We are sharing a preview of CKB Explorer Lite, a lightweight self-hostable block explorer we built for querying historical chain state.
It lets you pick any past block height and browse blocks, transactions, addresses, and cells exactly as they existed then.
Why We Built This
For Community Fund DAO V2.0, we need to prove CKB balances existed at past block heights. Most ecosystems have an archive node to provide this functionality, but CKB doesn’t have an official one.
We now have an experimental version of the CKB node that supports archive mode, along with other tools for retrieving historical block data. But a node with no frontend is hard to inspect, so we built this explorer to view that data directly.
It requires no backend, which makes it ideal for developers working locally on a devnet. To help trace data sources, we decode common structures like witnesses and cell dep groups. For extended statistics we added an optional companion indexer that serves details a standard CKB node doesn’t expose.
Links
GitHub: https://github.com/sonami-tech/ckb-explorer-lite
Demo: https://explorer.ckbdev.com/
