# Incomplete port of VXB explorer

**URL:** <https://talk.neptune.cash/t/incomplete-port-of-vxb-explorer/252>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [April 7, 2026, 1:11pm UTC](https://talk.neptune.cash/t/incomplete-port-of-vxb-explorer/252 "2026-04-07T13:11:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![sword-smith](https://talk.neptune.cash/user_avatar/talk.neptune.cash/sword-smith/32/20_2.png) [@sword-smith](https://talk.neptune.cash/u/sword-smith)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 1:11pm UTC](https://talk.neptune.cash/t/incomplete-port-of-vxb-explorer/252/1 "2026-04-07T13:11:46Z")

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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?

> **[GitHub - Sword-Smith/vxb-neptune-explorer](https://github.com/Sword-Smith/vxb-neptune-explorer)**
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Issue:

> <https://github.com/Sword-Smith/vxb-neptune-explorer/issues/1>
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> Swap custom version of neptune-core out with unmodified version. 
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> The unmodifie…d version accepts RPC/JSON POST requests in the form of:
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> \`\`\`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"}}
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> $ 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"}}
> \`\`\`

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**Author:** ![LostInTranslation](https://talk.neptune.cash/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@LostInTranslation](https://talk.neptune.cash/u/LostInTranslation)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 3:44pm UTC](https://talk.neptune.cash/t/incomplete-port-of-vxb-explorer/252/2 "2026-04-07T15:44:38Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![orishigari](https://talk.neptune.cash/user_avatar/talk.neptune.cash/orishigari/32/144_2.png) [@orishigari](https://talk.neptune.cash/u/orishigari)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2026, 10:55pm UTC](https://talk.neptune.cash/t/incomplete-port-of-vxb-explorer/252/3 "2026-04-11T22:55:33Z")

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