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Explorers#

Overview#

The Ergo Explorer is a tool that serves as an interface with the Ergo blockchain. It helps users explore and monitor the activities happening on the Ergo blockchain.

Recent updates#

  • The explorer backend was updated to Sigma 6.0.x, with versioned serializers, DEX API removal, and a fallback path for unparsable ErgoTrees.
  • If Rust parsing fails, the indexer tries sigmastate-js before giving up, which keeps older or irregular trees readable.
  • Frontend i18n work also moved forward in PR #198.

The backend changes were intended to keep the explorer syncing when it encounters old or unusual ErgoTree templates. In the log, the fallback path hashes raw bytes instead of crashing, and custom indexer support was added for unparsable trees.

The DEX-related API removal reflects a split between general explorer indexing and DEX-specific services. DEX consumers should use current DEX/Sigmaspace APIs rather than relying on removed explorer endpoints.

There are several public explorer available:

Toolkits#

  • Ergo Nix Toolkit provides Nix derivations for packages and services on Ergo.
  • Ergo Bootstrap, built on top of ergo-nix, will help you to quickly deploy an Ergo blockchain cluster with a handful of useful tools you might need to start developing your dApps.
  • ergo-setup is a Docker based Ergo setup (Node, Explorer & GraphQL). Somewhat similar to Ergo Bootstrap except it offers much less options and is not NixOS-based.

uExplorer#

  • uExplorer is a supplementary, lightweight Ergo explorer with CassandraDB backend :

Mirrors#

Some popular mirrors for the explorer and graphql