Learn how to use Stellar network data to manage your crypto assets by following an example from the Stellar Quest learning platform.
The Role of a Blockchain Explorer
Blockchain explorers enable users to do the following.
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- View recent and past transactions
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- Check the status of a transaction
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- Explore block details, such as block height, timestamp, and miner information
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- Investigate wallet addresses to see their transaction history and current balances
Introducing Stellar Expert
The Stellar Network offers various innovative tools and features for its community.
Usability helps build trust in the ecosystem and empowers the network’s community.
One of these tools is Stellar Expert, a blockchain explorer that enables users to view live updates on the following data from the Stellar Network.
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- Asset statistics
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- 24 hour ledger statistics
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- Ledger performance
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- Assets on the ledger
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- Accounts
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- New assets and trustlines
Use Stellar Network Data to Manage an Offer.
Manage an offer to buy or sell a specific asset for another.
Establishing trust and USD Coin (USDC), Circle’s USD-backed stablecoin, as a prerequisites to managing an offer.
In order to establish trust between the XLM and USDC, the USDC account number is required. You can get that account number from Stellar Expert, which is the ledger explorer and analytics platform for Stellar Network.
Our Business Development and Podcast lead, Gauthier Lamothe, explains how to do this in his walkthrough of the related Stellar Quest.
