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Add ethscan.org eth2 explorer with a free public API #2292

Closed cornucopiaa closed 3 years ago

cornucopiaa commented 3 years ago

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Product name:

https://ethscan.org/

Product description:

Open-source eth2 beacon chain explorer based on the original eth2 explorer by bitfly, offering a free public API. Maintained by Redot.com

How long has it been around?

Since December 2020.

Where do you think it should go?

https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/data-and-analytics/block-explorers/#eth2-block-explorers

GitHub URL

https://github.com/nobd/ethscan-org

Docs URL

https://github.com/nobd/ethscan-org/tree/master/docs

Is the product open source?

Yes

Additional context

Our motivation to host this explorer as a completely free public service with long-term commitment boils down to 3 key points:

  1. If bitfly's beaconcha.in goes down for whatever reason there is just 1 explorer left in the world for eth2 which is closed source (beaconscan.com). We are not comfortable knowing this as eth2 validators and staking service operators.

  2. bitfly's beaconcha.in offers paid APIs (https://beaconcha.in/pricing) you have to purchase not to hit essential rate limits which we believe is something hindering the eth2 ecosystem development - we got rid of paid APIs and any kind of rate limits in our explorer instance, i.e. APIs are available for free without limitations.

  3. We have noticed sporadic delays in beaconcha.in explorer syncing to the latest slot, which we tried to address with HPC dedicated hardware running in DCs in 2 regions (EU and Asia). Additionally, we are working to improve the explorer backend logic to make our BE instance more stable & performant.

Buttaa commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/documentation/pull/302#issuecomment-764748273

cornucopiaa commented 3 years ago

Hi @Buttaa, we've amended our beaconcha.in mirrors to retain branding as suggested by @rauljordan, please see my comment here https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/documentation/pull/308#issuecomment-766623280

Buttaa commented 3 years ago

Please look into the official license on our repository. There are still a lot of things missing to fulfill the requirements.

cornucopiaa commented 3 years ago

@Buttaa thanks for pointing, we're on it.

cornucopiaa commented 3 years ago

I believe we have addressed all the requirements of GPL-3 as per https://choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-3.0

Copyright and license notices are preserved, source code is disclosed with changes stated (https://github.com/nobd/ethscan-org).