What is a blockchain explorer?

When it comes to browsers, internet browsers like Baidu and Google may be more well-known. If Baidu and Google Chrome are compared to Windows for understanding the Internet, then blockchain explorers are visual windows for understanding blockchain and important infrastructure for the industry. That is to say, we can simply understand blockchain explorers as a tool product.

The blockchain explorer provides detailed records of each block, transaction, wallet, exchange address, and other information in the blockchain. However, each public chain has its algorithm and ecosystem, which led to the initial blockchain explorers mainly supporting single public chain information queries. If users want to query multiple public chain information simultaneously, they need to switch to different browsers, which increases the difficulty of information query.

With the development of technology, blockchain explorers have gradually evolved from single-currency to integrated multi-currency information queries. We have used several mainstream multi-currency blockchain explorers to evaluate their support for currencies, data comprehensiveness, data accuracy, and other aspects.