Solscan 2024: A Year of Transforming and Innovations

As the year is coming to an end, it’s time to wrap up and reflect on the journey as well as technical achievements that we have achieved so far. After having surpassed more than three years in the running, Solscan can proudly say that we have achieved several significant milestones and improvements after a long year of hardships and fruitfulness.

In this article, we will take a closer look into the key developments that have defined Solscan’s journey over the year of 2024.

Solscan Integration into Etherscan

2024 marked a significant milestone for Solscan, beginning with its integration into Etherscan on January 3rd. As one of the world's leading block explorers, Etherscan’s collaboration with Solscan has been a positive step forward, especially in the product and technical aspects. This integration has provided resources and joint support to enhance the capabilities of both platforms. Solana users also proved to be a great beneficiary of recent improvements as the positives feedback from our users has been overwhelming.

Following the integration, Solscan has introduced numerous advancements in its product. Let's explore these improvements in detail.

New Features

1. New Activities Tabs

With the goal of providing users with intuitive and accurate data displays, Solscan introduced three new activity tabs: Transfers, DeFi Activities, and NFT Activities. These additions offer a clear and in-depth view of Solana transactions, simplifying the understanding of each type of transaction.

2. More Filters

To empower users in navigating data on Solscan, column filters have been added to virtually every column in the table. Each tab in a details page features a customized set of filters, enabling users to easily find transactions that meet their needs. With a little bit of playing and tweaking, users can easily find out the transactions to their demand.

Additionally, transaction filter toggles—Hide Failed TX, Hide Zero Amount TX, and Hide Spam TX—have been added to each activities tab to eliminate noise in the table.

3. More Labelling

Years of working on Solscan and enhancing blockchain readability have brought us to realize the importance of labeling addresses. In 2024, we have put significant efforts to develop our tagging and labeling system, both manually and automatically.

Addresses such as LP tokens, liquidity pools, and pool information have been categorized and labeled automatically. Furthermore, manual labeling has been actively performed for addresses belonging to projects, teams, entities, etc.

Solscan welcomes contributions from teams and individuals regarding labeling work.

4. Blinks: Solscan Tip Jar

Solana Actions allows anyone to share a metadata-rich link (Blockchain link or “Blink”) online to initiate a Solana action without the need for an app. This transformation enables more accessible and user-friendly adoption for non-crypto users.

Solscan has integrated this feature into the platform, allowing users to connect their Solana wallets and send SOL with ease by clicking the “Tip” button on an account details page.

5. New Integrations

Recognizing the importance of Solana's new standardized innovations, Solscan has quickly provided support for the integration of:

• Token2022 standard’s Token Extensions display.
• Metaplex Core digital assets standard display.
• Account Anchor Data display.
• Anchor 0.3 Framework support.

Furthermore, Solscan expanded its coverage of the Solana DeFi landscape by adding more DeFi dashboards for programs such as Sanctum, Pump.fun, and OpenBook.

6. Solscan New Tools

Several flexible new tools have been developed to serve different purposes:

• Transaction Inspector: Allows users to closely examine transaction details before they are sent to the network or after they have been processed.
• Verify Signatures: For signing or verifying message signatures.
• Account Balance Checker: Checks the token balance of an address at a specific time.
• Solscan Transfer Heatmap: A fun heatmap calendar to visualize trading frequency.
• Site Settings: An all-in-one place for Solscan website setting options.
• CSV Export for Token Holders and Stake Rewards: A new CSV Export button for Token Holders list and Stake Rewards.

Features Updates

1. New UI and Better Performance

In 2024, Solscan introduced an overall revamp of its UI, enhancing both mobile and web browser experiences. In general, the navigation process has been much smoother, more user-friendly, and more transparent. Key updates include:

• New and unified buttons with an optimized layout.
• Address highlighting feature.
• Interactive charts in dashboards.
• Table view mode for clearer data display.
• Activity feeds updates displaying instructions and interacted programs.

Additionally, the overall speed and performance of the site have been significantly improved, resulting in faster page loading times.

