Incomplete port of VXB explorer

sword-smith · April 7, 2026, 1:11pm

The VXB team has made a great looking block explorer that offers a few more capabilities than the block explorer we built internally. Unfortunately though, it relies on a custom RPC API and not on the one that was recently added to neptune-core.

I started the porting of their block explorer, so it can get the blockchain information from unmodified version of neptune-core but I ran out of time before more pressing priorities took over.

Finishing this work would be a good way to get a gentle introduction to the neptune-core codebase and abstractions and it would be a great service to the community.

I started the work in the latest commit on my fork of explorer.

Is anyone up for this task?

Issue:

github.com/Sword-Smith/vxb-neptune-explorer

Port RPC interface to use unmodified version of neptune-core

opened 01:16PM - 07 Apr 26 UTC

Sword-Smith

Swap custom version of neptune-core out with unmodified version. The unmodifie…d version accepts RPC/JSON POST requests in the form of: ```bash $ curl -d '{"method": "chain_tipDigest", "params": []}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST http://localhost:9797/ {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":null,"result":{"digest":"7b861ad617aa8e49ed1273306203e6868213b9bb01410087eef7c5988ce15a49b0ef070000000000"}} $ curl -d '{"method": "archival_getUtxoDigest", "params": [456]}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST http://localhost:9797/ {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":null,"result":{"digest":"52098cd285036847d6cad9749b08526361550b7f3911eb983ba182a92f9465604a85ed923583ff7c"}} ```

LostInTranslation · April 7, 2026, 3:44pm

It’s definitely a great-looking explorer. I hope someone has the time and skills to continue the work.

Hopefully the repo can also be brought under the core team’s GitHub organization, alongside the other main ecosystem repos.

orishigari · April 11, 2026, 10:55pm

We currently lack a reliable explorer, and we need to establish one before moving forward.