Installation

First of all, take a look at how we envision all Otterscan components should connect to each other. Understanding this architecture will make it easier to solve common network issues.

• Architecture overview

Make sure you have a working and synced Erigon instance. Setting up Erigon is out of scope of this book.

Otterscan RPC support is already embedded in every Erigon node >= v2.29.0. You just need to enable it.

• Enabling Otterscan support in Erigon

This software is currently distributed as a docker image.

• Install Otterscan from Docker Hub

Otterscan is a merged explorer, which means it can optionally display beacon chain data for chains that support it.

• Enabling beacon chain support

Otterscan v2.x has some EXPERIMENTAL extra indexers.

• Enable OTS2 experimental indexers

Once you finish installing it, you can check if everything is working as expected.

• Validating the installation