Contribution
Otterscan is a fast, local, private and opensource block explorer. It has a very low footprint, which allows it to run in consumer hardware, not requiring much more resources than a regular archive node.
It has a decoupled architecture, which means it is composed by an UI and an API which can be used separately. That enabled an increasing ecosystem to flourish:
- Hosted APIs by Llamanodes and Quicknode
- Community-develop Dappnode packages
- Otterscan API implemented in Anvil, allowing Otterscan UI to be used in local development.
- Otterscan API being used by Ape.
- OP-Otterscan fork developed by Test-in-Prod team.
The last one enabled the OP collective to use Otterscan since the bedrock upgrade, and now Optimism can benefit from all innovations we are building in Otterscan.