Introduction

Welcome to The Otterscan Book.

This is the official documentation for Otterscan, an open-source, fast, local, laptop-friendly Ethereum block explorer.

This book is open-source and available on GitHub: https://github.com/otterscan/otterscan-book.

It is also available online at: https://docs.otterscan.io/

This chapter starts with an overview of what is Otterscan.

• What is Otterscan?

Then we move into a high level explanation of its architecture.

• Architecture

Which chains are compatible with Otterscan?

• Supported networks

How contract verification is handled.

• Contract Verification