Introduction

Rocket Explorer is an open-source community project for analyzing and visualizing the decentralized Rocket Pool network.

It is inspired by rocketscan.io, which is no longer actively maintained, and builds on ideas shared by the Rocket Pool community. The project offers insight into the Rocket Pool network, with a focus on the upcoming Saturn release, which builds on the tokenomics rework.

For questions, feedback, or suggestions, feel free to join the discussion on Discord

Technical Overview

Rocket Explorer follows an API-less, event-driven architecture.
All data is stored and served from an object storage backend (S3-compatible).
The system consists of two main components: a static web app frontend and a serverless, timer-triggered function responsible for event processing and data storage.

Backend

The backend runs on Azure Functions and performs incremental event processing using Nethereum to read on-chain events and data.
Processed results are serialized with MessagePack and stored as blobs in an Hetzner S3 Object Storage, ready to be consumed by the frontend.

Frontend

The frontend is a Blazor Static Web App using MudBlazor with a Material 3-inspired design and LiveCharts2 for data visualization deployed as Azure Static Web App. All content is loaded directly from the pre-generated MessagePack blobs in object storage.

Local Development

For local event processing, you can use the RocketExplorer.Bootstrap project.
You will need to configure an S3-compatible storage (e.g. MinIO via Docker) and provide an RPC URL to an archive node in your appsettings.json.
The environment can be selected by setting the "Environment": "Devnet" key/value pair.

The Blazor application determines its configuration based on the subdomain.
To override this behavior, the simplest approach is to set the environment explicitly in Configuration.cs:

// ... subdomain handling

Environment = Environment.Devnet; // Set your desired environment here

Network = Environment switch
{
    Environment.LocalDevnet => Network.Hoodi,
    Environment.Devnet => Network.Hoodi,
    Environment.LocalTestnet => Network.Hoodi,
    Environment.Testnet => Network.Hoodi,
    Environment.LocalMainnet => Network.Mainnet,
    Environment.Mainnet => Network.Mainnet,
    _ => throw new InvalidOperationException("Network is null"),
};

You may also need to adjust the base URL for the S3 storage in the same file:

public string ObjectStoreBaseUrl => $"https://rocketexplorer.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/{ObjectStoreBucketName}";