Project Description: Otterscan is an opensource, local first, block explorer meant primarily to be run against your own node.
It is very lightweight, meant to be run against your own archive node, so also preserving user privacy.
It supports all main Ethereum L1/L2s.
Public Repository: GitHub - otterscan/otterscan: A blazingly fast, local, Ethereum block explorer built on top of Erigon
Budget Breakdown
We are not looking for funding for any specific deliverable, but among the goals for the next months are:
- Better support for Erigon3
- Follow up on pectra developments and support it
- Keep on our long term goal of feature parity with proprietary block explorers
Our main goal is to get funding to support long term project continuity, there is no specific goal/budget target, but we expect to:
- have some extra funding to cover costs of attending events (travel, booking, etc.)
- eventual costs with testing environments (cloud expenses, better hardware, etc.)
- hire people that we identify as a good fit for the project
Impact Measurement and Reporting
This project has been active for the last ~3 years, and the way we work is through cutting regular releases (see below) and prioritizing what we think is most important at the moment.
So we believe that our own tracking record of deliverables is enough to make sure users keep getting engaged to our product and prove this is a legit project.
Interim Reporting
Regular Updates:
Our target is to cut a release every 1-2 months, depending on the amount of features.
Milestone Verification:
Our releases page on github is the main place for verification of our commitment on keeping deliverying, please take a look there: Releases · otterscan/otterscan · GitHub
Sustainability Plan
We currently don’t expect to rely on any business model or VC funding, hence we rely on grant programs like this one in order to keep committed to the values of opensource, privacy and decentralization.
Case Studies and Testimonials
Showcasing Success:
Our releases page on github has detailed descriptions of all our deliverables since the beginning of the project, please take a look there: Releases · otterscan/otterscan · GitHub
It is the main place for verification of all future iterations as well.
Advancing Values of Freedom and Privacy
The entire Ethereum ecosystem relies into a proprietary, closed source, company as a source of truth of what happens onchain.
While they have their own merits and we are not questioning that, we think users must be able to browse their info from their own node, using consumer hardware.
Supporting Decentralization
See previous answer.
Team Information
Founder: Willian Mitsuda
X: x.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wmitsuda/
We have 1 more part-time developer hired by the project.
Other funding
The project has been active for ~3 years and got < $500K in total from all our sponsors/grant programs.