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Available Mavryk Explorers

Coming soon: A more in-depth comparison of all available Mavryk explorers.

The purpose of this chapter is to list the main explorers of the Mavryk blockchain and presents the pros and cons of some.

Mavryk Blockchain Explorers​

Indexers potential features​

  • Full-text search in smart contract storage. For example, you can retrieve a smart contract by specifying a part of the Michelson code of the contract.
  • Michelson decoding: The Michelson code is interpreted to be presented in a more readable way.
  • Bigmap support Allows you to access and observe the content of Big Maps in the storage of smart contracts.
  • Mempool access: some explorers provide access to the content of the mempool. The mempool is made of all transactions that have been submitted for inclusion in the chain but have not yet been included in a block by a baker.
  • Available Server APIs
    • Explorer API for accessing individual objects of the explorer user interface via API calls.
    • Time-series APIs only contain numeric data types and are indexed by one date field. Through API calls, users can retrieve the entire time series as well as a slice of it. It is great for aggregate counters and statistics over specific fields.
    • Tables API can include various unsorted data types (strings, numbers, dates, etc.) and can be filtered by different fields.

Mavryk Explorer​

Mavryk Explorer was the first Mavryk Analytics Explorer, extending the functionality of traditional block explorers with comprehensive data analytics.

![Homepage of Mavryk Explorer](screenshot_Mavryk Explorer_explorer.png)

FIGURE 1: Mavryk Explorer Explorer

Pros

  • stand-alone, no database installation needed
  • Michelson decoding and full Bigmap support
  • time-series and table APIs

Cons

  • no mempool access
  • no full-text search

MvKT Indexer​

MvKT provides a high level of data detail, user-friendly interface for both desktop and mobile devices, and free open-source lightweight Mavryk blockchain indexer, developing by the Baking Bad team. Baking Bad is a software development company and active Mavryk tools contributor. MvKT was released in 2019.

Homepage of TzKt

FIGURE 1: MvKT Explorer

Pros

  • feature-rich API
  • mempool observing
  • DEX trading
  • live data via WebSocket
  • true open-source

Cons

  • no translations (English only)
  • no detailed statistics charts
  • no dark theme

The Baking Bad team has developed another tool, Better Call Mavryk, which allows the exploration of smart contracts.