This is an historical document kept here for reference.
- W25 preparation phase
- tasks: user poll, persona definition, explorer research, feature definition, team selection
- deliverables: personas, feature list & priorities, API requirements, tech stack, design brief
- W26 design phase 1
- tasks: ux and architecture design
- deliverables: UX design sketches, list of screens and displayed information, user journey, URL semantics
- W27-W30 design phase 2
- tasks: detailed UX/UI design
- deliverables: visual language (colors, fonts, cards, graphs), screen designs, HTML/CSS templates
- W27 implementation setup
- dev and test environment setup
- site controllers
- data API access layer
- analytics integration
- multi-language support foundation
- W28-W33 screen implementations
- single block screen
- single operation screen
- single account screen
- single delegator account screen
- search feature
- live status screen
- staking and consensus screen
- governance screen
- analytics screens
- deliverables
- W27 build system and first alpha release
- W28 first beta release (block, operation, cycle, account screens and search)
Target audience are all stakeholders in the Tezos ecosystem, i.e. investors, bakers, staking services, protocol developers, dapp developers, exchanges, media and the general public.
- investor: activity, growth, risk, upside, staking services, on/off-ramps + liquidity, custodians, governance, balance, address activity, payouts (past, pending, future), staking services, votes, on/off-ramps + liquidity, custodians, software upgrades
- adopter: balance, price, address activity, growth, staking services, payouts, governance
- dapp user: balance, address activity, current fees, historic costs (fee, gas), software upgrades
- dapp developer: balance, contract activity, gas & storage stats, code, storage, software upgrades
- baker: balance, delegation activity, #delegations, #rolls, past/current/future rights, steal/miss history, current deposits/rewards/fees, future deposits/rewards predictions (when rights are set), own voting history, software upgrades
- protocol developer: network & consensus health, governance, network nodes, all stats
- exchange: cluster balance, cluster members, cluster ops, in/out flow stats (for own cluster), network health, alarms, software upgrades
- display live and historic data as well as analytics for different Tezos blockchain networks (mainnet, alphanet, zeronet)
- allow users to view current network status, network health, consensus and governance related issues
- allow users to view and search for information on individual accounts, operations, blocks, and nodes
- provide network-wide analytics and insights into supply, delegation, consensus and on-chain activity, account growth, balance distributions and centralization
- provide individual analytics and insights into account and delegation balance evolutions
- be compatible with recent desktop and mobile web browsers (i.e. Firefox, Chrome, Safari and optionally Microsoft Edge)
- use of a modern Javascript framework (e.g. React) and modern HTML/CSS web design features
- optional integrations with 3rd party analytics services for collecting usage and software defect metrics (e.g. Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Bugsnag or similar services) all source-code must be licensed under MIT license and made publicly available
- engage community to identify and prioritize user requirements
Must have features
- read-only view on blockchain data and statistics (no user accounts, no personalization)
- global network-wide views and detailed views on accounts, blocks, operations
- information freshness (block, cycle, time), last block n sec/min ago, crawler status
- low affordance graphs
- interactive graphs > click on graph follows deep link to allow for exploration
- visualize complex relations
- sender-receiver for transactions and delegations
- past .. present .. future for staking cycles and governance
- cycle clock with fill-level and selected snapshot
- chain of blocks with branches, block-times, misses
- consensus priorities, rights/steals/misses
- N-of-100 for centralization
- search
- block level -> single block page
- block hash -> single block page
- op hash -> single operation page
- addr hash -> single account page
- service name -> single account page
- single-page javascript app, no backend rendering, API only data streams
Optional features
- multiple Tezos networks besides mainnet
Out of scope features
- notifications (Telegram, email, discord)
- staking payout tracking
- staking service reliability
- node networking metrics
- landing
/- live block(s), cycle, voting, market (price, mcap) info
- live supply: inflation, staking yield, 1y network share, circulating, staking, frozen, and unclaimed supply
- 30d global market status: market volume, market price
- 30d global network growth: new funded accounts (new vs cleared accounts)
- 30d global network activity: rewards, fees, volume, gas, token age transacted time-series
- single block
/block/:block_id- visual chain history timeline on top, navigate left/right
- selected block details
- baker/endorser details
- single cycle
