprehensive transaction histories and wallet balances almost instantly on the front end. This quick and user-friendly data retrieval process highlights the importance of block explorers for the end-user experience.

The relational database’s ability to connect different tables (e.g., transactions linked to specific blocks or addresses) simplifies data management and enhances the query capabilities of the block explorer. This setup not only supports the retrieval of specific data like transaction volumes or the activity status of a wallet but also powers more complex functions such as smart contract verification. This feature decodes the bytecode of smart contracts into readable text, ensuring transparency and security before transactions are executed.

Maintaining the real-time nature of block explorer data is a hard job, though, as blockchain networks can generate vast amounts of information at a breakneck pace. To address this challenge, block explorer developers implement a range of optimization techniques, including caching mechanisms, parallel processing, and event-driven architectures. All these help to reduce latency and ensure that users have the most up-to-date and accurate blockchain data available.

The importance of block explorers extends into the realm of custom blockchains as well, like appchains and rollups. While the basic skeleton of block explorers remains mostly the same whether operating on public or custom L1/L2/L3 chains, custom explorers often incorporate additional features such as better dashboards and enhanced analytical tools tailored to the specific needs of the custom chain environment.

These enhancements can include more detailed network metrics, customized data views for specific types of transactions, and advanced user interfaces designed to accommodate the unique aspects of the custom chains they serve. This adaptability ensures that whether a user is interacting with a public blockchain or a specialized custom chain, the block explorer provides a reliable, insightful, and comprehensive view of the blockchain’s activities.

Reflecting on both public and custom chains, we see the overarching importance of block explorers across different blockchain architectures.

Now is the time for appchains and rollups. Every dApp has its own chains. It could be standalone L1 blockchains built using Cosmos SDK, substrate chains, Avalanche Subnets, or any L2/L3 EVM rollup chains. It could be a Hyperledger Besu chain as well if anyone wants a public-permissioned network. Examining the importance of block explorers for appchains and rollups reveals several advantages.

1. Transparency: With a proprietary block explorer, adding blocks to your blockchain becomes completely transparent and verifiable. Blockchain OGs’ ” don’t trust, verify” mantra can work in your favor, as everyone can clearly see which transactions are included in each block. The benefits of block explorers are particularly pronounced in custom chain environments, where transparency is paramount.

2. Visibility: The importance of block explorers is also seen in how they enhance the visibility of transactions to stakeholders. A custom block explorer puts your token, swaps, wallet activity, or other blockchain-based parameters front and center, making your growth and interactions with third-party services (such as yield farming, liquidity provision, swaps, NFT minting, or similar actions) visible to all. This enhanced visibility can be a powerful driver of trust and adoption.

3. Operability: By running your own block explorer, you can issue cryptographically verified “receipts” and certificates to your clients, complementing traditional confirmation emails, if you wish. This adds an extra layer of trust and transparency to your business operations.

4. Comprehensive Data Representation: Unlike standard block explorers, your custom-built solution can accurately display all the specific data and features of your blockchain network, including custom token standards, unique transaction types, and other proprietary characteristics.

5. Tailored Analytics and Insights: A dedicated block explorer allows you to provide in-depth analytical tools and visualizations that are optimized for the specific needs of your ecosystem. This empowers every stakeholder to extract meaningful insights from the wealth of data on your blockchain.

6. Enhanced User Experience: By catering to your blockchain-based business’s unique requirements, a custom block explorer can significantly improve the overall user experience, fostering increased engagement, a better understanding of your network’s operations, and greater trust in your offerings.

7. Compliance with regulatory requirements: In an increasingly complex regulatory landscape, a custom block explorer can be an invaluable asset. By providing granular visibility into transaction flows, wallet activities, and smart contract executions, you can proactively identify and address potential compliance issues, mitigating legal and financial risks while reinforcing your commitment to transparency.

8. Effective Monitoring and Troubleshooting: A customized block explorer is a crucial role in monitoring the performance and health of your blockchain network. It provides detailed insights into network metrics, transaction flows, Liveness, and potential metrics, enabling your teams to identify and address any problems that may arise quickly.

