Solscan.IO

Inspect transactions, accounts, blocks, and more on the Solana blockchain.

Solscan is a comprehensive blockchain explorer for the Solana network.

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What Is SolScan and How to Use It?

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SolScan is a dedicated blockchain explorer for the Solana ecosystem, giving you access to a variety of blockchain data, including transaction history, wallet addresses, contracts, and much more.

There are dedicated DeFi and NFT dashboards and an analytics platform, which provide insights into token trends and tools for monitoring DeFi activity on the Solana network.

SolScan offers API access in order to fetch blockchain data such as crypto transactions, blocks, and validator information, enabling integration into custom applications.

Transparency is one of the core principles behind blockchain technology, and it may be a primary reason for its growing adoption in many industries. Public blockchains are distributed databases that have all transactions and data publicly available. This openness ensures accountability and allows users to track activity in real time.

In practice, blockchain explorers are essential tools for accessing this public blockchain data, allowing users to monitor transactions, explore market trends, analyze smart contract interactions, and much more.

Solana is a popular blockchain network that offers a wide variety of use cases and products, including cryptocurrencies, NFTs, decentralized exchanges (DEXs), and various types of decentralized applications (DApps). Like BscScan for BNB Chain and EtherScan for Ethereum, Solana also has a dedicated block explorer called SolScan.

In this article, we will discuss what SolScan is and explore some of the many dashboards and tools it has to offer.

What Is SolScan?
SolScan is a blockchain explorer specifically designed for the Solana network. You can think of it as a search engine that allows you to explore everything related to the Solana blockchain. SolScan gives you access to a range of information, including transaction history, wallet addresses, smart contracts, and analytical insights into token and decentralized finance (DeFi) projects.

SolScan is free and an alternative to Solana Explorer. Its relatively user-friendly interface allows you to navigate its tools and resources. Let's start by familiarizing ourselves with SolScan's homepage. If you are familiar with EtherScan, you will notice that they share some common layout features.

The search bar is at the top of the homepage. You can use it to search for things like transaction hashes, wallet addresses, tokens, NFT collections, smart contract addresses, and block numbers.

You will find the navigation tabs on the top of the SolScan homepage. These give you quick and easy access to the tools and resources that SolScan has to offer. These include analytical tools and dashboards, DeFi dashboards, blockchain data, technical resources, and leaderboards for tokens and NFTs. You can also sign in or sign up for enhanced functionality.

Now that you are familiar with the fundamentals of the SolScan interface let's look further into what the explorer has to offer.

How to Find Transactions on SolScan
Finding transaction information on SolScan is a relatively straightforward process. Using the correct hash or address gives you information about timestamps, fees, status, and accounts involved in the transaction.

1. Every Solana transaction is recorded on the Solana mainnet with a unique transaction signature (also referred to as transaction ID). A signature is a long string of numbers and letters that looks like this:

2. You can access transaction information by copying the signature and pasting it in the SolScan search bar.

3. After hitting enter, you will arrive on the Transaction Details page. This page gives you information about the specific transaction you’ve searched for. You can browse three categories: Overview, SOL Balance Change, and Token Balance Change.

4. The Overview page will provide most of the information you need about the signature, timestamp, status, signer, and overall block data. By scrolling down, you can also find fee information, the previous block hash, and the program logs.

5. The SOL Balance Change and Token Balance Change tabs provide information on the balance changes for all parties involved.

The SOL Balance Change page will help you understand who sent and received SOL.

The Token Balance Change page will help you understand which wallets sent or received specific tokens.