TraceHawk Block Explorer: Your Gateway to Navigating Cosmos SDK Chains

TraceHawk is expanding its block explorer support for Cosmos SDK chains. Any enterprise, startup, scaleup, or individual developer building with Cosmos SDK framework can use this dedicated block explorer to offer a personalized block viewing experience for their users. With this launch, TraceHawk has made a critical addition to its existing stack of block explorer for OP chains, Arbitrum Orbit L3s, ZK Sync Hyperchains, and Polygon CDK chains.

Hence, let’s discuss TraceHawk’s comprehensive offering for Cosmos SDK Chains. Before that, let’s learn about Cosmos SDK chains and TraceHawk block explorer.

A brief about Cosmos SDK Chains and TraceHawk block explorer 

Cosmos SDK chains refer to custom-fit, application-specific blockchains built with the Cosmos SDK framework. As required, web3 projects can build high-performance and production-grade permissioned and permissionless chains to power best-in-class scalability, security, and efficiency for all kinds of apps & services. Continue reading about Cosmos SDK’s unparalleled features in this article.

TraceHawk is a full-suite, multi-chain blockchain explorer optimized especiallly for appchains, rollups while it is equally feasible for general-purpose blockchains. For Cosmos SDK, TraceHawk offers specific features and benefits like rich data navigation, performance & availability despite high traction, API calls, customization, and a lot more to ensure a hassle-free and seamless user experience. Learn more about TraceHawk’s comprehensive offerings here. 

What can Cosmos SDK chain users do with TraceHawk?

Users navigating through Cosmos SDK chains can perform the following operations using the TraceHawk block explorer:

• Extensive search: TraceHawk allows Cosmos SDK chain users to perform extensive searches and derive specific details about transactions, blocks, accounts, withdrawals, token balances, and more.
  
• Verify contract: Verify any smart contract address directly from the explorer using 7+ contract verification method including standard JSON input, Flattened source code, Vyper.
  
• Make API calls: Leverage robust APIs to make calls using both the standardized as well as custom API endpoints available for Rest and GraphQL.
  
• Personalized views: Customize features of your Cosmos SDK block explorer for personalized block viewing, for example- add tags, create watchlist, search bar, transaction broadcasting, and more.
  
• Connect wallet: Connect your Web3 wallet to be able to perform critical dApp-related tasks such as contract verification, signing transactions, or sending/receiving transactions from any preferred account. 

TraceHawk’s Key Features for Cosmos SDK Chains

TraceHawk offers a range features that are specific to Cosmos SDK chains, including the below:  

Multi-chain support: 

As a next-gen block explorer, TraceHawk enables users to navigate through transactions, account details, tokens, and other critical data from all the Cosmos SDK chain that exists today. From Akash Network to Fetch.ai, Stargaze, Osmosis, Dydx chain, Kepler, and Monsterra,  users can derive information from the top Cosmos SDK chain with zero hassle.

Open-source design: 

TraceHawk block explorer for Cosmos SDK chains is designed as a open-source project. Hence, it is accessible to everyone users, developers, or contributors seeking to use, explore, or suggest further upgrades.

Deep dive into Cosmos SDK Chains:

Using TraceHawk, users can dive deeper into Cosmos SDK chain’s data, including the following:

>Transactions: This option provides users with a comprehensive of validated and pending transactions along with their specific information such as transaction hash, type, method, account address, ETH value, etc. 

>Blocks: Under blocks, users will see a detailed list of any Cosmos SDK chain’s blocks that can be filtered based on ‘Forked’ or ‘Uncle’ parameters. For each block, specific information will be provided, such as block size, corresponding validator, gas used, etc.

>Top accounts: TraceHawk shows a list of top-performing accounts based on total account balance, tokens held, and total transaction count. 

>Verified contracts: It allows users to filter all the verified contracts and their associated details such as ETH balance, version, contract address, and time of verification. 

>Withdrawals: The withdrawal option provides users with an interactive list of withdrawals happening on Cosmos SDK Layer1s.

Full-featured APIs and developer tools: 

TraceHawk currently offers two popular APIs- Rest and GraphQL APIs optimized for availability and performance. Because these APIs are simple to use, all levels of Cosmos SDK chain developers can utilize them to gather relevant data. However, this API service can be customized to meet the unique needs of your project. Like, you can use custom endpoints, define new API limits, or perform additional customization. Additionally, TraceHawk offers a suite of developer tools & resources that are essential for Cosmos SDK-based development. 

Tokens & NFTs tracker: 

The ‘Tokens’ option in TraceHawk simplifies users’ access to NFTs and other crypto token-related data. Based on the type of project and data requirement, users on Cosmos SDK chains can filter data across ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-1155, or ERC-404 and get additional information about the token like token symbol, price, on-chain market cap, and total holders. 

Gas usage tracker:

The gas tracker on TraceHawk allows users to track the actual gas consumption of any address on Cosmos SDK chains. From the explorer’s interface itself, you can see complete information about gas consumption, including real-time gas usage as well as consumption during different stages of transaction processing—whether slow, average, or fast processing. 

Smart contract verification:

As discussed, smart contract verification is quick and hassle-free on TraceHawk. That’s because TraceHawk offers 1-click contract verification and publishing portal on the explorer’s interface. This allows Cosmos SDK chain developers to verify & authenticate a smart contract and its source code before using it for their project. 

Real-time analytics dashboard:

For an all-encompassing visualization of diverse Cosmos SDK chain data, TraceHawk is offering a real-time analytics dashboard that presents complex data in an easy-to-comprehend format using graphs & charts. From the latest on-chain data like blocks, events, transactions, block time, gas usage, or summary of weekly transactions– the dashboard maintains track of each data, which is essential for users. 

Explorer-as-a-service (EaaS):

The Explorer-as-a-service (EaaS) offering in TraceHawk is designed to eliminate the hassle of Cosmos SDK chains for hosting or managing a custom block explorer. With a fully-hosted and fully-managed block explorer, all the heavy lifting of infrastructure maintenance, on-demand scaling, and upgrade will become  the accountability of TraceHawk’s team. 

Branding & customization: 

Customization & branding options in TraceHawk aim to offer Cosmos SDK chains a completely personalized blockchain explorer. Projects can choose from broad customization options such as adding unique functionality, expanding the search option, integrating a distinct watchlist, optimizing token support for ERC tokens, and much more.  

Alignment for Appchains-as-a-service:

TraceHawk is 100% aligned with Appchains-as-a-service. With appchain-specific features, flexibility & modularity, and the explorer-as-a-service, TraceHawk serves as a highly suitable block explorer for Cosmos SDK chains launching with Appchains-as-a-service platforms. Instead of building a block explorer, Cosmos SDK chains can simply plug-and-play TraceHawk into their ecosystem. Or if they want, customization can be done to the explorer. 

Try TraceHawk for your Cosmos SDK chains

Given that Cosmos SDK is a leading framework for building application-specific blockchains, a lot of projects are encouraged to build their permissioned or public chains. If you are one among them, you might be looking for a next-gen block explorer. At this point, TraceHawk will serve as a full-fledged block explorer trusted by leading L2 networks such as Memento ZK and The Binary Holding L2. Hence, if you want more information about TraceHawk, its features, or rollup-specific offerings, feel free to ask our experts. You can also schedule a call to discuss your requirements for a block explorer.