9. Data-Driven Decision Making: The rich data and analytical capabilities offered by a dedicated block explorer can empower your team to make more informed, data-driven decisions about your blockchain-based operations. RESTful APIs and multiple filters offered by block explorers can be useful for bespoke reporting.

As we evolve, so too should the tools we use to understand on-chain interactions. Custom block explorers are becoming indispensable for anyone serious about leveraging the advanced capabilities of appchains and rollups. Whether opting for self-hosted solutions, which offer complete control and customization at the cost of building from scratch or managed services that ensure ease and reliability with necessary customizations, selecting the right block explorer is crucial; these tools not only enhance transparency and trust but also equip users with the insights needed for effective decision-making. As we move forward, the sophistication of block explorers will undoubtedly increase, keeping pace with the complexity and specificity of the blockchain architectures and the precise applications they are designed to illuminate.

Transparency and accessibility are the most important aspects of any blockchain, and they have been equipped well with today’s advanced block explorers. However, the need for explorers in rollups can differ. That’s because blockchain rollups are based on distinct scaling concepts when compared to Layer2 solutions although both have the same end goal of boosting blockchain scalability. 

Considering this, TraceHawk is stepping up to redefine users’ experience of interacting with their Layer2 or Layer3 rollup chains. Through this article, we will shed light on TraceHawk’s specific functionalities and features designed to offer a reliable block explorer for OP Stack rollups.

TraceHawk is an open-source, fully customisable block explorer for developers, users, and researchers to explore and scrutinize all sorts of blockchain-level transactions. Designed as a multi-ecosystem explorer, TraceHawk supports all the custom L1/L2/L3 chains, rollups and appchains based on leading frameworks such as OP Stack, Arbitrum Orbit, Polygon CDK, Zk Sync Era, Cosmos SDK, Substrate, and more. Highly interactive UX, blazing-fast response, broad options for branding, powerful APIs and multiple token support are some of the main features of TraceHawk explorer. However, TraceHawk can be easily customized to offer all the features specific to your project and provide all the transactional and other network-specific data once they are finalized. Want to dive deeper into TraceHawk? Get end-to-end information from the blog linked below:

TraceHawk: A Full-suite Multi-ecosystem Block Explorer

Due to multiple rollups featuring their unique architecture/working mechanism, users may face challenges while navigating, retrieving, and validating specific data using general-purpose explorers as they are usually optimised for main chains. Speaking about OP Stack rollups, users can experience challenges to fetch Layer2 transactions or navigate blobs or there can be fragmentation in output roots data. An OP stack rollups-specific explorer like TraceHawk can remove all these pitfalls and is also specialized to support OP Stack rollup chains, allowing users to get in-depth insights from OP Stack networks such as Layer2 transactions, deposits, bathed transactions, output roots, verified contracts, and other data related to the other operations taking place across the network. 

As discussed, TraceHawk explorer is designed to support for all the leading rollup chains. Below are its main offerings for OP Stack rollups:

As a rollup-optimized explorer, TraceHawk’s primary feature is to allow users to fetch a comprehensive and interactive list of all the deposits happening from Layer1 to Layer2 rollup. Within one click, you will see the entire data on the explorer’s interface. Likewise, you can get the deposit list of Layer2 OP stack rollups. 

TraceHawk explorer provides you a comprehensive list of details for Layer2 —>Layer1 withdrawal. Data for this interface keeps updating in real-time, showing the updated insights. Further, you can dive deeper into the withdrawal data to get information such as withdrawal status, method, contract details, transaction fee, etc.

If your OP Stack rollup is built upon Optimism (or any other layer2), instead of Layer1, and it uses Layer3 for off-chain transaction processing, then TraceHawk will allow you to effortless navigate the L3 ecosystem and retrieve the comprehensive list of transactions through its OP Stack explorer. 

OP Stack rollups publish compressed transaction batches to Layer1 to ensure data integrity and 100% availability. Using TraceHawk, you can get a list of all these transaction batches that are posted on Layer1 through a specific sequencer. Also, if your OP Stack chain has incorporated an off-chain DA layer like Celestia, Eigen DA, or NEAR DA– the TraceHawk explorer will also fetch data from that alternative DA and provide it through the explorer. 

