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Blockchain is the biggest public database, especially Public Blockchain, which is used by cryptocurrencies.

A public blockchain of the cryptocurrency showcases all the information about the entire network but retrieving it is the challenge.

It is important to know a crypto blockchain’s health by looking at hashrate, block size, fees, or even just to check the status of transactions.

To retrieve all the insights of the blockchain command-line interface or CLI is a reliable tool. But a normal person who doesn’t have any programming language background faces the difficulty to track and retrieving the data of the blockchain.

That’s where blockchain explorers come in.

Blockchain explorers are the platform tracking the entire cryptocurrency blockchain and show all the insights on the graphical interface.

Here is the list of those Blockchain explorers you can use to get updates of a currency blockchain.

1. Blockchain.com.

Blockchain.com is a crypto exchange and wallet service provider that also has blockchain explorer for Bitcoin, Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash.

Blockchain.com explorer is limited to showing the price, latest transactions and latest blocks created on Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash blockchain.

But the explorer is known for providing in-depth blockchain analysis of Bitcoin blockchain with charts and graphics.

At the first glance, Blockchain.com Bitcoin explorer shows you the information about price, mempool size, latest blocks and transactions happening on the network.

Real-time datas are represented in charts and graphics of different aspects of the dedicated section like mining, block details, network activity.

2. CoinMarketCap.

CoinMarketCap doesn’t need any introduction, a famous cryptocurrency price tracking platform.

Recently they’ve launched a blockchain explorer for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Binance Coin.

The explorer does not provide any in-depth analysis of a crypto asset blockchain. There are no charts and graphics. The explorer only showcases statistics about overall blockchain network condition with an option like hashrate, pending transaction, circulating supply.

Explorer also has a dedicated section tracking ERC20 token’s current state where you can see ERC20 token transactions.

3. Etherscan.

Etherscan is a popular Blockchain explorer for Ethereum Blockchain.

It is like Blockchain.com’s block explorer but for Ethereum blockchain only.

Using Etherscan, you can view almost all the information about the Ethereum Blockchain like transactions, latest blocks, unconfirmed transactions, mining information. All the datas represented using attractive graphs and charts.

Not only core Ethereum, Etherscan also provide data about tokens like ERC20, ERC721, ERC1155. Even have a dedicated section for DeFi where you can view all the transaction details, including NFTs, happening on the decentralized exchanges.

For the sake of this article, I’m not mentioning all the features the platform has.

Literally, there are tons of features, so you can explore them on your own without creating an account.

4. BlockCypher.

BlockCypher is providing simple and easy web APIs to build blockchain applications quickly and confidently.

Other than providing APIs, BlockCypher also has an open-source Blockchain explorer for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Grin, Dogecoin, and Dash.

BlockCyphers blockchain explorer doesn’t offer any charts or graphics to showcase blockchain performance. Instead, they keep it simple, only providing the information about the latest blocks and transactions happening on the blockchain.

Even having limited options, the notable feature of the tool is showing the suggestions for transaction fees alongside confirmation predictions, and real-time feed is also another attractive factor that you can find in this blockchain navigation tool.

BlockCypher showcases all the information the same way in all the cryptos but except Grin, which they redirect you to Grinmint explorer.

5. Tokenview.

Tokenview is easy to use and one of the best multi-chain explorers supporting over 100+ crypto assets, including tokens and stablecoins.

The explorer was created by the Chinese development team, so some Chinese words pop up when you click on certain options, but you can use the tool ignoring those words.

The explorer has almost all the options you need to track the particular blockchain from charts and graphics to show whales’ activities and address holding most crypto assets.

Tokenview pulls the data from TradingView to showcase the real-time forecast of price movement of crypto assets and also has the dedicated section of NFT where you can see the sales figures of NFTs and DeFi section showing the activities of different DeFi platforms.

Not only showing stats and figures, Tokenview also has many tutorials which will help you learn the blockchain of Ethereum, Monero, Litecoin, Ontology, NEO, ZCash, TRON and many other cryptocurrencies.

6. Blockchair.

Blockchair represents blockchain datas attractively using charts.

The one feature that sets Blockchair apart from other block explorers is Blockchair can be used as a search engine like Google to search for various information like address, block data, transaction history, plus you can even search for the embedded text data in 19 different blockchains.

And the explorer allows you to compare different blockchains at the same time to get better insights and provides PDF receipts for your or your counterparty transactions.

The explorer also tracks and provides the datas of ERC20 tokens and NFTs.

7. TradeBlock.

TradeBlock is a subsidiary of Coindesk, a famous news site for cryptocurrencies.

TradeBlock doesn’t offer many options to track blockchain; you can only track Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains, and they provide charts for only Bitcoin blockchain data.

The tool is limited to showing only mining, transactions, blocks and price related datas which you get on the ‘Historical’ tab.

Besides charts and datas, you can search Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchain for any block or transaction or an address to get all the information.

The explorer does not provide that much extensive information about Ethereum blockchain; you can look into the recent transactions and blocks and the contracts created without any charts and graphics.

TradeBlock also shows the price movement of various crypto assets.

8. BTC.com.

BTC.com is a leading Bitcoin wallet, mining pool, block explorer and API.

The BTC.com Explorer showcases the information about Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin blockchain.

The beauty of the explorer is you get all the information, including charts, on one page. You don’t need various tabs to view information.

Even though explorer provides some external links to view detailed information about Hashrate, Difficulty, Unconfirmed transactions, Fees, Blocks.

The stand out feature from the explorer is showing a halving countdown for various blockchains like Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, BSV, Ethereum Classic, Dash, Zec.

Conclusion.

These are all the blockchain explorers providing you with almost all the information about the blockchain without using any CLI.

Now it is your turn to choose the best explorer.

Is it CoinMarketCap or Blockchain.com? Or Tokenview? Or any other? Mention your choice in the comments.