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.