Knowing that output roots play a vital role in maintaining OP rollups’ state, TraceHawk allows you to get a list of Layer2 blocks’ output roots out of the vast indexed database. 

Apart from addresses, hash, and blocks– TraceHawk explorer allows for the filtering of various tokens, for example, Optimism (OP) in the case of OP Stack. Through this option, you can get all the essential token data, such as real-time token price, holders, contract, market cap, and total supply within the explorer interface, eliminating the need to exit. Similar to this, you can retrieve data about any ERC20, ERC-721, ERC-1155, and all the other relevant ERC tokens. 

Interact with the comprehensive blobs-carrying transaction details and navigate through blob’s content seamlessly on TraceHawk. The explorer allows you to get blob data across various formats, assisting you to have a firm understanding of Blobs’ significance and its structure within the whole Optimism ecosystem.

TraceHawk has the gas tracker feature to help users explore real-time OP Mainnet gas prices, historical gas fee trends, and details of gas utilized by various contracts. Further, the gas tracker accommodates for monitoring network’s gas expenses, validating the usage, and seamless management of all the gas-related processes. 

Access a wealth of on-chain insights into Optimism network’s operations. TraceHawk’s analytics feature presents all sorts of information in an easy to understand manner via graphical charts & metrics to provide a detailed view of OP stack rollups, blocks, blobs, and transactions happening all across the ecosystem.

To enable stand-out user experience in your OP Stack chains, a highly performant and scalable block explorer plays a vital role. That’s why TraceHawk offers a state-of-the-art block explorer for OP Stack rollups that are designed to serve as a fully-hosted and fully-managed solution, eliminating the heavy lifting on your end.

To provide you highly-specific data and make development a breeze, TraceHawk offers secure and optimised public APIs that allow you to quickly fetch a range of data, such as blockchain data, wallet data, token details, NFT data, as well as market insights– all through just single lines of codes. 

TraceHawk’s block explorer for OP Stack rollups is now available for web3 projects to use and unlock a whole new experience of exploring the L2 and L3 rollup ecosystems which foster a more transparent and inclusive environment. Note that TraceHawk is not limited to the features and benefits that we discussed in this blog post. Rather, it has endless customization possibilities to match your use case requirement. Hence, if you are building an OP Stack rollup or any other rollup and you need a custom blockchain explorer, feel free to connect with us. Our experts will be happy to handle your queries and streamline your project.

TraceHawk is excited to offer a dedicated block explorer for ZkSync Hyperchains. From the beginning, TraceHawk understands the significant need for a personalized block explorer, especially for application-specific blockchains and L2/L3 rollups. Hence, after the successful launch of OP Stack and Arbitrum Orbit block explorer, TraceHawk is now rolling out a reliable zkSync hyperchain explorer that abstracts all kinds of complexities hyperchain users might face. Plus, TraceHawk has some feature addons to further enhance your block explorer’s experience.

This article highlights TraceHawk’s specific offering for zkSync Hyperchains, aiming to give you a clear idea about how TraceHawk works and why it can be an ultimate block explorer for hyperchain users. 

zkSync Hyperchains represents a unique concept of zk-powered chains, which abides by a sophisticated rollup architecture and are connected through hyperbridges to achieve interoperability & modularity. This means, a general-use blockchain explorer may not be fully suited for hyperchains users as they may face challenges while diving deeper into validium-specific data, blobs, or Layer3 networks. Considering this, TraceHawk has created a custom block explorer for zkSync Hyperchains that solves all the existing challenges of block explorers and meanwhile offer next-level customizations for a boost. 

Like we discussed, TraceHawk block explorer supports all the popular rollups. For zkSync Hyperchains, TraceHawk offers a range of specific features that makes it a preferred choice:

1. In-depth Layer2 Hyperchains search:

TraceHawk allows users to perform a deep search into Layer2 hyperchains, retrieving the following main data:

• Verified and pending transactions- Get an interactive list of validated as well as pending transactions for real-time and historical insights.

• Block viewing- View a detailed list of all the zkSync hyperchain blocks. Filter the data based on ‘Forked’ and ‘Uncles’ block parameters. 

• Top accounts list- Search for all the top-rated accounts along with their current token balance and transaction count.