/cycle/:cycle_num- visual cycle history timeline on top, navigate left/right
- #bakers, #endorsers, #roll owners, staking supply
- top-N bakers
- single operation
/op/:op_hash- visual operation list within block on top, navigate left/right
- block and op details
- involved accounts (as cards with all type-specific data, e.g. delegator)
- single account
/account/:address- accounts share basic metadata/balance/etc and have type/state specific data
- header tags to visualize type/status
- [Baker] for baker accounts (with future rights)
- [Delegate] for an active delegate who is not yet baker
- [Delegator] an account that is delegating
- [Smart Contract] contract with code
- [Revealed] when pubkey is publicly announced
- [Inactive] for inactive delegate (should be a warning for delegateors)
- [Overdelegated] for overdelegated baker (should be a warning for delegateors)
- [Fundraiser] for activated fundraiser account
- [Vesting] for vesting contracts
- [Spendable] account can spend funds
- [Delegatable] account can delegate
- show call to action when type/state suggests (e.g. this is how you delegate on accounts that can delegate but don't do so yet)
- types
- basic (implicit = tz1/2/3)
- delegate (implicit = tz1/2/3)
- baker (implicit = tz1/2/3)
- delegator (w/wo code = KT1)
- smart contract (w/wo code = KT1)
- governance
/governance- past and current voting periods on top, navigate left/right
- voting progress, current proposals, votes, quorum, majority
- staking
/staking- maybe EOD stats only, 30d view
- this is related to data in cycle, but displays evolution across larger time frame
- delegation activity and consensus related supply
- active delegators, delegates, daily consensus participants (#bakers, #endorsers), rolls, owners
- health
/health- 24h or 30d views or both
- double baking and double endorsements
- uncle rate, i.e. alternative heads (backend todo)
- missed endorsements
- missed blocks: actual block priorities distribution, block times
- missed nonce revelations (backend todo)
- height, protocol version and node version for our backend & different public nodes (backend todo)
- block propagation times (optional, missing data)
- tx propagation times (optional, missing data)
- whales (centralization)
/whales- large bag holders, 100% donut graph = top 1 - 1k balances + rest
- large bakers, 100% donut graph, top 1, 10, 100, rest delegates
- wealth centralization by address value and count
- daily tx on top active addresses
- daily volume on top active addresses
- markets
/markets- volume, trades, price across markets (exchanges and pairs)
- trades per weekday / hour histogram
- list of volume, price, 24h change by market (selected markets only, like tradeblock)
- list of largest trades last 24h
- daily candles + volume in buy/sell side (across all markets) last 30 or 60 days
- donut charts: XTZ volume by exchange, XTZ volume by quote
- change: absolute & percent 1d, 7d, 30d, from ATH, YTD
- analytics
/analytics- growth/demand
- daily growth overall (new vs cleared accounts)
- growth by address type, growth by balances size (= derivative of centralization data)
- 3M hodl vs Tx supply vs. 3M token age transacted
- dormancy by age (in addresses and funds)
- supply breakdowns, multiple charts from total in %
- activated supply vs total
- circulating supply vs total
- bond balance (frozen deposits+spendable balance of all roll owners) vs total
- frozen supply vs total
- unvested supply vs total
- unclaimed supply vs total
- staking supply vs total
- delegated supply vs total
- inflation: frozen/unfrozen rewards vs burn
- total supply breakdown
- activated
- issued
- vested
- (minus) burned
- unvested
- unclaimed
- circulating supply breakdown chart: (100% = total supply)
- circulating
- frozen
- unvested
- unclaimed
- holder breakdown chart: (100% = total supply)
- sum managed KT1
- sum implicit tz1
- sum contract KT1
- unvested
- unclaimed
- account activations
- activated accounts by month
- activated coins by month
- count and percentage activated vs not activated accounts & coins
- histogram of balances across all non-activated accounts
- on-chain activity
- volume percentage by type
- operation counts by type
- fee and gas prices
- mean, median, max value by operation
- growth/demand
- node list/single node (out of scope)
- ip address and location
- update availability: git hash compare against gitlab master
- connectivity (can we reach the node?)
- number of connections
| URL | Screen | Comments |
|---|---|---|
/ |
Landing | |
/block/:block_id |
Block | :block_id is hash or height; 404 when not found |
/block |
forward to head block | |
/cycle/:cycle_num |
Cycle | :cycle_num is a number; 404 when not found |
/cycle |
forward to current cycle | |
/op/:op_hash |
Operation | :op_hash is hash only; 404 when not found |
/op |
404 | |
/account/:address |
Account | :address is any KT1*, tz1*, tz2*, tz3*; 404 when not found |
/election/:election_id |
Governance | :election_id is an election round; 404 when not found |
/election |
forward to current election round | |
/staking |
Staking | todo |
/health |
Health | todo |
/whales |
Whales | todo |
/markets |
Markets | todo |
/analytics |
Analytics | todo |