Tracing Polkadot Parachains with TraceHawk: The Next-Gen Block Explorer

TraceHawk is now offering a dedicated block explorer for Polkadot Parachains. Enterprises, startups, or individual developers that are launching their use case-specific Parachain can now use TraceHawk as their personalized explorer. This launch is an addition to TraceHawk’s existing block explorer offering for OP Stack rollups, Arbitrum Orbit L3s, ZKsync Hyperchain, and Polygon CDK chains. TraceHawk Explorer for Polkadot Parachains is designed to simplify on-chain and end-to-end explorer management through explorer-as-a-service.

Hence, this article discusses TraceHawk’s comprehensive offering for Parachains. We will learn more about Parachains and then understand how TraceHawk is streamlining network exploration for diverse Parachains.

What are Polkadot Parachains?

Polkadot Parachains represents next-generation Layer-1 blockchains that can be customized to suit application-specific needs, including DeFi, Gaming, supply chain, NFTs, and DAOs. IoT, and beyond. Projects can optimize Parachains for both form and function to adjust the level of security, scalability, and user experience. These chains are interconnected and unified through the Relay chain to achieve interoperability and cutting-edge security.

Polkadot Parachains offers an array of possibilities for designing a Layer1 chain. This includes Parachains with independent tokenomics, system Parachains, Bridge Parachains, Parachain hubs, smart contract Parachains, and Appchains. With such uniqueness in design, features, and architecture– Polkadot Parachains might often need their own personalized block explorer that can reflect the specific identity of their chain and offer an integrated experience to users. That’s where TraceHawk takes the hold. Let’s learn more about TraceHawk. Also, if you want to dive deeper into Parachains, read this dedicated article.

A brief about TraceHawk Block Explorer

TraceHawk is a white-labeled blockchain explorer designed to be open-source, customizable, and easily scalable. TraceHawk is best suited for all kinds of blockchains, from Layer1 blockchains to Layer2 rollups and appchains built with Polygon CDK, OP Stack, Arbitrum, Orbit, ZKstack, Cosmos SDK, Substrate, and more. TraceHawk comes with an intuitive design, top-level features, and functionalities that make blockchain exploration a cherishing experience for all levels of users. Highly rich UX, blazing-fast queries, branding options, secure APIs, the latest token support, and 24/7 monitoring are the main features that make TraceHawk a full-fledged explorer. However, chains have the flexibility to customize TraceHawk and make it specific to their chain. That’s just a snapshot of TraceHawk. If you want to learn more, check the detailed guide below: Introducing TraceHawk: A Full-suite Multi-ecosystem Block Explorer

How TraceHawk serves as a ultimate block explorer for Polkadot Parachains?

Multi-Parachains support:

As a high-precision block explorer, TraceHawk allows users to dive through the data and essential information from a range of Parachains and the Polkadot Network itself. Meaning that, users on your Parachain will enjoy an accessible and highly transparent overview of chains like Moonbeam, Acala, Astar, Energy Web X, Phala, Ajuna, and many more. Also, if you want to customize the default list of supported Parachains, TraceHawk team allows you to do so without raising any challenge.

Rich data from Polkadot Parachains:

TraceHawk provides you access to rich on-chain data similar to the following:

Transactions: Shows a comprehensive list of transactions, validated and pending ones.

Blocks: Shows a detailed list of Parachain’s blocks. Get them all once or filter the data based on ‘Forked’ or ‘Uncles’ categories.

Top accounts: Allow users to search top accounts and their address based on the token balance it holds, percentage of the balance, and transaction count.

Withdrawals: Provides a list of withdrawals (moving tokens/assets) from Parachain to a different remote chains or the Relay chain.

Verified contracts: Shows all the contracts that are successfully verified. Authenticate with data such as address, token balance, version, and its verification time.

Powerful API service:

TraceHawk offers two widely-used APIs, Rest and GraphQL APIs, that are optimized for high availability & performance. These APIs are easy to use, safe, and stable and meet the requirements of Parachain developers. Further, TraceHawk understands the specific requirements of projects building on your Parachain, for example, API limits and customization in service. Therefore, TraceHawk offers advanced, flexible API service without creating any challenges.

Analytics dashboard & charts:

TraceHawk offers a graphical analytics dashboard and charts that insightfully present the complex Parachain data. Be it chain-level data such as blocks, transactions, events, block time, gas consumption, or a list of weekly transactions, the dashboard will show all these data, which get updated in real-time for accuracy. Using this dashboard, users will be able to closely monitor a Parachain network, maintain a real-time overview, and derive essential insights.

NFTs & token explorer:

TraceHawk offers streamlined access to NFT-related Parachain data, allowing users to perform searches based on their preferred NFT (ERC-721 tokens), Polkadot’s DOT token, Moonbeam’s GLMR token, and so on. Through its advanced searching capabilities, TraceHawk lets users easily and quickly fetch details about the respective smart contracts, minters, token/NFT balance, transfers, etc. You can leverage the customization option and add your preferred tokens on TraceHawk.

Robust Gas tracker:

Gas tracker is one of TraceHawk’s critical tools that allows your Parachain network users to track and monitor the gas consumption of transactions across the chain. By providing gas usage based on congestion level, such as slow, average, and fast transaction processing– TraceHawk allows users to estimate their own transaction cost and thereby make informed decisions about using gas for their transactions. Gas trackers are useful for Parachains that want to maintain transparency in cost while also constantly optimizing the network’s performance in terms of throughput and speed.

Rapid contract verification:

Using TraceHawk, anyone can verify smart contracts and publish them in one-click. Once these contracts are verified, the corresponding source code becomes public for independent verification. For example, developers on your Parachain network can authenticate any smart contract before interacting with or utilizing it.

Explorer as-a-service:

With EaaS, TraceHawk offers a fully-manged and hosted block explorer for Polkadot Parachains. Each heavy lifting will be handled on TraceHawk’s end, whether infrastructure maintenance, scaling, or upgrades. Also, TraceHawk’s explorer-as-a-service comes with a 24/7 monitoring & analytics system optimized for 99.9% Enterprise SLA.

Optimized for BaaS:

TraceHawk is designed with blockchain infrastructure-as-a-service (BaaS) in mind. Its appchain-specific features, great flexibility in customization, and explorer-as-a-service support are the main features that cater to the demand for BaaS. Instead of building a block explorer from scratch, BaaS platforms can opt for customization and include TraceHawk in their integration stack as a pluggable Parachain block explorer.

Fully customizable:

As mentioned, TraceHawk serves as your personalized block explorer for Polkadot Parachains. You will have a wide range of customization options, such as adding features relevant to your chain, adding search support for new tokens, creating a different watchlist, or even optimizing the user interface. The customization possibilities on TraceHawk are endless. We also provide customized services for unique functions.

Buiding your Parachain? Try Tracehawk!

If you are planning to build a Polkadot Parachain, or you already manage one, TraceHawk block explorer is by far the most ready and powerful block explorer that can simplify the on-chain experience while offering you a tailor-made blockchain explorer. Prominent web3 industry players, Binary Holding L2 and Momento ZK L2s, are scaling with TraceHawk. Next, it can be your chain. Besides the brief walk-through of TraceHawk’s features, if you want additional information or have any queries, feel free to connect with our experts. Also, we are open to discussing your project requirements on a one-to-one call.