• Verified contract list- Fetch a list of all the Hyperchain contracts that are verified along with total contracts and verified contract stats. Check their token balance, compiler & version, configuration details, verification time, and license type.

• Withdrawals- Utilize the withdrawal section to get all the withdrawals happening between L2 zkSync hyperchains and Layer1 Ethereum. Get proper index, block number, address, token value, and withdrawal time– all from the same portal.

2. Smart blobs scanner: 

TraceHawk comes with an intuitive blobs scanner support, allowing hyperchain users to retrieve their preferred blob information from the comprehensive database. And, to enable a smooth blobs search, TraceHawk implements powerful indexers that interact with network’s consensus and execution clients to store blobs data in postgres database. For ease, TraceHawk supports retrieval of blobs data via APIs & RPCs.

3. Multi-tokens & NFT search: 

TraceHawk’s block explorer for zkSync hyperchain is optimized with a multi-token & NFT search feature. This option allows users to search and instantly retrieve all the necessary token details like contract name, creator details, balance, transactions, gas consumption, or sponsored gas fee (if any). Like for zkSync Hyperchain, you can explore details about ZK tokens. Additionally, you can filter the tokens based on their ERC standards. TraceHawk currently supports ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-1155, and ERC-404. Plus, the explorer keeps on adding support to the latest standards.

4. Contract verification & publish:

TraceHawk explorer allows zkSync Hyperchain users and developers to verify smart contracts and publish them in just 1-click. 

Once your contracts are successfully verified and published, their source code will be publicly accessible and verifiable independently. This way, TraceHawk supports great convenience and meanwhile makes way for enhanced transparency and convenience for developers on the zkSync ecosystem to interact with contracts and utilize them for their purpose. 

Let’s quickly see the contract verification process: 

For contract verification & publishing, TraceHawk requires a valid smart contract address, licensing details, and contract verification method. Based on the method you choose, you need to upload the necessary files (see all these details in the image below). Add all the details and click ‘verify & publish’ to finish.

5. L3 zkSync Hyperchain data: 

A lot of web3 projects are transitioning to L3s to achieve better interoperability, modularity, and unlimited scalability. In case you have deployed zkSync Hyperchains as Layer3, for example- Zk rollup, zkPorter, or Validium, TraceHawk can be your go-to block explorer tool to perform a deep L3 search. Get block details, transactions, L3—>L2 withdrawals, and other critical information altogether.

6. Alternative DA layer’s data:

zkSync hyperchains are designed with integrated modularity and now with zSync’s L3 solution, hyperchain developers have the choice for multiple data availability options. So, if your chain implements alternative/off-chain DA layer, TraceHawk enables you to take deep dive into alt 

7. High-availability public APIs:

TraceHawk offers high-availability  REST and GraphQL APIs, enabling hyperchain users as well as zkSync developers to query on-chain data directly via API endpoints. Note that these APIs are publicly accessible and are designed to promote simplicity to accommodate all levels of data consumers. 

8. End-to-end personalization:

As a fully customizable block explorer, TraceHawk allows for endless personalization to match unique appchains and rollups’ needs— including zkSync hyperchains. That means, projects using TraceHawk have the flexibility to personalize the explorer’s interface and features such as custom search, support for additional tokens, special watchlist, and a lot more. 

9. Gas tracker:

Knowing that gas is an important factor for hyperchain users, TraceHawk offers a robust gas tracker feature. Using this, you can view all the gas detailed details on the explorer’s interface, get real-time critical updates on gas usage, and also gas fee based on  various network conditions; during average, fast, and slow network or timeline-based historical trends on contract’s gas consumption.

10. Real-time graphical stats, charts & analytics:  

TraceHawk offers a comprehensive dashboard showing real-time statistics, graphical charts, and frequent updates about the zkSync hyperchain ecosystem. More specifically, you will get the following data:

• Daily & weekly transactions- Get accurate stats on daily as well as weekly transactions presented through an easy-to-understand line chart. 

• Chain-specific data- See total added blocks, average block time, gas fee, total transactions, and total wallet addresses.

• Latest blocks- Get a snapshot of the most recent blocks adding on the zkSync network. 

