Category: Review

Mintscan – Crypto Block Explorer Review

Score: 57.5/100. Cosmos’s leading explorer, built by Cosmostation, which also runs a validator business on the same chains.

Score: 64.5/100. Avalanche’s explorer, now run by Routescan after a well-documented, named-source 2023 operator switch.

Score: 61.75/100. Tracking-free Bitcoin fee explorer, recently VC-funded despite its “community-funded” identity.

Score: 50.25/100. TRON’s official explorer, sitting atop a chain WSJ linked to over half of 2024’s illegal crypto activity.

Score: 56.5/100. OKX’s own 170+ chain explorer, the most direct exchange-operated explorer pattern found in this series.

Score: 62.5/100. BNB Smart Chain’s explorer, built by Etherscan’s own team, independently of Binance, the chain’s creator.

Score: 46.5/100. Once Solana’s “next-gen” explorer, now called “largely unmaintained” by a rival since its 2024 acquisition.

Score: 63.75/100. “The Solana equivalent of Etherscan,” now literally owned by Etherscan since a 2024 acquisition.

Score: 79.25/100. Open-source, self-hostable, and the broadest EVM chain coverage found anywhere in this series.