Explorer Tour

A block explorer is a window into the DAG. This tour works with either explorer from the Explorers & Analytics page - Kaspa Explorer or Kaspa.Stream.

1. Blocks arriving

The front page shows new blocks appearing roughly 10 times per second - Kaspa’s block rate. A visual explorer like Kaspa.Stream shows the blockDAG structure itself: blocks created in parallel, linking back to multiple parents.

2. Inside a block

Click into any block. Worth noting:

• Parents - a Kaspa block often lists several parent hashes, unlike a blockchain block’s single parent.
• Blue score - the number of blue blocks in the block’s past; the DAG’s rough equivalent of block height.
• DAA score - the network’s monotonic progress counter, used for difficulty adjustment and lock times.
• Blue/red status - most blocks are blue (well-connected). Red blocks are still merged into the DAG but treated differently by consensus.

3. A transaction

Look up a transaction ID - one from the wallet walkthrough, or any transaction in a recent block:

• Inputs and outputs. Kaspa is a UTXO network: inputs consume previous outputs, outputs create new spendable coins. Amounts display in KAS but are stored in sompi.
• Accepting block. A transaction is settled once accepted by a chain block - explorers show this alongside the containing block.
• Confirmations - refreshing shows the count climbing by ~10 per second.

4. An address

Any kaspa: address can be looked up: balance, UTXOs, full transaction history. Two takeaways: the DAG is completely public, and addresses are pseudonymous - identity comes only from what an address gets linked to.

Going deeper

• The analytics sites on Explorers & Analytics track network-wide stats: hashrate, throughput, supply.
• Everything an explorer shows comes from a node’s RPC interface. The RPC Calls page executes those calls directly, or run a node to query one locally.