• Latest transactions- See brief details of the latest transactions coming into the network. You have the choice to expand and view transactions altogether. 

11. Explorer-as–a-service (EaaS):

Explorer-as-a-service (EaaS) in TraceHawk  provides fully-managed and fully-hosted block explorers for zkSync hyperchains. From infrastructure maintenance, to on-time optimizations and scaling– TraceHawk does all the heavy lifting so that you can focus on the progress of your hyperchain. Further, to ensure top-notch performance & uptime of your explorer, TraceHawk implements an advanced 24/7 monitoring system with 99.9% Enterprise SLA. This keeps a close track of the explorer’s performance and produces real-time alerts to notify the network administrator. Note that alerts are immediately handled and are solved automatically on the backend before it can impact the performance.

12. RaaS Alignment:

Because of effortless optimization and a range of rollup-specific features, TraceHawk is now well aligned to be used for RaaS or Rollups-as–a-service based zkSync hyperchains.  Whether you manage chains on your own or use a RaaS infrastructure, TraceHawk can be easily plugged in to serve as a full-fledged block explorer. Also, RaaS providers that offer support to zkSync hyperchains can include TraceHawk as their default block explorer in RaaS stack. 

The TraceHawk block explorer for zkSync hyperchains is ready for projects to utilize for zkSync Hyperchains. Obviously, TraceHawk’s offerings are notably more than what we discussed in this article. Also, customizations are endless to suit specific requirements. So, if you are building a zkSync Hyperchain or you look for a rollup-optimized explorer for an existing hyperchain, feel free to connect with us. Our experts are also open to handle all your queries related to TraceHawk and its offerings for rollups and appchains. Send your concerns via mail or scehedule one-to-one call, whichever is feasible. 

Rollups are distinct from L2 protocols, and so is their need for a block explorer. TraceHawk recognized the unique capabilities of an explorer designed especially to serve L2/L3 rollups. That’s why, after the successful launch of the OP Stack explorer, TraceHawk is stoked again to offer a block explorer for Arbitrum Orbit. The decision to roll out an Orbit-specific rollup is also due to the rising demand for Orbit chains, leading to the development of 40+ chains spanning across web3 gaming, DeFi, NFTs, RWA, and socialFi.

In this article, we will dive into the core offerings of TraceHawk Block explorer for Arbitrum Orbit. Basically, we’ll understand how custom block explorers are accommodating various rollups and what makes TraceHawk a specialized block explorer for L3 Orbit chains. And, if you want to learn about end-to-end details about TraceHawk, refer to its intro article linked here:

Introducing TraceHawk: A Full-suite Multi-ecosystem Block Explorer

Arbitrum Orbit, powered by Nitro rollups technology, offers innovative features such as on-demand scalability, custom gas token, modular data availability (DA), EIP-4844 support, and self-governance. Hence, a block explorer accommodating Orbit chains must be optimized to support all these next-gen features. With general-purpose explorers, users may come across challenges in getting the interactive data from Layer3, fetching bobs’ details, exploring off-chain DA layers, and more. Knowing this, block explorers nowadays are offering independent explorers that are created for Arbitrum Orbit chains. TraceHawk is one among them. 

TraceHawk offers a range of features that are uniquely designed to support Arbitrum Orbit chains, including the following:

TraceHawk allows users to delve deeper into L3 Arbitrum Orbit chains, providing them with the following main data; 

• Transactions– Search and view all the real-time and historical Layer2 and Layer3 transactions. 

• Internal contract transactions- Get a list of all the transactions occurring between contracts. TraceHawk’s backend indexes bulks of this data and presents via its explorer for users to see more easily.

• Blocks viewing- Check blocks-related details like block number and hash seamlessly on TraceHawk.

• Top accounts- Find out which accounts are gathering high traction on an Orbit chain.

• Verified accounts- See a list of all the verified accounts.

• Deposits & withdrawals- Get an interactive list of deposits made from base layer (Ethereum or Arbitrum) to the L2 Orbit chain. Likewise, TraceHawk provides you details of the withdrawal happening on Layer2.

