Galascan originated from our amazing community. More specifically, it originated from GingerBreadMan, one of the key drivers of the Fuzzle Prime DAO.
Back in early 2024, we held a contest to see who could design the best block explorer for GalaChain. There were four qualifying submissions, but the Founder’s Node operators spoke. In a very close vote, GingerBreadMan won with his explorer at galachainexplorer.com. This would soon evolve into GalaScan!
How to use Galascan
Galascan is surprisingly straightforward for such a powerful block explorer. There is only one all-purpose dashboard at galascan.gala.com.
From this dashboard, you can filter and view all transactions on GalaChain. You can easily search a specific GalaChain ID, which makes it an easy way to dig through your own transactions on GalaChain or watch the hottest wallets.
You can also filter by currency or specific transaction type, making it all the easier to get a clear picture of whatever data you’re looking for.
By default, you’ll only see the most recent hour’s transactions on the dashboard. If you search for more specific data, however, you can view as far back as records go on GalaChain… right back to October 31st, 2022 — when the first GalaChain supported app went live!
Details at a Glance
One of the best things about Galascan is that it shows important metrics about GalaChain simply and all in one place!
At the top of the page you’ll see some of the most sought after information about GalaChain:
- Total transactions that day
- Total unique wallets holding tokens on GalaChain
- Total circulating supply of $GALA
- Total GalaChain operations that day
- Total $GALA burned in the last 24 hours
- Leaderboard of the wallets that have burned the most $GALA
- $GALA price and market cap (price values sourced from CoinGecko API)
$GALA is burned all the time during the operation of GalaChain. Any time tokens are burned for transaction fees or purchases, the circulating supply of $GALA goes down. However, the $GALA distributed by Founder’s Nodes goes up since it is based on the total amount in circulation.
This burn leaderboard is new, and we’re excited that Galaxians everywhere will be able to keep an eye on this metric as the ecosystem continues to expand and grow.
Explore GalaChain
Galascan is a powerful block explorer that is simple for anyone to learn and dig into. But that doesn’t mean it’s the only tool there is to really explore deep into GalaChain!
Check out galacoins.xyz if you want detailed information on specific tokens. This community-developed site covers many different tokens in the GalaChain ecosystem and gives you amazing information on top holders, exchange timeline and even simplifies GalaSwap offers into an easy to understand order book!
Analytics.gala.com gives aggregated data points about GalaChain, Nodes, $GALA and users on GalaChain. You can’t dig through blocks like on Galascan, but you can easily see important statistics that may be tough to glean from a list of blocks!
https://explorer.galachain.com offers a more detailed view of specific blocks, also allowing you to easily sort by channel and search more specific information on GalaChain.
There are tons more interesting tools to help with learning and development on GalaChain. Check out our recent article listing off some of the hottest spots on GalaChain if you want to dig deeper.
Don’t see what you’re looking for? Well, I guess you need to build it then. Seriously though, GalaChain is here to build the future on. If you have an idea of what could help this ecosystem, what are you waiting for?
