Every blockchain has an explorer. Most of them show you the same thing: a hash, a list of raw messages, and a wall of JSON. They work, if you already know what you are looking at. BZE has had one of those for years. As the chain grew its own features, a DEX with an order book and pools, a burner with raffles, token rewards, a token factory, the generic explorer fell further behind. It could show that a transaction happened, not what it did.
So we built our own. The BZE Explorer is live at explorer.getbze.com, with the full history of the chain from the very first block, and the testnet has its own at testnet-explorer.getbze.com. The old address you may have bookmarked now opens the new explorer, and old-style links keep working.
What happened, in plain words
Open any transaction and the first thing you see is a sentence: who did what, with how much, and where the funds went. A swap says what went in and what came out. An order says which market, which side, what price, and whether it was filled, partially filled or is still waiting in the book. A reward claim lists what was claimed. A cross-chain transfer tells you whether it arrived on the other side. If you want the raw data, it is one click away under “More details”, but you never have to start there.
The explorer also shows the things that happen without a transaction. On BZE, orders are matched by the chain itself at the end of each block, reward pools pay out on their own schedule, the burner burns on its own, and raffles pick their winners automatically. Generic explorers cannot show any of that, because there is no transaction to point at. Here it appears where it belongs: on the block, on the account that received it, on the token it touched.
Accounts, tokens, validators
An account page has four tabs: activity, tokens, staking and orders. Activity is the full story of the address, page by page, each entry explained. Tokens shows balances, including what is locked in open DEX orders. Staking shows delegations, rewards and unbonding. Orders lists what is sitting in the order book right now, per market.
A token page shows holders, price, daily volume and the token’s activity. For tokens that came to BZE from other chains, a “How it got here” panel draws the route, chain by chain, so you can tell a token that arrived directly from one that took three hops, and see which channel it used.
The validators page is where the chain’s operators live. Each one has its stake, commission and uptime, and whether it is online right now. A validator that stops signing blocks gets an offline notice, with the time left before the chain jails it. Each validator also shows how its stake changed over the last day and the last week, with the recent delegations, undelegations and redelegations behind that change. The ones that do the job well are marked in gold and listed in a Hall of Fame. The current rule is simple: a validator earns its place by voting on recent proposals, keeping its uptime near perfect, and coming back quickly after an upgrade. We will adjust and improve it as we go and understand better what matters most in a validator. The goal is for the Hall of Fame to tell you, at a glance, which validators are the most reliable and deserve your delegation. If you are choosing where to stake, that is a good place to start.
Governance and the upgrade
Every proposal has its own page with the tally, the deposit, each validator’s vote, and the ones that did not vote. There is a direct link to vote in the Staking app while the proposal is open. Upgrade proposals get something extra: a timeline of when each validator came back online after the halt. The v8.2.0 upgrade on October 26 was the first one it recorded. The chain paused for 17 minutes, and 14 of the 22 validators were back within ten minutes. While a chain is paused for an upgrade, a banner on every page of the explorer shows how long it has been paused and how much of the voting power is already back, so nobody has to wonder whether the network is down.
A parameters page lists the current settings of every module, grouped and explained, so you don’t have to read the code to find out what the current fee minimum or unbonding period is. It also lists any token whose trading governance has halted, with what still works for it. And a small tool many people asked for: the future block page estimates when a given block height will be reached, or which block the chain will be at on a given date and time. Handy for upgrade heights.
Built to stay up to date
The explorer keeps its own copy of the chain and follows every new block as it is committed. A green light in the corner of every page means what you see is current; it turns red if the explorer falls behind. Live pages refresh on their own every few seconds, so a block list or an open proposal updates without a reload. The whole history was indexed back to block one, so account activity, token holders and daily statistics go all the way back to March 2022.
Because the explorer understands BZE’s features, new chain features show up properly from the day they go live. v8.2.0 reached mainnet on October 26, and its Denom Rewards and token branding were in the explorer the same day. v8.3.0 is being added as it is built.
Why it matters
Transparency is not a nice-to-have for a blockchain. Freedom to hold, trade and build on an open network only means something if anyone can see, at any moment, what the network is doing and where the funds go. The explorer is our way of making that true for BZE: not a raw dump that only insiders can read, but a mirror of the chain that anyone can understand.
The data gathered behind it does more than fill the explorer’s pages. It lets us be transparent about our own work, from the protocol-owned liquidity to the burns and reward payouts, and it will enrich the apps you already use. Some of the price and market data that currently feeds the DEX and getbze.com will move into it over time, so there is one place that knows everything about the chain.
Building it also taught us a lot about the chain itself. Following every order, payout and transfer from the outside showed us where BZE could say more about what it does, where an edge case was handled quietly instead of clearly, and where a feature could be made more reliable. Several improvements already on the way in the next chain version came straight out of that work. A good mirror does not just show the chain; it helps make it better.
Where it goes from here
The explorer is the view into the chain that all our other apps now point to: transaction confirmations in the DEX, Factory and Staking apps open it, and getbze.com lists it with the rest of the ecosystem.
It is not finished, and it is not meant to be. It improves every day: we gather feedback, add features as they are requested, and have a long list of ideas of our own. The goal is a perfect mirror of the blockchain, where everything that happens on BZE can be found and understood.
It is open source under the MIT licence at github.com/bze-alphateam/bze-scan. If something is explained badly, a transaction you sent is not told the way you’d tell it, or a page you need is missing, let us know on Discord or Telegram. That is exactly the feedback it was built for.
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