Factom Realtime Explorer
The first realtime explorer for Factom Blockchain
https://explorer.factom.pro
What is Realtime Explorer?
Factom blocks are 10 minutes long and similar to Bitcoin have different levels of confirmation. Without going into too much detail, when your transaction is successful, that means it was recognized but is not confirmed. Once the 10-minute block is over your transaction is confirmed.
Regular Factom explorers fetch only confirmed blocks, transactions, chains, and entries, so you had to wait from several to 10 minutes before seeing your freshly created chain, entry, or factoid transaction in explorer.
With Factom Realtime Explorer all chains, entries, and transactions are caught up within 1–2 seconds — that means you don’t need to wait for block confirmation, you can see or share your transactions or data entries instantly after submission to the network.
Features
Additionally, Factom Realtime Explorer has significantly improved performance and a lot of usability features:
1. Realtime entries, chains, factoid transactions
All data, submitted to Factom Blockchain, is available in Realtime Explorer instantly — in 1–2 seconds after the submission. You’re able to share your data entry or transaction — entry’s content and extIDs and factoid tx’s inputs/outputs are shown even if they are pending!
Statuses of entries, chains, and factoid transactions are updated automatically— you don’t need to refresh the page!
2. Search chains by ExtIDs
Factom Realtime Explorer allows you to search chains by their External IDs. (ExtIDs in Factom Blockchain are intended to provide any sort of tagging information for Chains and Entries, that applications may find useful).
Additionally, you can share your search results:
- Factom PRO tutorial chains
- Off-Blocks chains
- PegNet chains
3. Search by all hashes
The Explorer can search for data by block height, address, and almost every possible hash on the blockchain:
- transactions (factoid txid)
- entries (entry hash)
- chains (chain id)
- directory blocks (dblock keymr)
- factoid blocks (fblock keymr)
- entry blocks (eblock keymr)
- entry credit blocks (ecblock keymr)
- admin blocks (ablock lookup hash)
- pending entries (entry hash)
- pending chains (chain id)
- pending transactions (factoid txid)
4. Fully responsive design
Explorer has a responsive design and looks great on any devices: computers, tablets, and mobile phones.
5. Explore huge chains
Factom Realtime Explorer is the only one Factom explorer that allows you to explore big chains’ entries — e.g. PegNet Oracle Price Records chain (6.5 mln entries at the moment of writing).
6. Custom Pages sizes
Manage number of visible rows while navigating through large massive of data — works for all views: dblocks, chains, entries, entry blocks, entry commit blocks, factoid txs inputs/outputs.
7. Copyable hashes and external IDs
Copy hash of any block, entry, chain, or transaction by click. Click External IDs and Content of chains and entries by click.
8. Clickable External IDs
Switch between ASCII/Base64/Hex encoding of External IDs by click.
9. External IDs in Directory Block & Chain views
Explorer displays External IDs of Chains (in Directory Block view) and Entries (in Chain view) for better usability.
10. Blockchain Hints
Don’t know what is Admin Block, KeyMR, or Exchange Rate? No problem, all special terms have hints by hover/click!
11. Filtering Entry Credit transactions by commit type, entry hash, paying address
You can easily filter and sort Entry Credit transactions, stored into Entry Credit blocks.
12. Filtering Factoid transactions by type
With Factom Realtime Explorer you can filter Factoid transactions by type.
13. Coinbase transactions
Coinbase transactions create new Factoids (FCT) — a native coin of the Factom Blockchain. In Realtime Explorer this transactions are marked with coin badge.
14. Human-readable Exchange Rate
Exchange Rate is used for FCT → EC conversions to determine how many Entry Credits will be created from the burn of one FCT.
Factom Realtime Explorer displays this information in clear human-readable format.
15. JSON formatting of Entry Content
If Factom Entry Content contains JSON string, Explorer displays it in human readable format (but you can switch to ASCII if you want though).
16. Emoji and non-latin characters support
Factom Realtime Explorer supports emojis and non-latin characters in External IDs 🥰 (search by emojis works too!)
17. Dynamic page titles
Each page of Realtime Explorer has dynamic title, that makes navigation through browser history easier and more comfortable.
18. Fast navigation across sub-blocks
Explorer allows to navigate between Factoid, Admin, and Entry Blocks.
19. Icons for intuitive navigation
Each object on the blockchain — entry, chain, directory block, entry block, transactions, etc. — has own recognizable icon for intuitive navigation.
20. Display all Entry Blocks of the Entry
If the same Factom Entry contained into multiple Entry Blocks, they are all visible on the Entry page.
21. Factom Blockchain Stats
On the frontpage of Explorer you can always find realtime stats of Factom Blockchain usage: numbers of entries, active chains, and factoid transactions within latest 7 days (1008 blocks).
22. High Redundancy
Factom Realtime Explorer is connected to Factom Open Node — a public, decentralized, load balanced factomd-node which provides an API to interact with the Factom blockchain protocol.
Factom Open Node has decentralized monitoring and the uptime close to 100%, and we bring this redundancy to the Factom Realtime Explorer.
