NEARBlocks Transition Pagoda’s Near Explorer to NearBlocks

[trechriron]

https://dev.near.org/infrastructure-committee.near/widget/app?page=proposal&id=23

This post is for all reports of completed milestones.

• Milestone [DECISION] Market Metamask Snap? #1 can be found here ;
• Milestone [DECISION] Aurora reverse chain abstraction? #2 can be found here ;
• Milestone [PROJECT] Lava Infrastructure Offering #3 can be found here ;
• Milestone [FEATURE REQUEST] Fix RPC Node #4 can be found here.

[NearBronson]

Report : Milestone # 1 (0 - 3 Months)

Budget : $75,000
Timeline : 3 months (July - September 2023)
Post : https://near.social/devgovgigs.near/widget/gigs-board.pages.Post?id=635

1. Housekeeping

• Fixing outstanding bugs
• Re-indexing missing tokens (Ref etc)
• API and Database optimizations
• Infrastructure upgrades: Enable database backups, read replicas and high availability

2. Website : Rewrite with BOS components

• Build a BOS gateway
• Table components, Account Component
• Integrate SocialDB for comments section

3. Indexer: Start rebuilding using Timescale

• MVP/POC for historic near balances

4. REST API: Increase limits and reliability

• Increase rate limits for free users
• Improve caching/read replicas to increase read throughput

[NearBronson]

Report : Milestone # 2 (3 - 6 Months)

Budget : $75,000
Timeline : 3 months (October - December 2023)
Post : https://near.social/devgovgigs.near/widget/gigs-board.pages.Post?id=2042

• Remaining actions from milestone # 1 : Can be seen here in “Done” ;

• Updated indexer: Running on mainnet and testnet link ;

• BOS : Publication of BOS components link or search for nearblocks.near here ;

• Validators : Validator section in review link ;

• Tokens : Additional legacy tokens added link ;

• Ads: As per request from the ecosystem, we have prepared an ad network for NEAR projects to advertise on Nearblocks. While we know that no one likes ads, the ad revenue will go towards covering the ongoing increased infrastructure costs, and we hope also support Near ecosystem players

• Contract connect methods updated to use MNW. Wallet selector will be added to BOS version

[NearBronson]

Report : Milestone # 3 (month 6-9)

Budget : $75,000
Timeline : 3 months (January - March 2024)
Post : https://near.social/devgovgigs.near/widget/gigs-board.pages.Post?id=2804

Within this milestone we have successfully deployed nearblocks.io on BOS. With this deployment, users can enjoy a faster web experience and developers can leverage a suite of BOS components link - check Widgets tab) we have made available.

Other feature requests and improvements done within this milestone :

• Contract interactions with embedded ABI ;
• Near.social comments section on addresses, transactions and token pages;
• Wallet selector integration for contract interactions ;
• Additional API endpoints for API users (balance history) ;
• Dark mode ;
• A new way of visualising a transaction execution plan link ;
  FT & NFT holder count in real-time ;
• Validator explorer link.
• Our public roadmap for milestone # 3 can be found here.

[NearBronson]

Report : Milestone # 4 (month 9-12)

Budget : $75,000
Timeline : 3 months (April - June 2024)
Post : https://near.social/devhub.near/widget/app?page=proposal&id=72

Nearblocks schema and infrastructure was updated over the past 3 months. A number of breaking changes were forced to be introduced to the API has resulted in significant speed improvements.

This milestone we built the first decentralised explorer on Near. The lite explorer is built on BOS found here (for now) and on social.near gateway allows users to check their transaction by using any of the public RPC nodes available. This offers a solution to look up the status of transactions and accounts without any dependency on a centralised indexer.

• Lite explorer lite.nearblocks.io ;
• Enhanced and tree execution plan
• Receipt summary
• Display Web3 wallet ie. metamask transactions (example)
• Dex tracking (trades indexing now)
• Initial work on aurora integration (example)
• Spam token list (link)
• Cursor pagination for API clients allowing for unlimited historical data query
• Logarithmic chart changes

[NearBronson]

Report : Milestone # 5 (month 12-15)

Budget : $75,000
Timeline : 3 months (July - September 2024)
Post : https://near.social/devhub.near/widget/app?page=proposal&id=143

Please find below an update on milestone #4. The following points are completed. The ad network and API plan revamp are in the goal of growing additional revenue, easier developer onboarding and allowing other dApps to leverage nearblocks’ audience (1M monthly unique users currently).

• Proprietary ad network. A self-served ad network has been setup with plans ranging from $100 to $300 per month for full exposure across the entire website to leverage 3M monthly impressions and 1M monthly unique visitors.
• Revamp on API plans. A new pricing model on API plans allowing early founders to leverage historical data while adding support for high end users with large data requirements
• NEP518. Adds the Ethereum Wallet integration
• DEX Analytics created the dex indexer which we will use to populate tradingview charts and analytics
• Migrating from BOS back to React. Following the recent Pagoda announcement, we will be sunsetting Nearblocks on BOS. We completed migration to NextJS and have seen significant improvements in speed and reliability of the user experience
• Contract Source code validation
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and features including, Bitte wallet integration

As our data storage continues to grow at an exponential rate, we are also actively researching and testing better ways to index and store the large data requirements of the growing Near blockchain.