Arbitrum Orbit utilizes Optimistic rollup technology, thus allowing rollup chains to publish batched transactions either on Layer1 or across off-chain DA layers like Celestia, NEAR DA, or Eigen DA. With TraceHawk, users can retrieve an interactive list of batched transactions from Layer1 as well as off-chain DA layer in a snap.

EIP-4844 introduces a cheaper and more reliable way for Arbitrum Orbit L2s to post transactions on Layer 1. TraceHawk, being at the forefront of EIB-4844 or blob support, provides users with easy access to retrieval of blob-specific transactions quickly via explorer’s interface.

Using TraceHawk explorer, users can verify and publish smart contracts in simple steps. Once verified, source code for all the contracts becomes accessible and independently verifiable. This creates enhanced transparency for users, and convenience for developers on Arbitrum Orbit to interact with and utilize the smart contract as needed.

As you can see in the image below, contract verification requires you to provide the smart contract address, contract license, and your preferred verification method. Provide all this information and continue to verify & publish a contract.

TraceHawk explorer for Arbitrum Orbit is integrated with an advanced token explorer that provides users with in-depth insights into ERC tokens. Speaking about Orbit, it will show details of $ARB token, such as token balance, total transactions, token balance, and other data of a certain smart contract. However, TraceHawk supports all the relevant ERC tokens; ERC-20, ERC- 721, ERC- 1155, ERC- 404.

Stay updated with real-time performance of your Orbit chain’s performance and updates. Leverage TraceHawk’s 24/7 analytics, statistics, and graphical charts to get the following data:

• Statistics: check average block time, completed transactions, total accounts, no. of verified accounts, total addresses, total blocks, no. of deployed contracts, token transfers, total token, and more.

• Graphs & charts: Get charts for crucial data trends such as Accounts (accounts growth, active accounts, new accounts, etc), transactions (average transaction fee, new transactions, success rate, etc), blocks (average blocks, average block size, new blocks, etc), token (total token transfers, new transfers, etc), gas (average gas limit, gas price, gas used, etc), contracts (verified contracts, contract growth, new contracts, etc).

TraceHawk Block explorer for Arbitrum Orbit is equipped with powerful publicly accessible APIs that developers can use to retrieve on-chain and relevant metadata data quickly via HTTP requests. The two highly feasible and widely used APIs– Rest and Graph APIs are currently available to enable seamless data interactions.

TraceHawk comes with a robust gas tracker feature that shows crucial updates on gas prices, such as per transaction cost (during fast, average, and slow network speed), average gas fee, and historical trends on contracts’ gas consumption via heat maps & charts. Seamless tracking allows users to get an in-depth view of a network’s gas consumption while enabling chain developers to further optimize the ecosystem for cost-effectiveness and performance. 

TraceHawk is built to serve as a personalized block explorer for all kinds of rollups, including Arbitrum Orbit chains. Therefore, enterprise developers have the freedom to tailor theirTraceHawk explorer’s user interface to suit use case-specific custom search, such as tags, watchlist, tokens, and more.

With TraceHawk’s EaaS, Arbitrum Orbit L3 chains get their fully-hosted and fully-managed block explorers. All the heavy lifting– be it infrastructure maintenance, ensuring top-notch performance or adding optimizations as per the future requirements, will be handled on TraceHawk’s end so that Orbit chains can focus on other important aspects of their ecosystem.

TraceHawk is designed to be effortlessly optimized according to the distinct specializations and processes of Rollups-as-a-service (RaaS) providers. RaaS providers offering Arbitrum Orbit support can include TraceHawk as the default explorer in their stack. Further, once deployed, orbit chains can customize their explorer to offer specific functionalities.

TraceHawk Block explorer for Arbitrum Orbit is ready to cater the needs of diverse web3 projects that seek to unlock a whole new experience of interacting and retrieving data from L3 ecosystems. Note that, the features and benefits discussed in this article represent TraceHawk’s main offerings. Besides this, TraceHawk supports endless customization to match your project’s requirements. If you are building or planning to build a Layer3 Orbit chain, contact us to get your personalized browser at significantly lower cost with rapid launch. Also, if you have any sort of query related to TraceHawk or its rollups-centric capabilities, feel free to mail us your concerns or get on a one-to-one call with our experts.