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/
- https://dora.sepolia.ethpandaops.io/
- 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:
- Ensure docker & kurtosis are installed on your machine.
- Clone the repository
- Run
make devnet-run
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.
