Blockchain.com
Blockchain.com, which until recently resided at blockchain.org - Registered at Namecheap.com, is probably the best known BTC explorer. While its functions are basic by the standards of today’s explorers – you can search by block, transaction, or address – it’s trusted, reliable, and well presented. The site also provides a wealth of stats pertaining to BTC activity over the past 24 hours.
“Search the blockchain world for anything” is the rallying cry ofBlockchair.com, and the site is as good as its word. It provides access to a trove of valuable data pertaining to the BTC, BCH, and ETH blockchains, including such things as mempool size, fees, number of nodes, and difficulty. Blockchair keeps getting better, and its array of variables that can be searched is unmatched. The explorer will even let you search for words and phrases that are encoded in the blockchain, enabling the curious to discover whether their hometown, sports team, or child’s name has been permanently encoded in the blockchain.
Tokenview.com is a multi-chain explorer developed by a Chinese team and launched earlier this year. It’s a little rough around the edges, with some occasional translation issues, but the number of blockchains it covers is unsurpassed. More than 20 popular blockchains can be searched, making Tokenview the ultimate all-in-one tool for checking up on transactions and addresses. The site also includes a rich list for each of the cryptocurrencies it covers.
There’s a few decent ethereum explorers out there but Etherscan.io is the most popular, and for good reason. It’s particularly good for looking up smart contract addresses, checking gas prices, and viewing DEX activity. Most of all though, Etherscan is used for checking the token balances of wallet addresses, something which other ethereum-based services such as Metamask and Myetherwallet can’t always reliably do.
Finally, we’d also like to mention the Bitcoin.com block explorer. Its clean interface and minimalist design makes it easy to look up transactions for the BCH and BTC networks in a trice. You can scan in QR codes to check a wallet address, and a button allows for switching between Bitcoin legacy and cash addresses, among other mechanisms.
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