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Dora the Beaconchain Explorer

What is this?

This is a lightweight beaconchain explorer.

A Beaconchain explorer is a tool that allows users to view and interact with the data on the Ethereum Beacon Chain. It is similar to a blockchain explorer, which allows users to view data on a blockchain such as the current state of transactions and blocks - but focussed on exploring the beaconchain.

This "lightweight" explorer loads most of the information directly from an underlying standard beacon node api, which makes it a lot easier and cheaper to run (no 3rd party proprietary database like bigtables required).

Testnet instances

Holešky Testnet:

• https://dora-holesky.pk910.de/
• https://dora.holesky.ethpandaops.io/

Sepolia Testnet:

• https://dora.sepolia.ethpandaops.io/

Ephemery Testnet:

• https://beaconlight.ephemery.dev/

Setup & Configuration

Read through the wiki for setup & configuration instructions.

Dependencies

The explorer has no mandatory external dependencies. It can even run completely in memory only.
However, for best performance I recommend using a PostgreSQL database.

Development Setup

The repository contains a script that simplifies spinning up a development environment for the explorer.

Follow these steps to spin up a full ethereum testnet with the locally build dora instance:

1. Ensure docker & (kurtosis)[https://docs.kurtosis.com/install] are installed on your machine.
2. Clone the repository
3. Run make devnet-run

The make devnet-run command spins up a kurtosis testnet with multiple client pairs. To stop the testnet after development work, run make devnet-clean

Thanks To

This explorer is heavily based on the code from gobitfly/eth2-beaconchain-explorer.

License