Chainscanner by Ankr: Blockchain Explorer Tool to Analyze Data

Ankr launches Chainscanner, an All-in-One block analytics platform for App-Specific blockchains

One of the world's leading Web3 infrastructure providers, Ankr, announces the launch of Chainscanner, an all-in-one block explorer and analytics platform for app-specific blockchains (AppChains). It is beneficial for both developers and users as it offers an easy-to-use interface to take care of all needs for interacting with AppChains deployed on sidechain ecosystems like BNB, Polygon, and Avalanche. Chainscanner is available for free on the Ankr website. The tool allows users to search for transaction data, addresses, and smart contracts. It also provides a visual representation of data from the Ethereum blockchain.

The new development came just days after Ankr announced becoming the first RPC provider to the Aptos Blockchain. Developers no longer need to build block explorers or other necessary blockchain infrastructure from scratch or use the existing – and expensive – solutions for viewing on-chain data and transactions.

What separates Chainscanner from other alternatives?

Chainscanner is its intuitive interface that provides users with everything they need to interact with app-specific blockchains (AppChains) deployed on sidechain ecosystems. The product counts major blockchains including BNB, Polygon, and Avalanche and offers a set of tools that empowers you to map crypto transactions.

Chainscanner transparently displays transaction and address data, acting as a search engine to provide a view of activities that are occurring on blockchains. But unlike similar products like Etherscan, Ankr's all-in-one investigative tool compiles and relays information from many different networks, not just the Ethereum chain. Simply put, it is a user-oriented tool that fetches data from the main database and reflects it in a straightforward and convenient web interface.

Ankr also offers AppChains-as-a-Service, a new way to develop and deploy decentralized applications. It is a turnkey solution that allows developers to focus on building their applications on customized subchains including BNB Chain (BSC), Avalanche (AVAX), and Polygon (MATIC), while Ankr manages the infrastructure and scaling.

Kev Silk, Product Manager for Ankr AppChains, said, "Chainscanner is an essential new building block for AppChains that greatly improves user experience with tools made to let users instantly search for data, stake tokens, vote on governance proposals, get development resources, apply to become a validator, and learn everything about different chains. This is how we make decentralized apps as easy to use and as high performance as the centralized apps we're used to interacting with every day."

Chainscanner gives developers insights into the performance of their chain relative to other chains in the market, as well as the supply and demand for staking. Users, on the other hand, can gather data on the staking usage of a particular chain or token to understand how much traction a Web3 app is getting. With Chainscanner, developers and users will have access to transparent and independent results and data about validators, active users, token info, token holders, and more.

Ankr: a critical infrastructure behind Web3 growth

Ankr is a decentralized Web3 infrastructure provider powering the foundational layer for Web3, DeFi, and the digital economy on 20+ blockchains. Ankr's RPC node marketplace enables independent node providers to monetize their node infrastructure and allows Web3 developers to access Ankr's increasingly decentralized RPC services with a pay-as-you-go model secured by the ANKR token. As a pioneer in the Liquid Staking space, Ankr also democratized access to staking on multiple Proof-of-Stake chains. DeFi users, developers, and platforms can all benefit from access to an easily accessible liquid staking infrastructure to create ecosystems with the largest available source of crypto yield. Ankr's objective is to serve as a critical infrastructure behind Web3 growth while ensuring that it remains decentralized thanks to Ankr Network.