Otterscan is a fast, local, private and opensource block explorer. It has a very low footprint, which allows it to run in consumer hardware, not requiring much more resources than a regular archive node.It has a decoupled architecture, which means it is composed by an UI and an API which can be used separately. That enabled an increasing ecosystem to flourish:- Hosted APIs by Llamanodes and Quicknode- Community-develop Dappnode packages- Otterscan API implemented in Anvil, allowing Otterscan UI to be used in local development.- Otterscan API being used by Ape.- OP-Otterscan fork developed by Test-in-Prod team.The last one enabled the OP collective to use Otterscan since the bedrock upgrade, and now Optimism can benefit from all innovations we are building in Otterscan.
Optimism has been pushing for client diversity through the OP-Stack. But it is hard to justify diversity to end users when they see no clear benefit from it.Otterscan, through OP-Otterscan/OP-Erigon brings a strong motivation for a different client to be used, along with a killer dapp that can be used with it. So, supporting Otterscan means creating more incentives to justify the entire OP-Stack architecture.Developer ecosystem: explorers are a fundamental piece of software for developers to understand what's happening onchain. The market leader is a closed source product; we are opensource and able to be run on developers' machines. We also promote open datasets, like Sourcify for contract verification.Supporting Otterscan means less reliance on vendor lock-in and closed databases.
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