Block Explorer Directory

Ecosystem Updates
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I made a survey of Block Explorers for Zcash available on the web right now.* I hope it is valuable to the community as-is, and also can be extended if other community members want to offer links or updates.

ZCASH BLOCK EXPLORER DIRECTORY

MAINNET

Nighthawk, cacho. Pledged no trackers. ZCG Funded. Onion address available.

http://zcashfgzdzxwiy7yq74uejvo2ykppu4pzgioplcvdnpmc6gcu5k6vwyd.onion/

emersonian. ZCG funded. Fork of Nighthawk.

3xpl. Multi-coin multi-language. No ads. Fast. Onion address available. Hackable with sign-up (free for students and academics): Database dumps, PDF exports, JSON/Websocket API.

http://3xplor3rzajysy4j5fi3g3k27vivfcw75zjxdb2tg2wpz3i4cdiyhxyd.onion/

NowNodes. difficult without js. Free API key.

Trezor.

TESTNET

Nighthawk, cacho. Pledged no trackers. ZCG Funded. Onion address available.

http://zcashfgzdzxwiy7yq74uejvo2ykppu4pzgioplcvdnpmc6gcu5k6vwyd.onion/

pittmutt. needs js.

MEMPOOL

needs js. mempool only. cute! ପ(๑•ᴗ-๑)ଓ :heart:

BRIDGES

Near network. needs js, cloudflare.

https://nearblocks.io/token/zec.omft.near

Maya Protocol. needs js. doesn’t explore blocks.

NOT GREAT

needs js

needs js, charts and some info but not a full block explorer

so many scripts :sob:

https://blockexplorer.one/zcash/mainnet

https://blockexplorer.one/zcash/testnet

NOT FUNCTIONING

Nighthawk, cacho. server error when looking at blocks.

emersonian. has server errors when exploring blocks.

str4d.

https://explorer.testnet.z.cash/

Blockchair. block-level inspection appears broken. needs js. multi-coin multi-language. Onion address available.

http://blkchairbknpn73cfjhevhla7rkp4ed5gg2knctvv7it4lioy22defid.onion/

ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

https://zcha.in/

unknown

https://zcash.blockexplorer.com/

https://minergate.com/blockchain/zec/blocks

https://zcash.plutomonkey.com/

https://explorer.zecmate.com/

https://explorer.zcashfr.io/insight/

gambling page

https://zcashnetwork.info/

does not currently support zec

https://chain.so/

*Shoutout to @dismad and @Edicksonjga who offered me some links.

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As mentioned in Blockexplorer grant, testnet explorer is up.

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From the URL, I enable javascript and click blocks along the top navigation bar, I get to

https://testnet.zcashexplorer.app/blocks

where I see internal server error.

If I click on a specific block by blockheight, for example to here, the page loads as a 504 Gateway Time-out

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Thanks, that’s a great resource

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It’s syncing. The blockheight is a little higher every time you refresh.

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Amazing research thank you for investing the time into this!

We also maintain a Blockbook explorer for Zcash, I have found it to be the most reliable. We are working towards running a Blockbook also for testnet. Interestingly, Blockbook works with zebra 2.5.0 whereas the Nighthawk explorer (explorer.zec.rocks) requires zcashd.

In terms of errors being thrown on Zec.rocks explorer endpoints, those are issues with the Nighthawk explorer source code, I believe that the errors happen at all endpoints but could be wrong.

An example: https://mainnet.zcashexplorer.app/transactions/25a0788faa6ba912566b1fc8b9b79d42893b8a3d7bee6ec1e5e373dfbec13693

I’m trying to track patterns here: Transactions with an OP_RETURN throw errors · Issue #9 · zcash/zcash-explorer · GitHub

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