Unveiling Muon Explorer:
Transparency for the Muon Network
A Window into Muon Operations & Metrics
The long awaited Muon Explorer has been officially released. Read on to learn about some of its key features.
A Means of Transparency
An explorer is an app for viewing a system’s information. Blockchain explorers provide a user-friendly interface allowing individuals to track the on-chain activities, and search for data related to blocks, transactions, addresses and deployed contracts. Popular examples of crypto explorers include Etherscan for Ethereum, BSCscan for BNB Chain and Blockchain Explorer for Bitcoin.
Muon Explorer
Just like blockchain explorers, the Muon Explorer provides an interface for tracking the Muon network activities and searching for data related to requests, nodes and deployed apps. The explorer is currently deployed on ALICE Testnet and gives you an inside look into its inner workings and metrics.
On the homepage, one can see:
- A search field where one can find a certain app, request, or node by inputting the right information
- A chart showing the history of requests on a daily, 7-day and 14-day 21-day basis plus metrics about apps, nodes and requests for any of those time periods
- Boxes that display “Most Used Apps”, “Latest Requests”, “Most Active Nodes” and “Nodes Status”
If you click on an app’s name, a request ID or a node ID, you are forwarded to pages that show you the details for each.
All the Information at Your Fingertips
Let’s start with the search field. Imagine you are a node operator and need to double-check the node’s status. Put in the node ID in the search field and you are forwarded to a page where all the requests and nodes containing that number (Node ID) are shown.
Find your node and click on it to see a page that gives you all your node’s details including its Address, uptime percentage and status. You can search and find information about a certain request and app in the same manner.
Send a Request
Anyone can test the functionality of Muon apps by sending requests to them. To test this feature, click on the simple oracle in the app’s box. The top section displays the app’s details and the second section has two fields: ETH-Price and Price.
Click on “Price” to open the field and then press “Set Example”. A new button appears that reads “BTC/USD Price”. Click on it, query Bitcoin’s price and see the full response in no time. (The result has been Highlighted.)
You can now refresh the page and query the price of a different token by inputting its ticker in the top field (instead of BTC) and follow the same procedure. Here is the response for BNB.
You can run tests on other apps too, but simple oracle is the most straightforward.
Information for Developers
The explorer also provides useful information for developers, builders, and anyone interested in the technical aspects of the Muon ecosystem.
On the apps’ page, click on the “Code” tab to see the source of the app.
Visit the request page by searching for a request or clicking on a request ID, and you will find beneficial technical info.
Click on each field’s name to access the request’s technical data such as the owner’s address and public key, appId and requestId.
The Muon explorer is a big step toward a transparent ecosystem. This article has covered only a few interesting highlights; however, Muon explorer provides Muon users and operators with a variety of useful data varying from basic statistics to very technical information. To learn all about it, see our GitBook’s explainer.
Muon Network
Muon is an innovative decentralized oracle network (DON) that enables dApps to make their off-chain components decentralized, thereby significantly broadening their operational scope. By incorporating Muon, the manner in which decentralized applications store, process, and access data will be fundamentally transformed, redefining the landscape of decentralized systems.
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