Top Solana Block Explorers (2026 Edition)

Table of Contents

1. Top Community Favourite: Solscan
2. Foundation Build: Solana Explorer
3. Validator and Network Health Focus: Solana Beach
4. Modern Interface: SolanaFM
5. Specialized Explorers
6. Conclusion

A block explorer is the interface layer for a blockchain. It takes raw ledger data (blocks, accounts, program calls, transactions) and turns it in a way that makes on-chain activity readable, traceable and verifiable.

As Solana has grown, its explorers have evolved from simple transaction lookups into full data products. Everyday users expect fast indexing, complete history and clear wallet views. Developers expect reliable instruction traces, inner calls, and enough context to understand how programs interact through their IDLs.

This article highlights five explores in 2026, each representing a distinct role in the Solana ecosystem. This list focuses on their core strengths so you can see what exists, how they differ and which explorer matches the depth and insight your work actually needs.

1. Top Community Favourite: Solscan

Solscan has become the most widely adopted and feature-complete blockchain explorer in the Solana ecosystem. It is deeply integrated across wallets, DeFi protocols, NFT platforms, dashboards, and internal analytics workflows, positioning it as the default reference layer for Solana on-chain data.

Website: solscan.io

Key capabilities

• Advanced transaction decoding and inspection with summary views for quick verification, and full instruction logs and program-call breakdowns when deeper analysis is required
• Powerful filtering and navigation across transactions, programs, tokens, value ranges, and time windows, including group-based filtering for analyzing multiple wallets or assets together
• Comprehensive wallet analytics covering portfolios, stake accounts, real-time activity, historical behavior, transfer heatmaps, and long-term monitoring through labels, watchlists, and alerts
• Token and NFT intelligence including real-time pricing, metadata, holder distributions, market listings, historical activity, and safety context through the Token Reputation system
• Program and protocol transparency with activity metrics, IDLs, upgrade authorities, verification status, and security-related metadata
• Market and liquidity insight across major AMMs and DeFi protocols, including TVL, volume, swap activity, and liquidity pool behavior
• Network and validator visibility such as real-time TPS, block performance, priority fees, stake distribution, validator uptime, and commission data
• Labeling and contextual enrichment that translates millions of raw addresses into identifiable protocols, platforms, and organizations

Beyond user-facing features, Solscan has increasingly positioned itself as data infrastructure.

Developer and institutional tooling

• Integrated analytics dashboards tracking network performance, stablecoin flows, DeFi protocols, and individual token activity in real time
• Exports and structured data access allowing filtered datasets to be exported to CSV for reporting and offline analysis
• Real-time APIs and Explorer-as-a-Service enabling embedded Solana data within third-party applications and internal systems
• Custom RPC and developer controls including custom RPC settings and custom IDL uploads to support advanced workflows
• Enterprise-grade performance and scalability optimized for Solana’s high-throughput environment, with historical indexing maintained without sacrificing freshness or accuracy

If you would like to learn more about Solscan, refer to some of our blog posts below:

• Solscan Token Reputation
• Public Names and Private Names
• Solscan Extra Tags

2. Foundation Build: Solana Explorer

Solana Explorer is the official explorer maintained by the Solana Foundation. Its focus is accuracy and protocol-level transparency rather than analytical depth.

Key strengths

• Minimal, stable interface offering straightforward block and transaction views without additional visual layers.
• Accurate reflection of network state, useful for checking slot height, epochs, validator sets and feature-gate status.
• Validator visibility, including performance, activation state and stake-related details.
• Basic transaction traces, sufficient for verifying outcomes and understanding standard interactions.

Solana Explorer serves as a baseline reference tool for verifying core network data.

3. Validator and Network Health Focus: Solana Beach

Solana Beach is designed around infrastructure visibility and staking analytics rather than end-user transaction analysis.

Key strengths

• Clear staking and validator metrics, including uptime, delegation changes and stake-distribution patterns.
• Network health visualisation, showing validator activity, delinquent stake and cluster-wide trends.
• Useful for delegators and infrastructure operators who monitor validator performance and overall cluster stability.

It is primarily used by validators, delegators, and ecosystem participants focused on network stability.

4. Modern Interface: SolanaFM

SolanaFM emphasizes accessibility and visual clarity, offering a cleaner interface than many traditional explorers.

Key strengths

• Readable summaries for common transaction types, making activity easier to interpret.
• Transaction-flow diagrams and call-stack visualisations, useful for understanding complex program interactions.

While still functional, feature development has slowed following its acquisition by Jupiter Labs in September 2024, and the platform has not kept pace with newer analytics-driven explorers.

5. Specialized Explorers

Some explorers exist to serve narrow but critical segments of the Solana ecosystem.

Jito Explorer

Focused on the Jito ecosystem, this explorer surfaces MEV-related data including bundles, searcher transactions, tip flows and validator participation. It is designed for users examining MEV behaviour rather than general on-chain activity.

Wormhole Explorer

Built for Wormhole’s cross-chain messaging system, this explorer tracks VAA attestations, cross-chain transfers and token movements between networks. Its scope is specialised and mainly relevant for users analysing bridging activity.

Conclusion

As Solana continues to expand, blockchain explorers have become specialized infrastructure rather than simple utilities. Each platform serves a distinct role, but for most day-to-day needs, Solscan remains the most complete and widely integrated option, balancing fast transaction confirmation, wallet visibility, program inspection, debugging support, analytics depth and flexible filtering.

Specialized explorers serve narrower purposes. Jito Explorer is the right choice for MEV-specific activity. Solana Beach works well when the goal is to check validator performance, network health or cluster-level trends.