2. Data Indexing & Parsing

Given the vast and unorganized nature of raw blockchain data, data indexing and parsing are notably essential. Transactions data are assured to be displayed in the most intuitive, transparent, and readable manner to users.

The Solscan team has made significant improvements in this area, including:

• Programs Parsing for Sanctum and Pump.fun.
• Transactions Parsing for staking activities, Jupiter Perpetuals - DCAs - Limit Orders, Jupiter Tx Slippage and Referral Fee, NFT Tx Loyalty Fee and Trading Fee.
• Token Related Tx Parsing for first mint transactions.

These updates ensure accurate data display across the Solscan platform, particularly in the Transaction Actions feature, which provides concise and comprehensive key details of a transaction.

3. Improved User Profile Interface

Enhancements to the Solscan User Profile include the addition of a search function in the Personal Labels tab, an overview usage dashboard for Solscan features, and an improved Notifications layout, enhancing the overall user experience, making it more efficient and convenient.

4. Other Upgrades

Additional improvements include:

• CSV Function Export: Users can filter data on the UI and retain the dataset when exporting CSV files.
• Watchlist Email Limit Increase: Quota increased to 100 notification emails per day, totaling 3000 emails per month.
• Activities Table Paging Increase: Up to 10,000 records of historical transfer data are now displayed on the Solscan website.

Data Analytics

Over the past year, we have further enhanced and completed our data analytics capabilities by introducing more comprehensive and advanced reports and analytics dashboards, including:

• Solscan Leaderboard (Token, Account, Program): These dashboards provide valuable insights into the top-performing addresses on Solana.
• Fee Tracker Dashboard: A dashboard packed with real-time tracking data of network fees, programs consumed fees, and user-spent fees.
• Solana Staking Dashboard: A comprehensive dashboard of staking activities that includes Native Staking, Liquid Staking, and MEV Tip data.
• Stablecoin Dashboard v2.0: An improved version of the v1.0, providing more aspects of the stablecoin landscape on Solana.
• Updated Dashboards: Solana Analytics Network, Token Analysis (in Token details page), AMM Dashboard, Vote Account Dashboard.

Developers Support

Developers are the core spine of a project, an application, and blockchain in general. Skillful developers with the right resources can create killer applications, which later on can onboard more users to Solana. Recognizing the importance of developers, Solscan has offered extra technical support to aid in their building progress:

1. Pro API v2.0

We have introduced a new dataset for Solscan Pro API 2.0, enabling significant upgrades in data accessibility and analytical capabilities to users.

2. Devnet/Testnet and Custom RPC

We have made great improvements to the Devnet and Testnet platforms on Solscan, offering a complete interface and stabilized user performance. Additionally, we also added support for selecting clusters, allowing advanced users to add a custom/private RPC endpoint.

3. Custom IDL

Users can upload custom IDLs to Solscan and instantly view clear and parsed instructions based on the IDL format of your choice.

Partnerships and Events

This year, Solscan has partnered with multiple Solana platforms, opening new opportunities for users and showcasing its capabilities:

• AllDomains Integration: This allows Solscan to display accurate and comprehensive informatiton about AllDomains’ domain names, enhancing search availability.
• Data Platforms Integration: We have added support for major data platforms on Solana to elevate the token data searching experience of our users. Users can get directed to any of their favorite data trading platforms from any token page right on Solscan.

Additionally, Solscan is honored to have actively participated in a diverse array of Solana events, sharing our expertise and contributing to the growth of the ecosystem:

• Solana Summit APAC 2024: Participating as the Media Partner for the event, engaging with the community and sharing insights.
• Solana Breakpoint 2024: Contributing to Breakpoint Lisbon as an active participant, engaging with the community and sharing insights.

Others

In 2024, Solscan enhanced its user support system by introducing a standardized support ticketing system, implementing structured procedures for token updating and labeling contributions, and developing a comprehensive knowledge base site for easy access to resources and support.

Conclusion

To all friends, users, and partners who still stand with us to this day, we would like to send you our earnest appreciation:
Thank you for sharing and going with us through ups and downs.
Thank you for contributing and shaping Solscan together over the past year.
Thank you for being part of the journey — we couldn’t have done it without you.