The Mintscan Ecosystem Tab Guide

As the Interchain Portal for all, Mintscan has a dedicated tab featuring all the dApps in the ecosystem.

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Cosmostation

3 min readDec 7, 2023

As we had mentioned in the article introducing Mitnscan 2.0, Mintscan is not just a block explorer. It’s the Interchain portal for all. One of the features that distinguishes a portal from a block explorer is the variety of information available on it. Today, we’re introducing Mintscan’s ecosystem tab as one of the features available for the portal’s users and the builders of the ecosystem.

Mintscan users can visit the ecosystem tab to search for many dApps, and dApp contributors can introduce their dApps to the users via the ecosystem tab by submitting a simple PR(Pull Request) to Cosmostation’s Github repository. Follow the guide below to submit a PR.

What is the Mintscan Ecosystem Tab?

The ecosystem tab displays a collection of dApps and services on a chain. The above example is an example from Mintscan’s Neutron ecosystem tab page. At the time of the writing, there are 8 dApps introduced on the Neutron ecosystem tab. On the page are Neutron airdrop interface, Astroport dex, Apollo Dao vault app, Mars Red Bank money market app, Craft NFT marketplace, and etc. Anyone interested in Neutron ecosystem can come and explore the dApps available on Neutron via Mintscan’s ecosystem tab page.

The Mintscan ecosystem tab is currently available for Neutron, Osmosis, Terra, Injective, Juno, Stargaze, UX(Umee), and Ki-Chain.

How to Get Listed on the Ecosystem Tab

If you are a dApp builder building on any of the 61 chains on Mintscan, you’re probably wondering ‘how do I get my dApp listed on the ecosystem tab?’

It’s very easy.

Go to Cosmostation’s Github.
👉 https://github.com/cosmostation/chainlist
Fork ‘chainlist’ repository.
Find and open the folder for the chain on which your dApp is deployed under ‘mintscan’ -> ‘dapp’.
Upload the png image file for the dApp to the ‘image’ folder.
Image Size: 1125 x 600 px
Add your dApp info to ‘constants.json’ file in the chain folder under this format:
"id”: “name of the image file without filename extension”,
“name”: “name of the dApp”,
“dappType”: “dApp type like dex, lending, nft, etc”,
“description”: “a short description of your dApp”,
“link”: “your dapp link",
“social”: {
“webSite”: “your webite link (if applicable)",
“twitter”: “your twitter link (if applicable)",
“medium”: “your blog link (if applicable)",
“github”: “your github link (if applicable)",
“docs”: “your docs link (if applicable)"
Create a pull request

Reference: docs.cosmostation.io/mintscan/registry/ecosystem

Now your dApp is visible to over 300k monthly active users!

About Cosmostation

Cosmostation is a Cosmos genesis validator and a key player in the Cosmos ecosystem, providing invaluable infrastructure legos essential for scaling and onboarding users onto blockchain networks. Through Mintscan, Cosmostation continues to drive the ethos of transparency and user-centric design, fostering a more insightful interaction with blockchain data across various networks. At Cosmostation, we bootstrap networks and onboard end-users.

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