DeFi Blockchain Explorer

An insight-based blockchain explorer that's built for the DeFi Blockchain (defichain.io).

Start

The default setup uses docker and docker-compose to enable a single command deployment with an env file.

By default there are 3 env files in the repo:

• .env.testnet
• .env.mainnet
• .env.example

These files target testnet.defichain.io and mainnet.defichain.io deployments. To do a local deployment, create .env file that has the NETWORK and API_PREFIX variables as given in these files.

user@host:~/src/defichain-explorer$ cat <<END > .env
NETWORK=testnet
HTTP_PORT=5000
API_PORT=3000
API_PREFIX=http://localhost:3000/api
END

user@host:~/src/defichain-explorer$ docker-compose up

That's it. This should launch everything required (DeFi Blockchain node, Bitcore API server, MongoDB and Insight) in their respective containers.

Please have a look at the docker-compose.yml file for other defaults and env usage.

Configurations

Environment variables

• NETWORK [required] - mainnet/testnet
• API_PREFIX [required] - The full path prefix to the bitcore API endpoint
• HTTP_PORT [default: 5000] - The final web endpoint of the insight explorer
• API_PORT [default: 3000] - The bitcore API endpoint port

Conf files

• bitcore.${NETWORK}.config.json [required] - The bitcore config file for the given network provided by the NETWORK env.
• defichain/defi.${NETWORK}.conf [required] - The DeFi Blockchain config that's used the node.

NOTE: Please make sure to set a proper rpc username and password in both of the above before production deployments.

• defichain/Dockerfile - This dockerfile downloads the specific version of the DeFi Blockchain binary and builds a docker image out of it, that's used by the deployment subsequently. Modify VERSION here for running a different version of the blockchain node.

For details on bitcore config, have a look at the Bitcore README.

Notes

Deployment shortcuts:

testnet local environment:

docker-compose --env-file .env.example up --build

testnet.defichain.io:

docker-compose --env-file .env.testnet up

mainnet.defichain.io:

docker-compose --env-file .env.mainnet up